All news on the topic: Crime

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Dentist locked up after warning Labour MP could be 'stabbed, shot, beheaded'
Amit Kerai tweeted Labour's Barry Gardiner suggesting he would be 'stabbed, shot, beheaded' in 2022. The Old Bailey heard Mr Gardiner warn protection for MPs is 'lamentably poor'
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Greedy thief stole thousands from charity and spent it on motorbike and ring
Peter Robinson pinched more than £7,000 from the organisation, which supports vulnerable women, but was caught out when he tried to take another £25,000. A judge told him his "greed was his downfall"
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Kremlin defector was assassinated by Vladimir Putin, says Ukrainian intelligence
The former helicopter pilot who defected from the Russians was found riddled with bullets in a car park near the popular tourist resort of Benidorm. He was pretending to be Ukrainian while living there
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Another death row killer in nitrogen gas execution despite it being 'agonising'
Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was sentenced to death following a fatal workplace shooting that killed three people in the US - he is set to become the second prisoner to face death by nitrogen gas
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Assassinated Putin defector was living secret double-life as Ukrainian in Spain
The suspected Russian defector was gunned down in a car park in Southern Spain near Benidorm, a popular city with British and Russian tourists alike. Hitmen sent by the Kremlin are believed to have been behind the brutal slaying
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Two people found dead in house after police attended welfare call
Police had forced their way into a property in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, and found two people, aged in their 70s, lying dead inside following a welfare call from a neighbour
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Dani Alves found guilty of raping woman in nightclub and jailed
Former Barcelona legend Dani Alves has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison by a court in Barcelona after being convicted of raping a woman inside a nightclub
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Disgraced cop took pictures of mum's dead body and shared them with ex-partner
Disgraced officer Russell Hinkins resigned from the force after his vile actions came to light. He took pictures of a mum who took her own life and shared them with his partner
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Paedo who bludgeoned boy to death wins legal battle that could see him freed
Wesley Neailey had been given 50p by his mum to go to the shops but never came home. Investigators quickly honed in on convicted abuser Dominic McKilligan, who now might see release
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'Disorder' erupts in Starbucks with chairs thrown in chaos as cops arrest two
In a branch of Starbucks in Coventry city centre chaos broke out last October in an incident involving 20 people that saw chairs thrown and customers threatened with police now appealing to the public
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'I was 8 when gym coach neighbour abused me - I'm sickened by pain of others'
An ex-neighbour of former Olympian Stan Wild - who is at the centre of sex abuse allegations - claims in new ITV documentary 'Gymnastics: A Culture Of Abuse' that he also interfered with her
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Man falls to his death as police arrive at flat over 'indecent children images'
The Independent Office for Police Conduct has launched an investigation after a man set to be arrested and led away by police in Manchester fell from a ninth-floor balcony
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Murder suspect's chilling 'red flag' messages to mum of girl, 11, found in river
The body of Audrii Cunningham was pulled out of the Trinity River in Texas, US, days after she went missing with a friend of her dad's being charged with her murder
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Little girl's mum says 'she failed her' as cops find body, arrest dad's friend
Audrii Cunningham's body was found in the Trinity River in Texas on Tuesday and her devastated mother has admitted she 'failed' her as detectives file capital murder charges against Don Steven McDougal
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Grim mystery of disembodied leg found on subway and it's not crime-related
A man's left leg was discovered on the New York City subway, between the 167th Street subway stop and 170th Street subway stop, and police now believe they know why
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Dan Wootton breaks silence as he's cleared by Met after criminal investigation
Dan Wootton has revealed the Metropolitan and Scottish Police will be taking no further action following investigations into alleged criminal behaviour he denied
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Muslim family have pig's head thrown through window as cops probe 'hate crime'
WARNING, DISTRESSING IMAGE: A Muslim family in Shear Brow, Blackburn, saw a rock thrown through their window, followed by a pig's head on Sunday 18 February, leaving police probing a hate crime after two men were seen fleeing from the scene
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Child rapist Police officer guilty of string of 'truly sickening' sex offences
Former Metropolitan Police officer Cliff Mitchell, 24, threatened one of his victims with a knife, before tying her up with cable ties and putting tape over her mouth
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Unanswered questions as girl vanishes from bus stop before body found in river
Divers have recovered the body of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham from a Texas river days after the girl went missing, and authorities are preparing to file a murder charge against a friend of her father
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Suicide pact murderer wiped out partner and three children in house fire
Daniel Sebastian Allen admitted murdering a teenage girl, her baby daughter and brother and killing their mum, found handcuffed to a bed after a house fire in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh
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Footage from inside court shows YouTube mum Ruby Franke in tears at sentencing
Ruby Franke went from being a popular YouTuber to becoming one of the most reviled mum's in the US after the extent of her abuse came to light from cruel punishments for her children to forced labour
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Mum shares 'overwhelming guilt' as 11-year-old daughter's body found in river
Cassie Matthews, the broken mother of Audrii Cunningham, says a piece of her soul has been ripped away forever following the discovery of her daughter's body in the Trinity River in Texas
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Cop killer's ex says he boasted about stand-off with police before mass shooting
Shannon Gooden opened fire from his Burnsville, Minnesota, home with seven children inside. He killed two police officers and a firefighter before taking his own life
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Suspect took part in search for missing girl, 11, while saying 'I'm not guilty'
Suspect Don Steven McDougal, 42, had joined in the search efforts for missing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham and had been knocking on doors to try and find her, authorities have claimed
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Man dies after 'falling from height' as police execute warrant at building
Police officers were executing a warrant at an apartment block in Collyhurst, Manchester, in connection with a criminal investigation when the man, who was inside the apartment, fell from the window