Crime

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19-year-old woman killed in ’XL Bully’ attack at home
A woman has died after a dog attacked her in Bristol on Wednesday.
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Cyclist robbed of £4,200 bike by thieves wielding a hammer in Regent’s Park
A cyclist had his £4,200 road bike stolen from him by a gang of hammer-wielding robbers while on a morning ride through Regent’s Park.
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Rania Alayed: Human remains discovered during search for murder victim’s body
Rania Alayed was murdered in 2013 by her husband Ahmed al Khatib, but her body was never recovered. Her son, speaking on behalf of their family, has said that news of her remains being found was "surreal". Formal identification is yet to take place.
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Transgender rape suspect found hanged before court appearance on charges of assaulting young girl with ’your penis’
An alleged rapist who identified as a woman has died before she was due to appear at court charged with raping a young girl with ’your penis’.
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Harmful GitHub repositories executing concealed attacks on cryptocurrency wallets
Kaspersky’s GitVenom campaign uncovers extensive GitHub exploitation via deceptive repositories embedding cryptographic threats.
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Man stabbed inside B&M in front of horrified shoppers as police seal off scene & make arrest
A man has been stabbed in a B&M store in front of horrified shoppers as cops make an arrest.
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Machete gang discharged a firearm while pursuing a boy through the streets
A 17-year-old boy was chased through the streets of Leeds by a rival gang armed with guns, machetes and bleach.
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Former Team GB Olympic swimmer sentenced to 21 years for raping teenage girls
A former Olympic swimmer who raped two teenage girls after grooming them has been jailed for 21 years.
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Shooting in Germany: Gunshots fired outside a courthouse in Biefeld during the trial for the boxer’s murder
Shots have been fired outside of a regional courtroom in Germany where a high-profile trial for the fatal shooting of a boxer is ongoing.
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Abuser who tortured women in a chamber beneath a remote lodge given global travel ban
A man who used an underground chamber at his remote Highland lodge to film himself abusing vulnerable women has been made subject to the first worldwide travel ban in Scottish legal history.
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Man charged following the death of ’sweetest’ 3-year-old girl in Manchester tram accident
A man has been charged after the death of a three-year-old girl in Manchester who was hit by a van when it mounted the pavement.
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Man, aged 36, arrested following bomb threat to primary school
A man has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat to a primary school in Swindon on Tuesday.
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Woman discovered ’mummified and nearly skeletal’ after being ’left to survive on her own’
Laura Winham, 41, was found dead in her apartment in Woking, Surrey after her family raised the alarm. Today, an inquest into the tragedy heard a pathologist provide her cause of death.
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Nottingham E-bike tragedy as university student, 18, dies in horrific crash on campus
Police confirmed that the 18-year-old student passed away after being involved in a crash while riding an electric bicycle on the University of Nottingham’s Park Campus in the early hours.
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Retired French surgeon confesses to ’despicable’ acts in child rape trial
A retired surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients, some while they were under anesthetic, told the opening of his trial in western France on Monday that he had committed "despicable" acts.
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Three people were stabbed in a mass altercation during a sex party at a mansion where Bonnie Blue engaged intimately with 1,057 men in 12 hours
Three men were stabbed during a mass brawl at a sex party staged by self-style Lord Eddie Davenport.
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Schoolboy stabbed, then struck by a car
The event left a trail of evidence from Crosby to Waterloo.
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Thieves stole a £2.8m gold toilet at Blenheim Palace in only five minutes, court hears
The prosecution told Oxford Crown Court that the 18-carat gold toilet, titled America and created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, weighed approximately 98kg and had been insured for $6m (£4.75m).
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Police may be granted authority to raid the homes of phone thieves as a prominent Bill is introduced to parliament
Police could soon have the ability to enter homes where stolen phones have been tracked, without needing prior court approval.
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Cause of death of the missing sisters was drowning
The official cause of death of two sisters found in a river in Aberdeen was drowning, BBC Scotland News has learned.
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Man who killed his family also planned a school shooting
A man who shot dead his mother and two siblings was also planning to commit a mass shooting at a local school, police have confirmed.
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Great-grandfather, 64, pulls out a gun on his own granddaughter in a dispute over his wife’s ashes
A great-granddad has been jailed for five years after he pulled a pistol on his granddaughter during an argument over his late wife’s ashes.
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Gangs in balaclavas with hammers targeting cyclists in London’s Regent’s Park
London cyclists have begged the Met Police to start patrolling Regent’s Park in the early morning after a spate of muggings and hammer attacks.
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’If I hadn’t gotten out, everyone would have died’: Heroic yoga teacher recounts how she saved children from Southport attacker
A yoga teacher who was repeatedly stabbed in the Southport attacks has described helping several children to run to safety, adding that she felt she had to survive in order to save those in her class.
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Prosecutors say British husband ’likely killed ex-pat wife in France during a staged home burglary that went wrong’
A British man found dead alongside his wife at their home in rural France likely killed her during a botched staged burglary, police believe.