Crime

Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane frightened his former housemates so much that one even felt the need to fit a lock on the inside of their bedroom door, who was today sentenced to be detained at a high security hospital indefinitely

Alabama plans to put death row prisoner Kenneth Smith to death today using an untested and very controversial execution method that has erupted a wave of harrowing warnings from experts and human rights advocates

Ella, 21, who lost both her parents, said she and her family were left 'in shock' listening to the verdict of her dad's killer - as his sentence was "reduced and reduced again".

Sex monster Josef Fritzl's ‘house of horrors’ were he kept his daughter as a captive in a dungeon in Austria has now been converted into blocks of flats, as the local community tries to move on

David Carruthers, 61, and Janus Atkin, 37, from Newport in Gwent, both admitted offences involving extreme body modifications with videos posted on a "eunuch maker" website

The decomposing body of Colette Law, 26, was found battered and bruised in a tent in the grounds of a church in Lincolnshire, in July last year after her boyfriend Paul Neilson, 30, repeatedly beat her

Attacker Valdo Calocane, 32, has paranoid schizophrenia and killed three people and attacked three others in a spate of "atrocities" in Nottingham in June last year

Kenneth Smith is set to be executed by the state of Alabama using a controversial method of nitrogen gas, which has never been used before, after his lawyers failed to stop the "cruel" death sentence

On June 13 last year Valdo Calocane killed university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar as they walked home after a Nottingham night out before attacking and killing school caretaker Ian Coates

Valdo Calocane, 32, went on a chilling rampage across Nottingham in June last year, killing students Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber as well as school caretaker Ian Coates, 65

Valdo Calocane, 32, hid in the shadows before he attacked university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar before stabbing school caretaker Ian Coates 15 times to death last year

Ricki Johnson Sr and Norma Chester believe their son Ricky Johnson and his friends Clayton McGeeney and David Harrington were drugged by their scientist pal before they died in Kansas City

Thomas Rodgers, who was 17 to 18 at the time of the attacks, was jailed for four years - it came to light he would be allowed to continue teaching youngsters once released

The newborn baby - named Elsa by hospital staff - was dumped in Beckton, East London, last Thursday when just 'hours old' with police appealing for the mum to come forward

Incest father Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive in a sex dungeon for 24 years, has been granted parole after being categorised as 'no longer' posing a threat to the public

The Metropolitan Police were called to assist with a mental health crisis on Wednesday, with a Britain's Got Talent insider confirming the ITV team helped the force out with the distressing incident

Leigh Brookfield admitted assault after he filmed himself urinating on a cancer patient at the Llanelli Tennis and Squash Club on Boxing Day last year and he has now been jailed for 14 weeks

School caretaker Ian Coates was killed along with students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar in Nottingham by Valdo Caolcane, and Ian's son James said he felt "hatred" towards the attacker

Official Government figures show there were 48,716 knife crime cases recorded across 41 of England and Wales' 43 police forces - up 5% compared to the previous year

Elisabeth Fritzl had to start her life again after spending the majority of her adult years hidden underground in the family's basement as her evil father Joseph Fritzl's sex slave

Ahmed Fahmy, 45, is accused of using his senior position in hotels, including a Hilton Hotel in North London, to rape or sexually assault five women over the past 15 years

Romeo Smalley, 20, from Oldham, filmed a schoolboy he had tied up and posted videos on YouTube when he was aged 18. He admitted being "sexually aroused" by it as he was jailed

Incest monster Josef Fritzl, 88, was jailed for life in 2009 after keeping his daughter locked up in an underground dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her

Shinji Aoba stormed into Kyoto's No 1 studio in July 2019, setting off a monstrous blaze which claimed the lives of 36 people - many of them dying from carbon monoxide poisoning - and leaving more than 30 people badly burned or injured

The boy told investigators that after they left the woodland trail, he punched her, hit her with a heavy stick and strangled her until she died, then sexually assaulted her body