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Ministers have announced emergency measures to let prisoners out early to free up jail space - but there are concerns the probation service will not be able to cope

Ryan Ogilvie from Dundee has been banned from Asda and Sainsbury's after staff said the frequent crimes he's committing in stores is increasing their regular workload

After almost four hours on a flight returning to Manchester from Madeira, passengers were stunned when armed police officers boarded and hauled a suspected criminal off the plane

During the incident, which police have said “will cause concern” among the community, the girls were approached in the Atria shopping centre in Watford on Saturday by a group

James Beaton worked as a drug runner in Ely, Cardiff and was allegedly prevented from quitting because of relentless threats from one of the men for whom he was working

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES - Fay Hagger, of Ashford, Kent, is still traumatised after being bitten and dragged to the floor by her neighbours' pet, Mikey, and said the pain was worse than childbirth

Lee Clarke, 56, from Harlow, must serve at least 18 years before being considered for parole - the life sentence comes after he brutally murdered his friend Phillip Lewis

Trish Hinde was just six years old when her father began abusing her and the following year she began suffering from violent seizures.

Owen Bott left his girlfriend fearing for her life after he suffocated her at her home in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, during what judge called a "serious and sustained assault"

Persia Nelson, 24, has been charged with second-degree murder after her 10-month-old baby, Halo Branton, died after being found in a 10-foot pipe. She was previously only charged with manslaughter

Joshua Howell and his friend Alfie Hammett, both 19, have been put behind bars after a deadly stabbing in Ipswich - the attack was branded a 'senseless act of extreme violence'

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been detained in Romania on a European arrest warrant issued by UK authorities for charges dating back to 2012-2015, the pair's representative said.

The council revealed it issued 762 fixed penalty notices for people urinating in the lay-by on the A41 near Kings Langley last year. Some motorists say they are being punished for suffering from medical conditions

British national Ellie Bentley was caught in a shootout in the US and dragged under a car, she'd moved to the country with her then-boyfriend — a former Aston Villa player

Police Scotland are investigasting the horrifying stabbing of a 13-year-old boy in Queens Park, Glasgow, on his way home from a mosque as loved ones released a picture of him in hospital 'drenched in blood'

Cameron Farmer forcefully punched and broke a window from the outside while she was standing inside the pub in Hull city centre, leaving her with horrendous injuries

Haiti's most notorious gang leader, Jimmy Chérizier, has warned the international community that without their help, the Caribbean country will plunge into 'further chaos'

Child killer Karen Harrington, 40, is appealing her life sentence for the murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley on privacy grounds after being convicted by a jury in 2022

Philip Glennon was linked to the supply of 14kg of cocaine, 65kg of heroin and 5kg of cannabis, but was caught by police after sharing photographs of his children and front garden

A teenager has been arrested after a brutal afterschool fight left one girl with a head injury, as the school looks to address 'bullying'

In recent days, rumours circulating on social media alleged that 35-year-old Dougie Joyce - who is serving 19 months for a vicious assault on an elderly man in Manchester - was himself attacked in the prison showers

Police took action after reports of concern for care of the deceased. Legacy Independent Funeral Directors. Some 34 bodies have so far been removed and taken to a nearby mortuary

Two men are thought to have made a getaway on a high-speed motorcycle after letting off several rounds at a popular celeb hangout on the Costa del Sol

Brothers Nizamodeen and Arthur Hosein were jailed for the murder of Muriel McKay in 1969. They both denied killing the victim and didn't say where she was buried

A new documentary about the Hampstead Paedophile Hoax explores how an ordinary group of mums faced nightmarish accusations involving gory satanic rituals