All news on the topic: Crime

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A body has been discovered during the search for a woman who went missing in London on Saturday night
A body has been found in the search for an artist who went missing in London during the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Scammer accused of stealing 4,100 Bitcoin has appeared in U.S. court on charges of wire fraud
Malone Lam and co-conspirator exploited victim’s trust through fake support calls, extracting over $274 million in crypto.
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Chinese OTC trader has been connected to laundering millions for North Korean hackers
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT detailed how the Chinese trader had been helping Lazarus Group launder funds since 2022.
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A teenager has died, and six others were injured in a crash in Cornwall
A teenager has been killed and six others left injured after a crash involving two cars.
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Horror in Edinburgh as a ’severed head’ is discovered on the street, with ’gruesome images’ shared widely
Eyewitness claimed the gruesome find was discovered in a street and one said "I almost laughed because it’s Halloween weekend and I thought it was a prank"
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Spain has regained its status as the main gateway for cocaine into Europe
A record 13-ton seizure of cocaine in Spain in mid-October is more evidence that the country has returned as the main entry point into Europe for the drug after Belgium and the Netherlands significantly improved security at their ports.
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A former officer has been found guilty in connection with the death of Breonna Taylor
A former police officer in the US state of Kentucky has been found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed in her own home during a botched raid four years ago.
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Israel and Haiti have some of the highest levels of impunity for the murders of journalists
The two countries topped the 2024 Impunity Index, which ranks countries based on the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of population, while globally impunity surrounding attacks on journalists remains rampant with almost 80% of murders going unpunished.
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A man has been sentenced to prison for falsely claiming that he had fought for the Wagner group in Ukraine
Piotr Kucharski wore insignia for proscribed terror group on combat clothing at Suffolk Viking re-enactment
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Six teenagers have been arrested after a 13-year-old girl was found stabbed at the side of a dual carriageway
A 13-year-old girl is fighting for life after being stabbed by a gang of teenagers.
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A man has been arrested following a burglary at the home of England cricket captain Ben Stokes
Ben Stokes said in a post online that jewellery, valuables and a "good deal of personal items" were taken from his family’s home in County Durham.
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Teenager who killed ex-girlfriend in Northumberland detained for life
Logan MacPhail, then 16, murdered 15-year-old Holly Newton in Hexham in January 2023
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Teenager convicted of murder after Hackney woman fatally shot through her front door
Lianne Gordon, 42, was hit in the head at her home as she tried to shield her two children from a gang feud
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Belgian court convicts 119 individuals in the Sky ECC case
A Brussels court delivered its verdict Tuesday in the so-called Encro case, convicting 119 individuals on charges that included participation in a criminal organization, drug and arms trafficking, attempted extortion, and kidnapping, with sentences ranging from 14 months to 17 years in prison.
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Ambulance worker sentenced to prison for hammer attack on boss in Greater Manchester
Stacey Smith, who texted ‘I’ve smashed her head in. Oppsie!’ after hitting Michala Morton, sentenced to 20 years
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Southport attack suspect charged with producing poison and possessing an Al-Qaeda training manual
A teenager who has been accused of stabbing three girls to death at a Taylor Swift dance call with making his own poison and owning an Al Qaeda training manual.
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Hazardous new drugs found in fake medications across the UK
Super-strength drugs linked to hundreds of deaths have been found in samples of fake medicines bought across the UK, the BBC can reveal.
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Paedophile Hugh Nelson, who created AI-generated child abuse images from real photos he received, sentenced to 18 years in ’deeply horrifying’ landmark case
The images that Nelson made have been linked back to real children around the world. In some cases, he then went on to encourage his clients to rape and sexually assault the youngsters.
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Man sought for stealing £3 million in Viking treasure mocks police for using his ’hungover’ mugshot
George Whittaker, 43, from Wales, used a different name on social media so he could mock police over the mugshot they used in a wanted appeal of him. He said they could have used a better photo
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Neo-Nazi sporting Hitler tattoo penned a ‘manifesto’ before attacking an asylum seeker with a knife
A Neo-Nazi wrote his own ‘terrorist manifesto’ before stabbing an asylum seeker in the chest at a hotel.
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Dagenham stabbing: Woman and two children critically injured, man arrested
A woman and two young children were stabbed in a "shocking attack" in East London this evening and are fighting for their lives in hospital.
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UK’s ‘most prolific catfisher’ who drove girl, 12, to take her own life jailed
Online predator Alexander McCartney who drove one of his catfish victims to take her own life, has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.
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Man sentenced to 15 years for blinding acquaintance with sodium hydroxide
Jivan Dean attacked Raven Riley in Welsh eco-village after wrongly believing he had contacted his girlfriend
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German and Serbian authorities dismantle €300 million investment scam
German and Serbian authorities have dismantled a large-scale online investment scam that defrauded victims of at least 300 million euros ($323.9 million) through fake investment platforms.
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Mother kills newborn baby girl by placing her in a cereal box and hiding it in a suitcase
Jia Xin Teo hid her pregnancy while studying at Coventry University and secretly gave birth to her full-term baby on March 4, placing the newborn in a cereal box and concealing her in a suitcase.