Crime

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Company boss fired gun next to terrified employee's head in row over bike
Jamie Oakes, 37, has been jailed for more than three years after a "violent and frightening" incident in which an employee was accused of theft and threatened by his boss
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Rookie cop's killers went on vodka-fuelled brothel trip before murder, jury told
The gang behind a robbery at Universal Express Travel in Bradford in 2005 which left rookie police officer PC Sharon Beshenivsky dead allegedly went on a champagne and vodka fuelled night out at a brothel hours before
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Home Office to pay rapper and TV stars for TikTok posts about small boats
Home Office officials have reportedly drawn up a shortlist of celebrities in Albania who they want to post TikTok videos discouraging people from travelling to the UK by small boat
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Victims being asked to buy gold in new impersonation scam twist, HSBC says
Criminals may also pose as police officers, claiming a fraud has taken place on someone's account
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Family may never get answers over mum 'dumped like rubbish' in alleyway
A man walking home from the gym discovered the body of Kerry Newman, 40, "dumped like rubbish" at the side of a footpath in Rochdale, Greater Manchester on July 18 last year
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Man who 'confessed to torture and murder' seen roaming streets by scared locals
Alan Lawson, 36, was found with serious injuries at his home in Saltcoats, Ayshire, before he died in hospital - with a man allegedly confessing to his torture on Snapchat
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Megachurch shooter would aim guns at kids as police 'ignored' neighbour outcries
Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, opened fire at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church on Sunday morning sending worshippers scrambling for safety before being gunned down by two off-duty security officers
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Grandma left money for parents in cooler ‘where dad put five-year-old’s remains’
The girl's terrified stepmother has claimed in court she saw the alleged killer Adam Montgomery take his daughter, Harmony's lifeless body, "fold her in half, and squished" her inside a duffel bag after he killed her
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Shoplifting cost at record high as abuse against staff soars, BRC survey shows
The British Retail Consortium's annual survey found that violence and abuse against shop workers spiked last year with about 1,300 incidents a day
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Mum in dock accused of murdering her son, 6, after his body was found in car
Mum Ruth Purcell Healy, 37, appeared at Waterford District Court last night charged with the murder of her six-year-old son Matthew Purcell-Healy, whose body was found in a car
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'Criminals given a free pass' as shop thefts rocket to 16million cases a year
New figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) found a 50% increase in assaults and abuse of shop workers as it slammed the Government's "woefully inadequate" action
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Dad shoots wife dead in bathtub before their killing four-year-old twin sons
San Mateo Police confirmed a 9mm pistol and loaded magazine were discovered in the family-of-four California home after the husband is believed to have shot dead his wife
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Woman stabbed man in head with knife after waking him to ask if he loved her
Carol Devaney, 64, stabbed her partner Michael Richardson in the head in Cellardyke, Fife, after the pair down several drinks together and when she asked him if he loved her, he said no
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Mum says she ‘dropped the ball’ as starved son, 14, dies weighing just two stone
A Florida woman, Talia Nelson, faces severe charges after her 14-year-old son Zayke Smith-Nelson died weighing only 2 stone 3 (33 pounds), revealing a disturbing case of alleged neglect and starvation
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Update in beef wellington case that killed 3 after eating death cap mushrooms
Erin Patterson remains in prison in Victoria, Australia, accused of murder over a deadly mushroom lunch which killed three in her ex-husband's family and left another man in intensive care
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'Paraglider' badge wearers at pro-Palestine march guilty of terror offences
Heba Alhayek, 29, Pauline Ankunda, 26, and 27-year-old Noimutu Olayinka have been found guilty of a terror offence after displaying images of 'paragliders' at a pro-Palestine march
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IDF release video 'showing Hamas mastermind of October 7 attacks inside tunnel'
Israel's invasion of Gaza continues at pace, with the country's government now considering a ground attack on Rafah, where 1.4million Palestinians fled to avoid conflict elsewhere in the Strip
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One dead, another injured in stabbing in school as police shoot suspect dead
A mass stabbing inside a technical school in Manassas, Virginia, resulted in one death and one critical injury as the police announced the suspect was shot dead on the scene. All involved were males
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Sadiq Khan says fake audio of Remembrance criticism risked 'serious disorder'
The viral clip used artificial intelligence (AI) to replicate his voice and make it sound like he was criticising Remembrance events and demanding that pro-Palestinian marches to take precedence
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Man arrested after 'calling 999 and reporting himself for drink driving'
Officers at North Yorkshire Police were left shocked after they received a 999 call from a man in his 50s in Knaresborough, who wanted to report himself for drink driving - after a 'heavy weekend'
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Megachurch shooter 'hated disabled son' and called him 'the boy'
A woman familiar with violence who would wield guns and crossbows while doing 'Heil Hitler' salutes at her neighbours hated her disabled son so much she would only call him 'the boy'
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Mum of murdered girl, 5, weeps describing remains carried round town in tote bag
Kayla Montgomery gave an emotional testimony on her estranged husband, Adam Montgomery's alleged role in the death of their 5-year-old daughter, Harmony
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Woman going through divorce vanishes as man in helmet seen blacking out cameras
A Florida woman who had been in the middle of a divorce took a trip to Spain but then vanished with almost no trace as a man wearing a helmet was seen blacking out security cameras, sparking kidnapping rumours
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'Frankenstein' killer who said murder is 'better than sex' could be free in days
Allan Grimson, known as the 'Frankenstein killer', could be freed from jail this week as the family of one of his suspected victims branded him a 'danger to society'
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Ex-Liverpool FC prodigy facing jail after being unmasked as EncroChat dealer
Jamie Cassidy, an ex-Liverpool footballer who played alongside Premier League stars at youth level, pleaded guilty to involvement in the EncroChat drugs racket alongside his brother