All news on the topic: Crime

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said plans would end the 'cycle of criminality' triggered by a 'merry-go-round of short sentences' as ministers battle to solve overcrowding in prisons

Jeff Anderson found fame on TV talent shows The Voice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Superstar, and gained the nicknamed ‘Baby Jesus’ while touring as an understudy in the UK production of Jesus Christ Superstar

Michelle Sallis, 27, from Wigan, was abused by her stepdad who callously told her years later 'I just wanted to know what it felt like to have sex with someone else'

Samuel Ogoshi and Samson Ogoshi of Lagos, Nigeria will face charges related to an online sexual extortion scheme after Jordan DeMay, 17, from Michigan took his own life

A 36-year-old British man has been arrested after Romina Acuna, 33, fell to her death from her fifth-floor home in Costa del Sol - several hours after she reported being assaulted

The 35-year-old has been held in the resort of Javea north of Alicante as the UK’s National Crime Agency swoop after Spanish police said he was “directly linked” to drug importation

Naython Muir, 43, died after being stabbed in Hounslow, west London, on Friday night. The Metropolitan Police have now asked anyone who was in the area to get in touch

Becky Bliefnick had warned family members that if anything happened to her, her estranged husband Tim would probably be responsible for it

Natalee Holloway vanished 18 years ago and the federal case has accused Joran van der Sloot of attempting to extort cash from her mum. Court records show he has indicated he will plead guilty in the case

Keir Mudie says is he terrified by the Israeli president Isaac Herzog who is putting the blame for the ­inhumanity of Hamas on to all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Lovell was arrested after a party at HMS Sultan in July 2022 following a complaint - he was charged with sexual assault and 'misconduct through alcohol'

Adrian Pietraszewski and Tomasz Weis are accused of beating Andrzej Mucha in Slough, ­Berkshire, in November 2021. Weiss then allegedly strangled him but his body has never been found

Luis Garcia bravely thwarted two thieves, captured on surveillance video, who attempted to snatch his valuable French bulldog, Sammy, during a walk in Little Village, a neighbourhood in Chicago, Illinois

Former nurse Lucy Letby became friends with baby poisoner Michelle Smith and Shauna Hoare, who was convicted for her part in the killing of schoolgirl Becky Watts

The mum of Alan Taylor said Spain's justice system let her down 'big time' after the driver of the BMW that mowed her son down in Majorca was acquitted in a controversial decision

A bear raided a home's kitchen in Barkhamsted, a town in Connecticut, skillfully opened the freezer and helped itself to a box of frozen lasagna. The incident was captured on Ring cameras

Police officers won't face charges in the case of Jason Jones, a man who died after being set on fire by a Taser gun when he previously doused himself with hand sanitiser

Football coach Martin Nelson was jailed for strangling his disabled neighbour into unconsciousness in front of his children, with a long-running dispute between the two homes reaching breaking point

Tina Satchwell was reported missing by husband Richard in March 2017 and hasn't been seen since - but gardai officers have now identified human remains found in her Co Cork home as the 45-year-old

Colin Lown has been spared jail after being convicted under an 'ancient statute' over the crash that saw him hit 88-year-old Derek Osborne as he was on his way home from the supermarket

The Forsyth family found themselves ejected from their Jet2 flight and say they were treated 'like criminals' after trying to help their daughter, Halle, 10, with a medical emergency

Richard Huckle was dubbed Britain's worst paedophile before his death in 2019 and it had been claimed he had been in a sexual relationship with Grindr killer, Stephen Port while they were both in jail

A troubled autistic teen in Flagler County attacked their teacher after being told to stop playing their Nintendo. The victim now refuses to help them lighten their sentence

Four chilling words were said by a man to his wife before shooting five officers in Minnesota. Karl Thomas Holmberg has been charged on multiple counts of attempted murder

Thousands of pro-Palestine supporters are set to march in London tomorrow with organisers calling for a 'peaceful protest seeking an end to the violence and the siege on Gaza'