All news on the topic: Crime

A woman who claimed her husband had fallen in their kitchen and landed on a "little paring knife" has been jailed for life for his murder.

A headteacher used school funding to buy a car for herself to drive to France, having changed term dates to fit her holidays.

A ’potential serial killer’ who was freed from prison despite plotting the murders of women and children has now been jailed again for sickening new crimes.

Shabir Ahmed, 73, who has been stripped of his British citizenship leaving him with only Pakistani nationality, cannot be deported due to a 1971 law that forbids the removal of a small group of Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK more than 50 years ago.

Kwabena Kissi, 40, walked into a Santander branch in Brixton, south-west London wearing a uniform, helmet and mask with visor. He was buzzed into a back room where staff handed over cash containing £117,000 before he left with the money in a briefcase.

A police staff member has admitted misconduct in public office by accessing confidential material and leaking it to third parties.

A journalist who conducted a stalking campaign against former chancellor George Osborne and his wife Thea Rogers has walked free from court.

The disgraced pop star, real name Paul Gadd, 82, is accused of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 and three counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14.

The ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang – who has served 14 years in jail for multiple rapes and sexually abuse against young girls – has been released from prison as a row over his deportation deepens.

A 16-year-old boy has suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after being shot in Birmingham, police have said.

A police officer has been jailed after beating up a teenage boy asking for help while he was on duty.

The grieving son of late boxing legend Ricky Hatton has revealed his dad’s car was firebombed in a shocking targeted attack.

Finland has kept its 1,340-kilometre border with Russia closed since December 2023 after about 1,000 undocumented migrants crossed into the country.

The motive behind Monday’s bombing attack against a Ukrainian-born millionaire in Monaco remains shrouded in mystery as residents of the super wealthy city-state grapple with their suddenly shattered sense of security.

Two male Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers have been sacked following separate incidents in which they touched the buttocks of female colleagues.

Inter Milan star Alessandro Bastoni is allegedly under investigation by Italian police as part of a probe into child prostitution.

A man belonging to a flag activist group is due to appear in court after being accused of making indecent images of children.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after police were called to a home in St Leonards - where a 66-year-old man and a 46-year-old woman were found dead.

A mysterious vigilante in Mexico is stopping ‘bike thieves’ in a rather unusual way after a spike in crime.

A man charged with murder and rape after a two-year-old girl was found dead has been confirmed as the toddler’s dad.

A grooming gang ringleader convicted of 30 child rapes reportedly can’t be deported from the UK despite having his citizenship removed.

A woman has allegedly been sexually assaulted on a train in London when a man "grabbed onto her" and "refused to let her go".

Six people have been killed in a shooting at a youth welfare facility in Stade, northern Germany.