Crime

24 Jan 2026 697

Six arrested after man shot in leg during early-morning incident in Manchester city centre

Greater Manchester Police said the man was taken to hospital but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

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20 Jan 2026 750

Teenage boy stabbed to death in woodland near family park as police launch urgent murder hunt

A teenage boy has died after he was stabbed in woodland near a park in Guildford, police said.

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17 Jan 2026 520

Person hospitalized with serious injuries after shooting near Urmston railway station in Manchester

A person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a reported shooting in Manchester on Friday evening.

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13 Jan 2026 657

Three teenagers arrested after 18-year-old stabbed to death in broad daylight in west London

Three teenagers have been arrested after a boy aged 18 was stabbed to death on a busy street in broad daylight.

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09 Jan 2026 715

Former Met police officer committed gross misconduct after targeting women with fake Instagram profiles

A Metropolitan Police officer created fake Instagram accounts to send unwanted, sexually motivated messages to a string of women including those he’d met at school and university, a misconduct panel has found.

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08 Jan 2026 660

Cyber attack on Kensington and Chelsea council may have exposed data of hundreds of thousands

Personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of people is believed to have been stolen in a cyber attack on Kensington and Chelsea council.

Crime

06 Jan 2026 1202

Couple found dead in campervan after cider festival died from carbon monoxide poisoning

A couple discovered dead inside their van after a cider festival were found to have been poisoned, an inquest heard.

Crime

31 Dec 2025 872

Three men arrested after alleged sexual assault of teenage girls at Leeds shopping centre

Three individuals have been taken into custody under suspicion of sexually assaulting two teenage girls at a shopping center in Leeds.

Crime

31 Dec 2025 996

Twelve-year-old boy found dead after Squid Game reenactment went wrong

A "star" schoolboy was found dead after recreating a scene from the Netflix show Squid Game, an inquest heard.

Crime

30 Dec 2025 859

British man shot dead on Spain’s Costa Blanca as police probe links to a growing wave of gang violence

A Brit has been shot dead on Spain’s Costa Blanca in the latest of a series of violent crimes that have shaken the popular holiday coastline.

Crime

30 Dec 2025 1027

London shoplifting surges 12% amid £16.7m-a-month retail crime wave

Shoplifting across London has increased by 12 percent in a year, as a new interactive map reveals the scale of a crime wave costing the capital’s retailers £16.7 million a month.

Crime

30 Dec 2025 758

Pedestrian killed in Kent hit-and-run as police search for suspects

A police manhunt is underway after a pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run on a busy A road in Kent.

Crime

29 Dec 2025 961

Three Britons caught with £300,000 of cocaine in Bali set for deportation after turning informants

A trio of British drug mules who attempted to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine into Bali are reportedly set to be deported back to the UK after avoiding the death penalty.

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24 Dec 2025 1087

Boy, 14, arrested on suspicion of harassment after death of Manchester schoolgirl

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of harassment following the death of a schoolgirl.

Crime

24 Dec 2025 816

Harrow houseshare murderer filmed covered in blood after killing housemate

The police have unveiled chilling CCTV footage showing a convicted murderer walking down a residential street after having killed his roommate.

Crime

24 Dec 2025 809

Serial fraudster builder who ruined dozens of homes sentenced to 14 years

A single mother planning to get her loft converted so she could foster children was left broken by Britain’s worst cowboy builder.

Crime

24 Dec 2025 643

Spotify confirms data breach after pirate activist group scrapes and releases 86m songs

An activist group, claiming it aims to preserve the entirety of human culture, alleges that it has illegally copied nearly every track available on Spotify.

Crime

23 Dec 2025 595

Two men charged in Scotland after large-scale operation targeting organised crime

Specialist police have charged two men following a “large-scale operation” targeting those involved in drug supply and organized crime.

Crime

21 Dec 2025 814

A new “prison-years” metric shows U.S. crypto sentencing has already reached 83 years — and the cycle is still accelerating

How the new "prison-years" metric predicts 80 additional years of custodial time, indicating that the current trend in sentencing is just the beginning.

Crime

20 Dec 2025 1841

16-year-old girl dies after incident on London tube tracks

A ‘bright, beautiful, clever, and funny’ 16-year-old girl has died after an incident at a London tube station.

Crime

15 Dec 2025 825

Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and wife stabbed to death in Brentwood mansion as son named person of interest

Legendary director Rob Reiner and his longtime wife have been found stabbed to death inside their Brentwood home and investigators are eyeing the couple’s troubled adult son as a person of interest, according to law enforcement sources.

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12 Dec 2025 910

Father who recruited his own child to help murder their mother now faces life sentence

A husband once cleared of murdering his wife now faces a life sentence â after their child revealed he recruited them to help plan the killing and then cover it up.

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