Crime

A lorry driver, Neil Platt, 43, has been jailed for 10 years for causing the death of Danny Aitchison, 46, after crashing into his car on the M58 in Lancashire on 17 May 2024.

A teenager is alleged to have gone on a two-hour sexual assault rampage across London’s transport network.

A teenager has been detained for three years following an incident involving a knife at a school, where two people were injured.

Two workers from an ambulance service have been arrested as part of a significant two-year investigation into six deaths in Wiltshire.

Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi is expected to appear in court facing three counts of attempted murder after four prison officers were injured at a maximum security prison.

The Metropolitan Police has announced that three people were arrested near London on Wednesday on suspicion of spying for Russia.

A man has been arrested following a stabbing at the Flamingo Land Resort in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Two teenagers accused of carrying out a “serious, extensive, sustained, and highly sophisticated” cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) have appeared in court.

An Egyptian asylum seeker who was jailed for raping a woman in London’s Hyde Park is a convicted Islamic terrorist, it has emerged.

An ex-police detective who sexually harassed a female colleague would have been dismissed if he had not resigned, a misconduct hearing found.

Police investigating the rape of a British-born Sikh woman in a racially aggravated attack in the West Midlands have renewed their appeal for public assistance as they released a man on bail.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an 80-year-old in Worthing, Sussex Police have said.

A second teenager has been charged with attempted murder following an alleged arson attack at an Indian restaurant in east London.

A jailed terrorist has been found guilty of threatening to shoot a prison officer because he was unhappy about being served a jacket potato for lunch.

Three people acted "like a pack of wild animals" when they attacked a man in a block of flats, as a court has heard. Joshua Bassett, Deborah Delaney, and Jamie Davies used a claw hammer, a bottle, and boots to beat their victim, leaving him battered, bruised, and bleeding from a head wound.

Tories have claimed there is a “real risk” Scotland could fall behind England in dealing with child sexual abuse after MSPs voted down a bid to force research into grooming gangs.

Police are appealing for information on 11 people after a number of public order and assault offences took place during Tommy Robinson’s ’Unite the Kingdom’ march in London.

Soldiers disgraced the British army by targeting unarmed civilians in an "unjustified" and "gratuitous" use of force on Bloody Sunday, the murder trial of an army veteran has heard.

A murder investigation has commenced following the death of a man in Lisburn.

The alleged head of a large cocaine-smuggling operation, who was one of Europe’s most wanted men at the time of his arrest, has gone on trial in Brussels.

A builder accused of stealing a £270,000 Girl with Balloon Banksy print wanted to add the work to his existing collection of artwork featuring love hearts, a court has heard.

Aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist partner Mark Gordon have been jailed for 14 years each for killing their newborn baby while on the run.

A "predatory" maths teacher who was arrested after attempting to check into a Travelodge with a 16-year-old pupil has been banned from teaching for life.

The heartbroken mother of a seven-year-old girl killed in the Southport attack has told a public inquiry: “I need to understand how this happened.”