Crime

More than 1,000 people donated to Allison Johnston after her daughter Eleanor Williams claimed she'd been trafficked, beaten and drugged by a group of men and needed money to 'fight for justice'

Strict rules on jail mail prevent inmates from receiving sexually explicit material like nude pics - but partners are marking envelopes as legal correspondence and putting saucy snaps in their letters

A murder squad has launched a probe into a man's death after he was 'targeted' and attacked near a pub, before he later died in the car park in Canvey Island, Essex

Patrick Mackay, 70, has served 47 years for three killings but originally owned up to eight more – before retracting his admission

Mum-of-two Holly Thackeray, 31, said she was scammed after posting some appeals on social media when her beloved American Bulldog, named Chapo, escaped from her garden in West Yorkshire

Nicola Bulley vanished last Friday morning while walking her family dog, and hasn't been seen since, leading to a huge manhunt as loved ones grow increasingly concerned for the mum's safety

Several houses were evacuated in Derbyshire after a man was arrested on suspicion of explosive offences leading to a massive cordon being set up as officers investigate

The Grand Annual Steeple Chase cup was being worked on ahead of the 2023 Cheltenham Festival. The theft comes just days after the dress code was ditched at The Jockey Club's tracks

Pictures appeared on social media pages of Kelly and Stacey after Dale Cregan’s nephew Oscar was jailed for drug dealing. The images show barristers sitting in a courtroom

Leanne Slater made off with the floral tributes she stole from the boy's grave at a cemetery in Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, so police issued a warrant for her arrest

The victim, in her 30s, was struck by a car shortly before 12.30pm in Southall, West London, the Met Police said. She is currently in a life-threatening condition as officers try to locate the driver

The woman called the police department in China's Zhejiang province in the hopes of tracking down her ex-boyfriend - who dumped her after six years - because she wanted to know "why he treated me like this"

Detectives believe Nicola may have fallen into the River Wyre in Lancashire while walking her dog Willow - possibly because she was fetching her pet's ball

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Yisrael Amir, now 22, was just 12 years old when his father ripped him away from his home in Israel with the promises of a heavenly life in Guatemala, but he instead arrived at a cult compound where leaders have been accused of raping children

Large amounts of cash of up thousands of pounds have been charged for poor trade skills and work, found to affect the ability of the property to secure a mortgage, say Trading Standards bosses

Vanroy Evan Smith, 39, has been charged with murder after allegedly killing Dr Michael John Mammone, 58 while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in California

Paul Savage, a postman, 'wonderful' dad and husband was found beaten to death in Flintshire, Wales, in a pool of blood on February 4, 2003. Police have now issued a fresh plea and a £20k reward for information 20 years after his brutal murder

Essex Police suspect the victim, a man in his 40s, had been assaulted close to a nearby pub after being called to a car park in Canvey Island in the early hours of this morning

Suspected gang members Noah David Beard, 25, and Angel "Nanu" Uriarte, 35, were dragged into custody after six people were murdered in a brutal massacre in January, including a teen mother and her six-month-old baby boy

John Michael Musbach, 31, from New Jersey, pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot where he paid $20,000 in Bitcoin to have a 13-year-old girl killed after having exchanged naked images with her

Petrus-Ionut Apostoae, 25, was jailed for more than 14 years after entering a stranger's home and raping her in a sickening attack while her children slept in the next room

Nicola Bulley was walking her springer spaniel dog along the river in St Michaels on Wyre when she vanished, leaving her phone on a bench logged into a work conference call

The mortgage adviser Nicola Bulley, 45, had dropped her two young girls off at school before taking her brown spaniel Willow for a walk along the River Wyre in the village of St Michael's, Lancashire

Paedophile Gary Glitter, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls and was today freed after serving half his sentence

Former Met Detective Chief Inspector Peter Kirkham has revealed what he believes is the most likely hypothesis in the case of missing mum Nicola Bulley, with her dog a key issue