Crime

Jacob was caught in a snare trap and needed emergency surgery to amputate his leg

Madison Russo was sentenced to three years of probation today, months after pleading guilty to a charge of first-degree theft after police accused her of scamming hundreds of people and collecting $39,000 (£33,992) after pretending she had a 'football-sized tumour'

Gunman Stephen Alderton shot and murdered Joshua Dunmore in Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire, before killing father Gary Dunmore in nearby Sutton in a horrifying double murder

A British 89-year-old has sadly died after falling from a balcony at an apartment block in Pattaya, Thailand - police have launched an investigation into his death

Richard Collins, 67, said he was left 'unhappy' after management at a Wetherspoons tried to boot him out for 'accidentally exposing his bum' in front of a teenage girl and her mum in Hastings

In Maxine Carr's public appeal amid the search of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, she pleaded for whoever had the two girls to 'just let them go'. She was later jailed for lying to the police

Police said Aidas J. would dress up in "designer clothes" and pretend to be a Russian tourist to carry out his swindle at 20 restaurants across Alicante in Spain

Theresa Saini launched a rescue mission in Newcastle-under-Lyme after she spotted a cat being thrown out of a moving car - volunteers had to form a human chain to reach the cat on a steep embankment

In a horrific incident a Maryland judge was shot last night in a suspected homicide. Andrew Wilkinson was also an active member of his church and a youth sports coach

Health secretary Steve Barclay said it was a 'duty' to give answers to the surviving victims of Lucy Letby as an inquiry gets underway into how she was able to carry out the murders at the Countess of Chester Hospital

A three-year-old girl was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after falling from a car near a McDonald's in Wirral, Merseyside, before being hit by a transit van

In a horrific killing, Keith Dimmick's decapitated head was found in the bathroom sink. Police have accused his son Bradley, who struggles with schizoaffective disorder, of murder

Kim Kardiashian was seen serving her jury duty in gang-related murder case this week that involved two men who were charged with murdering someone in a gang-related crime

Tupac Shakur murder suspect Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was seen shackled in court this week ahead of his arraignment being postponed for the second time as his lawyer could not confirm he would represent him

Ashling Murphy, 23, was found by a canal path in Co Offaly, Ireland, with her fitness app still running on her phone after being knifed multiple times, a murder trial heard

There were 365,164 offences in the year to June, up from 292,584 in the previous 12 months, prompting retailers and unions to urge the police to do more to tackle the menace

James Witham, 41, is accused of murdering environmental health worker Ashley Dale, 28, before telling police in an interview that he had ‘nothing to do with it mate, not a clue’

The boy was hit by a van then surrounded by armed police during a waterfight with his younger sibling. He was holding a white and blue water pistol

Mustafa Mahmoodveven filmed himself boasting about earning £1,000 a day selling drugs. One video even showed him brazenly dealing over his back wall in Sheffield

Lyn Bryant, from Cornwall, has been stabbed repeatedly in a prolonged attack - there have been multiple theories but detectives believe her killer has a link to the local area

Police in Detroit say that a pit bull, or possibly two pit bulls, attacked and savagely mauled a 4-year-old boy to death as the child played outside in the yard - even dragging him under the fence to bite him

Leonard Allan Cure, 53, was shot dead by a Camden County Sheriff's Office Deputy in Camden County, north of Jacksonville shortly after being pulled over for speeding

The woman, who is in her 40s, suffered 'serious and potentially life -hanging injuries' and has been rushed to hospital after she was trapped underneath a lorry in Leeds city centre

Vic Franklin was attacked by two suspected Rottweillers on a street in Bognor Regis, Sussex, and has been in hospital for two months undergoing amputations to his leg, arm and finger

Met Police say they are hunting for a man who purposely sits next to his victims travelling on buses in west London before touching them without staying a single word