Crime

A man who left a bag of wires and an iPad outside the US embassy in London for ‘graffiti art’ has been cleared of making a bomb hoax.

London — Criminal networks are "weaponizing children" to commit torture and murder by recruiting them through multiplayer video games and smartphones — and parents often have no idea what’s happening, the boss of Europe’s law enforcement agency warns.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) decided not to investigate a £170m diamond scam despite receiving a report from a whistleblower almost a year before the scheme collapsed, BBC Panorama has learned.

The firm behind a nudification website has been fined £50,000 by regulators over failures to use age checks designed to protect children.

The coordinated action targets Media Land and Aeza Group, five executives, and seven companies—including entities in the U.K., Serbia, and Uzbekistan—for supporting ransomware operations and other cybercrime.

A 27-year-old NHS worker has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two patients while conducting bladder scans during his time as a trainee at a hospital in Wales.

A 32-year-old man accused of stabbing 10 people on a train has faced additional charges related to the day before the attack.

Football super agent Jonathan Barnett is being investigated by cops over claims he raped and tortured a “sex slave”, court documents show.

A restaurant owner is accused of planning to shoot at a mass gathering of Jews before being stopped by undercover police, a court has been told.

A manhunt has been launched for the knifeman who left commuters ducking for cover and screaming as he rampaged through a southwest London tube station during rush hour.

Several roads in Leicester were temporarily closed after a grenade was discovered in a box delivered to an Age UK charity warehouse.

A schoolgirl, 11, has died in a ’suspected drug-related incident’ in Scotland, prompting a police investigation - she fell ill at her family home in Helensburgh on Friday

Palestine Action activists struck a female police officer with a sledgehammer after forcibly entering a defense factory, as reported in court.

Miles Cross admitted to four counts of intentionally performing an act capable of encouraging or assisting another person’s suicide.

A British pilot has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing his lover to death in a drug-fueled attack in Spain.

The United Kingdom National Health Service Counter Fraud Authority has announced that it secured the three-year conviction of a Nigerian doctor, Richard Akinrolabu, for offenses related to fraud by false representation amounting to £268,000.

The Australian, Canadian, and United Kingdom High Commissions in Ghana have collaboratively initiated a week-long public awareness campaign to address the increasing threat of visa fraud.

A masseur at a luxury spa who sexually assaulted five women during treatments has been spared jail.