Crime

A record 10,293 referrals were made to Prevent for 9,957 people in the year to September, figures show.

Keaton Slater, 12, was struck by a black BMW on the city’s Radford Road in June 2024, and despite the best efforts of medics, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers arrested a woman accused of stabbing four men in London’s Covent Garden neighborhood, the Metropolitan Police said Wednesday.

A man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for raping a woman in her caravan following the Royal Windsor Horse Show, police have confirmed.

One of Britain’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Madrid over alleged sexual assaults carried out over a decade.

Ex-pop star Gary Glitter has appeared in court charged with sexual offences dating back to the 1970s against a girl aged between eight and 11.

A man suspected of murdering a British woman in Athens allegedly told her friends and family he was a jihadist who murdered her because she was Christian.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of rape following an attack on a woman in her 20s on Brighton Beach, police have said.

Four men have been stabbed in broad daylight on a busy street in central London.

A man accused of killing a Scottish charity worker before putting her body in a suitcase and wheeling it through Athens has appeared at a court in the Greek capital.

A body has been recovered from the sea off the coast of Hornsea, East Yorkshire, after a 13-year-old boy was reported missing on Tuesday.

A man who tried to kill his estranged wife on the street in Edinburgh in front of their young daughter has been jailed for seven and a half years.

A man has been arrested and charged after drugs were recovered during a traffic stop in Edinburgh.

Four men have been arrested over "atrocious" large-scale illegal waste dumping, believed to be around 25,000 tonnes, at a site in Wigan.

Five people, including a nine-year-old girl who later died, were taken to hospital following an incident in Arbroath, it has emerged.

Police in the Indian state of Goa arrested seven people and summoned 24 others for questioning in connection with 40 cyber fraud cases that caused nearly $262,000 in losses.

Three other people were rushed to hospital alongside a tragic nine-year-old girl found fatally injured at a Scottish industrial estate, it has been revealed.

Four people have been charged with attempted murder after Arsenal’s Premier League title victory parade that prompted 29 arrests over incidents at the event.

A motorway has been closed after police said suspected human remains were found nearby.

The new system, which has been piloted in six boroughs in the capital, allows retailers to submit CCTV footage, witness statements and other evidence directly to officers, the Met said.

A self-described ‘vampire’ who left dead animals on display outside churches was caught when police staked out places of worship on full moon nights.