Crime

Police are investigating after construction workers made a horrific discovery at a house in Bishop Auckland.

A chef who strangled his wife to death in front of their young children and her TikTok lover before stuffing her body inside a suitcase has been jailed for 22 years.

A Montenegrin dubbed the ‘Pirate of the Unknown’ is set to be arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court for allegedly trafficking several tons of Latin American cocaine all over the world onboard container vessels.

Until the day Lucy Letby dies, she will ’look over her shoulder’ in jail and be the target of violent inmates who deem her the ’lowest of low’, a former prison officer says

As a propeller plane on Thursday whirred towards the U.S.-Mexico border to cross illegally, U.S. agents raced to meet it at a small municipal airport near El Paso, Texas, and arrest two men who were part of Mexican drug trafficking royalty.

Three others sentenced to up to five years in young offender institution for revenge attack against teenager

Acasia Welburn pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual activity with child by person in a position of trust

Benjamin Atkins dumped Simon Shotton’s body parts around seaside resort after argument over debt

Danielle Carr-Gomm fell fatally ill when she stopped taking insulin during Wiltshire workshop run by Hongchi Xiao

A man arrested over the crossbow murders of the wife and daughters of BBC commentator John Hunt has not been questioned by police yet.

A rapist ended up inadvertently drugging himself when his victim clocked his plan to spike her and swapped their drinks around.

Police were called on Tuesday to reports of a serious assault in Gillingham which saw the victim, named locally as Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton, airlifted from the scene and taken to hospital

The soldier was repeatedly stabbed near Brompton Barracks in Gillingham on Tuesday as Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was ’shocked and appalled’ by the attack

The extremist preacher Anjem Choudary has been found guilty of directing a terrorist organisation.

Hong Kong authorities announced the successful dismantling of a drug manufacturing facility specializing in ecstasy production and the arrest of its 19-year-old operator.

French rapper Naps, known for his songs C’est carré le S and La Kiffance, is suspected of raping a woman in October 2021 while she was asleep in a hotel room

The police officer was stabbed in the chest at HMP Frankland Prison and has been rushed to hospital in an ambulance, Durham Police said, who added that the victim is from a different force

Police revealed a description of the two suspects

Maxted pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud by abuse of position valued at £596,497.29 he was employed through a recruitment agency and failed to declare his previous fraud conviction

The operation began back in 2020 and among others has seen about 1.2 tonnes of cocaine being found on board of a yacht, with an estimated street value of £96 million

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tuesday three Mexican accountants implicated in a timeshare fraud scheme run by one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels.

A man has been jailed after his DNA was matched to a blood stain at a storage container where £2.5million worth of cannabis was stored.