Crime

Firing squads could be used to execute Bryan Kohberger who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students under new proposals drawn up in response to a shortage of lethal injections

Shaye Groves stabbed her on-off boyfriend Frankie Fitzgerald to death as he slept and was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life behind bars

Cuckooing is when criminals take over the homes of vulnerable people to use it for storage for drugs and weapons. It formed one of the major storylines in the recent smash-hit police drama Happy Valley.

Previously people could get married aged 16 or 17 with their parents' consent and at 18 with or without consent, but now the law has been changed so that people can only get married at 18

The Metropolitan Police admitted five shortcomings in their investigation into Hannah Warren's death after she went missing during a bout of suspected psychosis

The huge fracas outside a pub in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, resulted in an 18-year-old being taken to hospital for facial injuries and left several others injured

An off-duty police officer was shot multiple times in front of his own son and a number of young people by masked men in Omagh, Co Tyrone, in Northern Ireland

Ex-partner Cesar Santana, 36, is accused of murdering teacher Luz Hernandez in Jersey City, US after she failed to turn up to work on February 6

Lisa Squire is desperate to find out what exactly happened to her daughter Libby during her final moments when she was raped and murdered by Polish butcher Pawel Relowicz

The dismembered legs of socialite and model Abby Choi, 28, were found stuffed inside a fridge in a rural beachside home in Hong Kong, but police said her hands, torso and head couldn't be found at the murder scene

Damien Lewis' body was found floating in the Thames in September last year days after he went missing, but his family are seeking answers as to what happened in that time

Dad-of-three Youcef Matoug, 50, confessed to slaughtering, butchering and then concealing the body parts of his wife Assia Matoug after cops in Paris, France discovered her head in a sack in the historic Buttes-Chaumont Park

Police, who were forced to break down the door to enter the house in India's Haryana state, were stunned to find huge piles of garbage made up of clothes, hair and empty grocery packets above a thick layer of dirt covering all surfaces

Lancashire Police was marked as needing improvement when it comes to investigating crime in a thorough and timely manner according to the latest annual inspection by HMIC

Body parts of model and influencer Abby Choi, 28, were found in a rented home in Hong Kong days after she was reported missing as police arrested her ex-husband and his family

Kelsey Turner will serve at least 10 years in jail after being found guilty of the second degree murder of 71-year-old Thomas Burchard, whose decomposing body was found in the boot of a car

Customers fled the Asda store in Chadderton, after what appeared to start as an argument between two men turned into a machete fight

Alisha Goup has been named as the tragic teenager who was killed after a car mounted the pavement after a two-vehicle collision and struck the young girl

Maria Pearson was jailed in 1987 for a knife attack on a love rival so brutal police at first thought they were dealing with a road hit-and-run

Claire Bye had to have 32 stitches and developed a life-threatening infection after a pink river dolphin attacked her foot on a trip of a lifetime around South America

Rebaz Mohammed, who entered Britain illegally, was jailed for six years after stabbing a university student in an attempt to be sent home to Iraq.

Ukrainian victims of Russian war crimes have recounted the disturbing levels of violence inflicted upon them by Vladimir's Putin's men - with one man alleging he was held for days and electrocuted

Mary Ann Cotton had just given birth to her 13th child when she was accused of killing her young stepson - she had killed 20 other people too

The tugboat capsized in the Firth of Clyde near Greenock in Inverclyde, Scotland, on Friday prompting and urgent rescue operation. It's understood two people were on board at the time

El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail