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In Maxine Carr's public appeal amid the search of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, she pleaded for whoever had the two girls to 'just let them go'. She was later jailed for lying to the police

Police said Aidas J. would dress up in "designer clothes" and pretend to be a Russian tourist to carry out his swindle at 20 restaurants across Alicante in Spain

In a horrific incident a Maryland judge was shot last night in a suspected homicide. Andrew Wilkinson was also an active member of his church and a youth sports coach

Health secretary Steve Barclay said it was a 'duty' to give answers to the surviving victims of Lucy Letby as an inquiry gets underway into how she was able to carry out the murders at the Countess of Chester Hospital

A three-year-old girl was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after falling from a car near a McDonald's in Wirral, Merseyside, before being hit by a transit van

In a horrific killing, Keith Dimmick's decapitated head was found in the bathroom sink. Police have accused his son Bradley, who struggles with schizoaffective disorder, of murder

There were 365,164 offences in the year to June, up from 292,584 in the previous 12 months, prompting retailers and unions to urge the police to do more to tackle the menace

James Witham, 41, is accused of murdering environmental health worker Ashley Dale, 28, before telling police in an interview that he had ‘nothing to do with it mate, not a clue’

Mustafa Mahmoodveven filmed himself boasting about earning £1,000 a day selling drugs. One video even showed him brazenly dealing over his back wall in Sheffield

Police in Detroit say that a pit bull, or possibly two pit bulls, attacked and savagely mauled a 4-year-old boy to death as the child played outside in the yard - even dragging him under the fence to bite him

Leonard Allan Cure, 53, was shot dead by a Camden County Sheriff's Office Deputy in Camden County, north of Jacksonville shortly after being pulled over for speeding

WARNING DISTRESSING: The girl was raped by a 14-year-old she had 'met on the internet' and got pregnant - but wanted to keep it as it made her feel 'special' and meant she would miss school

Police raided the Return to Nature Funeral Home facility in rural southern Colorado on October 6 after neighbours complained of a sour, rotten stench coming from the building

Santander UK has told businesses to be on "high alert" to impersonation scams after seeing the number of its customers targeted by fraudsters double last month

Ramandeep Kaur Mann plotted with lover Gurpreet Singh to murder her husband Sukhjeet by lacing a biryani with sleeping pills on holiday in India, and was only caught when her eldest son skipped the spiked meal

Paul Smith, from Waterloo, Merseyside, was jailed last month for sending a series of offensive, obscene and indecent messages to four women including images of young girls

The suspect in the killing of American teenager Natalee Holloway has admitted to bludgeoning her to death and discarding her remains in Alabama

Twelve top firms were approached for a police pilot scheme and asked to provide images of their worst offenders - and within 60 seconds, it generates a match report for an officer

WARNING DISTURBING: Richard Wynne, 48, used his neighbour's WiFi to carry out 'depraved' sex crimes online with police finding vile sex abuse of girls as young as six on his devices

The Prime Minister is embarking on a two-day diplomatic tour of the Middle East and is expected to meet other leaders as well as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

A teenager has been convicted of murdering Ben Moncrieff in Bath city centre in May after unleashing a knife and killing him with a single stab in an attack caught on CCTV

Ramandeep Kaur Mann, from Derby, laced her husband’s favourite dish with sleeping pills then slit his throat as he slept after plotting with her lover to escape her marriage

A Florida man who was wanted by the Polk City Police Department thought he'd avoid arrest by putting a sign on the door of his hideout specifying: "Johnny Yates does not live here" - which cops say didn't fool them, as they eventually raided the home

According to the New Orleans Police Department, three children died in a house fire overnight, with a local child services department leading the investigation into the incident where the mother alleges that the father intentionally set the home ablaze

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Video has emerged that appears to show a Palestinian man being shot by a gunman – understood to be an Israeli settler – who is then manhandled away by alleged Israeli Defence Force soldiers