Crime

Thomas Cashman, 34, was given a life sentence for murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel as he chased convicted drug dealer Joseph Nee into their home in the Dovecot area of Liverpool on August 22 last year

Ailish Walsh, 28, was 22 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed 40 times by Liam Taylor at her flat in East London - the court previously heard she was found covered in blood and unconscious in her bedroom by her father

The mum from North Staffordshire was worried after her eldest daughter received a friend request on Facebook from the man who is on the sex offenders register for an offence in 2017

The Prime Minister was speaking as he hosted the first meeting of a new taskforce aimed at rooting out child sexual exploitation - and after the Home Secretary pointed the finger at British Pakistani men

Sheila Seleoane's neighbours continually raised the alarm with housing association Peabody due to a bad odour and other indicators before her remains were found after two-and-a-half years

Jamie Meah, 18, reportedly fled into a fish and chip shop after being knifed on Friday afternoon during an ambush as he travelled in a taxi through Leeds with a friend

Police were called at around 10.30am on Saturday to reports of a body in the water at Thames & Kennet Marina, Henley Road, Caversham, where a woman was declared dead at the scene

Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok left in a perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018

Thomas Cashman may have to watch his back as he serves his sentence for murdering the nine-year-old in August last year

Officers frantically searching for the toddler, after the young mum was found stabbed ot death on her bathroom floor, noticed an alligator "with an object in its mouth" that they quickly realised was a child's body.

The body of the six-year-old was found by her dad strangled in the basement of their family home in Boulder, Colorado, in the US, on December 25, 1996 just hours after a ransom note was left in the kitchen

Russian Vladlen Tatarsky, real name Maxim Fomin, was killed in an explosion in St Petersburg earlier today amid reports a bomb was hidden in a gift he received moments before

A 29-year-old man died on the A726, Glasgow Road, in Scotland, after being struck by a van. Two women were injured and the vehicle's driver was arrested, Police Scotland said

Jubal Reji Kurian, who friends described as the "nicest lad" with the "heart of a warrior", died after sustaining serious injuries at a charity boxing match last week

Little Frankie MacRitchie's death sent shockwaves across the nation when he was killed in a horrific dog attack at a holiday park in 2019

The Grand National will be held at Aintree later this month and an undercover report has revealed campaigners planning to disrupt and sabotage the famous race

A 55-year-old man was pronounced dead outside the Bay Horse in Cramlington, Northumberland. Another man, also aged 55, is in a critical condition in hospital after suffering serious injuries

The former president faces charges over hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Although he denies they had sex, Trump has previously admitted reimbursing his lawyer for a $130,000 payment made to her

West Midlands Police force have issued images of the man, who officers believe may have been the driver of a BMW that collided with a Toyota on Cooks Lane in Solihull, last year

Rachel Jackson, 38, went missing from Preston, Lancashire, on Friday night. Family and friends are comforting each other after her sister confirmed the sad news she had been found dead

The star witness in Cashman's trial was believed to have had more death threats than any other police witness in Merseyside's history

Dad-of-one Peter Andrew Williamson, 39, who reportedly had gangland links, was mown down as he waited in his two-seater Audi outside his luxury villa after a gym workour in the Costa del Sol

Before joining the Met Police, Wayne Couzens was an officer at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) for seven and a half years. His service makes him eligible for a pension of up to £4,000 a year

Victim’s hysterical husband finally revealed as 1982’s Brighton Axe Murderer - almost 40 years after the killing

Stewart Bernie was shocked by the 'intimidating' attitude of the littering officers and was told that he would be arrested if the police attended the scene to sort out the dispute