Crime

A South African schoolgirl has been allegedly murdered while working towards a prestigious award.

The family of an 11-year-old girl who died after being found in the water at a beauty spot in Scotland have paid tribute to their “happy, adventurous and outgoing" daughter.

A murder investigation has been launched after a 23-year-old woman was found dead at a home in Islington, with six people arrested. Emergency services were called to Bollinder Place, Islington, following concerns for the welfare of a woman on Thursday (6 August).

Police have uncovered a huge cannabis farm containing more than 1,500 plants inside a former church in Nelson, Lancashire.

A man has been arrested after a suspected break-in at Kim Kardashian’s Hidden Hills home, according to US reports.

A serving student police officer has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a woman.

Rolls-Royces,, Porsches and Lamborghinis have turned out in force for the funeral of a “conman” traveller who was shot dead in the US.

A QNet and Ignite human trafficking recruitment ring has been busted in Lagos, Nigeria.

Jury selection began on Monday in Las Vegas as the murder trial of a former gang leader finally got under way decades after the shooting of the rapper Tupac Shakur, one of the most high-profile unsolved killings in the US.

Two thugs who murdered a man that was stabbed on his own door step received life sentences today.

A domestic violence victim has told BBC Breakfast how she was attacked in her hotel room after Travelodge reception staff gave a key to her abuser.

Daniel Kinahan has returned to Ireland for the first time in 10 years — but his accommodation will not be as luxurious as what it was in Dubai.

A Green councillor in Birmingham has been charged with assaulting five people, including three police officers.

An alleged gang figure, Daniel Kinahan, was charged and sent to jail after his extradition from Dubai on an Irish government.

A doctor who grew close to baby-killer Lucy Letby and gave evidence against her at her trial has died.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is ’exploring every option’ to block the early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers, according to reports.

Police are urgently searching for a ‘violent offender’ after a woman was sexually assaulted in southwest London.

An ’evil’ predator who murdered two women and nearly killed a third amid a wider years-long spree of sex attacks faces dying behind bars.

A pair of female prison officers who had affairs with two brothers serving time for running a multi-million-pound drugs operation have been jailed.

The former politician was found dead at her remote cottage on Dartmoor, Devon, on July 11. She had been hit 21 times on her head with a hammer while eating lunch and was found by her gardener.

Jahvine Kwamba, employed at HMP Fosse Way in Leicestershire, began a relationship with prisoner Roberts Sokolovs