All news on the topic: Crime

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'One of a kind' man, 25, killed by single gunshot wound as murder probe launched
Abdullah Hassan, 25, was described as a "massive pillar" in his family, who issued a statement saying it is "beyond painful to lose him in such tragic circumstances"
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Fury as killers and rapists at 'Monster Mansion' get 'private phones in cells'
Inmates at HMP Frankland are said to be 'excited' over the possibility of making and receiving calls from their cell - some have said the idea would 'sicken' taxpayers and victims
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Nearly six in ten voters think politicians don't show enough compassion
Data from YouGov reveals 57% believe leading politicians should show more compassion, compared with 9% who say they are already too compassionate
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How British ex-con turned his life around after becoming Australia’s Most Wanted
Neil Cummins, 47, was first introduced to criminality while on the streets of his native Liverpool - but ended up becoming a gangster himself after moving to Sydney in his early teens
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Labour-run councils outstrip Tories on CCTV and streetlighting resources
The Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy says the Tories are 'missing in action in the fight against crime' across the country as the party gears up for the local elections
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Labour vows to crackdown on 'ruthlessness' of overseas scam calls
Previous research by Ofcom - the communication's regulator - said that 45million had been on the receiving end of potential scam texts or calls in the summer of 2021 alone
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'Misjudged Sunak assault should serve as a reminder to refocus on Labour values'
Labour should be tough on crime but must not fight the Tories in the gutter after last week's revolting attack ad - the fact that nobody is taking direct responsibility is telling in itself
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Woman admits killing baby found buried in 1985 after DNA proves she is tot's mum
Lee Ann Daigle, formerly Lee Ann Guerette, of Lowell, Massachusetts, who is now 59 years old, admitted to abandoning the baby she gave birth to in a gravel pit in Frenchville, Maine in December 1985
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Killer's sick final insult to his victim's family on the day he was jailed
Teacher Sabina Nessa was horrifically murdered by cowardly Koci Selamaj but refused to attend his sentence and even snubbed listening to impact statements over video link
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Woman with TB jailed after ignoring order to isolate or get treatment for a YEAR
A woman in Tacoma, Washington, has been detained in jail after she was seen leaving her home, riding a bus and visiting a local casino despite having tuberculosis
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Boy, 15, dies after holding on to side of car driven by aunt while skateboarding
Anthony De La Torre, from Las Vegas, was 15 when he was involved in a reckless accident as his aunt run over him with a car after he asked to ride his skateboard while holding onto the moving vehicle
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Police launch huge arson investigation after horror fire kills girl, 14, at home
Tiffany Regis, 15, died in a fire at a block of flats in Beckton, east London, on Thursday evening. Police are treating the blaze as arson
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Rapist cop David Carrick may have struck at just 13 - as more women come forward
Serial rapist David Carrick may have committed sex attacks as young as aged 13, a new report has claimed, as more women come forward to report the former Met Police officer
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Trump in Easter rant accusing opponents of 'dreaming endlessly of destroying US'
Days after his historic indictment, Former US President Donald Trump decried his political opponents in an enraged Easter message on social media
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Teachers thought boy, 5, was playing dead - but he was dying after collapsing
Romeo Pierre Louis died after he collapsed during recess at the Charter Oak International Academy, an elementary school in West Hartford, Connecticut on April 5 last year
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Teenager may be executed by firing squad after being caught with cocaine in bag
Manuela Vitoria de Araujo Farias, 19, was caught with 3kg of cocaine in her luggage as she arrived into Bali, a popular tourist island in Indonesia
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Gran of tragic Lola James was meant to be babysitting on night tot was murdered
The heartbroken grandmother of tragic Lola James said she was due to look after the girl the night she was murder - and she will forever regret taking the night off
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Trump 'unnerved' by court case but would 'feel invincible' if found not guilty
Donald Trump previously said during his campaign bid for the Republican nomination in 2016 he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters”
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Ex-funeral home directors sold body parts and gave grieving families fake ashes
Megan Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, dissected more than 500 corpses - selling body parts to research firms as far away as Saudi Arabia
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Labour slams 'postcode lottery' for victims of crime and 'soft' rape sentences
Labour pledged tougher sentences for rapists as part of a ramped up focus on crime
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'UK needs to battle gun and gang culture after Olivia Pratt-Korbel's death'
Olivia Prattk-Korbel, nine, was an innocent victim of the deadly drug trade being plied in Liverpool. In an interview with the Sunday Mirror, mum Cheryl has vowed to fight to protect other children
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Mum makes devastating vow after her little girl was gunned down at home
Olivia Pratt-Korbel's mum Cheryl talked exclusively to The Sunday Mirror and said: 'I want violence to stop.' It is the first time that the heartbroken woman speaks out since Thomas Cashman was jailed
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Bail hostel that some of UK's most notorious female criminals have called home
One halfway house in Berkshire has acted as a home to some of the country's vilest female offenders from Baby P's mum Tracey Connelly to Karen Matthews, who tried to fake her own daughter's kidnapping for money
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Manifesto of ex-pupil who planned 3 school shootings included 'death list' names
Police found terrifying evidence including floor plans, a list of named individuals to be killed, a list of firearms and a manifesto at William 'Lilly' Whitworth's place in Colorado Springs
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'I was randomly attacked with a hammer on a night out and looked like Quasimodo'
Jayde Logan, from Newport, south Wales, said she was left 'looking like Quasimodo' from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame after the brutal attack