Crime

Convicted German sex offender and prime Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner's long awaited trial is set to start on Friday, which will be his first public appearance since he was accused of being Maddie's abductor

Twisted killer Colin Pitchfork, 63, is set to be given a parole hearing after complaining to the board back in December - he murdered and assaulted two teenagers in the 1980s

Twisted Jon Venables, who murdered tot James Bulger in February 1993, reportedly bragged about how 'easy' it was to kidnap and kill the two-year-old whilst serving time in juvenile jail

Nationwide said there was a small 2% drop in scams involving female victims

Twisted teen killers Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe are serving life sentences for the murder of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, who was horrifically stabbed to death on February 11, 2023

Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar's heartbroken parents appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain after Valdo Calocane was sentenced for killing their children and school caretaker Ian Coates

The insurance giant said items targeted include luxury watches, bespoke jewellery items, expensive bracelets and diamond rings

A 44-year-old man has been arrested in London after passengers were threatened on the 109 bus between Brixton and Croydon with an unknown substance before police stormed the vehicle

Joel Osteen took to Twitter to reveal his "community is devastated by today's events and grateful for the swift actions of law enforcement" after the Texas megahurch shooting on Sunday

Minnie Rae Dunn fell 60ft after climbing on a sofa on a flat balcony. Her dad Daniel Kenney said he still has a lot of questions over his daughter's death in Buckland, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Gangster 'Fat' Freddie Thompson who is serving life after leading the Kinahan cartel's gang war against the Hutch rivals is back in court in Ireland for allegedly attacking prison staff

The Government's Stop! Think Fraud campaign, starting on Monday, includes a new website with fraud safety advice and adverts on billboards, broadcast and social media

Denisse Oleas-Arancibia was discovered in her £90-per-night room by a maid at the Soho54 Hotel in Manhattan, New York - and police believe her death was a murder

Former Wrestlemania and WWE star Billy Jack Haynes has been taken into custody after the death of his wife Janette Becraft and police have provided an update on the matter

A 5-year-old child has been shot at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, as the authorities also confirm that the shooter, a woman baring a rifle, has been shot dead

Brianna Ghey was murdered by Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe in Warrington, Cheshire, in February last year and a judge named the callous duo upon sentencing this month

Police officers searched the home of a prison officer and found tablets sewn into his uniform, leading detectives to suspect that he was supplying inmates at Mountjoy Prison

Stansted Airport is one of the UK's busiest travel hubs, and it has turned out that far more than just passenger planes have been flying around the area in recent years

Julie Kobylarz, 34, tracked the pickpocket through live transactions and ran after him while her husband and three young children trailed behind her in Michigan

A gang of drug dealers who hailed from the Merseyside area worked with connections in Plymouth to deliver the Class As to the city using couriers who would travel to the Devon port

The Mongrel Mob has around 2,500 members in New Zealand and is known for gang warfare, organised crime, and sexual violence - and it's planning to expand to the UK

The mother of one of the two women who were allegedly drugged and raped in the Bahamas earlier this month detailed the moment she knew 'something wasn't quite right' with them

Pictures show officers from Warwickshire Police seizing a white van after large piles of rubbish were dumped on a country lane on the edge of Meriden in Warwickshire

Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, 47, is standing trial on Friday accused of carrying out a string of vile sex attacks in Portugal

Greater Manchester Police are supporting the victim of a rape, said to have happened near a Morrisons car park in the Rochdale area yesterday evening