Crime

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Racist thug jailed for vile Leeds riots revealed to be a paedophile hunter
Phil Hoban, founder of a controversial paedophile hunting group Predator Exposure, made vile racist gestures and yelled "who the f*** is Allah?" at the Leeds event, but told West Yorkshire Police he was asking "who is Allan?"
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Man charged with attempted murder of police officer after prison stabbing
A man has been charged with attempted murder of a police officer who was stabbed inside a high-security prison.
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Father and son pocketed £136k by returning cheap irons to Argos in three-year scam
A dad and son pocketed £136,000 in a ‘get-rich-quick’ con using fake receipts to return cheap irons to Argos for the full price.
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Young man loses arm after being stabbed in Manchester with man and woman arrested
A 26-year-old man was found injured in Moston, Manchester after allegedly being stabbed and it has since emerged that he has lost his arm as a result of the attack
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Urgent manhunt for suspected child sex offender with face tattoo on run after escaping
Crimestoppers have put up a reward of up to £5,000 for information on the whereabouts of 33-year-old Daryl Taylor who escaped from hospital while under arrest on Sunday
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Private maths tutor jailed after admitting to sexually abusing teen boy in diary
Maths tutor Holly Rouse-Sweeney, 37, from Hebden Bridge, has been jailed for six years after sexually abusing a teenage boy with police finding damning diary entries on her laptop
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Killers seen walking hand-in-hand minutes after ’sugar daddy’ was stabbed to death
A woman who stabbed her ‘sugar daddy’ to death after he ‘ran out of money’ has been jailed for 25 years.
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Man ’put girl in headlock and stabbed her eight times’ in Leicester Square attack
A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Leicester Square.
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Leicester Square stabbing: Man charged with attempted murder after 11-year-old girl knifed in street
Ioan Pintaru, 32, has been charged after an 11-year-old girl was stabbed in Leicester Square and rushed to hospital. It It was initially believed that the girl’s mother had also been hurt
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Dublin man shot dead in Malta after murder of ex-partner ’used fake profiles to harass victim’
It has been claimed that he ran social media accounts to target his former partner, at one point making accusations about her sex life
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Girl, 11, stabbed in ‘targeted attack’ in London’s Leicester Square, saved by tea shop worker
A security guard tackled a knifeman to the ground as he attacked an 11-year-old girl and a woman in central London’s Leicester Square.
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Man charged with murder after woman, 26, fatally stabbed in Ipswich
Family pays tribute to Courtney Mitchell, who was found seriously injured and later died in hospital
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Gumtree scam brothers jailed after PS5 robbery filmed in victim’s home
Brothers who conspired to rob a man of his sought-after PS5 games console have both been put behind bars. The pair were caught on camera in footage that helped convict them
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Man shot by armed police after ’altercation’ between two people in Surrey
A man was shot by police in Surrey in the early hours of this morning.
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Former prime minister of the British Virgin Islands jailed in cocaine case
A U.S. court has sentenced former British Virgin Islands (BVI) Prime Minister Andrew Alturo Fahie to more than 11 years in prison for his role in a major cocaine smuggling operation.
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British crocodile expert Adam Britton jailed for raping, torturing and killing dozens of dogs
Britton, a renowned zoologist, was sentenced at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Australia, by a judge who had to warn the gallery that details of his offences could cause a "nervous shock".
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UK arrests two in "Russian Coms" scam, shuts down platform
U.K. authorities announced Thursday in London the arrest of two individuals suspected of developing and administering the “Russian Coms” caller ID spoofing service, believed to have defrauded hundreds of thousands of people out of millions of dollars.
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Ipswich railway station murder probe as young woman knifed to death in horror incident
Suffolk Police and paramedics were called at around 7.10pm to reports a woman had been stabbed on Burrell Road near the train station in Ipswich - the woman, who has not been identified but was in her 20s, died at the scene
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Three men sentenced to 22 years for leading UK people smuggling ring
Three men have been sentenced for their roles in an organised crime group linked to the smuggling of migrants into the UK by lorry.
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Alleged cartel leader Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada appears in federal court in El Paso
Alleged Sinaloa cartel cofounder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada appeared Thursday in federal court in Texas for his latest hearing since his arrest a week ago in an intrigue-packed case centered on one of the world’s most powerful and deadly drug trafficking organizations.
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UK: Ringleader of banana-filled cocaine smuggling gang convicted
The ringleader of an organized crime group that tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the U.K. via a container of bananas was convicted Wednesday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported.
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Teenager Axel Rudakubana charged with stabbing three girls to death
The 17-year-old boy charged with the murders of three young girls during a knife rampage at a holiday club in Southport can now be named as Axel Rudakubana.
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US convicts Rhode Island man for attempting to traffic over 400 pounds of drugs into Canada
A former Rhode Island resident was convicted in federal court for attempting to traffic more than 400 pounds of illegal narcotics into Canada via an inflatable raft, but beachgoers found his stash and alerted authorities.
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Interpol operation arrests 206 suspects, seizes $1.6B worth of drugs
Police across Europe, South America, and Africa detained over 200 individuals and seized US$1.6 billion worth of illegal drugs and precursor chemicals during a two-month anti-narcotics operation, Interpol announced on Tuesday.
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Shocking moment man shoves Tube passenger onto tracks at Oxford Circus station
A postman was just inches from death from electrocution and seconds from being hit by a train after being pushed from a Tube platform.