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Lorna Silcock dragged Kayleigh Rutherford to the ground in a public park and launched a vicious assault after her victim accused Silcock's children of teasing her own daughter

Courtney Boorne was strangled by Liam Cain in the flat they shared in Merseyside not long after she warned her mum to 'call the police if you don't hear from me within the hour'

An elderly local vendor who sold ice cream to help support his family and pay rent was robbed at gunpoint in California for the third time in a week - but the community retaliated by raising thousands of pounds so he can retire

Workers at San Francisco Walgreens have revealed customers must go to them in order to unlock the thick metal locks which contain frozen microwaveable meals and ice cream

Mum-of-two Kate Gray, 38, has secured a six-figure deal for a crime thriller touted as the summer's must-read inspired by a nightmare

Carlee Russell claims stopped to help a toddler, who was in a nappy, walking on the side of a highway in Alabama on July 13 at around 9.34pm before she mysteriously vanished moments after calling police

David Quigley, 69, was attacked by a 15-year-old at his home in Wirral and left unconscious with a bleed on the brain before dying three weeks later, a court heard

West Midlands Police officer Anthony Ritchie and his ex-colleague Steven Walters had sexual relationships with a number of women, some of whom they met while responding to domestic abuse incidents, a court heard

The holiday resort of Puerto Banus came under attack last night when a gun man opened fire - miraculously no-one was injured, and police in Costa del Sol are now hunting for at least two people

The missile launches appear to be a retaliation to the US deploying a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea for the first time since the 1980s - it also comes as a US solider fled after being released from a South Korean prison

A mum in Belfast says she was mortified and appalled after PSNI officers knocked on her door claiming her child had 'committed the offence of giving someone the finger'

Around a quarter of children at risk of serious violence and criminal exploitation are girls but they do not receive the same level of attention as young boys at risk, according to a damning report

The young victim was able to contact police after she escaped her restraints and ran out of the house where she was allegedly held for nearly 30 days in Houston, Texas

Peter Farquhar's tragic death at the hands of his lover is the subject of a true crime series on BBC One

The client recalled Rex Heuermann's "odd" behaviour and his becoming difficult to work with in the year before the alleged Long Island serial killer was caught by police

The family of Rex Heuermann, arrested over the Gilgo Beach murders, are 'shocked, disgusted and embarrassed' as NYPD and lab officers search their home top to bottom for clues and trophies the killer may have kept

Polly Hudson asks why a plan to use counter-terrorism tactics against abusers feels like too little, far too late

Simon Cowell has issued a statement after singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan bravely opened up about being raped by a hotel employee while on The X Factor

Carlee Russell disappeared after calling police to report an unaccompanied toddler walking down the side of the highway in Hoover, Alabama, before screams were heard and she vanished

Scammers are making off with more and more of people's hard earned money each year - and a 2022 Harris Poll survey of around 2,000 American adults found 22% of had lost money to a phone scam in the past year

Christine Chavez, 27, was lying in a part of Beard Brook Park, in Modesto, California, US, when a landscaper driving a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind mower horrifically ran her over

Jesse Lee Calhoun, 38, from Portland, US, was released in July 2021 by former Oregon governor, Kate Brown, after she granted prisoners early release due to the pandemic

Police confirmed the toddler picked up an 'unsecured handgun' and shot their sibling in the head killing them. Police are investigating the incident in Fallbrook, California, but have said there is no wider threat to the community

Hillary French, who defrauded Newcastle High School for Girls over a period of nearly two years by submitting false expense claims for vouchers, meals and a coat, appeared in court

The deaths of four Oregon women whose bodies were found dumped near creaks and state parks in wooded rural areas over three months ARE linked, authorities now say, confirming the community's fears of a twisted serial killer on a murder spree