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Aditya Verma, 20, is facing a fine and compensation bill worth at least £100,000 for what he described as a 'moment of madness' and a ‘joke’ made on holiday

Paul Mackenzie was arrested in April 2023 after 429 bodies were discovered in shallow graves in Shakahola forest, Malindi, with dozens of followers set to be charged

Samuel Warnock, 29, formerly of Devizes, Wiltshire, has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his three-month-old daughter Miyah Warnock in 2021 as he was due to stand trial for murder

Kandice Barber protested her innocence after being convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old pupil in Buckinghamshire. But her note to the teaching misconduct panel had a spelling error

Four children were kidnapped by their father and his friend, the ‘prophet’ of an islamophobic doomsday cult which predicted a Muslim invasion of the US. Horrifying footage shows the moment they are found

Teaching watchdogs ruled Kandice Barber who groomed a 15-year-old boy in Buckinghamshire had demonstrated a 'callous and selfish disregard for her pupil’s well-being'

Depraved father Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter Elisabeth captive in a sex dungeon for 24 years, could be released from prison after being categorized as 'no longer' a threat to the public

Maxim Myshkin, 40, known as the "Granny Strangler" in the Russian press, was released early from an almost 25 year sentence despite twice strangling and robbing women pensioners

The neighbourhood of Digbeth in Birmingham is 'no longer a trendy place - but a bit of a dump', according to one local who doesn't feel safe going out after dark

Brothers Stewart Ahearne and Louis Ahearne were part of gang who were involved in the museum heist and admitted stealing the Ming dynasty porcelain worth millions from Fondation Baur in Geneva

Josef Fritzl is eligible for parole this year and a court psychiatrist says he is 'harmless' . The 88-year-old kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar for 24 years as his sex slave

Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was killed alongside James Furlong, 36, and David Wails, 49, in June 2020 by Khairi Saadallah. A full inquest into their deaths began at the Old Bailey on today

The male victim was shot in the chest yesterday at a shopping mall in Shikokuchuo city in Ehime prefecture on Japan’s southwestern main island of Shikoku, while sipping a Starbucks coffee

Ashley Singh, 39, and Sophie Bruyea, 20, stole from lockers at gyms across London before using their victims' credit cards to fund luxury holidays in Dubai and even bought a pedigree puppy

James Furlong's dad has told an inquest that he opened a Father's Day card from his son 'with a broken heart' the day after he was killed in the Reading terror attack

Nancy Lizeth had been due to marry fugitive Clemente Mendiola Martinez, nicknamed 'El Raton' or 'The Mouse', who is accused of being a killer for a drug cartel in Mexico

Cllr Laured Kalari said Sandwell in the West Midlands has experienced a rise in crime, coupled with a lack of investment by the local authority over recent years

Iris Iliana Rodriguez, 34, was one of the most wanted criminals in Texas after Webb County issued warrants for her arrest as it was claimed she had an inappropriate relationship with a female minor in Laredo

Kelly Faiers, 61, died in October last year after meeting "dangerous" Richard Scatchard who went missing the day after her death as Avon & Somerset Police continue investigations

Veterinarian Alberto Fioletti, 31, of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, has been jailed for 15 years for stabbing mother-of-two Stephanie Hodgkinson, 34, to death at her seaside home in Bournemouth

Sky’s True Detective: Night Country has been met with rave reviews and is being likened to the Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson-fronted first season

Painter and decorator Stephen Whittingham, 41, who met his partner on Facebook Dating but after a few months turned violent and was jealous when she spoke to men, has been jailed

Nine men of Pakistani and Afghan backgrounds were jailed as part of the Rochdale grooming scandal in 2012 - but further investigations resulted in the convictions of 42

After he was attacked and robbed of £80, the victim returned to the scene of the crime in Grimsby, where he found a bank card belonging to Ashley Bracey, 36, which enabled him to stalk him on Facebook and hand his details over to the police

Dylan Thomas, the grandson of Sir Gilbert Stanley Thomas, allegedly stabbed William Bush, who was discovered at a property in Llandaff, Cardiff on Christmas Eve