Crime

Sexual offender monster Josef Fritzl will be placed under legal guardianship as a result of his dementia - but his legal team are battling against the decision.

Zara was murdered as she walked home in east London

Luke Waters, 28, was jailed for 10 years and forced to pay back almost £200,000 of the illegal cash - after gloating about his cash and luxury watches on social media

NHS England has confirmed its patient data managed by blood test management organisation Synnovis was stolen in a ransomware attack on 3 June.

Mohammed Navid Afzal had been scolded by a judge at Burnley Crown Court, where his own lawyer said the 41-year-old man, from Accrington, Lancashire, ’accepts this is a serious offence’

The man who was entrusted to care for Thunderbirds writer and director Alan Pattillo stole £75,000 from him. Allan Beacham will spend the next three years behind bars

A British woman has allegedly been raped while attending a festival in Paris.

A ‘sex for rent’ landlord who asked young female tenants to perform sex acts in exchange for reduced rent has been jailed for two and a half years.

Metropolitan Police also seized several digital devices during raids on two homes in the capital

A man was beaten to death in a busy Wetherspoons pub hours after England’s 1-1 draw with Denmark in the Euro’s on Thursday.

Prison officials said convicted killer Joshua Wade was "found unresponsive in his cell at the Indiana State Prison" on Thursday

The unidentified man, found on February 21, 1979, is believed to have been born between the world wars and investigators estimate he was aged between 40 and 60

West Midlands Ambulance Service has said two air ambulances to the horror in Dudley, where witnesses described "scary" scenes of disorder throughout the afternoon

A knife-obsessed 15-year-old who stabbed another boy through the heart on the way home from school has been locked up for life.

The victim suffered a stroke shortly before he died in hospital

Ten members of the group have been convicted over the operation, which produced counterfeit versions of medicines such as Xanax.

Abdul Ezedi’s body was pulled from the River Thames earlier this year following a manhunt after he doused his ex-partner with an alkali substance.

Yura Varybrus stabbed Charlie Cosser three times in the chest as around 100 teenagers celebrated the end of the school term - today he was named for the first time and sentenced to prison

Aristocrat Constance Marten and boyfriend Mark Gordon face a retrial after an Old Bailey jury was unable to reach verdicts.

A British businessman has killed his wife before shooting himself in an apparent murder-suicide.

Andrew Nicholas, who was visiting the Welsh town of Monmouth on a golfing trip, had a fatal encounter outside a pub with Morgan Wainewright, who killed him with a single punch

A 29-year-old man who admitted murdering a retired teacher in a catfishing plot has been sentenced to at least 22 years behind bars. The judge told him he "exploited" the victim even in his death.

Two young women gave their accounts of rape by Russian soldiers to the Kyiv Independent, who set out to identify those responsible.

A man has been sentenced to four years in prison for secretly removing his condom during sex.

Police in the Brazilian state of Pará detained seven suspects believed to be involved in the illegal extraction and sale of Amazon timber, a crime that affects the entire world’s population as deforestation in the Amazon contributes to climate change.