All news on the topic: Crime

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Men accused of raping student, 19, claim video proves their innocence
Madison Brooks was hit by a driver as she stood in road darkness in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was let out of the car by four men who are now now accused of taking part or witnessing her rape
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Serial sex attacker groped schoolgirls in 18-month reign of terror on buses
Goher Damani won't go to prison and has been hospitalised indefinitely under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act after a number of harrowing attacks on children in south London
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Drag queen found dead in town centre as man, 50, arrested
Darren Moore, 39, was found dead in Cardiff on Sunday and was praised by his family as a "loving husband, son, brother and uncle", as police arrested a 50-year-old man
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Quadruple murder suspect had job interview with police force who arrested him
University of Idaho suspect Bryan Kohberger, 28, met with Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins on April 12, 2022, and was keen on landing a three-year research assistant job in public safety
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Tories on verge of breaking pledge to recruit 20,000 police officers by March
Figures released today by the Home Office reveal the government must recruit a massive 3,427 officers by the end of March, amid fears low pay is putting off would-be coppers
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Triple killer asylum seeker who murdered 'perfect boy' in e-scooter row jailed
Afghani asylum seeker Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, 21, murdered 21-year-old Thomas Roberts outside a Subway sandwich shop in Bournemouth after being freed for a double murder in Serbia
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Nan mauled to death by dogs was hospitalised for similar attack a year earlier
Ann Dunn, 65, was killed in a dog attack at her home in Liverpool in 2022, with Merseyside Police revealing a 31-year-old man arrested at the time will not face criminal charges
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Teenage girl jailed for stabbing rival cheerleader, 16, during fight at parade
The teenager stabbed Kayla Green during huge brawl after a parade in Mount Vernon, New York State, US, marking the state championship won by the high school boys' basketball team
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Britain's fastest cop has never failed to catch a suspect and chased down a van
PC Luke Watson has been branded Britain's fastest cop as the Essex-based copper has a 100 per cent success rate running down crooks on foot, even catching up to a van on one occasion
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'I let 96 grieving strangers choose my tats - including names of murder victims'
Mum-of-two Chelsea Rohrbough, 31, has covered herself in nearly 100 self-drawn tattoos requested by complete strangers - and has no plans to stop until her body is completely covered
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Police detain man at airport after DJ girlfriend's body found dumped in suitcase
Valentina Trespalacios' body was found by a homeless person as her boyfriend was arrested at an airport in a neighbouring country. She had been strangled to death and her body dismembered
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Son, 27, ties up own mum and holds her prisoner before demanding £10,000
Drunken Michal Strehlau admitted attempted robbery and false imprisonment of his mother who was forced to flee from a window after a near four-hour ordeal in Hull, east Yorkshire, on October 2
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Two convicted murderers escape prison together, sparking nationwide manhunt
Alison McDonagh, 49, and Stephen McParland, 54, are said to be in each other's company and were last seen at Lanyon Place Train Station in Belfast on January 21 at 1.45pm
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Murdered kids' gran told daughter to leave 'psycho' before he killed them all
The gran of two murdered children has revealed she tried to get her daughter to leave partner Damien Bendall. Jailed for life last December, Bendall killed partner Terri Harris, her two children and their friend in Derbyshire in 2021
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Music teacher 'killed by lover and dumped in crocodile infested waters'
Mark Ciavarella worked in the Republic of Congo for six years but his partner feared he would return to Australia and leave him with nothing, which resulted in teacher's death
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Mum 'abused and murdered son, six, over potty training', court told
A woman has been accused of abusing and murdering her six-year-old son in Utah over his potty training, with the boy having died from a blunt trauma to the head, it is reported
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Woman raped by stranger to save life of man she was on a first date with
The couple had been walking home from their first date in Sunderland when Sean Robinson began attacking the man, before dragging the woman into a bush leaving her traumatised
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Teen boy arrested as girl, 14, seriously hurt in stabbing in school playground
Greater Manchester Police said the teenage victim was rushed to hospital after she was stabbed with a 'sharp instrument' in an attack at Parrs Wood High School in the suburb of Didsbury
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'Tory justice on the cheap sees 600 murdered in decade by crooks on probation'
That shocking toll, plus figures revealing more than 500 other serious offences a year are committed by those on probation, is evidence of a lawlessness and disorder crisis
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Man charged with slaughtering 23 in racist mass shooting to dodge death penalty
Patrick Crusius is accused of killing 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in a racist mass shooting - he allegedly stalked the aisles armed with an assault rifle
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High streets are dying because most of UK has been 'written off', says Labour
Labour's Lisa Nandy will argue the failure to make use of people's talents in every corner of the country is a 'social crime' that has made it impossible to tackle problems such as 'struggling public services and failing town centres'
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Deadly failings with one person killed every six days by criminal on probation
Every six days someone is killed by an offender on probation and criminals on licence killed a total of 599 people in the last decade- our criminal justice system is in crisis, so when will the Government address these deadly failings?
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'Innocent' man who spent 17 years in jail for rape may clear name as DNA emerges
Andrew Malkinson was jailed for a rape in Greater Manchester which he has always denied committing - he could now see his name cleared as DNA evidence leads police to another man
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Young millionaire's £100K Audi vandalised in very rude way - but he's not fussed
A businessman was initially 'gutted' when he parked his car in Leeds overnight and returned to find it covered in vile graffiti and says he wants the vandal to come forward - but it's 'not much of a loss' for the young moneybags
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Nightclub where footballer was stabbed to death on Boxing Day to close for good
Nightclub in Birmingham where footballer Cody Fisher died in a Boxing Day knife attack last year has been ordered to close for good after West Midlands Police appealed to Birmingham City Council