All news on the topic: Crime

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Jay Line drugs gang that exploited children to sell heroin and cocaine sentenced to 29 years in prison
A drugs gang who used children to peddle heroin and cocaine from the Midlands across the UK have been locked up for more than 29 years. The ’complex network of dealers’ supplied their stash of drugs using the AB Line and Jay Line.
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Former detective sentenced to 19 years for stealing 4kg of cocaine from work to sell in Manchester
Andrew Talbot, 54, took almost £400,000 worth of cocaine from evidence stores before searching police systems for dealers to help him sell the drug.
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Londoners, frustrated with rising phone thefts, catch suspect just seconds after a street robbery
A suspected phone snatcher was arrested seconds after a phone was stolen, after members of the public assisted police in apprehending him.
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Serbian police arrest contract killer linked to 2021 Belgrade assassination
Serbian police said that in cooperation with the European Union law enforcement, they have arrested four members of a criminal group, including a contract killer involved in a brazen revenge murder in Belgrade in 2021.
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Arrests made in connection with the murder of a toddler in Northern Ireland
Police say Tavia Michella Ximenes Da Costa was pronounced dead at the scene on Sunday morning. Two women and a man are in custody.
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Former Las Vegas-area politician Robert Telles sentenced to a minimum of 28 years for the murder of reporter Jeff German
Robert Telles, a former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official, was sentenced Wednesday to serve at least 28 years in Nevada state prison for killing investigative journalist Jeff German.
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Team GB swimmer Antony James, who competed at London 2012, found guilty of eight child sex offences
Antony James, who was working as a trainee police officer when arrested, was today found guilty of eight separate offences including three counts of raping a child
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Award-winning British photojournalist ‘stabbed to death by his own son’
An award-winning British photojournalist was allegedly murdered by his own son at a popular hiking trail in California.
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Police hunt all-female Chinese blackmail gang in Islington
Police are investigating a series of blackmail offences where Chinese people faced threats about their family if they refused to withdraw huge amounts of money.
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Man jailed for terror offences after sending weapon parts abroad for Taliban fighters
A man has been jailed for terror offences after sending high-tech rifle parts abroad for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
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Tottenham: Murder investigation launched after man shot dead
A murder investigation has been launched after a man in his 40s was shot dead in north London.
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Baby killer could be released on license after serving 22 years in prison
The family of a baby who was battered to death by her mum’s boyfriend have been are ‘disgusted’ as her killer could be allowed to roam the streets again.
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The perfume bottle found by Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess could have killed "thousands," an inquiry revealed
Thousands of people could have been killed by the Salisbury poisonings, an inquiry heard.
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Site for ordering murders was discovered on the darknet: requests for "orders" and "kill lists" are published
In 2020, tech journalist Carl Miller, along with a hacker named Chris, hacked a secret website on the darknet that hosted assassination requests.Websites, Crime, Darknet, Internet, Cybercrime, Murder
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Haunting Snapchat murder trial begins after two girls vanish during hike and never return
A man accused of killing two teenage girls on a hike in a case which gripped America for years is finally set to face trial this week.
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Murky world of ’hitmen for hire’ sites revealed, featuring a ’kill list’ individual who paid $50,000 to inject his ex with heroin
Chillingly the man who shone a light onto the murder-for-hire plot warns scores of Brits may not know they are on a ’kill list’ too...
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Man in his 30s shot dead in the street as police hunt gunman and ’piece together events’
A man was shot dead in East London today, according to police. Officers were called to reports of an injured man on Linton Road, Barking, at around 4:35 am.
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Former Premier League footballer in his 20s arrested for rape of woman at top West End hotel
A former Premier League and international football star in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of raping a young woman at the exclusive Corinthia Hotel in Westminster’s Whitehall Place.
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Operation Venetic: Two firearms and drugs dealers jailed
Two criminals who sold Class A drugs and firearms have been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation.
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County Antrim man charged with cannabis smuggling in NCA investigation
A man from Northern Ireland has been charged with drugs offences after £325,000 worth of cannabis was seized at Belfast Port.
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Girl, 13, gang raped by three men, 24, 29 & 24, who lured her from Hammersmith tube stop to flat before horror attack
Forensic phone analysis also revealed a harrowing video clip of the three men carrying out the attack
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Ross Hamilton jailed after stabbing Ian Wright’s boxing coach friend to death
The killer plunged a broken piece of glass from a bottle into Reece Newcombe’s neck and then left the scene in a vehicle.
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Daughter’s startling confession to police who turned up to check on her parents
Chilling police bodyworn footage shows a woman calmly telling officers how she murdered her own parents, hid their bodies and carried on living alongside them for four years.
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Stolen digger from Dorset found 1,200 miles away in rural Poland
Hitachi digger tracked down to town of Pruchnik, with arrangements made to reunite it with its owner
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Two boys murdered in a ’revenge attack’ were innocent victims of mistaken identity
Two boys murdered in a ‘revenge attack’ by four other teenagers and a man wielding ‘fearsome weapons’ were completely innocent victims of mistaken identity, a court has heard.