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Evil child killer Roy Whiting is locked up in HMP Wakefield alongside some of the UK's most dangerous criminals - including triple murderer 'Hannibal the Cannibal' Robert Maudsley

Paedophile killer Roy Whiting has been set upon and stabbed in prison. The monster is serving 40 years for murdering little Sarah whose body was found two weeks after she disappeared

Twisted killer Colin Pitchfork, 63, is set to be given a parole hearing after complaining to the board back in December - he murdered and assaulted two teenagers in the 1980s

Twisted Jon Venables, who murdered tot James Bulger in February 1993, reportedly bragged about how 'easy' it was to kidnap and kill the two-year-old whilst serving time in juvenile jail

Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar's heartbroken parents appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain after Valdo Calocane was sentenced for killing their children and school caretaker Ian Coates

Gangster 'Fat' Freddie Thompson who is serving life after leading the Kinahan cartel's gang war against the Hutch rivals is back in court in Ireland for allegedly attacking prison staff

Police officers searched the home of a prison officer and found tablets sewn into his uniform, leading detectives to suspect that he was supplying inmates at Mountjoy Prison

Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, 47, is standing trial on Friday accused of carrying out a string of vile sex attacks in Portugal

Kane Ashcroft and Daniel Young were spotted by police hurriedly bundling a drone into a bag in a nearby park when police thwarted an attempted drop in 2021, and they ended up in jail

Attempting to escape justice, Kaitlin Armstrong, the murderer of pro-rider Moriah Wilson, spent $6,000 on plastic surgery

The new, brightly coloured uniforms are designed to be less frightening to kids at the Youth Custody Service, but officers are less than pleased at wearing their new "Teletubbie" style uniforms

Jeanette Irvine, 51, feared she would never see her children again when violent thug Marie Huggan sliced her throat open with a bottle in an unprovoked attack at De Vito's in Arbroath in July 2022.

Daisy Link this week requested to be released on house arrest pending her murder trial due to her pregnancy, which she allegedly told her mother was caused by another inmate's semen-filled glove that made its way to her

Steven Drinkwater was branded 'callous' after pocketing thousands of pounds from vulnerable mourners while working at a Wolverhampton funeral home before trying to evade justice

New dad Darren Hamilton has been spared jail after he carried out a horrific one-punch attack during a brawl in Durham city centre which left another man unconscious

Ellie Gould, 17, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Thomas Griffiths, also 17, in 2019 - with her mum Carole, 53, marking what would have been her daughter's 22nd birthday

Tucker Carlson has been slammed as a "propagandist" who should "not be allowed back in the country" after he revealed he was in Russia to interview Vladimir Putin

An interactive map has shown the locations of deadly dog attacks across the UK, with more than half caused by XL Bully Dogs, including Esther Martin in Essex last weekend

Daniel Yates targeted the worker as he made a drop-off at the store which he had been plaguing for months with his nuisance behaviour.

Downing Street issued the advice on XL Bullies after a 39-year-old was man arrested following a fatal attack on a grandmother by two dogs in Essex at the weekend

Stacey Gibson, a sacked nursery worker, has been sent to jail again after she made dangerous threats to her former workplace - where she was fired from in 2018

Joseph Appiah, known as Cleeshay, called for new laws on joint enterprise cases, which MPs heard is a 'miscarriage of justice on the same scale as the Post Office Horizon scandal'

Andreas Christopheros was left scarred and partially blind after a stranger knocked on his front door and hurled acid on him - he has since called for tougher laws following the acid attack in Clapham

Josef Fritzl repeatedly assaulted, sexually abused, and raped his daughter over a 24-year period - but the now 88-year-old has been granted conditional release from a prison following an appeal

After being sent down for a minimum of twenty years for the brutal slaying of teen Brianna Ghey, sick killer Eddie Ratcliffe has been staying at the facility that once guarded Robert Thompson