Crime

A weapons firm ran brazen ads claiming its sale was to celebrate a failed bid by police to close it down just days after Elianne Andam was stabbed to death in Croydon, South London

The crash happened on The Strand, Liverpool, in the early hours of the morning but the driver of a white Audi TT "travelling at a speed" fled the scene on foot, Merseyside Police say

Brett Pruett had been taking care of Betty Boyles, who owned two houses side by side. When she died Pruett tried to take over the properties insisting on the tenants paying him the rent in Portland

Laura Piert has revealed her five-year-old son, Jaxon, was out playing with a friend in St Helens, Merseyside, when he needed to be rushed to hospital after being attacked by a dog

This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby, who is now under 24-hour police protection, will remain off work for as long as she needs following the discovery of an alleged kidnap plot

Carl Russell was killed five years ago and nobody has been charged with murder. Merseyside Police said they are keeping an open mind and their inquiries continue

West Yorkshire Police have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of rape after a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted inside a tent in Leeds city centre in the early hours of Friday

Gavin Plumb has been charged with soliciting to commit murder, and incitement to commit kidnap and remanded into custody following an alleged plot against Holly Willoughby

Ahmad Al Sino fatally stabbed dentist Mohammed Salem Ibrahim, 55, and slashed his son Aram at their home in Birmingham in March following a row over wedding gifts

Michael Stone has spent 26 years in prison for the murders of mum and daughter Lin and Megan Russell but Levi Bellfield allegedly made multiple confessions in his prison cell recently

Imran Isat was sat in his living with with friends when five armed thugs broke into his home in Ilford, London as part of a pre-planned robbery which resulted in the 30-year-old's death

Mirrorman Tom Bryant tracks down the owner of the Bully that mauled him in the street and uncovers more victims of the same dog, and residents living in fear

Russell and Shirley Dermond were brutally murdered nine years ago in a gated community near Lake Oconee, in Putnam County, Georgia - but new DNA evidence could lead police to their killer

The arrest of 23-year-old Angel Almeida, from Queens, New York, led authorities to uncover what is believed to ba an offshoot of a neo-Nazi cult known as the Order of Nine Angels

A devastated mother who lost her daughter in a murder-suicide in August was killed in a car crash mere hours after she posted a heartwrenching tribute to her daughter

An 11-year-old boy shot two 13-year-olds after an American football practice on Monday night. The three had allegedly been in an altercation after the older two refused to allow the younger to eat a bag of crisps

The bodies of Tej Pratap Singh, 43, and his wife, Sonal Parihar, 42, were found alongside their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter in their Plainsboro home , New Jersey, on Wednesday afternoon

A man has been left with serious injuries after becoming trapped under a digger that fell off the back of a lorry in Bury, Greater Manchester and had to be freed by fire crews

Bodycam footage from police in Florida shows the moment a drunk rich girl was pulled over by cops. Stephanie Bloodworth told cops her father owned the island they were on

James Patrick had been married to Jenean Chapman for just two months before her death, her family said. He has now been arrested and charged with the murder of Sarah Ferguson's former aide

Metropolitan Police have arrested a boy, 15, on suspicion of murder and possession of an offensive weapon following the fatal stabbing of Keelen Morris Wong in Brixton this week

Piran Ditta Khan is accused of being involved in the deadly robbery of a travel agent 18 years ago. At Leeds crown court, he pleaded not guilty to Sharon Beshenivsky's murder

A 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in Brighton city centre has been named as Mustafa Momand, and Sussex Police have said a 16-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of murder

Postman Mark Nicholls, 43, repeatedly hit mum of three Emily Sanderson around her head with a dumbbell before binding her with parcel tape and hiding her in his Sheffield home

Tayla King, then 18, crashed her car on the A4067 Swansea Valley road a month after passing her driving test, killing her passenger and best friend Chantelle Thomas