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First-of-its-kind operation for Met: synthetic DNA helps uncover large-scale shoplifting network
In a first-of-its-kind operation for the Met, the synthetic DNA allowed stolen goods to be uniquely identified and traced back to their original stores
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Police Scotland: no evidence linking double murder in Spain to Glasgow gang wars
Eddie Lyons Jr. and Ross Monaghan were fatally shot by a hooded gunman outside an Irish pub in Fuengirola on Saturday evening.
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Inside Scattered Spider: how 23-year-old Tyler Buchanan became the face of cyber terror
Plus a look at the shadowy Scattered Spider cybercriminal gang and the crimes they commit
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Firebombing campaign intensifies in UK gangland feud, Daniel crime family targeted
A firebombing campaign linked to one of the UK’s most volatile gangland feuds rages on after a carpet factory connected to a notorious crime family was engulfed in flames
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Dean MacLeod, son of feared Edinburgh gangster, dies in jail
Dean MacLeod, who was found dead in his jail cell days after a violent attack on an officer, committed horrific crimes alongside his father, Ian MacLeod, a notorious gang leader.
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Hunt for gang who ‘hurled a dog to its death’ from block of flats
A hunt has launched for a gang of men after a dog died when it was thrown from a block of flats in Birmingham
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Gang leader jailed for £4m luxury car thefts across Manchester
The ringleader of a gang which stole £4m worth of luxury cars after breaking into the owners’ homes and threatening them at knifepoint has been jailed.
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British Museum partly closes after dismissed contractor shuts down IT systems
A recently dismissed contractor shut down several systems before being arrested, the museum said
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Rochdale gang ’used girls as sex slaves’ - trial
Two young girls were groomed to become ‘sex slaves’ for a group of Asian men in Rochdale who preyed on their vulnerabilities, a court has heard.
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Grooming gangs are ’in every single part of our country’, Jess Phillips says
There have been inquiries into grooming gangs in several towns and cities in the UK but the safeguarding minister says it is happening everywhere.
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Contaminated seafood worth £8,000,000 seized from criminal gangs
Over 30 tonnes of contaminated seafood has been seized by European authorities, potentially saving millions of people from getting food poisoning over Christmas.
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’Thor’ and his gang smuggled £140m of cocaine into the UK from Sierra Leone
Members of the organised crime group have been locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years
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Police arrest 93 gang members behind £4m thefts in shoplifting crackdown
A new police unit has for the first time mapped the gangs targeting shops around the country to see where they’re operating.
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Week-long county lines crackdown leads to 1,600 arrests, £3 million in drugs, and 557 weapons seized
More than 1,600 people have been arrested following a week-long crackdown on county lines drug gangs.
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Hundreds arrested in Northern Ireland during crackdown on people smugglers
Gangs charging €8,000 for illegal travel packages that avoid crossing Channel on small boats
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Multi-billion-pound Russian money-laundering operation uncovered with ties across the UK
The UK’s NCA has led an international crackdown on the "unprecedented" money-laundering operation which swapped cash from British street-level drug deals for cryto from elite Russian hackers
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Six teenagers have been arrested after a 13-year-old girl was found stabbed at the side of a dual carriageway
A 13-year-old girl is fighting for life after being stabbed by a gang of teenagers.
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Chris Kaba caught on camera shooting rival in busy nightclub just days before police shooting
This is the moment a man thought to be Chris Kaba shot a rival in a crowded nightclub in east London, before chasing him down and shooting him again.
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Kinahan gang boss who orchestrated arms cache plot from prison receives a six-year jail sentence
Thomas Kavanagh, 57, enlisted two associates to help with the scheme while he was in prison. He wanted the National Crime Agency to find a weapons stash in an effort to influence his sentencing in a multimillion-pound drug case.
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Inside sick ’human butchery’ ring who made £300,000 from ’testicle salads’ and live castrations
As the Court of Appeal has ruled that convicted members of an extreme body modification gang can challenge their appeals, the Mirror takes a look inside the twisted group of ’eunuch makers’, whose leader kept his penis in a drawer
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Chris Kaba was identified as a "core member" of one of London’s most dangerous gangs, according to reports
A man who was shot dead by police was a ‘core member’ of one of London’s most dangerous gangs.
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Jay Line drugs gang that exploited children to sell heroin and cocaine sentenced to 29 years in prison
A drugs gang who used children to peddle heroin and cocaine from the Midlands across the UK have been locked up for more than 29 years. The ’complex network of dealers’ supplied their stash of drugs using the AB Line and Jay Line.
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Man carrying 18 knives arrested outside a London train station following a stop and search
A man is in custody after being found carrying 18 knives - which were likely destined for south London gangs.
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Nine arrested in operation to dismantle gang smuggling people with fake documents
Nine men from Manchester have been arrested in a large-scale operation to dismantle an Organized Crime Group (OCG) believed to be smuggling people into the country using fake documents.
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An East London drug dealer who boasted about being ’like Pablo Escobar’ has been caught
A prolific drug gang leader who compared himself to notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been arrested.
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