Crime

When French police interviewed 17-year-old Alex Batty he said his mum Melanie had gone to Finland and his grandad David was dead - now cops say they have their doubts

Golden Labrador, Todd, suddenly disappeared from Blantyre Train Station after owner Robert Sands took him out to use the toilet, sparking a mass hunt for the beloved pet

Chinua Leefatt, 15, Jordan Thompson, 16, Caleb Hensley, 17, and Sylvester Hicks Jr, 16, have been charged with felony battery after they were accused of savagely beating a student outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida

Katherine West's family has said they will never forgive Jack Knowles for his actions after he ran over her then left her for dead in Wigan, before getting his car repaired then going on holiday

David Read suffered at the hands of Mohammed Ali Khan at his flat in Blackburn, Lancashire, in what Lancashire Police called a "truly shocking murder" - but now Khan faces jail

Ruth Shmylo, 26, is accused of having a five-month fling with drug dealer Harri Pullen, 25, while working at a category B prison. Shmylo, of Treforest, Pontypridd, denies misconduct in a public office.

The couple in their 70s, who migrated from the China to the US in the 80s 'with nothing', were hoping to help their son pay for his wedding and buy him a house but ended up losing their life savings

British Transport Police says the teenager was sexually assaulted on board a train between Laindon, Essex and West Ham, East London, and have identified a man who can help with the investigation

The enraged passenger was caught on camera punching the Colombian police officers at least three times as they wrestled him to try and prevent a fight with another flyer

Cocina Penn had claimed she and her husband were trying to escape a robber who then killed her husband in the middle of the night in Kentucky

The man behind the punch-up has been widely reported as a US-based Polish national on the Spirit Airlines flight from the Colombian city of Barranquilla to Miami, Florida yesterday afternoon

Harrowing footage of the moment a bloodied woman arrived at a Washington couple's door asking for help after she had escaped her kidnapper has been shared online

The shocking true crime story has been turned into a drama tilted Vanishing Act - which will air on ITV over three nights telling the astonishing story of an Australian fraudster

Brit teenager Alex Batty who was missing for more than six years has returned to his family in Oldham, Greater Manchester, in time for Christmas after being found in the south of France

Ruby Frank, who used to give parenting advice via a once-popular YouTube channel called '8 Passengers"', pleaded guilty to four felony counts of second-degree aggravated child abuse

Conservative MP Miriam Cates is facing a probe by Parliament's Commissioner for Standards into allegations she caused 'significant damage to the reputation' of the House of Commons

Two men aged in their 60s have been arrested by counter-terror police over the explosion of a ULEZ camera in Sidcup, south-east London, that led to damage to vehicles and a house

Beckett Wayne, a nine-month-old baby boy has been left orphaned after his parents, 24-year-old Jacob Hahn and 22-year-old Savannah Harding died in a car crash

An angry man appears to punch a teenager in the face who is sitting down on a train believed to be in the Borough Green area of Kent following a foul-mouthed rant

CCTV captured the horrific moment Ihtisham Khan, 21, knifed the victim who was sat in his friend’s car on Ellesmere Road, Alum Rock in Birmingham

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A new mum from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who survived a frenzied stabbing attack by her boyfriend has chosen to speak out about domestic violence

Footage taken by an undercover Avon and Somerset Police officer managed to bring Darren Osment to justice after he initially walked away with a minor conviction for killing his partner Claire Holland

Rachel Elnaugh, who was one of the five investors in the first two seasons of the hit BBC show, intends to turn the land into an eco-farm and retreat for followers of her group who allegedly believe in a 'food apocalypse' and the 'great reset'

Zoe Carroll, who was given £1million when her brother scooped £10million on the National Lottery's Lotto game, died of a cardiac arrest due to cocaine use, her post mortem had found

Alex Batty has spoken publicly for the first time since returning home to Oldham, Greater Manchester at the weekend. The 17-year-old had been missing for more than six years when he was found in France last week