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’Thor’ and his gang smuggled £140m of cocaine into the UK from Sierra Leone
Members of the organised crime group have been locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years
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British businessman Sanjay Shah sentenced to 12 years for £996m Danish tax fraud
Shah found guilty of gross fraud and given longest sentence for financial crime in country’s history
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How mafias make billions by targeting hotels, restaurants in Italy: "Tasty prey for criminal associations"
Italy’s mafias make more than three billion euros a year from the tourism sector and are primed to pocket even more from large-scale upcoming events, a research institute warned on Tuesday.
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Father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif found guilty of her murder at their Surrey home
Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool, 30, flew to Pakistan after killing Sara.
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Police arrest 93 gang members behind £4m thefts in shoplifting crackdown
A new police unit has for the first time mapped the gangs targeting shops around the country to see where they’re operating.
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Sex Education and Doctors actor Alexander Westwood guilty of raping teens in acting class
Warning: Contains distressing details. Alexander Westwood, from Albrighton in Shropshire, was dubbed ’manipulative and predatory’ and had a fascination with porn from an early age
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Who is Luigi Mangione? The smiling suspect in the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO
Luigi Mangione was last night arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson – but who is he and what do we know about him?
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Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting arrested after being recognized at McDonald’s
Suspect recognized while at McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania
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Criminology student ‘murdered woman at random to know what it feels like’
A criminology student spent a month planning a random murder so he could ‘know what it would be like to take life’, a court has heard.
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NYPD releases new images of gunman after ’Monopoly money’ discovered in backpack following hit on healthcare CEO
Police have released two new images in the hunt for an assassin who gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City this week.
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The overlooked human smuggling route through the Darien
After a long flight over a sea of trees, the ocean begins to emerge through the window of the twin-propeller plane. The vast Pacific meets the Darién jungle in the remote Colombian town of Juradó, in the northwestern Chocó department.
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Man jailed for spiking pregnant woman’s orange juice with abortion drug
A man who spiked a pregnant woman’s orange juice with abortion drugs causing her to lose her unborn baby has been jailed for 12 years.
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Bloody Sunday: former soldier pleads not guilty to double murder in Belfast trial
Attempt to have case dismissed refused as Soldier F accused of killing James Wray and William McKinney
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Alternative healer jailed for 15 years for killing woman during ‘slapping therapy’ workshop
An alternative healer has been jailed for 15 years for the manslaughter of a diabetic women who died in one of his ‘slapping therapy’ workshops.
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Brian Thompson’s killer praised by some Americans amid anger toward the health insurance industry
Thompson’s shock death has exposed the hatred some Americans feel towards Unitedhealthcare, and the national system at large, with some parodying the shock incident
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Notorious cocaine cartel leader has been released from prison after 25 years
The cartel member who once ran distribution for one of Pablo Escobar’s cocaine centres has recently been released from prison after serving just some of his 30 year sentence
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Week-long county lines crackdown leads to 1,600 arrests, £3 million in drugs, and 557 weapons seized
More than 1,600 people have been arrested following a week-long crackdown on county lines drug gangs.
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TikTok star, 24, fatally shot in broad daylight while sitting in a car
TikTok star and model Gaxiola Orozco was killed when she was targeted by a gunman while sitting in her Mercedes Benz
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Alleged assassin seen smiling before shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York
The suspected killer of the boss of the largest health insurer in the US has been pictured smiling as a manhunt for him continues.
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Parents who dropped out of society created their own ’kingdom’ and embalmed their 3-year-old son’s body before burying him in their garden
A couple, who invented their own religion and lived off-grid, buried their son in a back garden after he died through ’breathtaking neglect’.
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Two teenagers sentenced to life in prison for stabbing 16-year-old Darrian Williams to death in a Bristol park
Two teenage boys have been jailed for life for fatally stabbing a 16-year-old in the back during a gang-related attack.
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Italian nun arrested for connections to powerful mafia network
The nun is alleged to have been the conduit between the gang and its associates in prison
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Crypto ‘Laundromat’ linked to Russian financial sector and cocaine trade, police say
Britain’s National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.
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Multi-billion-pound Russian money-laundering operation uncovered with ties across the UK
The UK’s NCA has led an international crackdown on the "unprecedented" money-laundering operation which swapped cash from British street-level drug deals for cryto from elite Russian hackers
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Health chief ’shot dead outside Manhattan hotel’ as manhunt for attacker begins
The chief executive of a major US health insurance company has been shot dead in New York.
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