Crime

Some women might feel a thrill when they engage with the most dangerous criminals - in their own minds they know their physical safety is protected

A man believed by Las Vegas police to be the victim's ex boyfriend kidnapped her from a nail salon and held her hostage at his home - police secured the release of a 3-year-old child, whose parents were the victim and suspect

Police watchdog the IOPC is probing the investigation into missing Darcy Rodd, Eve Smith and Rafel Jeanne who were later found dead following a crash near Cardiff

Much-loved grandmother Michelle Hanson was found stabbed in neck. University of Sunderland student Alexander Carr admitted murdering her and was today sentence at Newcastle Crown Court

Barnaby Webber, 19, had his life cut short early Tuesday morning when he was stabbed to death alongside Grace Kumar in Nottingham - his family had already been grieving the loss of his paternal grandfather who died just weeks earlier

Steffen Braun, an orthopaedic surgeon was last seen alive on New Year's Eve, and was reported missing by his bosses at Maria Hilf Hospital in Daun, Germany, three days later

Two people including a suspect are dead after a hostage situation. SWAT teams secure the release of two other women and a three-year-old child from a property in Spring Valley, Nevada

The 55-year-old monster had threatened to take legal action in his bid to tie the knot with his girlfriend visitor after popping the question during one of her prison visits to the serial killer

Tragic Solaine Thornton, 11, was killed in a shooting in Saint-Herbot, Brittany, on Saturday night, in which her parents were also shot and remain in hospital

A sheriff in Marion County, Tennessee described a possible murder-suicide as one of the 'worst' things' he had seen. Police responded to reports of a shooting and arrived to find a residence on fire

The Crown Prosecution Service announced the charges against Michael Lockwood, the former director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct watchdog, this morning

A death row inmate has walked free after 29 years. Barry Jones was on death row in Arizona after he was wrongly found guilty of fatally assaulting a four-year-old girl

According to prison officials he received no visitors before his execution, and he ate a last meal that consisted of a bacon cheeseburger with no bun, onion rings and a milkshake

Paramedics treated the woman and the child for serious injuries at the scene on Kings Heath High street, Birmingham, before taking them to separate hospitals

Duane Owen, of the longest-held inmates on Florida’s death row is set to be executed tonight after killing a babysitter & mother of two while children slept nearby in 1984

A second teenager has been confirmed dead by police several weeks after an incident in a UK river that also killed his 15-year-old friend, Lewis Michael Kirkpatrick

Portuguese speaker Valdo Amissão Mendes Calocane completed his degree in August last year, having won a place as a mature student in 2019

A terrifying incident unfolded in Neasden, West London, on Wednesday morning that saw a man charge down a street brandishing a burning Molotov cocktail

A horror crash has killed 15 people on the Trans-Canada Highway between the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 5 near Carberry in Manitoba - we'll be bringing you all the latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story

Lamont Hunter, from Cincinnati, Ohio, was found guilty of raping and killing his girlfriend's son by a three-judge panel in 2007 who said evidence showed the child had been shaken and beaten to death

Government lawyers have raised concerns about 'potentially problematic' entries in the former PM's diaries that suggested Covid guidance may not have been followed

Lori Vallow daybell is seeking a new trial after being convicted of murdering her children Tylee and JJ on a religious mission after meeting Chad Daybell who told her they had been married in several previous lives and she was a 'sexual goddess'

Tributes have poured in for a 15-year-old schoolgirl who died in a river not long after a village duck race had finished, with medics at the scene sadly unable to save her

Earlier this week a 31-year-old man conducted a spate of horrific attacks across the city of Nottingham, leaving three people dead and three others in hospital

The suspect arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were stabbed to death in Nottingham has been identified as mechanical engineering graduate Valdo Amissão Mendes Calocane