All news on the topic: Crime

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Mum accused of strangling her three kids to death is now paralysed for life
Lindsay Clancy has been accused of strangling her children to death with an exercise band before trying to take her own life. Her husband Patrick had gone out to pick up a takeaway when the tragedy occurred.
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Man kicked down neighbour's front door before stabbing teenage son in face
Dominic Kelly knifed the family's teenage son in the cheek after storming into their apartment. He carried out the "terrifying" attack while "in the throes of a delusional episode"
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Man accused of murdering delivery driver hit by own van appears in court
Mark Lang, 54, was rushed to hospital with a brain injury after being hit by his allegedly stolen van in an area of Cardiff, with Christopher Elgafari, 31, due to appear in court
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Mum jailed after hiring hitman to kill colleague she had a brief fling with
Helen Hewlett was jailed after spending over £20,000 of Bitcoin on the dark web to try and get Paul Belton, a work colleague, killed by a hitman following a brief fling
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Wealthy couple jailed for bringing man to UK to harvest kidney for sick daughter
Ike and Beatrice Ekweremadu along with their 25-year-old daughter Sonia faced trial at the Old Bailey. The parents were found guilty but the jury found Sonia not guilty
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Man left fighting for life after blowing up hotel trying to light a cigarette
Paul Coote, 47, spent six and a half weeks in intensive care after suffering 85 per cent burns when the blast ripped through the hotel, causing more than £600,000 damage
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Lucy Letby describes baby boy's death as 'awful situation' in murder trial
Nurse Lucy Letby is in the witness box giving evidence for the second day. She is accused of seven murders and 10 attempted murders of infants
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Daughter fears for life as dad who killed mum before abusing corpse may be freed
Jennifer Johnson, from Ohio, US, is fighting to stop her dad, Daniel Johnson, from being freed after he murdered her mum and "raped her corpse" on Boxing Day, 1989
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Drug-driver who ploughed into crowd and killed student jailed for life
Stephen McHugh, who swore at jurors when he was convicted, had treated innocent pedestrians "like they were human skittles" when he crashed in Oswestry, Shropshire
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Thugs jailed for murdering innocent dad who tried to help teen girl at bus stop
Reece Radford intervened when the teenager was assaulted by Dereck Owusu in Sheffield city centre, but Mr Radford was fatally stabbed in the ensuing fight
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Boy cowers on bus as masked shooters pulls trigger three times before gun fails
Three masked assailiants have been pictured charging onto a school bus in Maryland, US, as it pulled over to let a female student off, and attempting to shoot one schoolboy in the face.
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'Arrogant' dad assaulted mum in parking row over Range Rover outside school gate
Lee Rowe, 52, from Poole, made a 'selfish' habit of parking his 'flash' Range Rover outside the front gates of his child's infant school
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Suspect in woman murdered on hiking trail after attack from behind is arrested
Lauren Heike, 29, had just moved to Arizona, US, when she was "viciously" attacked while on a hiking trail on Friday morning. Police said she was found with "trauma to her body"
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TSB issues fraud warning as WhatsApp impersonation scams rise by 300%
TSB claims fraud that comes through these Meta companies made up around 80% of cases within its own three biggest scam categories, as it urges customers to remain vigilant
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Boy, 4, and friend find human skull in back garden as teenager arrested
Shocked mother Tegan Mayall revealed how her son Noah and another child made the gruesome discovery after disturbing a plastic bag in their garden in Aberdeen
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Paedophile's evil secret discovered after sending picture of his car on Snapchat
Charlie White from Whiston, was caught confessing to wanting "late night fun" with a 12-year-old child during an online sting. Once he was rumbled, the 20-year-old admitted to having a stash of indecent images on his phone
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Two men jailed after selling £766,000 of Anglo-Saxon coins to undercover officer
Craig Best and Roger Pilling were convicted of conspiring to sell criminal property worth £766,000, namely 44 ninth century coins believed to have been buried by a Viking
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Man charged with murdering woman in stranger attack accused of slashing 3 others
Mohamed Nur, 33, of Brixton, south London has been charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon as well as three further counts of GBH against two women and a man
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Death row killer begs for 'compassion and kindness' before execution
Darryl B. Barwick, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Wednesday following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, the office of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said
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Mexican cartel drug smuggler arrested with $5m fentanyl pill stash
44-year-old Enrique Perez was stopped by authorities outside the Yankees Stadium in the Bronx where they uncovered $5 million worth of fentanyl-laced pills and almost 5kg of powdered fentanyl
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Homeless man's death sparks row as supporters claim suspect is NOT a murderer
Jordan Neely, a former 30-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator, was placed into a headlock by a former marine while reportedly suffering from a mental health episode confrontation onboard F train in New York
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'Man jailed for stabbing my brother to death didn't do it - he must be freed'
Jason Moore is serving a life sentence for the 2005 knifing of Robert Darby in Ilford, East London. But Robert’s family insist Moore did not commit the crime
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Moment M&S security kills homeless man with single punch over 'stolen meat'
Sabeur Trabelsi chased down Jason Page, from a Marks & Spencer's supermarket branch in Lower Earley, near Reading, Berkshire, on March 31 last year and punched him once, causing him to hit his head when he fell
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Gunman shoots family and McDonald's worker dead before killing himself
The gunman, who has not yet been identified, is believed to have shot his mother and grandmother before shooting a manager at a local McDonald's and then himself in Moultrie, Georgia
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Police name man, 20, charged with 'murder' of woman found with facial injuries
Officers responded to reports of a man acting suspiciously in Madeley, Staffordshire, and found 54-year-old Suzanne Henry with serious facial injuries - she died a few days later