All news on the topic: Crime

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Tortured, beaten, castrated by soldiers from his own army - for joining Mau Mau
In the eyes of many historians, the campaign against Mau Mau fighters was the bloodiest British suppression of any of their colonial uprisings anywhere in the world
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BBC TV crime show victim dies aged 24 - six years after axe attack
Cameron Brooksbank was just 17 years old when he was horrifically injured after stopping at a road rage incident to try and keep the peace
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant, 75, jailed after £4.5m fraud case
Jeff Arundell appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? all the way back in 2000 where he answered just six questions using all the lifelines, winning only £1,000
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Last surviving member of Great Train Robbery dies at 94 after Alzheimer's battle
Bobby Welch, who died last week aged 94, was one of 15 men who stole £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train in an infamous heist in 1963 and spent 30 years in jail
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Man charged with murder of 'loved' mum found dead after walking home from pub
Greater Manchester Police has charged a man with murder over the death of 44-year-old Caroline Gore who was found dead outside a tower block in Wigan
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Dad knocked out at child's christening party as youth footballers rush to help
Carl Gray ruthlessly 'lunged' at his victim and delivered 'multiple strikes' to his head after a fight broke out at a party at Caerleon RFC in Wales, with youths playing football forced to step in
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Inside the warped world of strange couple who stole identities of dead babies
Walter Primrose and Gwynn Morrison lived under the names of dead babies from Texas for decades, with Primrose even joining the Coast Guard and gaining security clearance under the false name
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Terrifying moment armed robbers storm church and kidnap official during sermon
An armed daylight robbery at the Church of Pentecost in South Africa was caught on camera, showing the terrified reaction of the preacher when he saw the thieves with their guns
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Super thief who pilfered over a dozen Hollywood homes is jailed for 31 years
Benjamin Eitan Ackerman, who posed as a realtor to gain access to some of Hollywood's most expensive, high-end homes, was sentenced to 31 years in prison on Wednesday four years after his arrest
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Dad murders 4-month-old son by causing injuries to tot’s spine, ribs and brain
Reece Kelly was convicted of murder following a three-week trial at Carlisle Crown Court, during which the jury had heard baby Dallas sustained a bleed to his brain
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Serious crime victims in some parts of UK wait 13 hours for police - full list
Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a 'disturbing postcode lottery' in responses to grade two priority crimes - which include burglaries, missing persons and domestic incidents
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Teenage boy admits killing stranger by tripping him up on the street
A 16-year-old boy ran up to Jerald Netto in Hanwell, west London, in March earlier this year, and tripped him up, leading to the 62-year-old having a heart attack and dying
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Innocent gang shooting victim recalls night of terror that left her sister dead
Sophie Ellis has revealed her pain over the tragic death of her sister Charlene at the hands of the Burger Bar Boys gang in Birmngham. She revealed the ongoing abuse her family receives more than two decades on
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Harrowing 911 call played in trial of yoga teacher 'who shot dead pro-cyclist'
Caitlin Cash said she discovered the body of her professional cyclist pal, Moriah Wilson, lying in a pool of blood in a Texas home, which prompted her to make a frantic 911 call
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Taxi driver saves woman stuffed in suitcase by ex-partner after hearing screams
A cab driver rescued a woman from being kidnapped after he heard her screaming from inside a suitcase - he attempted to catch the supect and chased him down several streets
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Brit gran found stabbed to death in Italy 'may have been killed in her sleep'
Michele Faiers, 66, lived in the idyllic rural Italian village of Verratti, with Michael Whitbread before she was found dead with seven knife wounds in her back
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Man 'poisoned to death by girlfriend' after inheritance was scammed, say family
Steven Edward Riley Jr., 51, was due to meet a lawyer at Minot Airport on September 3 to sign off on the inheritance cheque but suddenly fell ill after being allegedly poisoned by his girlfriend
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Death row inmate will be killed with 'untested' nitrogen gas, court rules
Alabama Supreme Court said death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith can be executed with nitrogen gas - a method which involves the inhalation of pure nitrogen to starve the body of oxygen
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Mum and dad gather to watch daughter's killer describe 'chilling' murder
Natalee Holloway's parents gathered in a room at an Alabama jail to watch Joran van der Sloot admit to killing their daughter who disappeared in 2005 while on holiday in Arbua
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Couple who stole identities of dead babies and suspected of KGB ties convicted
A jury convicted a couple that was arrested in Hawaii last year and charged with identity theft after an agency discovered they'd been going by the names of two babies who died decades ago - and were accused of having ties to the KGB during the trial
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Women failed as quarter convicted of exposure go on to commit further crimes
Since 2018 there have been 219 cases where a person convicted of exposure have gone on to commit violent sex crimes such as rape, including killer cop Wayne Couzens, with the Lib Dems warning the justice system is failing women and girls
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'Killing must halt and help be allowed in to two million Palestinians trapped'
What Hamas did on October 7, butchering 1,400 Israelis and seizing more than 200 hostages, was a war crime. So too is taking the lives of many more Palestinians
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Wife of man shot dead with stepson over noise complaint fears for family's lives
Bladimy Mathurin, 47, and Chin Wai Mode, 27, were fatally shot outside the family's apartment on Sunday night in Brooklyn, New York, during an argument about noise between the two apartments
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Mum ordered to pay £500 after boyfriend's XL Bully called Rambo bit girl, 7
Holly Dodd was unable to control her partner's XL Bully Rambo as it ran outside and attacked a seven-year-old girl on a street in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, last month
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Thieves use new method to steal cars without needing the keys, experts warn
Car drivers should urgently protect their vehicles amid a wave of thefts and an advanced new method that criminals are using to drive off 'in seconds', experts have warned