Crime

Home Office figures have revealed how many people were killed and who by across the country - you can use our interactive map to see how your area compares in detail.

Armed police have locked down Lewisham High Street and surrounded a nearby HSBC after an ’emergency incident’.

A Met Police officer is facing a misconduct hearing after allegedly farting in a female officer’s face.

A 38-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was found dead in a flat in south London.

A father has been sentenced to life in prison after murdering his 14-year-old daughter.

Five men, aged between 38 and 26, have been arrested after a woman was raped.

Britain’s most prolific rapist could serve the rest of his 40-year sentence in Indonesia after officials began talks on sending him home.

An 11-year-old girl who vanished on her way home from school was reportedly found dead in woodlands with ‘numerous’ stab wounds.

Up to four people are believed to have been stabbed in a ‘random attack’ in Dublin this afternoon.

Saxophone player Theobald Lengyel found fame as a musician in the 1980s playing in experimental rock band Mr Bungle – but decades later, he garnered infamy as a killer.

A former financial crime investigator found dead alongside his wife at their idyllic home in France bought chocolate and lottery tickets at his local newsagent hours before.

A personal trainer told how Southport killer Axel Rudakubana stared down at him wielding a 20cm knife during his murderous rampage at a dance studio.

Three British men have been arrested following the kidnap of a cryptocurrency broker in Spain.

A father who has spent 13 years in prison for stealing a phone and set himself alight in desperation has “totally disengaged and lost hope” after being denied a hospital transfer, his devastated family have said.

A woman who spent 550 days in hospital was arrested and evicted after the NHS trust took High Court action against her.

A Co-op store has been destroyed after thieves used a forklift to steal a cash machine.

The body of Louise Lasalle was found in woodland near her school in France with police now having arrested a man, 23, as well as his partner amid a murder investigation.

A woman has died after her car collided with a bus early this morning.

A 16-year-old girl has been drugged, beaten and raped for a month in a warehouse in Haiti, amid a massive 1,000% surge of sexual violence against children as the crime-ridden island is taken over by gangs.

Mehmet Aydın, the founder of a Turkish online Ponzi scheme who had been accused of embezzling money from thousands of people, was on Monday sentenced to 45,376 years and six months in prison.

‘We have to ensure that only the right people have guns in Sweden,’ says the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson.

A retired police officer has been cleared by a jury for knocking two people off an electric motorbike in order to "protect life".