Crime

Police are said to be investigating a link between rapper Pop Smoke's murder and a dead body that was discovered inside a barrel that washed up on a Californian beach last month

Mark Bullen, who appeared on BBC's Crimewatch, is currently wanted by police in Kent, Sussex and Edinburgh for pulling the fruit and vegetable scam and has a previous conviction

Four of Saba Mahesh's shops across Sheerness, Kent, are targeted daily by youths whose anti-social and criminal behaviour has worsened since the coronavirus pandemic

West Yorkshire Police said a 12-year-old boy died on the M62 yesterday night and a 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing or allowing the death of a child

Witnesses claim they saw the young mother trying to run back inside the burning building before her husband held her back and returned to the inferno himself, trying to save their five young boys

Speaking after Ian Watkins' sentencing in 2013, a Detective Chief Inspector said the investigation uncovered 'the most disturbing child abuse evidence I have seen in my 28 years as a police officer'

Jake Astley broke into a care home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, chased terrified staff with a butter knife and then went into the victim's bedroom, a court was told

The Crooked House, which it emerged this week Marston's had sold to a "private buyer for alternative use" near Dudley, West Midlands, is destroyed due to a huge blaze

Dad-of-four Wesley Campbell trafficked massive amounts of drugs for Craig and Ashley Gallagher as they called on contacts from all around the world to flood Britain with class A substances

For nearly three decades, a brutal murderer walked free until advances in DNA technology finally caught up with him

Volodymyr Zelensky spoke out after the strike on the Kupiansk community in the Kharkiv region on Saturday night. Rescuers are still trying to tackle the blaze after the strike

Dr Krystal Cascetta, a cancer expert and assistant professor of medicine in New York, walked into her child's bedroom and shot the infant dead before turning the gun on herself, police believe

Andrew Malkinson faced deductions of tens of thousands from his future compensation to pay the state for his living costs while wrongly incarcerated - but the law is now changing

Saqib Hussain pleaded for help during a high-speed car chase after Ansreen Bukhari and her daughter Mahek hatched a plan to take him down after he threatened to leak intimate videos

David Hunter suffocated his terminally ill wife Janice at the couple's home in Cyprus, and was jailed for two years for the killing - now he's revealed his ordeal right after her death

Drug-addled Angel Taylor and Chevy Lafountain of Louisiana have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after their four-month-old baby girl was found dead of starvation

Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins is said to be in a critical condition after three inmates at HMP Wakefield - dubbed Monster Mansion for its inhabitants - "took him hostage" before launching a violent attack on him

Former-beauty pageant queen Lindsay Shriver went from housewife to 'Bahamas bad girl' plotting to kill her former college football star husbandRobert Shiver

The government must stop these "bizarre" ideas, like ordering over-50s to get on their bikes, and instead concentrate on education, training and rehabilitation, argues Keir Mudie

Jonathan Arnold was branded a "kingpin" by West Midlands Police as he orchestrated the import of £118 million worth of drugs from Colombia - but his mum says it's "obvious" he wasn't in charge

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Katarzyna Bastek was attacked in her Manchester home by evil Suleman Altaf who stabbed her and then killed her 15-year-old son Jakub Szymanski when he ran to help her

Negasi Zuberi has been accused of kidnapping a Washington state woman and imprisoning her in a cinderblock cell before she beat hear hands bloody breaking the door down and escaping

The distraught mum of Rebecca Aylward, 15, said: "That cowardly monster planned to kill my beautiful daughter in the most horrific way possible – he should never be released"

Legal aid payments have been used to cover scores of Connor Chapman’s offences since he was 14. Last month, he was jailed for a minimum of 43 years for killing Elle Edwards

David Xavier has been jailed for at least 18 years after he stabbed his partner Andreia Guilherme more than 50 times in a 'frenzied attack' at their home in Croydon, south London