Crime

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Madeleine McCann suspect moans he's being treated 'worse than a Nazi' in prison
In a rant from behind bars, Christian Brueckner said he is being deprived of his “prison rights” on visitors as German authorities fear he will get “sexual satisfaction”
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Happy Valley fans ‘work out’ heartbreaking reason Poppy refuses to take off coat
A subplot on Happy Valley has focused on abusive PE teacher Rob Hepworth and his family, with many noticing Poppy (Bonnie Stott) never seems to remove her coat
1351
Tycoon who 'ordered rival's death' owns hotel where 76 refugee children vanished
Businessman Nicholas van Hoogstraten - who was found to have ordered the killing of a business partner - owns the hotel where refugee children disappeared through his family firm, documents show
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Dad accused of killing wife and son tried to blame farmhand 'who was in the FBI'
Alex Murdaugh appeared to become emotional and tearful in court after pictures of his murdered wife Maggie and son Paul were shown on the second day of the murder trial
672
Convicted paedophile given custody of girl he got pregnant after years of abuse
Social workers 'overlooked' the man's criminal convictions for child sex offences after he was previously classed 'low risk', and went on to abuse the girl for a number of years
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‘Disneyland for addicts’ where cops won't go - and drugs and murder rife
Skid Row in Los Angles is a permanent homeless camp that stretches across around 70 blocks of Los Anglese where crime is commonplace and people live out on nothing but a mattress
548
Cop, 23, asked for photos of decomposing body at crime scene 'to show her mum'
PC Bonnie Murphy was found guilty of gross misconduct after she asked former PC Jamie Lewis to send her pictures he'd taken of a body and told him 'I just want to show my mum'
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Parents' terror as 'kidnapper' speeds off with child in car as cops launch hunt
Police are investigating the incident which took place in Swansea on Thursday which ended with the child walking back to the family home from wher they were left
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Mom 'murdered her children' when husband left home for 25 minutes to buy dinner
Mum-of-three Lindsay Clancy allegedly strangled two of her children before jumping from a top floor window of their Massachusetts home
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Boy, 14, dies after being hit by two different cars as police appeal for footage
The teenager was knocked down by an oncoming car before a second travelling in the opposite direction struck him again, with emergency services pronouncing him dead at the scene
519
Nurse accused of killing babies wept and said 'it's always me when it happens'
A GP has given evidence in the trial of nurse Lucy Letby who is accused of murdering seven babies and tells the court how he recalls her crying with another nurse
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Drugs kingpin and crooks 'Del Boy' and 'one-legged mechanic' tried to fix trial
Boxing promoter Leslie Allen promised juror Damien Drackley £5,000 to help him get off charges - but they were rumbled when defence witness Laurence 'Del Boy' Hayden was spotted nodding and winking at Drackley in court
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Mum weeps as she's hauled to court for beating up boy, 13, in berserk rage
A court heard how Lavinia Pinner punched, kicked, scratched and bit a 13-year-old boy after losing her temper in an argument over an air rifle - she was told 'the sword of Damocles is now hanging over your head' as she was allowed to walk free
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Man tried to recreate serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's sick crimes on Grindr dates
Chance Seneca, 21, from Louisiana, US, used Grindr and Snapchat to convince men into meeting him as he wanted to satisfy a Jeffrey Dahmer "compulsive murder-fantasy"
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Woman banned from leaving home at night after hurling beer cans from her roof
Hayley Marshall was in mourning for her recently deceased partner when she was listening to his funeral playlist and began hurling cans of beer into the street below
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Man charged with rape, sexual assaults on seven different women in seaside town
A 31-year-old man has been charged with rape and sexual assault following an investigation by detectives into the rape of a woman in the centre of a popular seaside town
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Cops say no one else involved after mummified woman lay dead for four years
Laura Winham, 38, is thought to have died in November 2017 but wasn't found until May 24, 2021 - her brother Roy called the police to break into the flat when he thought he saw a foot under a blanket through a letterbox
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Police experience lost after Tory cuts will take years to replace warning
By next year it is estimated that 38% of officers in England and Wales will have less than five years' experience - more than three times higher than a decade earlier.
862
Girl, 10, shot dead in drive-by shooting as she played in street with friends
Protests have broken out across a neighbourhood after a 'happy and cheerful' girl was tragically killed in a random drive-by-shooting just two days before her 11th birthday
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Porn actress high on cocaine escapes from police car while half-naked
Roma Lawson escaped from a police car after being arrested in Margate and led officers on a half-naked chase as she evaded the law and bit an officer before finally being arrested again
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Student leaves bar with men accused of raping her in footage before death
Madison Brooks was fatally hit by a car after being dropped of by the group on a dark street in Baton Rouge. An autopsy alleged showed she had been sexually assaulted before hand
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Warped mind of evil Brit teen who inspired two mass shooting in US is jailed
Daniel Harris, 19, from Derbyshire, UK, posted videos far-right extremist videos which were shared by Payton Gendron, who has admitted a supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York
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Dad posted fundraising page for tot's funeral - just weeks after murdering him
Oliver Mailey shared a fundraising page for his son, Abel-Jax's, funeral and even got his name tattooed on his neck just a matter of weeks after he killed him
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'Cult mum' accused of murdering kids makes bold request for case to be dismissed
Lori Vallow Daybell's attorneys have claimed that she is prejudiced for the time she has spent in prison awaiting trial for allegedly murdering her own children
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Monterey Park gunman pestered women and banned from dance studio before massacre
Huu Can Tran, 72, fired 42 rounds in the Star Ballroom Studio on Saturday night in California, US, killing 11 and injuring 9 during the Lunar New Year celebrations