Crime

A serial fraudster who was previously jailed for embezzling almost £900,000 from her employers has appeared back in court to admit conning Scottish Power out of £176,000.

A former manager of the Argyll and Bute Women’s Aid branch has been jailed after being found guilty of embezzling almost £40,000 from the charity.

The businessman whose shady deals contributed to bankrupting an Essex council has been warned he is "far from off the hook." However, the council has admitted that the scandal could cost the public £200m.

Serial killer Steve Wright has pleaded guilty to the murder of a 17-year-old girl in Suffolk more than 25 years ago.

A domestic abuser who killed his unborn baby during a harrowing five-hour attack on his pregnant teenage partner has been jailed for 16 years.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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