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Spy in the Bag: The enigma of MI6 agent Gareth Williams, found dead in a holdall
As Channel 5’s documentary The Spy in the Bag explores the death of M16 agent Gareth Williams, the Mirror takes a look at everything we know about his mysterious case
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Woman, 70, found wearing nightdress in overflowing bath as fiancé charged with her murder
Rita Fleming was found dead in the bathtub after police entered the Kensington home, with her fiancé Clifford Cowen charged with murder and appearing at the Old Bailey today
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Shameless drink driver claims ’hitchhiker’ drove before crash that killed baby
A bizarre audio clip reveals how Darryl Anderson claimed a mystery hitchhiker had taken the wheel moments before a deadly car crash which killed a tiny baby - he later dropped the fake story
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Mum who ran £1 million racket flying drones over prison walls to deliver drugs and phones is jailed
Detectives were able to download telltale software from the homemade, heavy duty drone
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’Distraught’ mum trembles in the dock as she’s charged with murdering her teenage daughter
Simon Vickers, 49, and Sarah Hall, 44, of Geneva Road, Darlington, appeared in court charged with the murder of their 14-year-old daughter Scarlett Vickers who died of a stab wound
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Radio DJ ’kidnapped and tortured to death’ near Spurs stadium
Koray Alpergin, of Bizim FM, and his girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were kidnapped after eating at a restaurant in Mayfair. The DJ was brutally murdered at the venue before his body was dumped in Essex
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Parents accused of Darlington murder of 14-year-old daughter appear in court
Scarlett Vickers, daughter of Simon Vickers and Sarah Hall, was killed by a single knife wound to the chest, court told
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A man and woman have been charged with murder after a 14-year-old girl was found dead in a house
Two people have been charged the murder of a 14-year-old girl who was found dead inside a house.
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A married general has become the first special operations chief to be charged with sexual assault in military history
Major General James Roddis, who is a father of three, was awarded an MBE in 2009
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The church where killer Peter Tobin dumped his victim’s body is set to be converted into flats or a hotel
St Patrick’s Church, the place where serial killer Peter Tobin dumped the body of his victim, will be converted into a block of flats or hotel after the church confirmed they would be shutting down
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Abusive thug traps girlfriend in high-rise lift and subjects her to horror 10-minute assault
Ben Hewitt subjected his girlfriend to a horror attack which last a full 10 minutes as he repeatedly spat on her while punching, slapping, kicking and stamping on her - forcing her to have a liquid diet for two weeks
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A knifeman remains on the loose following a triple stabbing in Feltham that resulted in six minutes of chaos
Police confirmed in a statement to the Daily Mirror that two separate incidents left three people injured in Feltham this afternoon, with a knifeman still at large
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A Canadian has been sentenced for involvement in a pump and dump securities fraud scheme
A U.S. court sent a Canadian trader to prison for 3,5 years and ordered him and his co-conspirator to pay more than US$215 million in restitution for defrauding investors by artificially inflating penny stocks and then selling them at a high prize.
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Spanish and Portuguese police have busted a fraud network that targeted the elderly
Spanish and Portuguese authorities arrested 54 suspected members of a network that used a cunning mix of fraudulent phone calls and social engineering to swindle nearly 100 elderly people, depriving them of some 2.5 million euros (US$2.68 million), Europol said on Tuesday.
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A woman in her 50s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in his 40s was stabbed to death in a quiet village
Police say the man and woman are known to each other
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A hitwoman who allegedly ’used a hijab in a botched UK contract killing’ has been ’detained’ in Armenia after five years on the run
She was allegedly living in a rented one-bed flat on the outskirts of Yerevan
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Thousands have been arrested in a global operation aimed at targeting cybercrime
Authorities in 61 countries collaborated last week to dismantle multiple online scam networks, freezing 6,745 bank accounts and seizing assets worth US$257 million, including $2 million in cryptocurrency.
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Manchester graduate who sold Viagra-style drugs online is jailed
Antoine Kolias invented new branding and said the medicines were a ‘natural remedy’ for erectile dysfunction
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Neil Foden, a former headteacher who ’abused trust,’ has been jailed for ’shocking’ sex offences against four girls
Sentencing Foden to 17 years in prison, Judge Rowlands described him as "a man looked up to by many" who had "managed to hide a dreadful secret".
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Former Honduran president receives 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses.
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The family of a murdered teen cadet calls for action to combat the surge of knife crime
Nathaniel Shani was stabbed in the neck by two boys since jailed for over a decade, and his family are now calling on politicians to take action on knife crime
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A man from Grimsby has been sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting deceased bodies in a mortuary
Damon Tingay punched the body of one man twice and performed sex acts on two male bodies, court heard
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Interpol: 1,374 victims identified in global anti-human trafficking operation
Law enforcement agencies around the world coordinated in a joint operation against human trafficking that led to hundreds of arrests and more than 1,000 victims identified, Interpol reported.
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Woman is raped by stranger after Royal Ascot – with cops launching urgent manhunt for attacker
It took place just hours after thousands attended the annual event
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Met Police officer charged with misconduct for allegedly stealing money from a dead man who collapsed
PC Chris Carter faces a misconduct in public office charge over the alleged incident in Haringey, north London
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