Crime

Taiba Alali fled her homeland in 2017 to start a new life in Turkey and had planned to wed her Syrian-born boyfriend. But when she returned to support the Iraq football team her family kidnapped her

Mason Mills stabbed Kieron Moore to death after the victim attacked him with a plank of wood as he stood smoking outside his sister's house, wrongly believing him to be involved with his girlfriend

Friends and family of Holly Newton clad in purple T-shirts are gathering in Hexham town centre to mark a week since the 15-year-old was allegedly knifed to death

Analysis by the House of Commons Library found that the number of community police officers have fallen by more than 4,000 since 2015 across England and Wales. See how your area has been affected

Superintendent Sally Riley today said investigators searching for Nicola Bulley are now working from the hypothesis that she fell into the River Wyre while on a dog walk

Police began investigating Lyne Barlow in 2020 after victims came forward to claim that they hadn't received holidays they had paid her for - she has now been jailed for nine years

Nicola Bulley's disappearance has gripped the nation as police today shared they believe she fell into the River Wyre and it was not suspicious

Donna Dixon was left devastated when a woman - Leanne Slater - stole the flowers she had left on the grave of her son, Keiran, who had passed away in 2014 aged just 14

Callum Halpin, 28, fled the country and went on the run for four years following the murder of Luke Graham in 2018, and has today been jailed for 30 years for his part in the crime

The charges against Mason Greenwood - attempted rape, engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm - were dropped on Thursday

Today marks one week since Nicola Bulley was last seen while taking her family dog Willow on a walk in the tight-knit village of St Michael's-on-Wyre in Lancashire

A bill proposed by Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature would allow prisoners in the US to exchange bone marrow or an organ for time off their sentence, capped at one year

Kendra Gibson targeted four shops in less than a week and assaulted three members of staff in Middlesbrough. She threatened to a punch a shop assistant and stab another with a needle

Abusive woman Jody Simpson, 29, abused baby Tony Hudgell with her partner so badly he needed his legs amputating. She has now been released less than five years into a 10-year sentence

Luis Gerardo Vásquez Pimiento was the leader of Humane Colombia, formerly known as the Progressive Movement, a Colombian left-wing political movement and was buried upright in a shock move

The body of Shakira Spencer was found decomposed in her child's bedroom in her flat and it is alleged she was beaten and tortured - at a hearing at the Old Bailey in London today, Lisa Richardson denied murder and preventing a lawful burial

Police have stressed they don't think there is any third-party involvement in Nicola Bulley's disappearance - she was last seen on January 27 in St Michael's-on-Wyre in Lancashire

Wyoming police were responding to reports of a burglary when they shot Joe Frasure, 28, from Wyoming, Ohio, US, on January 30 as he was cleaning out his late gran's flat

Jacquleine Vadurro was shocked after doing an online DNA test as soon she got a call from homicide detectives who told her she was linked to a cold case where a woman was shot in the chest

Photographer and 'Dave' claims the leader of a polygamist group acquired the land from a local farmer who wanted to move south to avoid the harsh Canadian winters it was later seized by authorities

Investigators believe the body of Regina Michalski could have been in the freezer for two years. Her daughter Eva Bratcher has been charged with concealing the death in Chicago, US

Magen Fieramusca has been sentenced to 55 years for strangling Heidi Broussard to death with a dog leash and trying to steal her baby in Houston, Texas, US

Nicola Bulley's devastated family have released new pictures of the missing mortgage advisor, who disappeared along the River Wyre last friday, will help with Lancashire Police's investigation

Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, pleaded guilty to three charges, including an offence under the Treason Act, during a hearing at the Old Bailey. He was also charged with making a threat to kill the Queen

The paedophile 70s star was caged in 2015 for sick child sex abuse crimes - but today the shamed singer becomes a free man after serving just half of his sentence