All news on the topic: Crime

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Dagenham stabbing: Woman and two children critically injured, man arrested
A woman and two young children were stabbed in a "shocking attack" in East London this evening and are fighting for their lives in hospital.
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UK’s ‘most prolific catfisher’ who drove girl, 12, to take her own life jailed
Online predator Alexander McCartney who drove one of his catfish victims to take her own life, has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.
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Man sentenced to 15 years for blinding acquaintance with sodium hydroxide
Jivan Dean attacked Raven Riley in Welsh eco-village after wrongly believing he had contacted his girlfriend
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German and Serbian authorities dismantle €300 million investment scam
German and Serbian authorities have dismantled a large-scale online investment scam that defrauded victims of at least 300 million euros ($323.9 million) through fake investment platforms.
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Mother kills newborn baby girl by placing her in a cereal box and hiding it in a suitcase
Jia Xin Teo hid her pregnancy while studying at Coventry University and secretly gave birth to her full-term baby on March 4, placing the newborn in a cereal box and concealing her in a suitcase.
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Lucy Letby loses appeal against attempted murder conviction of baby girl
Lucy Letby is currently serving 15 whole life orders for the murders and attempted murders of babies in her care while she worked as a neonatal nurse in the Countess of Chester Hospital
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Woman arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three bodies discovered in a care home
A 60-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three people were found dead at a care home in Swanage.
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Woman, 27, fatally stabbed outside a train station
The family of a woman who was stabbed to death outside a football stadium railway station has paid tribute to her.
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Jack Crawley, a security guard who murdered an army veteran and attempted to kill a man he met on Grindr, has been jailed
Crawley was found guilty of the murder of Paul Taylor who disappeared while driving from Scotland to England in October last year.
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’Active terror attack’ unfolding in Turkey following explosion and gunfire
Several people have been killed and at least 14 more wounded in a terrorist attack on the outskirts of Turkey’s capital of Ankara.
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Neighbours reported hearing ‘screams and shouts’ as a 16-year-old boy died after being stabbed and knocked off his moped
A teenage boy who was stabbed to death in north London ‘screamed and shouted’ before crashing a moped into a lampost, according to locals.
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Colombia’s coca crops increased, but cocaine production surged, latest figures reveal
Coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia increased during 2023, as the government has stopped forced eradication efforts and concentrated on seizures to fight drug trafficking.
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Historic guilty plea by bank underscores US crackdown on money laundering
For the first time, a US bank has admitted to helping criminal networks in Colombia launder hundreds of millions of dollars in dirty money, highlighting the fruits of a renewed push to target those aiding the region’s money launderers.
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Chris Kaba caught on camera shooting rival in busy nightclub just days before police shooting
This is the moment a man thought to be Chris Kaba shot a rival in a crowded nightclub in east London, before chasing him down and shooting him again.
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Balkan criminals planned murders using encrypted phones from the Canadian start-up Sky Global
Sky phones were a favorite tool for criminals to discuss logistics. Now, it turns out that some of Sky’s most prolific “resellers” were Serbian criminals affiliated with organized groups that have been wreaking havoc in the Balkans.
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GP ’poisoned’ neighbor’s plants before trying to kill stepdad with fake COVID jab
Thomas Kwan admitted to having tried to murder his mum’s partner Patrick O’Hara with a bogus Covid vaccine that was filled with poison - all while dressed up as a nurse
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In Paris, a child was stolen from the maternity ward - the police launched an urgent search
The boy, named Santiago, was described as having blonde hair and wearing white velvet pajamas when he went missing from a hospital in the Seine-Saint-Denis region of Paris.
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Chris Kaba was identified as a "core member" of one of London’s most dangerous gangs, according to reports
A man who was shot dead by police was a ‘core member’ of one of London’s most dangerous gangs.
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Is Jason Seto from NYC a sex offender?
Jason Seto NYC, a child abuser, was imprisoned for trying to arrange sex with a juvenile who was 14 years old.
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A woman in Leeds has been jailed for posting sexual images of her father’s ex-lover online
Eleanor Brown, 24, given three-year sentence for ‘vindictive, selfish and vengeful offending’ against woman
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Man ‘kidnapped girl, 9, outside Harrods before drugging and sexually assaulting her’
A man kidnapped a nine-year-old girl from outside Harrods in central London before drugging and sexually assaulting her in what was ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’, a court has heard.
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Shooting at university in Georgia leaves one dead and five injured
Shooting at Albany State University was one of two in US during weekend that shattered homecoming-related activities
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Man who confessed in a YouTube video to raping a woman at an Edinburgh property has been jailed
A man who raped a sleeping woman in Edinburgh before confessing during a YouTube interview a decade later has been jailed.
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Man found guilty of raping and murdering NHS worker Natalie Shotter in London park
The 37-year-old died of a heart attack caused by Mohamed Iidow repeatedly raping her while she was unconscious on a park bench, the Old Bailey heard.
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Schoolboy jailed for attacking sleeping students with a hammer in bloody ’zombie apocalypse’ rampage
The teen, now 17, accepted responsibility for the hammer attacks, but claimed he was sleeping at the time and only remembered waking up to see the room "covered in blood"