Crime

BBC viewers were overjoyed to see Happy Valley – which stars Sarah Lancashire as the police community officer for the West Yorkshire Police Department – make its return after years off air

Nightclub in Birmingham where footballer Cody Fisher died in a Boxing Day knife attack last year has been ordered to close for good after West Midlands Police appealed to Birmingham City Council

Coronation Street killer Stephen Reid is again at risk of being caught out on the cobbles after he claimed another victim in Teddy Thompkins

Video footage shows a man and a fellow passenger get into a row with a two cabin crew members onboard a SpiceJet flight in India after one was accused of inappropriately touching a female flight attendant

Valentina Trespalacios, 23, was found dead in, Bogota, Colombia, on January 22 with police now looking to locate her boyfriend, John Poulos

A Brit who died in a head-on crash after allegedly murdering his girlfriend and keeping her body in the back of his vehicle had been working as a travelling musician, an inquest has heard

Two of the group allegedly had sex with Madison Brooks, 19, when she was unable to give consent, while the other two were present. She was later struck by a car and died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US

Neil Shadwick, aged in his 60s, was found unresponsive in the Tesco supermarket car park in the Gloucestershire town of Stroud shortly before 6am on Sunday, without his mobility scooter

Zara Aleena's aunt Farah Naz called for 'action and accountability' in the wake of her niece's murder as she branded the Probation Service 'incompetent', with 'failures by people at the top'

There are 76 vulnerable children who went missing from accommodation in Brighton and Hove and still have not been found - Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper demanded the Home Office 'immediately end the contract with this hotel'

Dad-of-two Alex Murdaugh is accused of shooting dead his 52-year-old wife Maggie and their 22-year-old son Paul outside their South Carolina home in the US in 2021

James Keenan was convicted of harassing his neighbours Martyn and Jane Slater and jailed for 12 months. However, after being released early, he was rehomed in the same flat in Derby

Matteo Messina Denaro used a false identity document with Andrea Bonafede's name to get access to health services and stay under the radar before he was arrested at a clinic in Palermo, Sicily

Ava White was stabbed in the neck by a boy, then aged 14, who was later convicted of murder and given a life sentence with a minimum of 13 years. The victim's mum said her killer must die in prison

Brothers Rohail and Sohail Khan have each been jailed for six years after admitting to a drugs empire they had believed to be "untouchable", according to police officers

Thomas Campbell, 38, was tortured for several hours before he was killed in his Tameside home, a court heard, as the three defendants accused of his murder include his ex-wife

Half of Brits consider themselves to be 'armchair detectives' - with seven in ten even believing they could solve a real-life murder case because of their passion for crime TV

Stuart Campbell was jailed for life in December 2002 for the murder of his niece Danielle Jones, 15, and has been told he must remain behind bars by members of the Parole Board

New CCTV footage shows Sanjeev Chada with his two sons Eoghan, 10, and Ruairi, 5 in a shop in Carlow, Ireland, buying sweets for them before later murdering them

Brit journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were killed last year in the Amazon and now Brazilian police have said they believe a Colombian fish trader was the mastermind behind their deaths

At least seven people have been killed after shootings at two farms at Half Moon Bay, in California, with the suspected gunman, believed to be a fellow worker, taken into custody

Fraudsters are creating fake ads for loans and jobs before disappearing with people's money in a surge of advance fee scam cases, with hard-up households most at risk

Jordan McSweeney 29, was wrongly considered medium risk by the private firm monitoring him despite the killer warning staff his anger scared him

A builder allegedly killed his workmate by stabbing him 17 times. Robert Goodwin is accused of killing Shane Thompson in a 'merciless' attack in Birmingham in December 2021

The community in Berrings, Ireland, have paid tribute to Matthew Healy, who was discovered dead at a ward in Mercy Hospital, Cork, as Irish police say this is now a "live" police investigation