Crime

Simon Cowell has issued a statement after singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan bravely opened up about being raped by a hotel employee while on The X Factor

Carlee Russell disappeared after calling police to report an unaccompanied toddler walking down the side of the highway in Hoover, Alabama, before screams were heard and she vanished

Scammers are making off with more and more of people's hard earned money each year - and a 2022 Harris Poll survey of around 2,000 American adults found 22% of had lost money to a phone scam in the past year

Christine Chavez, 27, was lying in a part of Beard Brook Park, in Modesto, California, US, when a landscaper driving a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind mower horrifically ran her over

A man has sadly died after coming into difficulty whilst swimming in the sea in Hythe, Kent. Emergency services rushed to the scene but the swimmer was sadly pronounced dead

Jesse Lee Calhoun, 38, from Portland, US, was released in July 2021 by former Oregon governor, Kate Brown, after she granted prisoners early release due to the pandemic

Detectives are appealing for the public's help to locate Lorik Lupqi, 19, and are telling people not to approach him but instead call 999 immediately if they spot him

Police confirmed the toddler picked up an 'unsecured handgun' and shot their sibling in the head killing them. Police are investigating the incident in Fallbrook, California, but have said there is no wider threat to the community

Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann's home has been investigated by officers in Massapequa Park, Long Island, US, after his arrest and police were stunned to find between 200 and 300 firearms in a vault

Hillary French, who defrauded Newcastle High School for Girls over a period of nearly two years by submitting false expense claims for vouchers, meals and a coat, appeared in court

Emergency services rushed to the scene in New York's Times Square after an argument led to a gun being pulled and a barrage of bullets fired into a group of teenagers

The deaths of four Oregon women whose bodies were found dumped near creaks and state parks in wooded rural areas over three months ARE linked, authorities now say, confirming the community's fears of a twisted serial killer on a murder spree

South African mother Lauren Anne Dickason is accused of murdering her twin daughters Maya and Karla, age two, and their older sister Liané, 6, on September 16, 2021

Married couple Rosie and Robert Jobson were found dead at White Lodge Shooting School in Lincolnshire on Friday afternoon just weeks after she had left him, neighbours claim

Detectives investigating the long-unsolved murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings searched a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend, police said

A recently fired shipyard worker went on a deadly rampage, gunning down two colleagues at FMT Shipyard in Louisiana before being killed by police during a shootout at an apartment complex

Detectives investigating the long-unsolved murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings searched a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend, police said

Rex Heuermann was charged with three of the 11 murders attributed to the Gilgo Beach serial killer, also dubbed the Long Island Serial Killer

Jorge Garay, 46, murdered mum-of-one Karla Godoy and buried her body in his grandmother's garden in Peru - with his trial a landmark for domestic abuse crime in Britain

The family of Melissa Barthelemy, one of the 'Gilgo Four' found strangled and wrapped in burlap near Gilgo Beach, Long Island, received a series of harrowing calls from her alleged killer after her disappearance

EastEnders fans are sure they've rumbled who could die at Christmas this year and they are convinced The Six all come together to commit murder to protect one resident

Carlee Russell was driving home from work along the interstate when she pulled over, calling police to report a toddler on the side of the highway. However, when they arrived minutes later, neither Carlee or the toddler were anywhere to be seen

Sam Norman was caught by police who recognised him after looking into his victim's Ring camera showing his full face during the burglary at a house in Pinvin, Worcestershire

Lawyer-turned-murderer Alex Murdaugh has been using a tablet to take selfies in his maximum-security prison cell that showcase his chalky torso as he grins into the camera - while serving a life sentence for the grisly murders of his wife and child

Police turfed out the group of seven men, two women and a child, from the property in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The group left the property without incident and just walked away as authorities changed the locks