Crime

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

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

Croatian businessman Josip Heit is being examined for his suspected involvement in Ponzi schemes and money laundering.

A man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-partner’s sister and her three children in a house fire.

Two teenage Afghan asylum seekers who kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl have received prison sentences.

Henry Nowak, 18, had been out celebrating the end of his first semester at Southampton University on Wednesday night when he got into a confrontation with two men he did not know on Belmont Road.

Passengers arriving at Heathrow Terminal 3 on Sunday said they faced hours waiting for buses after a number of people were attacked with a "form of pepper spray."

Police arrested four people after officers rushed to the Tower following reports of an incident shortly before 10am. They found that food had been thrown onto a case containing the State Crown, which is used at coronations and state openings of Parliament.

AI deepfake videos of doctors and academics are being used to push fake health claims and promote supplement products, an investigation has found.

More than 15 months later, one of his feet was found washing up in Sweden, while his other foot appeared the same month on Winterton beach with a trainer and socks.

A man found dead at a home in Suffolk earlier this week was shot by a crossbow, it has emerged.Paramedics called the police to the scene after finding the man, aged in his 50s, seriously injured at an address in Lordscroft Lane, Haverhill, shortly before 8pm on Tuesday.

Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, was jailed for more than five years after she forged the will of 85-year-old Rita Barnsley to steal her life savings in one of the UK’s biggest elder fraud cases.

A large emergency services presence has descended on part of Salford Quays this afternoon after a body was found in the water. Police, paramedics and firefighters have all been seen outside Salford Watersports Centre this afternoon (December 5).

More than a year after OCCRP and CIReN reported on the two-decade legal saga of lawyer Christos Christodoulides — who absconded from a U.K. prison after a 2005 sentence for immigration fraud — the Cyprus Bar Association has decided to temporarily suspend his law license.

In a move that has sparked outrage among aspiring students, several British universities have halted or restricted admissions from Pakistan and Bangladesh, citing rising visa misuse and mounting pressure from the UK Home Office to curb fraudulent applications.

State-owned Romanian energy firm Complexul Energetic Oltenia SA has declared much lower-than-average carbon dioxide emissions figures despite burning heavily-polluting low-grade coal, raising questions of whether it has skirted hundreds of millions in EU carbon taxes.

A man who initiated an unprovoked knife attack on two strangers at a London tube station has been sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment.

Chilling webcam images have shown an experienced climber allegedly abandoning his girlfriend, leaving her to die on Austria’s biggest mountain.

Two individuals have been arrested as authorities in Europe and Israel focus on companies associated with advertising campaigns for fraudulent online investment platforms.

A tax officer based in Bradford who scammed the system to pocket more than £211,000 has been jailed for three years for fraud and money laundering.

This Black Friday, fraudsters once again made concerted efforts to target bargain hunters hoping to cash in on the shopping frenzy, but this year far fewer succeeded.