All news on the topic: Crime

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Killer will be executed despite claiming death drug will cause him enormous pain
Jedidiah Murphy is due to be executed in Texas on Tuesday. He was sentenced to death row for the fatal shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in 2000
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Weapons firm blasted for knives sale days after girl, 15, stabbed to death
A weapons firm ran brazen ads claiming its sale was to celebrate a failed bid by police to close it down just days after Elianne Andam was stabbed to death in Croydon, South London
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Pedestrian fighting for life and woman arrested after major crash on busy road
The crash happened on The Strand, Liverpool, in the early hours of the morning but the driver of a white Audi TT "travelling at a speed" fled the scene on foot, Merseyside Police say
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Man slaughtered three neighbours after days without sleep during meth binge
Brett Pruett had been taking care of Betty Boyles, who owned two houses side by side. When she died Pruett tried to take over the properties insisting on the tenants paying him the rent in Portland
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Holly Willoughby won't return to ITV This Morning for the foreseeable future
This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby, who is now under 24-hour police protection, will remain off work for as long as she needs following the discovery of an alleged kidnap plot
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Taxi driver could help police solve case of man executed on date with girlfriend
Carl Russell was killed five years ago and nobody has been charged with murder. Merseyside Police said they are keeping an open mind and their inquiries continue
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Woman 'raped' inside tent near town centre bus station as man, 26, arrested
West Yorkshire Police have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of rape after a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted inside a tent in Leeds city centre in the early hours of Friday
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Man's double murder conviction to be reviewed after Levi Bellfield 'confession'
Michael Stone has spent 26 years in prison for the murders of mum and daughter Lin and Megan Russell but Levi Bellfield allegedly made multiple confessions in his prison cell recently
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Man stabbed through heart by gang who broke into home armed with machetes
Imran Isat was sat in his living with with friends when five armed thugs broke into his home in Ilford, London as part of a pre-planned robbery which resulted in the 30-year-old's death
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'I confronted owner of Bully dog that savaged me and my pet in street'
Mirrorman Tom Bryant tracks down the owner of the Bully that mauled him in the street and uncovers more victims of the same dog, and residents living in fear
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Chilling mystery as husband found beheaded in garage and wife dumped in lake
Russell and Shirley Dermond were brutally murdered nine years ago in a gated community near Lake Oconee, in Putnam County, Georgia - but new DNA evidence could lead police to their killer
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Global ‘Satanic neo-Nazi’ paedo cult targets kids online to record own suicides
The arrest of 23-year-old Angel Almeida, from Queens, New York, led authorities to uncover what is believed to ba an offshoot of a neo-Nazi cult known as the Order of Nine Angels
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Mum who lost daughter in murder-suicide dies in car crash after posting tribute
A devastated mother who lost her daughter in a murder-suicide in August was killed in a car crash mere hours after she posted a heartwrenching tribute to her daughter
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Boy, 11, 'shot 2 teens in a fight over a bag of chips at football practice'
An 11-year-old boy shot two 13-year-olds after an American football practice on Monday night. The three had allegedly been in an altercation after the older two refused to allow the younger to eat a bag of crisps
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'Drunk rich girl' in Tesla gets pulled over - says 'my father owns an island'
Bodycam footage from police in Florida shows the moment a drunk rich girl was pulled over by cops. Stephanie Bloodworth told cops her father owned the island they were on
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Sarah Ferguson assistant's husband accused of killing her as family mourns death
James Patrick had been married to Jenean Chapman for just two months before her death, her family said. He has now been arrested and charged with the murder of Sarah Ferguson's former aide
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Boy, 15, arrested after man stabbed to death in Brixton in front of shoppers
Metropolitan Police have arrested a boy, 15, on suspicion of murder and possession of an offensive weapon following the fatal stabbing of Keelen Morris Wong in Brixton this week
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Extradited pensioner from Pakistan denies police officer's murder
Piran Ditta Khan is accused of being involved in the deadly robbery of a travel agent 18 years ago. At Leeds crown court, he pleaded not guilty to Sharon Beshenivsky's murder
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Postman bludgeoned mum to death before hiding her body for 11 days
Postman Mark Nicholls, 43, repeatedly hit mum of three Emily Sanderson around her head with a dumbbell before binding her with parcel tape and hiding her in his Sheffield home
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Teen killed by best friend 'clowning around' weeks after passing her test
Tayla King, then 18, crashed her car on the A4067 Swansea Valley road a month after passing her driving test, killing her passenger and best friend Chantelle Thomas
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Moment Holly Willoughby finds out about 'plot to murder and kidnap her'
Holly Willoughby was forced to pull out of presenting Thursday's episode of This Morning following Gavin Plumb's alleged kidnap and murder plans
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'America's worst mom' whose girl, 5, was raped and killed after being kicked out
The daughter of a woman branded 'America's worst mom' begged to stay in other people's homes. Zoey Felix, five, was kicked out by mum Holly Jo Felix before she was raped and killed
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'We were betrayed' say parents of 1-year-old baby who died of fentanyl overdose
The father of the one-year-old child who died at a Bronx daycare says that he feels 'betrayed' by the daycare owner and says that he 'trusted her' to take care of his child
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Coroner probing 8 deaths on same NHS ward 'dangerous' nurses drugged patients
Catherine Hudson, a senior nurse, and Charlotte Wilmot, an assistant practitioner, illegally drugged and mistreated staff for months at the stroke unit at Blackpool Victoria Hospital
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Boy, 14, who murdered brother, 17, had 'hit list' of family & asked pal to help
The 14-year-old from Pike County, Alabama, confided in a classmate that he had shot and killed his older brother and that he had a 'hit list' of family members he wanted help to kill