Crime

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Bulgarian man convicted of assaulting 12-year-old girl after sexual remarks in Dundee
A Bulgarian man has been found guilty of assaulting a 12-year-old girl during an incident in Dundee last year.
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Belfast protests spread after Sudanese man arrested over knife attack
Protests spread around Belfast and in other Northern Ireland cities on Tuesday after a Sudanese man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a knife attack on Monday night.
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Man, 62, arrested after police find gun and £90,000 of heroin at Glasgow home
A 62-year-old man has been arrested and charged after a gun, bullets, and £90,000 worth of heroin were recovered by police at a home in Glasgow.
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Cambodia sends 156 Chinese nationals home in cyber scam crackdown
Cambodian authorities have deported 156 Chinese nationals for their alleged involvement in cyber scams. According to a Thursday statement by the General Department of Immigration (GDI), the group was also accused of being involved in illegal employment activities.
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Teenage police officer killed on A-road after responding to crash in Northumberland
A rookie cop who landed her dream role just last year was killed after stopping at a suspicious road crash.
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Bobby Bloomfield, 12, dies after being hit by vehicle as two charged with murder
A man and a teenager have been charged after a 12-year-old boy was hit by a vehicle and died.
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Belfast firefighters caught fighting each other as riots rage around them
Two firefighters putting out fires started during the Belfast riots were caught fighting one another yesterday.
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Ghislaine Maxwell sparks five-hour prison lockdown after missing sweater meltdown amid ‘special treatment’ claims
Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow inmates were left stunned after a missing sweater belonging to the convicted sex trafficker triggered a compound-wide lockdown at her minimum-security Texas prison camp.
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UK prisons to get 13,000 steel grilles to stop drone drug drops
Thousands of prison cell windows will be fitted with steel grilles to stop drones from flooding jails with drugs, weapons, and phones, the Government has announced.
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Belfast stabbing fallout: social media posts helped ignite anti-migrant violence
Disturbing footage of a knife attack in Belfast has been utilized by far-right accounts in Britain and internationally, intensifying violent protests overnight that authorities were concerned might flare up again by Wednesday evening.
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Old Bailey jury shown footage of Norwegian suspect miming gunfire during arrest
A Norwegian teenager accused of traveling to the UK to carry out a "hit" was seen pretending to shoot one of the officers arresting him, in police body-worn camera footage shown in court.
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Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner could lose 24-hour police surveillance
Police scrapped Christian Brueckner’s 24-hour police surveillance today sparking fears he might finally disappear.
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Small boat smugglers jailed after steering packed migrant dinghies across Channel
Two small boat smugglers who steered packed migrant dinghies across the Channel have been jailed for endangering lives under a new law.
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Glasgow mosque locked down as masked men march through city after Belfast stabbing
Worshippers had to be locked in as a group of men wearing black hoodies and balaclavas marched on Glasgow’s largest mosque, according to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.
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Man raped boy, six, and assaulted teenage girl
A man has been convicted of raping a young boy and assaulting a teenage girl in a Caithness town.
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Dublin stabbing trial opens as man accused of trying to murder three children
The trial of 52-year-old Riad Bouchaker, of no fixed address, commenced before the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on Wednesday.
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Belfast stabbing victim’s family condemn riots after homes torched in migrant attacks
The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have condemned violent riots that saw houses torched, forcing families to flee, as “not welcome”.
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EPPO investigates suspected €1m fraud involving EU e-commerce recovery funds
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna (Italy) is leading an investigation into a suspected €1 million fraud involving funding from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), intended to support the digitalization and internationalization of Italian businesses through e-commerce platforms.
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AI firm boss Neil Muller stabbed to death at £2.5m country home
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an AI technology firm boss was stabbed to death in his £2.5 million country home.
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Belfast stabbing fallout: masked mobs torch migrant homes and businesses
Groups of masked thugs targeted homes and businesses owned by migrants in Belfast after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with attempted murder following a “sickening” knife attack.
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Pride event adds extra security after LGBTQ+ banner set alight in Rushden
An LGBTQ+ event is implementing additional security measures after a Pride banner was burned by homophobes just a few days after it was put up.
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Sean Combs accused of sexually assaulting former child actor in new lawsuit
P Diddy has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor. A male former child actor has filed a lawsuit against the disgraced rapper, alleging he assaulted him when he was a child.
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Belfast stabbing unrest: residents evacuated as homes burn during violent protests
Homes and cars were set on fire across Belfast on Tuesday evening after hundreds of protesters took to the streets in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in the city.
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Egyptian businessman Sabri Nakhnoukh detained over alleged crime syndicate
Egyptian authorities have detained the prominent businessman Sabri Nakhnoukh and frozen his assets, accusing him of leading an organized crime syndicate involved in money laundering, theft, and illegal weapons possession.
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Belfast stabbing: hero with hurling stick named after stopping knife attack
This is the have-a-go hero who armed himself with a hurling stick and stepped in to stop a suspected knifeman allegedly trying to behead a man in a Belfast street.