All news on the topic: Crime

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Criminals may benefit as Cambodia conceals new citizenship data
Cambodia has begun hiding the identities of foreigners purchasing passports through a citizenship investment program – a move analysts say will undermine efforts to tackle crime groups that have set up shop in the Southeast Asian nation.
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Clapham triple stabbing leaves one dead and two injured in night of violence
Clapham triple stabbing leaves one dead and two injured in night of violence.
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Madeleine McCann suspect scored top marks on a psychopath test and is ’in the absolute top league of dangerousness’
Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner is in the top “one per cent of abnormal”, a leading forensic psychiatrist has said.
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Britain’s youngest knife killers stabbed stranger to death in a ’horrific’ machete murder
Boys murdered teenager Shawn Seesahai in random and ‘senseless’ attack in Wolverhampton
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Chris Eubank’s son Joseph cleared of raping teenage girl, 16, in Brighton
Chris Eubank’s 27-year-old son has been cleared of raping a teenage girl on Brighton beach.
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Sanctioned Cambodian senator linked to alleged Chinese crime figures
A Cambodian tycoon and ruling party senator – who the U.S. recently sanctioned, citing links to human trafficking – had business relationships with alleged organized crime figures from China, company records show.
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Man has confessed to murdering Sarah Mayhew and disposing of her body parts in London
Steven Sansom, who has previous murder conviction, pleads guilty to murder and perverting course of justice
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Police release images showing how Britain’s most wanted man could appear today
One of Britain’s most wanted fugitives who has been on the run for 20 years may be living in the Australian outback.
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Three men detained over alleged scheme to sell counterfeit airbags, with 500 fakes uncovered in police raid
Three men arrested in connection with a suspected scheme to sell counterfeit airbags.
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First arrest for zombie knife made only 22 minutes after new law was implemented
A man arrested in Oxford is believed to be the first to be charged under the new ban on zombie knives.
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Manchester detective found guilty after stealing cocaine and giving it to dealers
Andrew Talbot used police systems to look up dealers to help him sell the drugs
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A report indicates that e-commerce fraud is experiencing significant growth worldwide
Fraud is involved in around 20 percent of the world’s online sales each year, netting criminals trillions of dollars, according to a report from a national security research group.
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Swiss police have made arrests in connection with a suspected death involving a "suicide capsule"
Criminal case opened after Sarco capsule – which releases nitrogen gas at the touch of a button – used in Merishausen
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An attack on a convoy of foreign diplomats in Pakistan has resulted in the death of a police officer
A roadside bomb hit a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing a police officer in their security detail, police said.
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More than 100 people have been killed or are missing as the Sinaloa Cartel’s violent conflict intensifies in Mexico
Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico’s western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday, with gruesome violence showing no signs of abating.
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Burglar awarded £5m after being stabbed in Chelmsford prison kitchen
Steven Wilson was attacked after risk assessment failed to stop convicted murderer working in kitchen with access to knives
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A rapist who posed as a taxi driver charged his victim a £20 "fare" after the assault
Three men who preyed on and raped a lone woman have been sentenced to a combined total of 25 years in prison.
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In Warsaw, the "King of Conmen," wanted across Europe, has been arrested
Police officers stopped a driver on Puławska Street who had significantly exceeded the speed limit.
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An Irish crime boss has admitted to employing a trick to hide a stash of guns
A boss of an organised crime gang and two of his key members have admitted a trick to create a fake arms cache in a bid to help him secure a lighter prison sentence.
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Five people have been arrested in connection with a murder investigation following a fatal stabbing in Teesside
A man told Teesside Live he heard "high-pitched screaming" ran over to the man and "started doing CPR".
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Notorious criminal used garden shed in scheme to smuggle Spice into prisons via legal letters
Larry Barnett junior was described as the ’ringleader’ behind a lucrative operation to soak fake legal letters in the class B drug
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Welsh teenager imprisoned for assaulting trans woman and distributing terrorist materials
"Alex Edwards, 19, sentenced to five years and four months in prison, with judge citing his ’entrenched mindset of hatred.’"
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The Metropolitan Police are investigating four officers in connection with a case involving a double domestic murderer
London police force looking into possible misconduct relating to complaint by one of victims of Carl Cooper
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A married police chief had an affair with a rookie officer half his age and attempted to conceal the relationship when she was arrested
Daniel Greenwood headed West Yorkshire Police’s Covid enforcement team - but he breached the rules himself to have sex with probationary officer Caitlin Howarth
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Sean ’Diddy’ Combs faces charges of sex trafficking and other crimes after his arrest in New York
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, according to multiple media reports.