All news on the topic: Crime

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Woman discovers letter with truth of 1900s murder including man 'faking death'
Chelsey Brown, from New York, US, is trying to uncover why a man supposedly killed in a botched post office robbery was sending letters from Scotland
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Incest love triangle of mum who tricked son into marriage then wed daughter
Patricia Spann knowingly married her son, who had no idea she was his mother, then tied the knot with her daughter, before trying to wed another son
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Heroic bystanders chase off attacker who dragged teen through alley to rape her
The traumatised 17-year-old was walking home through Ashton-under-Lyne when a stranger asked her for a cigarette before licking her face and pushing her into an alleyway
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Dad 'changed his shirt' the night he is accused of shooting son and wife dead
The Snapchat videos, sent by murdered 22-year-old Paul, have been shown in court with a witness saying it places Alex Murdaugh at the scene shortly before the killings
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CPS explains why Mason Greenwood charges have been dropped after his arrest
The attempted rape, assault and coercive control charges against the Manchester United forward were dropped on Thursday, a year after he was first arrested
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Dances with Wolves star arrested on sex abuse claims 'armed cult against police'
Nathan Chasing Horse, the 46-year-old star of the Oscar-winning film Dances With Wolves, has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting indigenous girls in America
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Vladimir Putin's soldiers 'pumped full of drugs' so they can fight in Ukraine
The Wagner Group, which has been likened to Vladimir Putin's own personal militia, topped up its ranks by allowing Russia's convicts a chance to fight for the country in exchange for their freedom should they survive
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Zoo boss kills four goats before serving them up to eat at Christmas party
Mexico's state environment department said a zebra was traded for tools and deer and Watusi cattle were traded off to private individuals, while three goats were slaughtered for consumption
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Mafia boss' ex-girlfriend quizzed by police 'for helping him on the run'
Maria Mesi was jailed in the 1990s for sheltering Matteo Messina Denaro at her flat in Bagheria, Sicily. Letters found by police showed her love for the Mafia boss. She is now under investigation
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Urgent warning to parents after man tries to persuade children to get into car
The frightened youngsters were approached by an apparent stranger in the dark and invited into his car before making the decision to run away in Ponteland, Northumberland
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Man gouged dad's eyes after being told football 'just a game'
After the football game ended with Liverpool losing 1-0, an argument between John Ashcroft and Anthony Griffin began, during which Mr Ashcroft said “it is just a game”
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Fuming Susanna Reid shuts down interview with Prince Andrew's ex over wild claim
Lady Victoria Hervey, who briefly dated the Duke of York in 1999, appeared on Good Morning Britain on Thursday morning to speak with Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard - but sparked shock after making a series of wild claims
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Sportsman reported to police for allegedly attempting to poison ex-partner
A well-known sporting individual has been reported to police his ex-partner who has put forward several claims, the most serious being an attempt to drug them without their knowledge
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Police hunting owner after dog breaks elderly woman's arm in terrifying attack
The Metropolitan Police is looking for the owner of a dog that savaged a 74-year-old woman, breaking her arm, and attacked two more victims in West London last week
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Man who killed cop is executed after appeal over 'racist' jury thrown out
Wesley Ruiz, 43, who shot and killed Dallas policeman Mark Nix in 2007, has been executed in Texas as a battle continues to rage in the state about the ability to use out of date drugs for lethal injections
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Murder suspect 'killed victim's toddler during twisted game of hide and seek'
Andrew Innes has admitted killing Bennylyn Burke and her daughter Jellica but denies murder as another girl at the scene claims the toddler was killed during a game of hide and seek
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Labour raises alarm after probation staff 'pressured' to lower offenders' risk
Labour has demanded an investigation after a whistleblower this week claimed probation officers are under “organisational pressure” to allocate lower risk ratings to offenders
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Killer dances in his victim's house with twerking model who later turned on him
Mohammed El-Abboud posted several TikToks dancing with his accomplice's girlfriend, Romanian model Maria Amariucai, before murdering Louise Kam in a £4.6million romance fraud
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Kamala Harris and George Floyd's brother among hundreds at Tyre Nichols funeral
Friends, family and those who have also lost loved ones at the hands of police brutality are gathering in Memphis today to remember Tyre Nichols who died after a violent arrest
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NFL player accused of rape and kidnapping days before Super Bowl
The Philadelphia Eagles are set to fly out to Arizona for the Super Bowl in the coming days, but one of their players, Josh Sills, has been accused of rape and kidnapping
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Drunk easyJet passenger groped female flight attendant and tried to trip another
Robert Sheldon downed half a bottle of duty free vodka on an easyJet flight from Turkey before groping a female flight attendant and trying to trip her male colleague
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Brit imprisoned in Morocco after unknowingly buying drink with counterfeit money
Oliver Andrew's solicitor, in Morocco, said he had been charged in Marrakech with possessing and distributing counterfeit money within the country, and one count of creating an organised criminal group
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Man sues police when he loses his job after cops include him in fugitive list
David Gay, 23, lost his job after he wrongly appeared in a "Wheel of Fugitive" video after Florida Sheriff Wayne uploaded the county's top 10 most wanted fugitives on social media
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Possession of heroin and cocaine no longer a crime in province in radical move
The law does not fully legalise the substances but means Canadians over the age of 18 in British Columbia who possess up to 2.5g for personal use will not be arrested or charged
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Andrew Tate loses latest appeal against detention in human-trafficking case
Four-time kickboxing world champion Tate was arrested in Romania at the end of last year on suspicion of organised crime and human trafficking along with his brother Tristan