Crime

The United Kingdom National Health Service Counter Fraud Authority has announced that it secured the three-year conviction of a Nigerian doctor, Richard Akinrolabu, for offenses related to fraud by false representation amounting to £268,000.

The Australian, Canadian, and United Kingdom High Commissions in Ghana have collaboratively initiated a week-long public awareness campaign to address the increasing threat of visa fraud.

A masseur at a luxury spa who sexually assaulted five women during treatments has been spared jail.

A senior prosecutor for the CPS has appeared in court regarding an allegation that she sexually assaulted another woman.

Jonte William Bluck was killed by his family’s pet XL Bully while staying with his dad in November last year, with an inquest into his death opened at Gwent Coroner’s Court on Monday

A massage therapist who compelled women to remove their clothing before assaulting them during treatments at a luxury spa has avoided jail time.

A Met Police call centre boss who sent a colleague unwanted gifts and messages purporting to be from Ronan Keating has been spared jail.

A British man who hacked the X accounts of celebrities in an attempt to deceive people into giving him Bitcoin has been ordered to repay £4.1 million worth of the cryptocurrency, according to prosecutors.

A couple who were arrested, fingerprinted, and placed in a police cell after complaining about their child’s school on WhatsApp have spoken out about their ordeal.

Gadgets used by criminals to steal keyless cars without breaking in are being sold online for more than £20,000.

Criminal gangs are buying up haulage firms to pose as truckers and steal goods by the lorryload, the BBC has learned.

Two teenage boys are thought to have hurried to assist the young girl and fend off the attackers, before a woman ensured the victim was okay following the alleged rape.

A young woman described as a "beautiful angel" was allegedly murdered after being invited onto a boat in a seaside town.

The sale of a North Sea oil company backed by a billionaire Conservative donor has been delayed after fraud allegations emerged involving the buyer’s owner.

The names of the five young individuals who lost their lives in a two-vehicle crash in Co Louth on Saturday night have been released.

Police have recovered the body of a 20-year-old kayaker who "got into difficulty" on the River Tees on Saturday.

A man who pretended to be a wheelchair user in order to steal beer from a supermarket, and then violently attacked a security guard, has been jailed.

Throughout October, the force conducted "Operation Machinize", which was coordinated by the National Crime Agency to combat money laundering and the criminal use of cash-intensive high street businesses.

The Home Office has initiated a comprehensive investigation into almost 4,900 Sri Lankan nationals suspected of acquiring UK Health and Care Worker visas through the use of fake qualifications, falsified employment histories, and fraudulently issued vocational certificates.

A woman will be facing jail when she is sentenced next month for a "mean" fraud in which she took more than £11k from a vulnerable family friend.

A watch salesman who took his own life after being tied up in a £1.1 million heist had been working in a shop that was a ’front for organized crime’, a court has been told.

Fly-tippers have dumped a "mountain of illegal waste" close to a river in Oxfordshire with an organized crime group believed to be behind the hundreds of tonnes of rubbish.

An ex-councillor has been found guilty of stalking Dame Penny Mordaunt but acquitted of the more serious offense of stalking involving serious alarm or distress.

Lisa Clarke, 53, was involved in a gang that brutally killed former soldier Brian Farmer by stabbing him and pouring boiling water over him at his home in Birmingham.