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23 Jan 2025 577

Haunting moment Axel Rudakubana enters dance school to carry out Southport massacre

This is the moment Southport killer Axel Rudakubana entered a Taylor Swift dance class before murdering three young girls and stabbing 10 others.

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23 Jan 2025 411

Philippines brings money laundering charges against Huang Zhiyang over cyber-fraud scandal

Huang Zhiyang was already facing human trafficking charges for allegedly running compounds where people were forced to carry out online scams.

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22 Jan 2025 565

Kyle Clifford admits to horrific crossbow murders in Bushey family home

Triple crossbow killer Kyle Clifford has pleaded guilty to murdering the wife and two daughters of BBC star John Hunt in a horrific attack last July.

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22 Jan 2025 524

Boy, 12, dies after Birmingham stabbing; teen arrested for murder

West Midlands Police say a 12-year-old boy was found with serious injuries after a stabbing near Scribers Lane in the Hall Green area of Birmingham on Tuesday.

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21 Jan 2025 559

Crypto user loses $7.8 million in SolvBTC amid surge in social media phishing scams

Sophisticated social engineering and malware tactics hike crypto phishing scams on social media.

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21 Jan 2025 431

India collaborates with Google and Meta to tackle ’pig butchering’ crypto scams

India intensifies crypto scam crackdown by teaming up with Google and Meta to combat $2 billion loss from "pig butchering" schemes.

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21 Jan 2025 465

Libyan police chief arrested in Italy for alleged war crimes

The head of Libya’s judicial police has been arrested after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant over war crimes allegations, media reports say.

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21 Jan 2025 516

Two 14-year-old schoolboys charged with kidnapping and raping girl in park

A 14-year-old girl is being supported by specialist officers from Hampshire Constabulary after police were called to Fordingbridge Recreation Ground, Hampshire, as two boys were charged with rape.

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21 Jan 2025 388

Girl, 6, and man discovered dead in house following ’major incident’

The bodies of a man and a six-year-old girl were discovered after a ‘major incident’ in West Lothian, Edinburgh.

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21 Jan 2025 639

Social media worker wins £22,000 payout after being fired for inactivity for a month

A digital content producer has been handed £22,000 from her former bosses after she was sacked for not doing enough work.

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21 Jan 2025 585

Masked men storm London cinema, shouting ’down with India’

A group of masked men stormed a west London cinema shouting ‘down with India’ during a Bollywood film leaving customers ‘terrified’.

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21 Jan 2025 594

Citibank boss found beaten to death in her London home, police search for killer

Citibank boss Marianne Kilonzi, 43, was found dead in her home in Woolwich, south-east London - a post-mortem has now revealed her cause of death as a manhunt to find her killer continues.

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21 Jan 2025 486

Horror as teen girl ‘raped in train station toilet’ as cops trawl CCTV and urge any witnesses to come forward

COPS have launched an urgent investigation after a teenage girl was allegedly raped in a train station toilet.

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21 Jan 2025 389

Southport murderer acquired weapons and ricin-making equipment two years prior to attack

Axel Rudakubana bought items on Amazon to make lethal poison three years after he came to attention of authorities.

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21 Jan 2025 630

Pair convicted of murdering man who tried to break up fight at Travelodge hotel

Two men are facing life sentences after battering a ‘peacemaker’ father who was working at a music festival.

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21 Jan 2025 516

Mystery surrounds body discovered on beach in popular UK holiday spot

A dead body has been found on a beach in Cornwall and the incident is being treated as ‘unexplained’.

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21 Jan 2025 487

Southport killer had deadly ricin poison at home after attack

Axel Rudakubana has pleaded guilty to killing three girls and attempting to kill several others at a dance class in Southport last summer on the first day of his trial.

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20 Jan 2025 405

Indian police volunteer gets life sentence for raping and murdering trainee doctor

Judge rejects death penalty for Sanjay Roy as victim’s parents suspect more were involved in killing, which sparked strikes.

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20 Jan 2025 429

TikTok star strangled girlfriend, slashed her with vodka bottle and set her alight in horrific four-year abuse campaign

A TikTok star strangled their girlfriend, slashed her with a vodka bottle and set her alight in a horrific campaign of abuse.

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20 Jan 2025 626

Police submit funeral home investigation file to CPS

Police investigating a funeral directors in Hull have passed a file containing more than 13,000 exhibits to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

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20 Jan 2025 452

Southport knife killer pleads guilty to murdering 3 girls at Taylor Swift dance class

Axel Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, changed his plea on day one of a trial at Liverpool Crown Court where he was charged with the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9; Bebe King, 6; and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7.

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20 Jan 2025 457

British teen imprisoned for having sex in Dubai spent birthday and New Year in isolation

A British teenager jailed in a ‘hellish’ prison in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl wasn’t allowed to speak to his family on his birthday.

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20 Jan 2025 535

Former soldier loses £200,000 in scam involving fraudsters using Rod Stewart’s image

An ex-soldier has been conned out of his life savings by a scammer who used Sir Rod Stewart’s face to advertise a fraudulent investment scheme.

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20 Jan 2025 520

Foster mum crushed boy, 10, to death sitting on him after he threatened to call police to report child abuse

Jennifer Lee Wilson, 49, was sentenced to six years in prison for the death of her 10-year-old foster son, Dakota Stevens, who she killed by sitting on him after he threatened to call 911 over child abuse.

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