Crime

A convict released from prison asked for special permission to go back inside HMP Channing Wood so that he could take part in an end-of-course theatre production

The day - March 15 - was chosen to commemorate the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in which 51 people were killed and 40 others injured

Saira Khan says the fact that Zara Aleena was murdered even though she sought help and support from the authorities makes her question the effectiveness of the systems set up to protect us

Police have charged 38-year-old Lemone Brown from Jamaica with the murder of his brother Michael Brown, 48 - the Brit was shot and killed only days after his mother's funeral

Mark Steel says Tories show incompetence across all departments - even a Tory Lord this week wrote an article suggesting students should have to take a ‘tolerance test’ before they graduate

Fiona Crooks had her six-year-old daughter in the car when she drove boyfriend Vincent Horsfall to an Aldi car park to hand over a gun to a gangster in April 2021

Hailey Wadsworth says her sibling Ashley would still be alive if her family had known that her boyfriend had convictions against women for assault and harassment

Luke Woods punched pregnant girlfriend Lauren Jackson in the face following an argument in December last year, just six years after killing pensioner Len Saunders in a vicious and unprovoked attack in 2017

Rodney King was filmed being beaten to an inch of his life by LAPD officers in 1991. After the officers were aquitted riots erupted across Los Angeles leading to 63 people dying

Police launched a murder probe after a teenage boy and girl suffered serious injuries "consistent with having been caused by a bladed article" in Hexham town centre last night

The victim, aged in his 20s, was set upon by a gang of men in Walsall town centre early this morning in what appears to be a "targeted and vicious attack", said police

A video showing Black man Tyre Nichols being beaten to death by police in Tennessee, US, has been released - The Mirror's Darren Lewis says we've seen this movie too many times before

Protests have erupted across the US including in New York after the release of the horrific footage showing five police officers brutally beat 29-year-old dad Tyre Nichols to death

Sophie Eastwood, who was named Daniel at the time of their sentencing, is serving a life term at Polmont prison in Brightons, Scotland for using shoelaces to strangle a cell-mate to death in 2004

Dad-of-one Tyre Nichols was on his way home from watching the sunset at a local park when he was pulled over by police and brutally beaten in Memphis, Tennessee, US

Mum-of-three Lindsay Clancy was charged with two counts of murder after her husband Patrick reportedly returned to their Massachusetts home to find their three children unconscious

The children, aged under five, were discovered at the illegal underground hideout in the village of Orbritz, Austria, with a 54-year-old man and his 40-year-old wife

US authorities have released footage from the attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband at their San Francisco home where he was hit with a hammer

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of US cities to seek justice following the release of a video showing five Memphis police officers beating black driver Tyre Nichols to death

US President Joe Biden has said he is "outraged and deeply pained" to see footage of Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols, who later died from his injuries

Tyre Nichols, 29, died three days after he was pulled over by police while on his way home after taking photos of the sunset in a nearby park in Memphis, Tennessee

Unrepentant Carl MacDowall, Carlton Mullen and Kieran Kristensen laughed as they were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court after the violent attack on Jacob Clough-Massey in 2020

Shamed Gary Glitter has served just half of his 16-year sentence for a number of horrific sexual offences and he could be walking the streets as soon as next week

Yuseab Woldeab pretended to be a taxi driver to lure his victim into his car before he kidnapped her, drove her to his home and raped her twice in a "truly horrendous" crime

Police officers and ambulance crews are working at the scene after a boy and girl – aged 15 and 16 - were injured with a blade just after 5pm in Priestpopple, Hexham, Northumberland