Crime

Schoolgirl Nikki Allan was seen on CCTV shortly before she died following a man who matched the description of David Boyd, who is now on trial for her 1992 murder, a court heard

A 17-year-old boy was taken to the hospital by air ambulance after suffering life-changing injuries thought to have been caused by a firearm in Swindon, Wiltshire

Minnesota police officer Kim Potter shot and killed Daunte Wright in 2021 when she mistakenly thought her gun was a Taser - she has been released from prison after just 16 months

Gary Stevens appeared in court charged with being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting in death, after his dog mauled and killed his younger brother Wayne Stevens at a home in Derby

Dotty, a four-month-old puppy, was stolen from a garden in Greater Manchester while a little girl played there. Following a police appeal, the pet has now been located

Veronica Williams says she pushes the clothes horse against the door to alert her if someone breaks into her home in a housing estate in Birmingham near where a man was stabbed last week

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: Nqobile Zulu, 5, and his pal Tshiamo Rabanye, 6, bled out after they had their noses, lips and genitals cut off before having their throats slit in a horrific black magic ritual in Soweto, South Africa

Officers were sent to Uddingston in South Lanarkshire at around 8.30am yesterday when the body of the child was discovered

Suspected deat cult leader Paul Makenzie Nthenge, who is now in custody, is accused of brainwashing his followers into believing they'd go to heaven if they starved themselves to death in Malindi, Kenya

Nicole Stewart, 33, was found to have neglected four children at a property in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, where they were discovered "unclean and dirty" and hadn't been given any food

Caudel Haughton, 19, has been charged with the murder of 20-year-old Filipe Oliveira who was stabbed to death above some shops in south London earlier this month

Police have charged 53-year-old Gary Stevens after a man died in the dog attack in Derby on Saturday

There have been five separate machete attacks in the UK in the last seven days - yet the deadly weapons are still readily available online as the Mirror discovered

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk is under pressure to act after Thomas Cashman refused to leave his cell when he was sentenced for murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool

Police were called to the scene in Courthouse Green in Coventry at around 3am where they found the teen and took him to get help

Tureygua Inaru, 29, from Florida, US, is accused of trying to hire a hitman to help kill her parents and grandparents, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office

Serial killer Levi Bellfield is said to have written a signed confession to killing Elizabeth Chau, a 19-year-old law and ­business student who disappeared while walking to her family home in April 1999

Clippers shooting guard Kawhi Leonard's sister and an accomplice have been sentenced to life in prison following the murder of an 84-year-old woman following a robbery at casino in California in 2019

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A number of men in their 30s have been pulled from Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, sparking fears there could be a serial killer on the loose - with some linking the deaths to the similar circumstances of the 'Smiley Face Murders'

Juliana Bonilla-Herrera fled the worrying crime levels in her native Colombia and built a safe and happy life for herself in New Zealand – but then a sinister stranger moved in next door

New figures have revealed that the number of emergency workers taking sick days has increased by 40% over the last five years, with staff blaming cuts to staffing levels and equipment budgets

Instead of keeping his head down and doing his work as an MP, the former prime minister jetted off on holiday to the Dominican Republic, his forth in the six months since resigning as PM

'Zombie knives' are weapons which are particularly dangerous, often having serrated edges. Our reporter, posing as a 17-year-old, was offered four 40 inch weapons for £55

A killer who punched a banker to death in London will be out of jail in under four years. The sister of late banker Paul Mason called the sentence handed to killer Steven Allan an 'insult'