Crime

Courtney Boorne was strangled by Liam Cain in the flat they shared in Merseyside not long after she warned her mum to 'call the police if you don't hear from me within the hour'

Dylan Fitzpatrick, 10, was riding a moped on the last day of his holiday with dad Eoin in the Turkish resort of Alanya on Monday when they were hit by a bus and both died at the scene

An elderly local vendor who sold ice cream to help support his family and pay rent was robbed at gunpoint in California for the third time in a week - but the community retaliated by raising thousands of pounds so he can retire

Workers at San Francisco Walgreens have revealed customers must go to them in order to unlock the thick metal locks which contain frozen microwaveable meals and ice cream

Mum-of-two Kate Gray, 38, has secured a six-figure deal for a crime thriller touted as the summer's must-read inspired by a nightmare

Mihiai Hurmuz-Irimia, 29, is accused of murdering his wife Katie at their Oxfordshire home after stabbing her 171 times following an argument on their anniversary

Police officers discovered the body of a man in his 60s in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, badly decomposed as officers confirmed there were no suspicious circumstances

Surveillance footage could prove crucial, police in Northampton say, as they hunt down four men following the death of 27-year-old Tomass Tilders earlier this month

Carlee Russell claims stopped to help a toddler, who was in a nappy, walking on the side of a highway in Alabama on July 13 at around 9.34pm before she mysteriously vanished moments after calling police

There is no evidence that Carlee Russell saw a lone toddler walking down a highway before she disappeared, police said. Carlee went missing for 49 hours earlier this month

Ava Mae Collard was found to have multiple rib, collarbone and femur fractures as well as severe trauma to the side of her head after she died on March 1 2020, Staffordshire Police said

David Quigley, 69, was attacked by a 15-year-old at his home in Wirral and left unconscious with a bleed on the brain before dying three weeks later, a court heard

West Midlands Police officer Anthony Ritchie and his ex-colleague Steven Walters had sexual relationships with a number of women, some of whom they met while responding to domestic abuse incidents, a court heard

The holiday resort of Puerto Banus came under attack last night when a gun man opened fire - miraculously no-one was injured, and police in Costa del Sol are now hunting for at least two people

A body has been found inside a tent in the grounds of a church in Spalding, Lincolnshire, which is being treated as "unexplained" by police who are appealing to the public for information

The missile launches appear to be a retaliation to the US deploying a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea for the first time since the 1980s - it also comes as a US solider fled after being released from a South Korean prison

In a social media post, Billy Baldwin revealed how he knew the Gilgo Beach murder suspect, describing him as an 'average guy' following his arrest

A mum in Belfast says she was mortified and appalled after PSNI officers knocked on her door claiming her child had 'committed the offence of giving someone the finger'

It is an insult to those who lost loved ones to go ahead with the ceremony while the Met Police continue to investigate a “jingle and mingle” party by Bailey’s team in Tory HQ during a lockdown

Around a quarter of children at risk of serious violence and criminal exploitation are girls but they do not receive the same level of attention as young boys at risk, according to a damning report

The young victim was able to contact police after she escaped her restraints and ran out of the house where she was allegedly held for nearly 30 days in Houston, Texas

Peter Farquhar's tragic death at the hands of his lover is the subject of a true crime series on BBC One

The client recalled Rex Heuermann's "odd" behaviour and his becoming difficult to work with in the year before the alleged Long Island serial killer was caught by police

The family of Rex Heuermann, arrested over the Gilgo Beach murders, are 'shocked, disgusted and embarrassed' as NYPD and lab officers search their home top to bottom for clues and trophies the killer may have kept

Polly Hudson asks why a plan to use counter-terrorism tactics against abusers feels like too little, far too late