Crime

A court heard how predator Jason Hoodlass, 27, came across the girls while they played at the seafront arcades in Cleethorpes and befriended them before he abducted and assaulted them

Alison McLaughlin, 53, and her husband Neil, 57, were found dead at their home in Scotland on January 5. Police said the couple died in an apparent "murder-suicide"

Adrian Keise's family left the Old Bailey tearful after brothers Paul and Matthew Yusuff and their friend Moussa Traore were acquitted over his death due to a 'mistake'

Officers were called to an address in Pembrokeshire on Wednesday morning. This afternoon, Dyfed-Powys Police said a seven-year-old child was confirmed to have died

It has now been 20 days since the 39-year-old was last seen walking in Bangor-on-Dee, at around 5.34pm - today cops released some information about their hunt for Lucy

The note, left outside a property in west Wales describes the English occupants as, "low-life” who “should be forced to live in fenced tinker sites” and tells them to leave

La Bella Vista in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, called the diners a "despicable group" in a scathing Facebook post to warn other businesses in the area of the behaviour

Journalist Alina Manrique of TC Television network in Guayaquil, Ecuador, has told how staff were "hunted down" and how she feared she "wouldn't see her children again" when an armed gang entered

Rapist Curtis Otley from Bristol was jailed for targeting underage girls and threatening them for his own gain as Avon & Somerset Police praised his brave victims for speaking out

Expelled former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded a case brought to The Hague by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide as a 'historic moment for humanity'

The 28-year-old was caught hacking his colleagues emails, posting abuse online and tricking Subway customers into calling the Waterloo control room to make food orders

Tony James Learmount, of Middlesbrough, Teesside, was found guilty of operating in a garden shed not registered to carry out tattooing after a man died of sepsis

Donna Maxwell, from Ayrshire, claimed that she was attacked outside a hospital by a stranger but a court heard that she actually stabbed herself in a compensation plan

Carly Taylor's old firm ATE Farms Limited bought the iconic Crooked House pub near Dudley, West Midlands, two weeks before a fire engulfed the property in August last year

A woman has been charged with theft by deception after she allegedly lied about her young daughter's cancer diagnosis for years, while collecting cash from kindhearted members of the public

The unnamed BA pilot was subjected to hours of torture after being kidnapped on a shopping trip during a stopover between flights in Johannesburg, South Africa

A 63-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 50s died suddenly, with police called to an address in Corby, Northamptonshire

Wiltshire Police confirmed a 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of communicating false information, with staff at Wyvern St Edmund's School in Laverstock opting to send children home

Jack Frankland has been jailed after stealing Rolex Sea-Dweller Deepsea watch valued at £10,750 from an elderly victim during a meeting arranged on Facebook Marketplace

Ivan Bonaparte, 33, carried out the horrific boiling oil attack in the hope of going to prison, after he faced eviction because he spent all his rent money on drugs

Despite a big prize at stake, contestant Jonny Holloway has hinted he has already won far more than money can buy after battling back from being blown up by an IED in Afghanistan.

An estimated 60 dead pigeons were spotted floating near the towpath of the Leeds Liverpool canal in Ormskirk, near to Black-A-Moor Lane in Lancashire, with a witness blaming 'lads with air rifles'

Birmingham criminal Olsian Vogli and Londoner Orest Malushi have been jailed for almost eight years after stashing £100,000 drug money inside a Lidl carrier bag

Around 1am on Wednesday, police traced a car to the Stratford Centre car park in Newham where an unidentified man's body was found by a member of the public

Kevin Conway was shot dead in west Belfast last night, almost a year to the day since the 'execution' style killing of Shane Whitla, which the 26-year-old was accused of committing