Crime

The disgraced pop star, real name Paul Gadd, 82, is accused of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 and three counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14.

The ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang – who has served 14 years in jail for multiple rapes and sexually abuse against young girls – has been released from prison as a row over his deportation deepens.

A 16-year-old boy has suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after being shot in Birmingham, police have said.

A police officer has been jailed after beating up a teenage boy asking for help while he was on duty.

The grieving son of late boxing legend Ricky Hatton has revealed his dad’s car was firebombed in a shocking targeted attack.

A federal judge has scheduled a January 2027 trial date for accused Uruguayan drug lord Sebastián Marset, rebuffing prosecutors’ attempts to further delay a logistically complex case that now includes new narcoterrorism charges.

“Jensen Robles”, aka Rene Schwarze, has been arrested in Gambia. Gambia’s Police Force arrested “Muhammed Reni”, aka Muhammed Rainey, earlier this week. Reni was detained on suspicion of counterfeiting currency.

Finland has kept its 1,340-kilometre border with Russia closed since December 2023 after about 1,000 undocumented migrants crossed into the country.

A Russia-based criminal syndicate ran one of the largest Medicare frauds in American history out of a storefront in Brooklyn, billing the program more than $10.6 billion and collecting roughly $941 million before federal agents unraveled it.

The businessman accused of ordering the murder of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has gone on trial, more than nine years after her death in a car-bomb attack that sent shockwaves through Europe.

Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the entity responsible for the public transport network in the Greater London area.

Two male Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers have been sacked following separate incidents in which they touched the buttocks of female colleagues.

Inter Milan star Alessandro Bastoni is allegedly under investigation by Italian police as part of a probe into child prostitution.

The landmark trial of tycoon Yorgen Fenech begins seven years after his arrest for ordering the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Baby Preston’s evil killer Jamie Varley has been given a “bloodcurdling” traditional welcome at Monster Mansion.

Henry Nowak, 18, told officers he could not breathe and that he had been stabbed after being attacked in Southampton last December.

A man belonging to a flag activist group is due to appear in court after being accused of making indecent images of children.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after police were called to a home in St Leonards - where a 66-year-old man and a 46-year-old woman were found dead.

A young footballer has told of the terrifying moment she was spiked with a date-rape drug in a Magaluf nightclub.

A man charged with murder and rape after a two-year-old girl was found dead has been confirmed as the toddler’s dad.

Stephen McCullagh has lodged an appeal against the sentence he received for murdering his pregnant partner Natalie McNally.

A man has appeared in court accused of piloting an unregistered aircraft less than 500ft (152m) above the National Wallace Monument in Stirling.

Police arrested last night the man believed to be the killer of pizza chef Raffaele Stipa, who was stabbed to death in his restaurant in Reggio Emilia last night.

French authorities searched premises in the Paris region and questioned six people as part of an investigation into a suspected large-scale VAT carousel fraud that allegedly cost the EU around 13 million euros ($13.9 million), the European Public Prosecutor’s Office said.