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WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Matthew Smith was deputy head of pastoral care at Thomas's Preparatory School in Battersea from September last year. He was found with thousands of child abuse images on his computer

Criminal offences rose to approximately 6.74 million in 2022/23 - compared to 6.34 million in the previous year - and now you can track the crime rates near your postcode with the handy In Your Area widget

The fight erupted on Saturday at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama, and led to multiple arrests. The local mayor has vowed 'Justice will be served,' and revealed it was initially a boat worker who was attacked

Convicted sex offender and former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins was held hostage and attacked by three of his fellow inmates at Wakefield Prison over the weekend

Jailed sex offender Ian Watkins was reportedly targeted by three fellow inmates at Wakefield Prison over the weekend due to alleged jealously over the former Lostprophets frontman teaching guitar lessons

Miche Zephany Sheldon, 26, was snatched by Lavona Solomon who was then arrested after a DNA test in 2015 revealed she and her husband, Michael, were not Miche’s biological parents

Dr Krystal Cascetta, a well respected doctor at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, shot her baby girl and then herself at her $1million home in Somers, New York, she shared with her husband

Residents of seaside village Ingoldmells, in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, have blamed a lack of local policing on drunken yobs who spend all day downing cheap lager before heading out

Raees Jamal was sentenced for rape in August 2022 and was given 10 years behind bars - but the jury in the TikTok case was not told about it in order to ensure a fair trial

Rachel Morin vanished after leaving to go for a walk on the Ma and Pa Trail nature trail in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, on Saturday night

Melody Felicano Johnson's Air Force husband got suspicious and set up cameras throughout their houses after tasting something strange in his morning coffee that his wife would prepare the night before

Vincenzo La Porta, 60, is thought to have close ties to the Camorra organised crime gang in Naples and has been on the run for over a decade before he was finally captured in Greece

Prior to Dr Krystal Cascetta's murder-suicide, police had visited her household at least two times throughout the summer. Neighbours in New York were left stunned by the tragic events

Denetra Dawson suffered a brutal assault with employees ripping her braids off her head as she tried to pick up food from a drive-thru Popeye's Chicken in southwest Atlanta, Georgia

The staggering admission by the Ministry of Justice was included by mistake in an £8million contract that was published on a Government procurement website

Whether it's Frank ‘Mad Axeman’ Mitchell or Harold ‘Rubber Bones’ Webb, Dartmoor Prison hasn't always been able to keep prisoners locked up since it opened back in 1809

Krystal Cascetta, wife of energy bar tycoon Timothy Talty, who founded protein bars company Talty Bars, shot her only child, a four-and-a-half-months-old baby girl, before killing herself, police believe

Valeriu Cobzarencu, Andrei Stefan, Vincentiu Gheorghe, Ionut-Razvan Gheorghe and Alin Chica worked together to raid supermarkets in Essex, London, Kent and Norfolk

Dorset Police has confirmed the identity of the 18-year-old who was murdered in Bournemouth on Saturday morning as Cameron Hamilton's family release a statement with a murder investigation underway

Katarzyna Bastek says she will always live with the "guilt" that she survived the attack by Suleman Altaf and her tragic son Jakub Szymanski as his killer is jailed

Barry Sweeney, an avid Newcastle United fan, tragically lost his son in the MH17 crash in 2014, and following being diagnosed with cancer six weeks ago he sadly passed away

Jo Mjadzelics is the whistleblower who first told police about the Lostprophets rocker's fantasies about children - she is dismissive about fears for the sex offender's health

Deadly drug cartels in Mexico are loading up armoured trucks with advanced weaponry like rocket launchers and sniper rifles to display dominance and rule rival cartels in the cocaine trail

Mark Bullen, who appeared on BBC's Crimewatch, is currently wanted by police in Kent, Sussex and Edinburgh for pulling the fruit and vegetable scam and has a previous conviction

Four of Saba Mahesh's shops across Sheerness, Kent, are targeted daily by youths whose anti-social and criminal behaviour has worsened since the coronavirus pandemic