Crime

Tragic Solaine Thornton, 11, was killed in a shooting in Saint-Herbot, Brittany, on Saturday night, in which her parents were also shot and remain in hospital

A sheriff in Marion County, Tennessee described a possible murder-suicide as one of the 'worst' things' he had seen. Police responded to reports of a shooting and arrived to find a residence on fire

The Crown Prosecution Service announced the charges against Michael Lockwood, the former director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct watchdog, this morning

A death row inmate has walked free after 29 years. Barry Jones was on death row in Arizona after he was wrongly found guilty of fatally assaulting a four-year-old girl

According to prison officials he received no visitors before his execution, and he ate a last meal that consisted of a bacon cheeseburger with no bun, onion rings and a milkshake

Paramedics treated the woman and the child for serious injuries at the scene on Kings Heath High street, Birmingham, before taking them to separate hospitals

Duane Owen, of the longest-held inmates on Florida’s death row is set to be executed tonight after killing a babysitter & mother of two while children slept nearby in 1984

A second teenager has been confirmed dead by police several weeks after an incident in a UK river that also killed his 15-year-old friend, Lewis Michael Kirkpatrick

Portuguese speaker Valdo Amissão Mendes Calocane completed his degree in August last year, having won a place as a mature student in 2019

A terrifying incident unfolded in Neasden, West London, on Wednesday morning that saw a man charge down a street brandishing a burning Molotov cocktail

A horror crash has killed 15 people on the Trans-Canada Highway between the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 5 near Carberry in Manitoba - we'll be bringing you all the latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story

Lamont Hunter, from Cincinnati, Ohio, was found guilty of raping and killing his girlfriend's son by a three-judge panel in 2007 who said evidence showed the child had been shaken and beaten to death

Government lawyers have raised concerns about 'potentially problematic' entries in the former PM's diaries that suggested Covid guidance may not have been followed

Lori Vallow daybell is seeking a new trial after being convicted of murdering her children Tylee and JJ on a religious mission after meeting Chad Daybell who told her they had been married in several previous lives and she was a 'sexual goddess'

Tributes have poured in for a 15-year-old schoolgirl who died in a river not long after a village duck race had finished, with medics at the scene sadly unable to save her

Earlier this week a 31-year-old man conducted a spate of horrific attacks across the city of Nottingham, leaving three people dead and three others in hospital

The suspect arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were stabbed to death in Nottingham has been identified as mechanical engineering graduate Valdo Amissão Mendes Calocane

The 30-year-old US citizen lured the pair, aged 21 and 22 and also American, to a famous beauty spot near the 'Disney Cinderella' Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, where he attacked the younger woman before her pal intervened - but threw them both around 150ft down the gorge

Connor Chapman is accused of murdering Elle Edwards when he fired 12 shots from a Skorpion submachine gun outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey. Today an eyewitness to the fatal shooting took the stand

Teenager Tyler Lindley repeatedly plunged the blade into brother Cameron Lindley's neck and chest in an attack at a family meal, with the mum saying the killing may have been motivated by jealousy

DNA testing has finally led to the identification of a woman in a gruesome case: her decayed remains were found stuffed in a garment bag and discovered in Nevada, in 1978, before the case went cold

The youngster, who was only 12 at the time of the incident, appeared before a high court judge at Sheffield Crown Court to deny the murder of "loving and dedicated" Marcia Grant

Nottinghamshire Police confirmed the 31-year-old man attended University of Nottingham, where stabbing victims Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar had just completed their first years

A homeowner who lives on Ilkeston Road, Nottingham, was away during the knife and van rampage but says victim Grace Kumar, 19, died on her doorstep - and she wonders if she could have saved her

The 28-year-old rapper, real name Tyron Frampton, entered his pleas during a brief hearing at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday