All news on the topic: Crime

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Toddler among two dead and 70 injured in German Christmas market attack
At least two people have been killed after a car ploughed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany.
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Delphi double murderer Richard Allen sentenced to 130 years in prison
Richard Allen, the man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who disappeared in Delphi, Indiana, was sentenced Friday to 130 years in prison.
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Mum forced to swallow wedding ring before being beaten to death by husband, who was ’failed by police’
A three-week inquest into the death of Lucy-Anne Rushton heard that both Dorset Police and Hampshire Constabulary missed opportunities to save her from her murderer husband
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£60,000 and documents seized from Liver Building following raid
A 24-year-old man and 22-year-old woman have been arrested
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Man arrested after woman in her 40s found stabbed to death in her home
A man has been arrested after a woman was found with fatal stab wounds at a south west London address.
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Knife attack at Zagreb school leaves at least one child dead and several seriously injured
Local media reports have said the attacker stabbed and killed a child and injured several people at a school in the Croatian capital Zagreb - children have been evacuated
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Luigi Mangione could face death penalty for killing of healthcare CEO
Luigi Mangione could face the death penalty if convicted of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
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Crossbow triple murder suspect Kyle Clifford also charged with rape
A 26-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to murdering a BBC commentator’s wife and two of their daughters and faces a further charge of rape.
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Teenagers who murdered Max Dixon and Mason Rist in Bristol sentenced to life imprisonment
The trial heard how the teen murderers wrongly believed their victims were behind an attack on a house earlier in the evening. Max and Mason were chased and attacked with weapons, including machetes, a bat, and a sword.
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Luigi Mangione quietly and calmly leaves court and boards plane for New York
Luigi Mangione – the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO – quietly and calmly departed a courthouse after waiving extradition and boarded a plane to New York.
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Britain’s youngest knife murderers have their ’lenient’ sentences increased
The UK’s youngest knife murderers have had their prison sentences increased after senior judges at the Court of Appeal agreed they were ‘unduly lenient’.
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"Monster of Avignon" sentenced to 20 years for drugging and raping ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot – a woman who has became a feminist symbol of the fight against sexual violence in France – has finally learnt the fate of her ex-husband and 50 other men after they were found guilty raping her.
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20-year-old student found guilty of stabbing woman to death on Bournemouth beach
20-year-old student found guilty of stabbing woman to death on Bournemouth beach
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Paedophile linked to Huw Edwards image probe avoids prison
Paedo linked to Huw Edwards image probe walks free as presenter spared jail.
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Boy, 5, discovered dead alongside father in suspected murder-suicide; devastated mum pays heartfelt tribute to her ’beloved’ son
A young boy was tragically killed by his father, who then took his own life in a suspected murder-suicide, an inquest has revealed.
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Father who believed he was ’vessel of God’ kills newborn son by breaking every bone in his skull
Kadees Mohammed, 31, had a schizophrenic episode in the middle of the night before he killed his three-week-old son and attacked his wife and mother with an iron in their Birmingham home
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Britain’s most notorious rapist attacked in prison by vigilante group
The UK’s most prolific serial rapist was targeted in an attack by a group of prison vigilantes.
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Woman killed and two men injured in Brent ’drive-by shooting’ after church wake
A woman has died and two people left injured in a ‘drive-by shooting’ after a wake in north London.
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Texas man gets 100 years in prison for shootings that killed 1, wounded others in Nevada, Arizona
A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a man in Nevada and a shootout with authorities in Arizona.
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UK fighter unlawfully killed in Ukraine - coroner
A former British soldier who went out to Ukraine to help in the war effort against Russia was unlawfully killed by a "comrade", a coroner has found.
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Wayne Rooney’s ex-Premier League teammate sentenced to 20 years for bribery
Former Everton player and China manager Li Tie will spend the next 20 years behind bars after landing a hefty sentence for giving and receiving bribes throughout his career
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Blood and Ore: Mexican cartel violence silences mining opponents
The abduction of a Mexican community activist who campaigned against an iron ore mine owned by New York-listed Ternium has shone a light on how local cartels benefit from the presence of mining companies in the region.
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Monster who stamped 2-year-old girl to death and paraded her body in a pram jailed for life
Isabella Wheildon was just two years old when she was found dead in a shower, covered in blankets after suffering "extensive external traumatic injuries" by her mum’s boyfriend
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’Thor’ and his gang smuggled £140m of cocaine into the UK from Sierra Leone
Members of the organised crime group have been locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years
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British businessman Sanjay Shah sentenced to 12 years for £996m Danish tax fraud
Shah found guilty of gross fraud and given longest sentence for financial crime in country’s history