Crime

Victim Joice Maria da Gloria Rodrigues, 25, was strangled to death with a shirt before her body was concealed on a construction site in Sao Vicente, Brazil

A vigilante mum has walked free from court after she abducted and tied up a suspected drug dealer. Scot Linda Gowers, 40, bundled Michael Graham into a van and took him to her house in Kirriemuir, Angus before calling the police

West Midlands Police raided a property in the Black Country seizing bags of Cheetos which were allegedly being spiked with drugs and sold to under-18s

Eight serving and former Metropolitan Police officers have been found guilty of “gross misconduct” over “offensive” messages they shared about Katie Price's disabled son Harvey

Police were called to a High Street in the capital at 4.50pm following reports that a woman fell from a height and another sustained injuries as a result - the woman who fell remains in critical condition

Natalie Payne bought the £115.99 jeans for her 13-year-old son's birthday from Flannels, but when he unwrapped them a packet of suspicious blue pills fell out of the pocket

Piran Ditta Khan appeared before Westminster Magistrates Court this morning charged with murdering Pc Sharon Beshenivsky who was shot in Bradford in 2005

Hollywood actors Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson could be real-life brothers after a family revelation sparks speculation

Erin Gilbert and her husband of three years were desperately trying to have a baby before she was brutally murdered in Sydney, Australia

PC Andrew Caulfield, of Police Scotland, subjected ex-girlfriend and colleague Amanda Watson to nine months of harassment after she dumped him - and has since been sacked

Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was put to death at 6:15 p.m. local time after receiving a lethal injection, Florida's governor's office said

The claimants, in their late twenties and early thirties, say the ex-kickboxer – under house arrest in Romania – attacked them between 2013 and 2016

Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was convicted of killing Robert Sturmfels, 56, and Georgette Sturmfels, 55, on Dec. 20, 1989, in their Flagler County winter home on Florida's northeastern coast

Dermatologist Yue 'Emily' Yu, 45, from South Carolina, US, faces eight years in prison if found guilty of poisoning husband Dr. Jack Chen's tea with drain cleaner

New York Police Department boss Widler Lucas allegedly grabbed Ammy Ventura by the hair and dragged her behind his desk. He is accused of forcing her to give him oral sex while his office door was open

Piran Ditta Khan, 74, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with murdering Pc Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford in 2005

Browns star Perrion Winfrey arrested in Texas and is facing misdemeanour assault charges for "intentionally and knowingly causing bodily injury to" a woman with his next court date next week

Ausra Plungiene, 56, was last seen on Tuesday after leaving to take her dog for a walk at around 10.30am - before temperatures plunged to 2C overnight amid a yellow weather warning for parts of Wales

Evil gunman Connor Sturgeon, 25, legally purchased an AR15 rifle a week before gunning down five colleagues and wounding eight at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, US on Monday

The only consolation about living now, rather than the 70s, is that people are able to call out racism where they find it – and are increasingly being listened to WARNING: STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE

A number of weapons including knives and rifles with silencers were found in 'doomsday cult mum' Lori Vallow Daybell's garage along with toys and items belonging to son JJ as well as his prescription medication

An urgent search is underway for a mother and two children with police saying they are "increasingly concerned" for their welfare after they went missing a week ago from a Stockport hotel

Named locally as Stephen Baxter, 61, and wife Carol, 64, the couple are thought to have been overcome by deadly fumes as they relaxed on Easter Sunday

Dr Richard Shepherd, a forensic pathologist who worked on high-profile cases such as Stephen Lawrence, told the Mirror why he thinks specialist divers were in the River Wyre near where Nicola Bulley was found

An inmate can still be seen on top of Strangeways prison in Manchester, standing on a sliding roof, where he has been for six hours as police negotiators attempt to bring him down