All news on the topic: Crime

Former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin Guzman - known as El Chapo - will stay in his maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado after pleas to review his life sentence were ignored

Gypsy Rose Blanchard found herself the subject of internet beef mere days after she was released from prison — she posted a picture of a fake Facebook account and implored her followers to be vigilant and report similar ones

Pastor Dwayne Waden's wife was working at the North Carolina McDonald's as a manager-in-training when she claimed another employee was 'disrespecting' her. She called her husband who ended up having to be restrained as he attacked a cook

A bar brawl resulted in a man receiving permanent injuries because his assailant bit into him, with police now asking the public for help in tracking down the alleged attacker

Brutalised residents of a housing estate in London have blasted the shocking conditions they are being forced to endure with major criminality prevalent and many living in fear of their lives

Shannelle Farrier, 19, was left in excruciating pain and needed her eyes washed out with several litres of water at hospital after David Nicholson threw the chemicals in her face

Two police officers were attacked by a man who was making threats while brandishing a weapon, with one of the officers left badly wounded and needing medical attention

A dog ran loose on Charminster Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, biting five people and two dogs before officers were eventually able to restrain it

Shocked staff in a takeaway battered a group of thugs with the tools of their trade after they were attacked, with a reason for the ugly brawl yet to be revealed

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the reclusive 70-year-old vice-chair of the cosmetics titan L'Oreal, has become the first woman ever to amass a fortune of US$100b - but how much do we know about her?

A man has been charged with murder after a father-of-two died after being hit by a car while trying to help a stranger. Chris Marriott, 46, died after he went to the aid of a woman he spotted lying unconscious in the street in Sheffield on Wednesday

Pavel Shuvalov, 55, who was branded the Tulun Maniac, was sent to fight in Ukraine instead of his 24-year jail term for two murders and raping 27 girls and women

A man was filmed as he repeatedly attacked a security guard at Tesco Extra in Fratton, Portsmouth - police have since arrested him on suspicion of racially aggravated assault and shop theft

A 72-year old grandmother had thousands of pounds taken from her bank account after a pair of scammers stole her bank card after claiming to be from her bank's fraud team

A Colorado mother is on the run after she was found next to the dead bodies of two of her children in what was initially investigated as a burglary gone wrong. A third child survived

Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted in 2003 but his conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal in July after new DNA evidence potentially linking another man to the crime was identified

William Brown, seven, was killed this month in Folkestone, Kent, and his family had to ask special permission for him to be buried in a closed graveyard which has been allowed by the King

Chris Marriott had been enjoying a post-Christmas walk with his wife and two sons when he spotted an unconscious woman and rushed to help her and was struck by a car

Gypsy Rose Blanchard shared a snap of her posing in front of a mirror at her hotel room wearing the same outfit she wore the day she was released from prison — her first snap since she attained freedom

Leigh Brookfield, 40, of Dan Y Lan, Llanelli, will appear in court next month after he posted a video on Snapchat which showed him urinating on an elderly man on Boxing Day

Devastated family members gathered in a local park to pay respects to Savanah and her unborn son. Her grandma watched the proceedings sitting by trees planted in memory of Savanah's brother who was gunned down two years before

Linda Carter, played by Kellie Bright, fatally stabbed Keanu Taylor, played by Danny Walters, while trying to stop him from strangling Sharon Watts, played by Letitia Dean

The knifeman ran into the sea and attempted to flee police by swimming away from the scene before being caught and taken into custody

The footage shows a dark coloured pickup truck pull up in the carpark near where the bodies were found. Then boyfriend Matthew Guerra's Kia Optima pulls up and an unknown man gets out before another can be seen appearing to wipe down the side of the car

Abshir Ahmed and accomplice Yasir Hugogi utilised a trick from a Top Boy storyline to make their 19-year-old victim think he had lost the drugs and had to pay them £1,000