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West Yorkshire Police said a 12-year-old boy died on the M62 yesterday night and a 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing or allowing the death of a child

Speaking after Ian Watkins' sentencing in 2013, a Detective Chief Inspector said the investigation uncovered 'the most disturbing child abuse evidence I have seen in my 28 years as a police officer'

Jake Astley broke into a care home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, chased terrified staff with a butter knife and then went into the victim's bedroom, a court was told

Dad-of-four Wesley Campbell trafficked massive amounts of drugs for Craig and Ashley Gallagher as they called on contacts from all around the world to flood Britain with class A substances

For nearly three decades, a brutal murderer walked free until advances in DNA technology finally caught up with him

Volodymyr Zelensky spoke out after the strike on the Kupiansk community in the Kharkiv region on Saturday night. Rescuers are still trying to tackle the blaze after the strike

Andrew Malkinson faced deductions of tens of thousands from his future compensation to pay the state for his living costs while wrongly incarcerated - but the law is now changing

Saqib Hussain pleaded for help during a high-speed car chase after Ansreen Bukhari and her daughter Mahek hatched a plan to take him down after he threatened to leak intimate videos

David Hunter suffocated his terminally ill wife Janice at the couple's home in Cyprus, and was jailed for two years for the killing - now he's revealed his ordeal right after her death

Drug-addled Angel Taylor and Chevy Lafountain of Louisiana have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after their four-month-old baby girl was found dead of starvation

Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins is said to be in a critical condition after three inmates at HMP Wakefield - dubbed Monster Mansion for its inhabitants - "took him hostage" before launching a violent attack on him

Former-beauty pageant queen Lindsay Shriver went from housewife to 'Bahamas bad girl' plotting to kill her former college football star husbandRobert Shiver

The government must stop these "bizarre" ideas, like ordering over-50s to get on their bikes, and instead concentrate on education, training and rehabilitation, argues Keir Mudie

Negasi Zuberi has been accused of kidnapping a Washington state woman and imprisoning her in a cinderblock cell before she beat hear hands bloody breaking the door down and escaping

The distraught mum of Rebecca Aylward, 15, said: "That cowardly monster planned to kill my beautiful daughter in the most horrific way possible – he should never be released"

Legal aid payments have been used to cover scores of Connor Chapman’s offences since he was 14. Last month, he was jailed for a minimum of 43 years for killing Elle Edwards

David Xavier has been jailed for at least 18 years after he stabbed his partner Andreia Guilherme more than 50 times in a 'frenzied attack' at their home in Croydon, south London

The white judge in Detroit claimed he was fed up with what he perceived to be the defendent's time wasting. He said: 'I’m tired of this case. I’m tired of this defendant. I’m tired of getting the runaround.'

Torrey Twane McNabb was executed by lethal injection in Alabama in 2017 for shooting and killing a police officer who attended a crash McNabb caused trying to flee a bail bondsman

A video shows Alfredo 'Freddy' Ramirez, the director of the Miami-Dade police force, handcuffed during a heated argument with his wife when he threatened to 'end it all' - before shooting himself in the head hours later

Stealing goods worth less than £200 has effectively been decriminalised and shop owners across the UK have expressed concern it'll have a detrimental effect on trade

David Hunter has regular nightmares about ending his wife’s life after six weeks of her begging him every day due to her terminal illness - and has revealed the heart-wrenching final four words she said to him

Shocking video footage of victim Simeia da Silva Nunes's last night alive was caught on CCTV cameras in Carpina, Brazil

Police arrived at the home of Southern California judge and found his wife had been shot at least once, according to local authorities. Investigators are currently looking for a murder weapon

Sam Armstrong, 18, had been attending a bonfire in Wisconsin with teens on October 14 when he allegedly threw a barrel containing a petrol-diesel mix into the burning fire. On Thursday, prosecutors charged him with 13 counts of injury by negligent handling of explosives or fire