Crime

An estimated 17,000 children are affected by having a mum in prison every year and many will be separated on Mother’s Day this Sunday as experts call for more support

Police have charged a 19-year-old with six counts of murder after five members of the same family were massacred in 'the largest murder in recent memory' in the Barrhaven suburb of Ottawa, Canada's capital

A United Airlines flight going from London to New York had to be diverted to Maine after an unruly passenger got drunk and loudly argued with his girlfriend before he was tackled and subdued

A list of some of the UK's most popular and easily-guessed passwords has been released as part of a campaign to urge people to keep their money safe from criminals

Earlier this week, JK Rowling went on a vile rant and said India Willoughby was 'cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is'

Inspector Darren Lane, who has been a police officer for 23 years, placed his radio on the bedside table while having "full sex" with a colleague at her home but has been able to retain his job

Simon Boothby, who strongly objected to the sex offender living anywhere near him and so set fire to the man's flat in the Bransholme area of Hull, has been jailed

Iain Packer was convicted of killing 27-year-old Emma Caldwell and dumping her body at Limefield Woods in Lanarkshire 19 years ago.

Michael and Kerry Ives, 46 and 45, are accused of the murder of grandson Ethan Ives Griffiths, two, and his mum Shannon Kayleigh Ives is charged with assault and neglect

PC David Seager has been dismissed from the Met Police after sharing a white supremacist rape fantasy, as well as other offences including telling a man he would be raped in jail

Eddie Ratcliffe and Scarlett Jenkinson and were aged 15 when they carried out their "disturbing" plan to murder her in a "frenzied and ferocious" attack with a hunting knife

Police have launched a homicide investigation after six people were found dead in a home in the Barrhaven suburb with one person having been arrested in connection with the deaths of the four kids and two adults

Pharmacists are facing a barrage of abuse and burglaries on a regular basis, as one local chemist was petrol-bombed in the dead of night, and staff were threatened at knife-point

Constance Marten and partner Mark Gordon are on trial at the Old Bailey charged with the manslaughter of their baby Victoria who was found dead in a Lidl carrier bag

Fraudster James Shoobert told five people he could get them cheaper cars and took £60,000 from his victims in Canterbury, who later went to Kent Police to get their cash back

Muriel McKay was 55 when she was kidnapped by brothers Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein in 1969 and died in the incident, but her body has never been found

Hanniyah Bint Vaqas Younis had been playing in her family’s back garden, before wandering along a path and through an unsecured gate to the front drive, where she sat behind her dad's car

Liam Thomas, from Crosby, from Merseyside is accused of murdering his cousin Matthew Horton by stabbing him to death outside a block of flats in a row over a woman

Police were called by the ambulance service to report that two men in their 50s were unwell at a property in Norfolk and two men have since been arrested on suspicion of poisoning

More than 100 firefighters attended the blaze at Forest Gate Police Station in east London last night, and Metropolitan Police said the building had to be be evacuated

Noah Wilson fought back the tears as he recalled the horrifying incident in Coventry this week in which he saw his dog get "eaten alive" while walking on their usual route

Keane Mulready-Woods, 17, was killed and dismembered over the course of two days at a property in Drogheda, County Louth, which is near the Irish capital of Dublin

The terrified electric car owner has spoken out after a fault in his brakes saw him speed down the M62 motorway at 90mph - and admitted he 'could've died'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The horror killing by the 13-year-old girl in Maceio, Brazil came after her mum, Flavia dos Santos Carneiro, had disagreed with her moving in with her boyfriend

SAS veterans have blasted a decision to launch a murder probe into five soldiers over the death of a jihadist suspect in Syria, who was believed to have been wearing a suicide bomb vest