All news on the topic: Crime

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Sarah Everard probe to ask how vile Carrick was allowed to remain cop so long
Home Secretary said that Carrick's case will be included in Sarah Everard murder inquiry - warning that more shocking cases involving police offers may come to light
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Bitcoin scam gang made so much money they gave out £5k gift cards in the street
The four-person criminal gang at the centre of the £22m conspiracy worked with ringleader James Parker, operating from his Blackpool home, and even bought cars for strangers they met in the pub
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Brixton Academy crush came as security 'took bribes' to let in ticketless fans
A security guard at the O2 Brixton Academy where two women died in a crush outside a gig by Afro-pop star Asake has said some would allow 'a couple of hundred' extra people into venues in exchange for bribe money
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Vatican to investigate unsolved mystery of teen who went missing 4 decades ago
Emanuela Orlandi, 15, was last seen going to a music lesson in central Rome before she disappeared in what has become one of Italy's most high-profile mysteries of all time
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Brother of boy, 12, dissolved in acid by Mafia boss speaks out after his capture
Nicola Di Matteo's brother Giuseppe, 12, was kidnapped and killed in 1993 under the orders of Matteo Messina Denaro in an attempt to blackmail his father into not giving evidence against the mafia
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Nine men lashed up to 39 times each in public in brutal Taliban punishments
Each man was brutally lashed between 35 and 39 times in front of Taliban officials, religious clerics, elders, and local people, but the reason for their beating is still unknown
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Search for missing four-year-old girl now a 'recovery operation' as fears grow
Agents are now looking for the remains of four-year-old Athena Brownfield who went missing last week after a man was charged with murder in relation to her disappearance
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'Talented' boy, 11, shot dead as girl, 14, is accused of firing gun during fight
A local community in Dallas is devastated after D'evan McFall died when he was hit by stray bullets with a 14-year-old girl shot a gun aimed at another girl that was fighting
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Murderer who drugged and drowned two men chokes to death ahead of her execution
Miyuki Ueta is the second ever woman in Japan to face the death penalty after she was found to have drugged the men with sleeping pills to get out of debts she owed to them
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Mafia boss' lair filled with designer clothes and perfumes as he's finally found
Matteo Messina Denaro, the last 'godfather' of Cosa Nostra, was arrested yesterday in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run. At the home where he spent his final months, officers found perfumes and designer clothes
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Drunk easyJet passenger jailed after grabbing stewardess by neck on flight
EasyJet passenger Colin Smith put his hands around a flight attendant's throat after she warned to him to be careful after he got out of his seat while the plane came into land
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Rapist Met cop bragged he was ‘untouchable’ and used gun during sex, says ex
A former partner of sadistic rapist Met Police cop David Carrick, 48, said he used his handcuffs and guns during sex and his fetish was having power over women
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Paedo mum who groomed boy, 15, into sexual relations and took photos spared jail
Nicole Lines gave a 15-year-old boy alcohol and cannabis before becoming intimate with him but has avoided a prison sentence after admitting to sexual activity with a child
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Teenage mum and her six-month-old baby among six dead in gang killing
Two gunmen fled from the scene in Goshen, California, where two victims were found dead in the street, while an elderly woman was killed as she slept in the gang-related murder
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Lawyer killed in Mexico on first wedding anniversary with wife, family says
Grieving friends and relatives of a lawyer who died while celebrating his first anniversary with his wife on holiday in Mexico claim he was 'killed' despite local reports that he fell from his room
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'Those paid to uphold law must find foolproof system to not recruite villains'
Carrick joins Wayne Couzens, the Met officer who kidnapped, raped and then murdered Sarah Everard as she walked home in London, as one of the worst criminals in the history of the force
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Ex of serial rapist cop says he threatened to kill her and made her drink urine
An ex of David Carrick described how she suffered a horrific campaign of abuse during their year-long relationship during he would he would beat her if she refused to engage in 'weird, crazy' sex
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Over 1000 Met Police staff accused of sex offences or domestic abuse in 10 years
The cases are being urgently reviewed after it emerged serial rapist David Carrick was allowed to remain in the force despite being accused of rape, assault, harassment, domestic abuse and burglary
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'Guilty Lee Ryan proves there is no defence for crossing the line with language'
The Blue singer, found guilty of racially ­aggravated assault on a flight to London, is young enough to know better, says Darren Lewis. And many more people like him need to wake up to the fact the world has changed
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Woman, 21, admits stabbing own mum more than 30 times - but denies it was murder
Hanna Bennis, 21, has admitted to stabbing her mum Aziza, 58, to death in her London home August last year, after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility
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Fellow Met Police officer friend called rapist David Carrick a 'panty sniffer'
David Carrick was referred to as a 'sex offender' and 'pervert' in disturbing comments from his Facebook friends and was called a 'pantry sniffer' by a fellow Met Police officer
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Mum of Met Police serial rapist reported him as a teen after serious allegation
David Carrick's mother has told a newspaper how she raised a concern about a 'serious allegation' against him when he was a teenager - the officer has now pleaded guilty to 49 offences
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Moment armed police surround suspected gunman after drive-by shooting at funeral
Armed officers stormed a residential street and arrested a 22-year-old man after a drive-by shooting at a funeral in Euston saw four women and two children injured
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Wanted man 'found in wheelie bin after jumping in freezing river to avoid cops'
Suspected child sex offender Daniel Godkin, 32, was pictured leaving court handcuffed to guards after eventually being detained following an alleged search of the River Ribble last week
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James Bulger's mum 'was suffocated by hatred but now can think of him as person'
Despite not returning to The Strand mall in Bootle for almost 30 years, Denise believes she can now remember him again without his memory being suffocated by her hatred for his twisted killers