Crime

The family of the suspect in the so-called "Putney pusher" case has denied he was responsible and claimed he "took his own life" due to the police investigation.

Zooming through the Greater Manchester high school gates in her sleek Audi A1, Rebecca Joynes went against every stereotype of a typical maths teacher – she was young, cool, and very glamorous.

Police looking for a three-year-old boy who disappeared from a playground on the Suffolk-Essex border have discovered a body.

Prison officers "panicked" and didn’t cut a hanged inmate’s ligature or perform CPR for nearly three minutes, a coroner has said.

A wealthy banker who was the prime suspect in the Putney Pusher investigation has been found dead.

The South London park is deserted by the time “Pete” arrives. It’s closing in on 10pm. As he takes his place opposite me on a park bench, he is careful to keep his balaclava pulled up over his nose

An ’aggressive’ London Underground passenger killed an Elizabeth Line worker with a single punch to the face after missing his train, a court heard.

A convicted drug smuggler with links to Scots crime boss Jamie Stevenson has been given six years for his role in an £8 million cocaine bust.

A dashcam captured an encounter between a delivery courier and an angry Range Rover driver, who burst into the van.

A suspected drug-influenced driver has been arrested after a car crashed into pedestrians before veering into oncoming traffic, resulting in two deaths and four injuries.

A man wanted by the National Crime Agency in the UK in connection with a multi-million pound fraud has been arrested in Dublin.

Barbers and vape shops acting as fronts for laundering crime gangs’ illicit assets are to be targeted by new police squads specializing in tracking down “dirty money.”

A Sandbanks property developer strangled his wife during a drunken argument following a family Sunday roast after she filed for divorce due to his affair, a court has heard.

Engineering expert Helen Shannon and bioengineering professor Geoff Chase withdrew from the team on Monday, saying some of its arguments have “unresolvable problems” amid concerns over the “scientific credibility” of some of its evidence.

A husband ’broke down in tears’ as he pleaded guilty to drugging and raping his wife without her knowledge over a period of more than two decades.

The Philippines’ anti-graft court on Monday ordered the transfer of Martin Romualdez, former House Speaker and cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., from a hospital to a regular jail a week after his arrest, OCCRP partner Rappler reported. Romualdez is accused of plunder in a 7.44-billion-peso ($118 million) case.

The number of British nationals detained overseas on drug trafficking charges has surged more than fourfold over three years, official figures show, alongside a Government warning that penalties include life imprisonment and the death sentence.

Two businessmen accused of defrauding investors through a car investment scheme involving about 88 million pounds ($119 million) are due to stand trial in London, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said.

Criminal gangs launched two migrant boats from French beaches today, despite poor weather conditions and increased beach patrols.

A husband has pleaded guilty to drugging and raping his wife for more than two decades without her knowledge.

Actress Hayden Panettiere died aged just 36 after taking a pill that was allegedly laced with fentanyl.

Jack Shepherd, known as the speedboat killer, has been jailed for violently assaulting his girlfriend.

CCTV captured a smiling killer buying a knife – before he stabbed a 26-year-old man to death.