Crime

A senior coroner is set to review all the evidence in the inquest into the death of Nottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson, who died in an ice hockey match last year

More than 600 police community support officers have been taken off the streets in just one year - as the Tories are accused of having 'decimated frontline policing'

Figures show there were more than 400,000 shoplifting cases in England and Wales last year, with retail chiefs demanding tougher action to tackle worrying crimewave

Steven Hicks showed up unannounced at the woman's Berkshire home after it transpired he'd been checking her medical files before assaulting her in his surgical mask and apron

Home Office figures reveal that just 5.9% of crimes in England and Wales resulted in a suspect being charged or summoned - including just 2.4% of rape allegations

Karen Beale sobbed as she was cleared of trying to poison her colleagues at fire protection product manufacturer Envirograf by spiking the communal office coffee with Viagra

Ex-anaesthetist Mathew Pickering, 49, is accused of strangling his girlfriend Georgina Dowey before covering her head with a black bin liner and trying to dispose of her body in Neath in May last year

Russell Cook fears he won't be able to complete the challenge without permission to enter Algeria after running 12,000km in 278 days, as MP's urged the African nation to let him in

The XL Bully, called Zeus, turned on its owner and another man before police shot the dog, first with a Taser and then with a gun, killing it

Valdo Calocane, 32, was sentenced this morning at Nottingham Crown Court after admitting the manslaughter of students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65

Simon Cowell has seemingly upped his security as he attends Britain's Got Talent auditions following police and an ambulance being called to deal with an incident outside The London Palladium on Wednesday

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