Crime

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Couple found brutally executed hours after being kidnapped by fake cops
Alex Bruno Silva dos Santos, 28, and Maria Leticia Sousa da Silva, 26, were kidnapped from their home in Brazil by four men dressed as police and later found murdered.
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Fears Brit couple were tortured to death as horror new details emerge of ’burglary gone wrong’
Investigators in charge of the shocking deaths of Dawn and Andrew Searle have set up a massive crime scene in Les Pesquiès, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in France.
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Scout leader jailed was ’paedophile hiding in plain sight’ after abusing boys as young as 7
Paedophile former scout leader Ian Silvester has been jailed for 16 years after he was found to have abused boys as young as seven over the course of three decades.
676
Second woman arrested for using wigs to fake UK citizenship tests; disguises and designer bags found in raid
A second woman, suspected of using wigs to disguise herself to sit the British citizenship test for other people, has been arrested.
637
£20 million drugs baron’s party ends with arrest at Ibiza’s Pacha
A baby-faced drugs baron and his glamourous ‘gangster’s moll’ are facing years behind bars.
591
Four-year-old in critical condition after being hit by a car in east London
A four-year-old child is in a critical condition after being struck by a car in east London.
530
Evil stepdad who shook baby to death then claimed tot choked on Hobnob after horrific 7 month abuse campaign is jailed
A sadistic stepdad who shook a baby to death before claiming the tot choked on a Hobnob has been jailed for murder.
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Four arrested as £80 million worth of cocaine disguised as shea butter is seized in a major drug operation
A woman in her 40s was also arrested on suspicion of money laundering and released under investigation.
637
Ex-Celsius CEO requests delay in sentencing amid intricate legal battle
Mashinsky’s defense team argued that the case’s complexity and litigation obligations necessitate sentencing delay.
761
Surviving Al Fayed brother faces accusations of sexual assault
Three former Harrods employees have accused Mohamed Al Fayed’s only surviving brother of sexually assaulting them while they were working for the department store.
639
Terrifying thing vile abuser did before dissolving pregnant teenage wife in bath of acid
Arnima Hayat, 19, was a gifted medical student - but then she met her husband, Meraj Zafar, 20, and was left terrified and desperate to escape him with a baby on the way.
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Two teenagers confess to igniting a massive fire at the former Crewe printworks during summer riots
More than 350 people had to be evacuated because their properties were at risk during the blaze in August - with some residents still unable to return home.
695
Disturbed churchgoer attacks priest during live prayer service
A man lunged at a Catholic priest and punched him to the ground during a prayer service while it was being live streamed.
530
Thief hid for three days in the shopping mall where he stole kilograms of gold, surviving on what he could find
A story that could be the subject of a movie took place in Adana.
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New shooting near Clémenceau metro station in Brussels leaves one person injured
Another shooting occurred near the Clémenceau metro station in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. One person was injured.
871
Man stabbed on busy high street in broad daylight, terrifying shoppers
This is the horrifying moment a man is stabbed in broad daylight on a busy high street in front of terrified shoppers.
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Nursery manager who ’headbutted’ a 2-year-old boy and claimed ’it’s the only way he’ll learn’ avoids jail time
A nursery manager who ’headbutted’ a two-year-old boy as part of a twisted punishment has avoided jail.
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Police uncover ’loner’ Sweden shooter Rickard Andersson’s extensive arsenal and connections to a school, describing the scene as an ’inferno of death’
The shocking arsenal of Sweden’s mass school shooting suspect Rickard Andersson and his apparent links to the murder scene have been revealed.
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When a drug dealer refused to provide his phone PIN, the police simply pointed the screen at his face
Grant Lester was caught after an undercover police officer became suspicious of his car.
774
France prepares for the trial of a surgeon accused of abusing anesthetized children
A former surgeon who is accused of abusing hundreds of young patients, often while they were under anaesthetic, is set to go on trial this month in the largest child abuse trial in French history.
561
British conman on trial in France for allegedly ramming police with his car
Robert Hendy-Freegard, 53, a serial swindler who featured in Netflix documentary, allegedly injured officers in getaway attempt.
834
Met Police arrest hundreds in one week during crackdown on phone thefts
The Metropolitan Police described the reselling of stolen phones abroad and in the UK as a £50million-a-year trade.
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American gang believed they would make a fortune but were busted at a UK airport after hiding in toilets
Seven people were arrested when the huge haul was discovered after a bag went through an X-ray machine and the alarm was raised at Manchester Airport.
574
Three teenagers tragically die in a horror crash on a country lane after attending a house party
Dafydd Huw Craven-Jones only had his driving licence for less than six months prior to the crash in Penkridge, Staffordshire, which killed him and passengers Morgan Jones and Sophie Bates.
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MPs informed that a misspelling of the Southport killer’s name may have led Prevent to close the case
Review finds Axel Rudakubana’s surname was incorrect in one of three referrals to scheme to spot potential terrorists.