Crime

The Reckoning starts tonight on BBC One and is a drama detailing the terrifying and twisted crimes of Jimmy Savile, with Steve Coogan taking on the lead role

Former undercover police sergeant Meg Winterburn shuts down the Yorkshire Ripper's claim he murdered prostitutes 'because little voices in his head were telling him to'

Darren Lewis knows only too well the heartbreak that comes with our knife epidemic, and he says we urgently need a better way forward and a national strategy so families don't live in fear

Irene Richardson had asked Peter Sutcliffe to pull over for a break when he horrifically beat her three times on the head with a hammer and slashed her body with a knife

A homicide investigation is underway in North Carolina after a fed-up fast food employee pulled out a gun and fatally shot a customer in the chest for causing a disturbance

New parents Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky frantically hid their 10-month-old twins after Hamas soldiers stormed their home, shooting and killing the couple

Irene Richardson, 28, was brutally beaten to death with a hammer by the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in 1977, and took a heart-wrenching secret with her to the grave

Svetlana Mihalachi, 53, told police officers she was 'scared' Virtosu would kill her and an Old Baily judge conceded that the victim was 'poorly served' by UK authorities

Brian 'BoMac' McIntyre was arrested after coaching Eubank Jr to a win against Liam Smith last month and the trainer has now been handed a suspended prison sentence

University professor Keith Ramsell paid contractors £1,300 to chop down the "wall of vegetation" in Bushey, Herts., after falling and injuring his arm

Anthony Brown, 24, threatened to stab everyone after breaking into a Derbyshire home and then stole the family's XL Bully puppy - he has been jailed for four years

A pilot in New York is accused of using his propeller plane to stalk a woman for a period of four years. Michael Arnold is also alleged to have dropped tomatoes on her

The family of Kasey Anderson, who was brutally killed before his 25th birthday, have shared the warning signs his killer girlfriend, Natalie Bennett, displayed before she stabbed him in the heart

Owen Walker, from Worcester, has been jailed for drug dealing after his mum found a gun in his bedroom while she was tidying and called the police leading to his arrest

A panel at the Labour Party Conference heard retail staff are 'under siege' with violence and abuse soaring, while Hazel Blears demanded 'radical thinking' to tackle the crisis

Several people reported seeing bizarre phenomena in the skies above them to Essex Police, according to the chilling response to a Freedom of Information Act request

A man has appeared in court accused of attempting to kidnap This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby - but other celebrities have, or claim to have, been the victims of abductions, here are their stories

Owner of skip company Digaway Daniel Jenkins was jailed for two years and two months for attacking a customer on his own driveway in Pontllanfraith near Blackwood

Lynne Leyson was the 'dominant force' behind her family's drug business that pushed out cocaine and cannabis across swathes of south west Wales before her husband and son were caught and arrested and she went on the run

Phoebe Johnson was just days away from turning 18 when she was killed in the passenger's seat of Melissa Keilloh's car near the Leicestershire border- 15 minutes before the crash Melissa told Phoebe and her pal she was drunk

Abuse survivor Sam Brown shared a warning to those that covered up Jimmy Savile's crimes ahead of the BBC drama, which sees Steve Coogan portraying the late sex offender

Shocking video footage captures the moment one high street in Manchester is lit up by fireworks that seemingly nearly hit passers-by, sending them rushing away from the pyrotechnics

Marcus Anthony Hall snuck out of his house in Oregon, Ohio,

Frankie Sinclair and Paul Fontaine were using an encrypted phone network that had been hacked by the National Crime Agency - and were caught thanks a pic of a dog

Nikkie Brass said suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann was excited to talk about the Gilgo Beach killings and appeared excited as if he had been wanting to talk about them for along time