Crime

The woman called the police department in China's Zhejiang province in the hopes of tracking down her ex-boyfriend - who dumped her after six years - because she wanted to know "why he treated me like this"

Detectives believe Nicola may have fallen into the River Wyre in Lancashire while walking her dog Willow - possibly because she was fetching her pet's ball

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Yisrael Amir, now 22, was just 12 years old when his father ripped him away from his home in Israel with the promises of a heavenly life in Guatemala, but he instead arrived at a cult compound where leaders have been accused of raping children

Large amounts of cash of up thousands of pounds have been charged for poor trade skills and work, found to affect the ability of the property to secure a mortgage, say Trading Standards bosses

Vanroy Evan Smith, 39, has been charged with murder after allegedly killing Dr Michael John Mammone, 58 while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in California

Paul Savage, a postman, 'wonderful' dad and husband was found beaten to death in Flintshire, Wales, in a pool of blood on February 4, 2003. Police have now issued a fresh plea and a £20k reward for information 20 years after his brutal murder

Essex Police suspect the victim, a man in his 40s, had been assaulted close to a nearby pub after being called to a car park in Canvey Island in the early hours of this morning

Suspected gang members Noah David Beard, 25, and Angel "Nanu" Uriarte, 35, were dragged into custody after six people were murdered in a brutal massacre in January, including a teen mother and her six-month-old baby boy

John Michael Musbach, 31, from New Jersey, pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot where he paid $20,000 in Bitcoin to have a 13-year-old girl killed after having exchanged naked images with her

Petrus-Ionut Apostoae, 25, was jailed for more than 14 years after entering a stranger's home and raping her in a sickening attack while her children slept in the next room

Nicola Bulley was walking her springer spaniel dog along the river in St Michaels on Wyre when she vanished, leaving her phone on a bench logged into a work conference call

The mortgage adviser Nicola Bulley, 45, had dropped her two young girls off at school before taking her brown spaniel Willow for a walk along the River Wyre in the village of St Michael's, Lancashire

Paedophile Gary Glitter, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls and was today freed after serving half his sentence

Former Met Detective Chief Inspector Peter Kirkham has revealed what he believes is the most likely hypothesis in the case of missing mum Nicola Bulley, with her dog a key issue

Taiba Alali fled her homeland in 2017 to start a new life in Turkey and had planned to wed her Syrian-born boyfriend. But when she returned to support the Iraq football team her family kidnapped her

Mason Mills stabbed Kieron Moore to death after the victim attacked him with a plank of wood as he stood smoking outside his sister's house, wrongly believing him to be involved with his girlfriend

Friends and family of Holly Newton clad in purple T-shirts are gathering in Hexham town centre to mark a week since the 15-year-old was allegedly knifed to death

Analysis by the House of Commons Library found that the number of community police officers have fallen by more than 4,000 since 2015 across England and Wales. See how your area has been affected

Superintendent Sally Riley today said investigators searching for Nicola Bulley are now working from the hypothesis that she fell into the River Wyre while on a dog walk

Police began investigating Lyne Barlow in 2020 after victims came forward to claim that they hadn't received holidays they had paid her for - she has now been jailed for nine years

Nicola Bulley's disappearance has gripped the nation as police today shared they believe she fell into the River Wyre and it was not suspicious

Donna Dixon was left devastated when a woman - Leanne Slater - stole the flowers she had left on the grave of her son, Keiran, who had passed away in 2014 aged just 14

Callum Halpin, 28, fled the country and went on the run for four years following the murder of Luke Graham in 2018, and has today been jailed for 30 years for his part in the crime

The charges against Mason Greenwood - attempted rape, engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm - were dropped on Thursday

Today marks one week since Nicola Bulley was last seen while taking her family dog Willow on a walk in the tight-knit village of St Michael's-on-Wyre in Lancashire