Crime

A 20-year-old man in the UK who was under the scanner of security agencies after a trip to Pakistan has been convicted of sharing and possessing Islamist terrorist material.

A man is in hospital after being shot in a cafe. It happened on Lodge Lane in Liverpool at about 17:00 BST on Friday, Merseyside Police said.

The carers of a man suspected of throwing a child into a crocodile enclosure were ‘on their phone’ earlier in the day, according to a report.

Cambridgeshire police say 30-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder is not fit to be interviewed

Crypto 888 Ponzi scammer Petter Forsberg has been arrested in Morocco.

Carlos Mencia has been arrested and charged with 12 counts of tax evasion.

This the moment a teen allegedly bragged to his pals after stabbing a nine-year-old girl to death at her home, a court heard.

A British actress, who appeared in an Eastenders spin-off and a Jason Statham movie, has been charged with trying to smuggle 320kg of meth into Australia from West Africa.

A former head gamekeeper found guilty of murdering an ex-colleague with a shotgun has been refused leave to appeal against his conviction.

One of three prisoners who murdered a child killer in his cell has been given a whole life order – a sentence his two accomplices were already serving.

A stepmother has been jailed for 12 years for killing a five-year-old girl by scalding her in a hot bath as a punishment nearly half a century ago.

Two criminal proxies branded "useful idiots" have been jailed for a series of arson attacks targeting Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

In a deeply disturbing case, a father of two was found in a storage unit with his daughters and the skinned and dismembered remains of his wife, just hours after she had delivered their baby girl.

A self-described ‘fire goddess’ has been accused of setting a vehicle full of people alight during a blazing row over the prescription drug Xanax.

Armed police were called to a beach after a man was spotted carrying a rifle during a barbecue with friends.

Keir Starmer has said there are “many actors who want to divide our country” after his family’s property was targeted in a series of Russian-linked arson attacks.

After more than 17 hours of deliberation, a jury at Birmingham crown court has failed to reach a verdict over whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory.

A man linked to Corsican organised crime was convicted in Paris of aggravated EU subsidy fraud after falsely claiming CAP payments while in prison.

A London jury clears the former Nigerian oil minister of all bribery charges, collapsing a 13-year UK investigation into claims she traded lucrative state contracts for a lavish lifestyle.

A parade of luxury cars, handbags and yachts up for auction has done little to help their owner, a disgraced Vietnamese tycoon, repay the billions she owes victims in one of the largest fraud cases in history.

A former British immigration official and a retired Hong Kong police officer have been jailed for spying for China.

A teacher will die in jail for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby son. Teacher Jamie Varley, 37, has been sentenced to a whole life order for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby, Preston Davey.

Police have released CCTV images of a man following a serious assault in Arbroath.

A courier who delivered firearms around the UK for supply to crime groups has been sentenced after a National Crime Agency investigation.