Crime

Former independent commissioners Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers

A teenage boy was stabbed inside a Cineworld before a K-Pop gig, in North Greenwich, London, this afternoon, as three people were arrested at the scene

Pierto Addis attacked his elderly grandmother when she was naked in the bathtub and stabbed her 17 times but the teen claims he was suffering from 'transient psychosis' during the incident

Geza Tarjanyi, 61, branded the former cabinet member a "murdering scumbag" as he followed him through Westminster Underground Station and onto a train, a court heard

Former Met Police cop David Carrick, 48, was unmasked as one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders after he admitted to 24 counts of rape as well as charges of sexual assault, controlling and coercive behaviour and false imprisonment and was jailed for 30 years.

Rapist cop David Carrick is serving 36 life sentences after he pleaded guilty to 48 rapes, making him one the UK's most prolific sex offenders. The detective he brought him down says the case is "not over"

Buster Murdaugh, the surviving son of Alex Murdaugh, was the most anticipated witness in the double murder trial in Colleton County, South Carolina, US

The Cookie Monster has been seen yelling at people on Santa Cruz Wharf, a pier in the Californian city. The man behind the mask - Adam Sandler (no relation) - has a history of dressing up as Sesame Street characters

Angelina Cando, 30, has been arrested after firefighters were called to Little Prince, a plush New York City restaurant, in the early hours of Monday amid reports of a fire

Lidl worker Serkan Kaygusuz admitted spending Norma Girolami's money and hiding her body in a churchyard, but he denied killing her and went on trial at the Old Bailey

Lorna England, 74, was stabbed to death during a daylight attack in Ludwell Valley Park, Exeter, on Saturday afternoon, with her family releasing a photo and tribute

Footage released by Wycoming Highway Patrol shows a patrol officer attending to a vehicle stuck in snowy conditions when a truck came flying past and narrowly avoided hitting the officer

Campaigners had called for a judicial review into the Met Police decision not to send the shamed former PM a questionnaire over Partygate gatherings in November and December 2020 - even though others present were fined

Andy Shute took over chip shop Lou Lou's Plaice in Chorley, Lancashire, last May but a flurry of vandal attacks since the start of the year means he'll have to close up and lay off staff

The boy who said the famous 'Accrington Stanley, who are they?' line in a famous advert for the Milk Marketing Board in 1989 has been jailed for murder and will spend at least 18 years behind bars

Family and friends have paid tribute to Holly Lambert, 26. The 'loving and caring' bride-to-be was found dead in Ulverston, Cumbria, and police are appealing for information after three people were arrested

The court heard of how Groves had framed pictures of serial killers on her walls, collected books about gangsters, including the notorious prisoner Charles Bronson, and watched true crime documentaries

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES Kiena Dawes, 23, was reported missing just hours before she was hit by a train and pronounced dead at the scene last July in Lancashire

Hunter Chase Nance offered to give a woman a ride home but instead took her to his home in China Grove, North Carolina, US, locked the door and attacked her with a knife, police said

Rita Curran's body was found by her roommate in their shared room in Burlington, Vermont, US. She had been strangled to death with the only clue left a cigarette butt

The female teacher died after sustaining injuries in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in France at around 10am this morning when the pupil, 16, burst into the classroom and stabbed them

The US embassy in Vauxhall, London, was locked down by armed police with sniffer dogs also seen in the area, while occupants were ordered to stay away from the windows

Violence broke out during the annual 823rd Atherstone Ball Game on Tuesday with dozens of players fighting over an inflatable ball as punches and kicks were thrown

Pensioners at a sheltered housing complex say they have been losing sleep for the last 15 years thanks to a mystery knock-a-door-run prankster who strikes in the early hours of the morning

The appeal was created a day after Lancashire Police confirmed Nicola Bulley's family's worst fears that her body was found in the River Wyre more than three weeks after she was reported missing