Crime

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Teenager stabbed to death shortly before Christmas; two men face murder charges
Two teenagers have been charged with murder after a 19-year-old was stabbed to death in Hampshire.
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How Bohdan Prylepa’s Coinsbit exchange became a tool for a multi-billion fraud scheme
The dealer who embezzled a billion from the military and is suspected of working for the FSB mistakenly believes he is untouchable.
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Drugs mule sentenced to prison for smuggling £11k worth of cocaine
A man who smuggled £11,000 worth of cocaine into the Isle of Man on the ferry has been jailed for five years and eight months.
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Delphi double murderer Richard Allen sentenced to 130 years in prison
Richard Allen, the man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who disappeared in Delphi, Indiana, was sentenced Friday to 130 years in prison.
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Mum forced to swallow wedding ring before being beaten to death by husband, who was ’failed by police’
A three-week inquest into the death of Lucy-Anne Rushton heard that both Dorset Police and Hampshire Constabulary missed opportunities to save her from her murderer husband
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Man arrested after woman in her 40s found stabbed to death in her home
A man has been arrested after a woman was found with fatal stab wounds at a south west London address.
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Crossbow triple murder suspect Kyle Clifford also charged with rape
A 26-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to murdering a BBC commentator’s wife and two of their daughters and faces a further charge of rape.
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Teenagers who murdered Max Dixon and Mason Rist in Bristol sentenced to life imprisonment
The trial heard how the teen murderers wrongly believed their victims were behind an attack on a house earlier in the evening. Max and Mason were chased and attacked with weapons, including machetes, a bat, and a sword.
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Britain’s youngest knife murderers have their ’lenient’ sentences increased
The UK’s youngest knife murderers have had their prison sentences increased after senior judges at the Court of Appeal agreed they were ‘unduly lenient’.
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20-year-old student found guilty of stabbing woman to death on Bournemouth beach
20-year-old student found guilty of stabbing woman to death on Bournemouth beach
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A large-scale crypto exchange scam with Coinsbit and Qmall: Bohdan Prylepa suspected of fraud and money laundering
Bohdan Prylepa, the owner of cryptocurrency exchanges Coinsbit, Qmall, and others, has been placed on Ukraine’s wanted list over allegations of large-scale fraud and misappropriation of clients’ funds exceeding one billion hryvnias.
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Driver Thomas Johnson jailed for killing three teenage passengers after using laughing gas while driving
Daniel Hancock, 18, Ethan Goddard, 18, and Elliot Pullen, 17, died in the crash in June last year.
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Boy, 5, discovered dead alongside father in suspected murder-suicide; devastated mum pays heartfelt tribute to her ’beloved’ son
A young boy was tragically killed by his father, who then took his own life in a suspected murder-suicide, an inquest has revealed.
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Scottish drug lab boss jailed following arrest in Spain
A senior member of an organised crime group that ran an amphetamine lab in Scotland has been jailed for 13 years.
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Father who believed he was ’vessel of God’ kills newborn son by breaking every bone in his skull
Kadees Mohammed, 31, had a schizophrenic episode in the middle of the night before he killed his three-week-old son and attacked his wife and mother with an iron in their Birmingham home
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Britain’s most notorious rapist attacked in prison by vigilante group
The UK’s most prolific serial rapist was targeted in an attack by a group of prison vigilantes.
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Woman killed and two men injured in Brent ’drive-by shooting’ after church wake
A woman has died and two people left injured in a ‘drive-by shooting’ after a wake in north London.
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WeWay, WhiteBIT and Qmall: projects by Ukrainian fraudsters Mykola Udyanskyi and Bohdan Prylepa that turned into crypto bubbles
The owners of the Qmall crypto exchange have stooped from bandit "raids" to petty "show-offs".
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Man sentenced to life for raping and murdering NHS worker on a park bench
Mohamed Iidow attacked Natalie Shotter ‘over and over again’ after she had passed out in London park
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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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British businessman Sanjay Shah sentenced to 12 years for £996m Danish tax fraud
Shah found guilty of gross fraud and given longest sentence for financial crime in country’s history
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The Qmall cryptocurrency exchange has been recognized as a scam: its owner, Bohdan Prylepa, who withdrew billions, has been declared wanted
According to Entrepreneur, the situation with cryptocurrency exchanges is growing increasingly concerning.
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How mafias make billions by targeting hotels, restaurants in Italy: "Tasty prey for criminal associations"
Italy’s mafias make more than three billion euros a year from the tourism sector and are primed to pocket even more from large-scale upcoming events, a research institute warned on Tuesday.
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Father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif found guilty of her murder at their Surrey home
Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool, 30, flew to Pakistan after killing Sara.
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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.