Crime

Boxing promoter Leslie Allen promised juror Damien Drackley £5,000 to help him get off charges - but they were rumbled when defence witness Laurence 'Del Boy' Hayden was spotted nodding and winking at Drackley in court

A court heard how Lavinia Pinner punched, kicked, scratched and bit a 13-year-old boy after losing her temper in an argument over an air rifle - she was told 'the sword of Damocles is now hanging over your head' as she was allowed to walk free

Chance Seneca, 21, from Louisiana, US, used Grindr and Snapchat to convince men into meeting him as he wanted to satisfy a Jeffrey Dahmer "compulsive murder-fantasy"

Hayley Marshall was in mourning for her recently deceased partner when she was listening to his funeral playlist and began hurling cans of beer into the street below

A 31-year-old man has been charged with rape and sexual assault following an investigation by detectives into the rape of a woman in the centre of a popular seaside town

Laura Winham, 38, is thought to have died in November 2017 but wasn't found until May 24, 2021 - her brother Roy called the police to break into the flat when he thought he saw a foot under a blanket through a letterbox

By next year it is estimated that 38% of officers in England and Wales will have less than five years' experience - more than three times higher than a decade earlier.

Protests have broken out across a neighbourhood after a 'happy and cheerful' girl was tragically killed in a random drive-by-shooting just two days before her 11th birthday

Roma Lawson escaped from a police car after being arrested in Margate and led officers on a half-naked chase as she evaded the law and bit an officer before finally being arrested again

Madison Brooks was fatally hit by a car after being dropped of by the group on a dark street in Baton Rouge. An autopsy alleged showed she had been sexually assaulted before hand

Daniel Harris, 19, from Derbyshire, UK, posted videos far-right extremist videos which were shared by Payton Gendron, who has admitted a supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York

Oliver Mailey shared a fundraising page for his son, Abel-Jax's, funeral and even got his name tattooed on his neck just a matter of weeks after he killed him

Lori Vallow Daybell's attorneys have claimed that she is prejudiced for the time she has spent in prison awaiting trial for allegedly murdering her own children

Huu Can Tran, 72, fired 42 rounds in the Star Ballroom Studio on Saturday night in California, US, killing 11 and injuring 9 during the Lunar New Year celebrations

The player, who denies the charges, continues to play for his club having first been arrested last July

Laura Winham, 38, had been lying dead in her home for nearly four years and had written 'I need help' on her calendar a short time before her death in Woking, Surrey

Beauty students have been left feeling "physically sick" and "violated" after learning during their course they stripped almost entirely naked in front of convicted rapist Isla Bryson

Athena Brownfield's body has been identified in Grady County, Oklahoma, after remains were found last week. The four-year-old has been missing and is alleged to have been murdered on December 25

Miriam Berlow-Jackson welcomed Valerie Hayes and Jennifer Amnott into her family but was sickened to find out their alleged involvement in a plot to kidnap children and murder their parents

Five police officers have been charged with second-degree murder after the death of dad and FedEx driver Tyre Nichols, who died three days after a he was pulled over in a traffic stop on January 7

Dean Barnes, 16 — who died in a motorbike crash earlier this week — had previously been convicted for his role in a car theft that saw a takeaway owner killed, it has been revealed

A man has been charged with a series of terrorism, explosives and firearm offences in connection with an incident that saw the evacuation of St James’s Hospital in Leeds last week

Lauren Howe, 26, was found dead at her home in West Yorkshire last July with severe injuries including a torn liver, as her partner Charlie Booth is now on trial for her murder

Midwife Lindsay Clancy survived the fall and was taken to hospital but authorities have said they will charge her with the murder of her two dead children

Alexander Tyutin, who took a "hit" out on a family-of-four, is now relaxing on a Turkish beach after serving just 18 months of a 23-year sentence - because he fought for Russian warlord Vladimir Putin in Ukraine