All news on the topic: Crime

Noel 'Razor' Smith, an armed robber-turned-writer, said there are rumours in the criminal world that BBC Crimewatch host Jill Dando was the victim of 'a professional hit' in 1999

Patricia Martin, a former Cook County judge was disbarred after admitting to stealing more than $240,000 (£197,000) from her uncle, Oscar Lawton Wilkerson, Jr., a former Tuskegee Airman

Disgraced comic Russell Brand spent a week living with a drug-addict couple while making a TV documentary, which never made it to air thanks to the intervention of a producer

The British Retail Consortium said there were eight million cases of shoplifting in the year to March - but police recorded 339,206 incidents, with just 48,218 resulting in charges

The family of Carrie Slater have paid tribute after she died two days after being shot in a quiet village in Leicestershire. A man has been charged with her murder

Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana was struck with another lawsuit alleging that 41-year-old grandmother, Ternell Brown was taken to the 'Brave Cave' warehouse and strip searched

Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national already serving time for the murder of a Peruvian woman, is the main suspect in Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance. New disturbing details on the case have come to light

Christopher Coulthard has been stealing money from churches since the 1970s. After finally being caught this year, he admitted to being a serial church burglar

After a growing number of burglaries in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, those living in the town took security matters into their own hands by all paying for a street patrol

The incident has been labelled as a 'terrorist attack' by Kosovo's Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, who blames the unrest on Serbian organised crime backed by Belgrade

Grei Mendez De Ventura allegedly duped her ex-husband Juan Ventura into a sham marriage even if she had no interest in him, his sister has claimed, and put him 'through hell'

18-year old Harvey Moore was refused a community service order despite admitting to four counts of assault by beating and could return to work on HMS Prince of Wales

Members of the gang have been sentenced for their links to a widespread county lines operation

Ron Youngblood said his ex-wife 'got rid' of their daughters when she could no longer use them as 'leverage' against him. She was sentenced to 78 years in prison this week

Jack Dodd was woken by noises at 2am but assumed it was his cats playing outside his room - but when he spotted a shadowy figure move past the open door, the pub landlord knew he was in danger

A woman in Arizona was arrested and charged with animal abuse after authorities discovered that her 'shelter for special needs animals' was just a front, and instead she kept dozens of dogs in her home - many were malnourished and some missing their doggy wheelchairs when cops arrived

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The parents of an infant who nearly bled to death after being eaten alive by rats have been charged with neglect in one of the worst child abuse cases that officials have ever seen according to local police

A prominent judge in Oklahoma was caught and arrested last week after he shot at multiple parked cars before slamming into a woman who he alleges, 'cut him off'

An auto parts store worker was officially charged with murder after he allegedly cornered a 23-year-old, accusing him of stealing, before strangling him to death on video

Manager Yuan Yuan Chen and her boss Rong Rong Xu were part of a Flushing-based sex ring in Queens, New York, that extended to Oregon and included hundreds of sex workers

Darryl George was suspended from Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, over his dreadlocks. Now his family is suing the state's governor for failing to protect him from racism

Shawna Weems was killed following a dispute on 1000 block of South Gilbert Street in Hemet - around 90 miles east of Los Angeles - during a row about two people taking drugs outside her home

Relatives of tragic Stuart Lubbock – who was found dead at a late-night party at the Strike It Lucky presenter’s home in 2001 – now believe no one will ever be brought to book

Members of the warped internet group ­dedicated to the serial killer boast of writing to the jail where she is being held after she was sentenced to life for murdering seven babies

Rachael Bletchly says people who think they're too posh to pay for all the items in their basket need a wake-up call, as Britain is currently in the grip of a shoplifting epidemic