All news on the topic: Crime

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Horrified mum realises woman she let in her home was fugitive who plotted kidnap
Miriam Berlow-Jackson welcomed Valerie Hayes and Jennifer Amnott into her family but was sickened to find out their alleged involvement in a plot to kidnap children and murder their parents
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Five cops charged with murder of dad 'beaten like piñata' in 'disgusting' arrest
Five police officers have been charged with second-degree murder after the death of dad and FedEx driver Tyre Nichols, who died three days after a he was pulled over in a traffic stop on January 7
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Teen killed in crash had role in stealing takeaway owner's car that ran him over
Dean Barnes, 16 — who died in a motorbike crash earlier this week — had previously been convicted for his role in a car theft that saw a takeaway owner killed, it has been revealed
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Man, 27, charged with planning terror attack after major UK hospital evacuated
A man has been charged with a series of terrorism, explosives and firearm offences in connection with an incident that saw the evacuation of St James’s Hospital in Leeds last week
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Mum accused of strangling two young kids before jumping out of top floor window
Midwife Lindsay Clancy survived the fall and was taken to hospital but authorities have said they will charge her with the murder of her two dead children
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Putin pardons 'war hero' monster who ordered contract killing of family-of-4
Alexander Tyutin, who took a "hit" out on a family-of-four, is now relaxing on a Turkish beach after serving just 18 months of a 23-year sentence - because he fought for Russian warlord Vladimir Putin in Ukraine
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Police officer stabbed by knife-wielding man after responding to distress call
West Midlands Police have said a man has been arrested after they responded to a distress call on Wednesday in which one of their officers was stabbed in the shoulder. The incident occurred in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham
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Thief ends up pinned down by hero MMA brawler after picking on wrong woman
Bantamweight brawler Felipe Colares, who most famously competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, said he and some pals rescued a woman in distress after she was robbed by a thief in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul
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Lawyer's murdered son's head exploded 'like a watermelon hit with sledgehammer'
Defendant Alex Murdaugh cried in court as lawyers detailed how the force of the shots caused such bad damage to his son's head that his brain was blasted right out of his skull in Islandton, South Carolina, US
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Mum must wear electronic 'sobriety tag' after driving kids while 'heavily' drunk
Rhian Hughes will wear an electronic 'sobriety tag' as a 'punishment' after she was tested three times the drink-driving limit as she drove herself and children home
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Couple scammed out of £77K by cowboy builders for job that should cost just £1K
Professor Nigel Wilson and his wife Dr Hanneke Wilson sent £77,000 to rogue builders for roof repairs at their home which usually cost around £1,000, Oxford Crown Court heard
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Trans woman who raped two women before transition kicked out of all-female jail
Isla Bryson, 31, was this week found guilty by a jury of raping two women in 2019 before transitioning, as Nicola Sturgeon confirmed she will not be sent to an all-female jail
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Paedophile, 21, posed as 14-year-old in uniform to get into victim's school
Anthony Lonsdale, 21, set up fake profiles on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp and contacted a girl, sending her increasingly intimate messages and sexually explicit photos
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GMB star robbed, spat on and called the N-word hits out as attacker avoids jail
Noel Phillips who was robbed, spat on and racially assaulted in September 2022 says ‘tougher sentences’ are needed after his attacker avoided jail
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Angry woman tries to burn down man's home after 'betrayal' but gets wrong flat
Janie Ann Peckitt tried to set fire to a man's flat in Grimsby after she felt he betrayed her following only two dates - but she posted the burning rag through the wrong letterbox
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One in 10 cops should not have got through the vetting stage, watchdog says
Inspector of Constabulary Matt Parr said this morning that this is a 'problem that is widespread' and 'historic'
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Man, 61, charged with assaulting Matt Hancock after 'aggressive' Tube encounter
The former Health Secretary was allegedly harangued by a man who followed him through the barriers at Westminster Underground station and onto a train
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My £6,000 fraud case could be solved, but the police won't even try
Fraud victim's dismay as Action Fraud say they are no leads - despite one clear line of enquiry
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Inside UK 'Hannibal Lecter' underground glass cell housing 'Brain Eater' killer
Feared serial killer Robert Mawdsley has now set the record for the longest time in solitary confinement. "The Brain Eater's" cell in HMP Wakefield is known to have cockroaches and flies
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Son stabbed father to death in frenzied knife attack 'after years of sex abuse'
Sean Maurice was cleared of murder but admitted to manslaughter after killing his father during a knife attack that saw him stab him over 30 times before fleeing the scene
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Police officer jailed for lying twice that wife was driving when caught speeding
Mark Hinchliffe has been handed a six-month prison sentence after the officer got his wife to attempt to take the blame for two speeding offences over fears he'd lose his job
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Church worker killed and priest injured in 2 separate machete 'terror' attacks
A man in Algeciras, Spain, is suspected to be behind two alleged terririst attacks in which a church worker was killed with a machete. A priest was also seriously injured at a different church on Wednseday
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Mum one of eight Brits charged over £9.5million holiday sickness scam
Eight Brits allegedly cost Majorca hotels £9.5million by convincing tourists to make bogus compensation claims. Laura Joyce and brother Marc Cameron were named as the suspected ringleaders by a court
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Man's horror at reading 'letters' from teen who accused him of sex trafficking
Mohammed Ramzan criticised authorities for not spotting the 'gaping holes' in Eleanor Williams' story earlier and said his family has been through 'unimaginable trauma'
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Top job for Met Police cop whose team cleared rapist PC David Carrick
Paul Betts led the Met’s “Line of Duty” department when it found armed officer Carrick had “no case to answer” for misconduct five months after Sarah Everard’s murder by another officer