Crime

Graham Wildin built what has been called the UK's biggest man cave in the Forest of Dean, without planning permission, and has spent years locked in fierce legal battles with authorities over the complex - even spending three weeks in jail

The worsening crisis has led to judges being advised to lock up fewer offenders – and now, victims and barristers are accusing the Government of failing the justice system

Dad-of-four Mohammed Ramzan was named by Eleanor Williams after she concocted a twisted web of lies about being raped, beaten and trafficked abroad. Williams was jailed this week over false rape claims

This week Leila Borrington, 23, received 15 years for the manslaughter of autistic Harvey Borrington, three, who died after being slapped many times around the head

Putin was seen at an opening of a children's centre in Crimea after the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest for alleged war crimes in Ukraine

WARNING: GRAPHIC PICS Bully Thomas Parry from Port Talbot, Wales, will spend just two years in jail for attacking a woman who was left barely able to walk

Michael Howard got a royal pardon for notorious criminals John Haase and Paul Bennett in return for key insider information on the illegal arms trade in 1996

Former police officer Derek Chauvin, the convicted killer of George Floyd, has pleaded guilty to tax evasion whilst spending time in a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona

A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 13 and enslaved by ISIS positively identified Brit Shamima Begum at a training camp where she would have learned to use weapons

Luke Turvey believes his one-year-old son Ethan might still be alive if a law had existed at the time of his death making it illegal to leave small children at home alone

North Wales Police and the RNLI have been searching an area around Colwyn Bay beach after a boat was found stranded early on Saturday morning

Charlene Lunnon and Lisa Hoodless were 10 when they were snatched, held ­prisoner and raped by Alan Hopkinson. Charlene said he is a 'dangerous man', adding she hopes he will die in prison

Former reality star Stephen Bear is currently serving 21 months behind bars and has been placed on the sex offenders register for sharing footage of him having sex with former partner Georgia Harrison – without her permission

Staff from Bolton at Home made the gruesome discovery earlier this month after being unable to access one of their properties in Hemsworth Road

Ryan Clark from Amite, Louisiana, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison and a judge ordered he is chemically castrated with injections of a drug that suppresses a man's sex drive

Ben Hyde was among six Redcap military policemen killed at a police station near Basra. At the time it was the British forces’ biggest single loss of life since the Falklands

A man was found dead in Birmingham in the early hours of this morning. West Midlands Police said the death is currently being treated as 'unexplained'. Enquiries are ongoing and a road has been closed

Georgia Harkness, from St Helens, met criminal Ashley Blackett while she was a nurse at HMP Risley in Warrington back in 2017

Steven Dale Green was one of the US soldiers who raped teenage Abeer Qassim al-Janabi in the Mahmudiyah killings in Iraq and he has spoken of how the atrocities of a war dehumanise people

Joan Lawrence fears detectives will never solve the case as she faces the 14th anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance in York on Mother’s Day

Kevin Spokes, 36, from Dundee, had attended the funeral of Kimberley Cowie's deceased father, where he became drunk and smashed some heirloom vases, before attacking her for confronting him

The former love interest of Kanye West has spoken out about the arrest of her younger brother - but says she is 'glad' he is now getting help for his issues

Mum Andrea Ferreyra has quit her job as a prison warden after falling in love with inmate Javier Duarte, who is serving a 15-year term for murder - with the couple planning to marry

Jonathan Pinney, 38, is accused of attempting to chuck his wife into Boston’s Fort Port Channel on Wednesday afternoon because he thought she was an 'imposter'

Victims of the heartbroken families shouted at killer Lawrence Anderson, from Oklahoma, US, to 'rot from the inside out' as he was sentenced to life without parole