Crime

South Yorkshire Police have arrested a man on suspicion of manslaughter after investigating the death of ice hockey star Adam Johnson, who suffered fatal injuries in a Challenge Cup game last month

Matthew Lee Harrison, 33, died in a car crash hours before he was due to appear in Bradford Crown Court for sentencing on charges including two counts of rape of a child

Simon Parsons, 44, and Rebecca Dow, 39, carried out a disgusting campaign of sexual abuse against their victim when she was under the age of 13, a sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court was told

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The mother, from Primorsky region in Russia, confessed to throwing her premature baby into a steaming hot kitchen stove. A murder probe is now underway with the woman as the prime suspect

Five men and three women were convicted after the court heard four children, all under the age of 13, were introduced to a world of drugs and alcohol, then exposed to sexual abuse and violence

Ellie Pattison is accused of five counts of sexual activity with a 14-year-old school pupil - all counts of which she denies. The victim said the relationship “f***ed me up so bad”

Luna died after being viciously set upon in Tamworth Castle Grounds by another dog as her owner, mum-of-two Claire Goodwin, was also injured while trying to protect her

Six-month-old emu, Rodney, escaped from his home near Maidstone, Kent, and curiously knocked on a pensioner's door - he has since been reunited with his owner Sarah

On Armistice Day in Waterloo Station, London, a group of men were seemingly caught on camera making racist comments towards pro-Palestinian protestors leading to three being arrested - and one man wrongly being accused as a part of the group

A young girl known for years as Baby Jane Doe has been identified this week. Police announced the child's mother, along with her live-in boyfriend, has been charged with murder

Police were called to reports of a knifeman at Barlaston Health Centre in Stoke on Trent after a patient reportedly walked into the GP and threatened a staff member with a knife

Ashley Dale, a 28-year-old council worker, was shot in the abdomen with a Skorpion sub-machine gun on August 21 last year in her Leinster Road home

At the age of 10, Jon Venables snatched and murdered toddler James Bulger alongside pal Robert Thompson - and despite being released from prison, has been put behind bars again after being caught with sickening child abuse images

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco - as Chinese businesses are reported to be fuelling the fentanyl crisis ravaging American cities

Ellie Pattison, 29, a teacher in East Sussex, was said to have met up with a young schoolgirl who lived in care and repeatedly had sex with her before being caught and reported to the police

A friend of accused mum and child killer Tiffanie Lucas said she had a dark side to her. Lucas is accused of murdering her two little boys at home earlier this month

The senseless murder of little Baby P was a crime that shocked the world back in 2007, but the heartless mother who tortured him is now free to live her life

Chang Teng Wang, 58, of Finglas, Dublin, admitted to police that he had vigorously shaken the baby in an attempt to calm him and pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of Seán Wang on August 15, 2019

The son of Alabama pastor Fred "Bubba" Copeland who killed himself at the beginning of November after being outed as a cross-dresser spoke out at his father's funeral on Thursday, highlighting the kind, compassionate person his dad was

Samuel Haskell IV was officially charged with not only his wife's murder but also those of her parents on Monday after a dismembered female torso was discovered near a dumpster in Los Angeles last week

Aroen Kishen and his wife Seema were thought to be inside the property when the blaze first erupted - a total of five people, including three children, have since been confirmed dead

A man was brutally attacked on a train by a gang of men who threw him to the floor as he tried to get to the toilet, and repeatedly kicked him. British Transport Police are hunting for the culprits

The Live Oak Police Department shared his candid photos on social media in hopes of finding him. The suspect has been arrested after the embarrassing momentum.

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