Crime

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Robert Blake died from heart disease at his home surrounded by family in Los Angeles on Thursday but the actor's notoriety came when he was acquitted of murdering his wife in 2001

Arthur Brown Jr., 52, received a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1992 slayings, which took place in a Houston home during a drug robbery

Arthur Brown Jr, mow 52, was condemned for the June 1992 deaths in a Houston home during a drug robbery - including shooting dead a pregnant 19-year-old woman

French authorities have confirmed the deaths of Leslie Hoorelbeke, 22, and 21-year-old Kevin Trompat, who disappeared in November after never arriving at a friend's house

Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Alex Murdaugh to two consecutive life terms in prison. Exactly one week after his conviction, the disgraced lawyer is filing for an appeal

Five men, members of a faction of the Gulf cartel named the 'Scorpions', were reportedly turned in to authorities in Matamoros, Mexico, along with a letter allegedly assuming responsibility for the kidnapping of four Americans

Police in Hamburg, Germany, confirmed that eight people have been killed and many more injured after a shooting in a Jehovah's witness church in the city in a 'brutal act of violence'

Olivia Pratt-Korbel's mum had much of Manchester Crown Court in tears today as it heard the two heartbreaking words she uttered after her nine-year-old daughter's lips turned blue and she tragically passed away

Avon and Somerset Police are investigating after the man pulled up in a 'dirty white estate car' before jumping out and grabbing the child on a street in Yeovil on Monday

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A court in Blackburn, Lancashire heard that a man, 41, let his dog's condition get so bad that it had to be put down. Staffordshire Bull Terrier Bentley had claws that became so long they were embedded in his pads

Raven Yates, a 31-year-old mum-of-two from Texas, allegedly left her two children at home alone. She was found several months later in Alabama, hunderds of miles away from them

Cheryl Orange, a friend of Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown, and Shaeed Woodard who were kidnapped in Matamoros, Mexico, described how she dodged the ordeal

Helen Harrison was found fatally injured at a house in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, on Sunday as Humberside detectives charged a 39-year-old man with her murder

A man who had been wanted by police for six months on recall to prison was found with his coat pockets full of stolen steak and Lego after being tracked down by officers in Salford

Olivia Pratt-Korbel's mother told a trial how her nine-year-old daughter "gasped for breath" in her final moments after being fatally shot in her Liverpool home

Police have arrested a lorry driver after a teenage boy was involved in a collision while walking to school in Caerphilly, Wales, suffering injuries that are thought to be life-threatening

A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed immediately without notice, after pleading guilty to multiple child sex offences, which was described as "the vilest of offences"

The group had been to The Muffler social club in Newport on Friday night and then travelled just under 40 miles to the Trecco Bay caravan holiday park in Porthcawl

Chase Allan died in a hail of gunfire from five officers who were surrounding the car after the student, 25, refused to give them his licence in Farmington, Utah, US

Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh, Hampshire was the scene of heavy police activity after reports of a person being seen on the grounds with a knife

Homes across the UK are facing being blocked from Sky TV streams as police launch a major crackdown on watching content for free.

The four friends had driven across the border into Mexico to attend a tummy-tuck appointment, but were ambushed in the city of Matamoros by armed men and bullets started flying

Cara Northington, the mother of Xana Kernodle, has been struggling with drug abuse throughout her adult life and was jailed in February after her daughter's murder triggered her relapse

A man in his 80s suffered head injuries after a teenage gang of boys threw a shopping trolley down an escalator at an Asda store in Kent and police are appealing for witnesses as they hunt the culprits