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A court heard how predator Jason Hoodlass, 27, came across the girls while they played at the seafront arcades in Cleethorpes and befriended them before he abducted and assaulted them

Adrian Keise's family left the Old Bailey tearful after brothers Paul and Matthew Yusuff and their friend Moussa Traore were acquitted over his death due to a 'mistake'

Officers were called to an address in Pembrokeshire on Wednesday morning. This afternoon, Dyfed-Powys Police said a seven-year-old child was confirmed to have died

La Bella Vista in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, called the diners a "despicable group" in a scathing Facebook post to warn other businesses in the area of the behaviour

Journalist Alina Manrique of TC Television network in Guayaquil, Ecuador, has told how staff were "hunted down" and how she feared she "wouldn't see her children again" when an armed gang entered

Rapist Curtis Otley from Bristol was jailed for targeting underage girls and threatening them for his own gain as Avon & Somerset Police praised his brave victims for speaking out

Expelled former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded a case brought to The Hague by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide as a 'historic moment for humanity'

Donna Maxwell, from Ayrshire, claimed that she was attacked outside a hospital by a stranger but a court heard that she actually stabbed herself in a compensation plan

A woman has been charged with theft by deception after she allegedly lied about her young daughter's cancer diagnosis for years, while collecting cash from kindhearted members of the public

The unnamed BA pilot was subjected to hours of torture after being kidnapped on a shopping trip during a stopover between flights in Johannesburg, South Africa

Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, was sprung from his cell on Sunday. Two days later, rival drug lord Fabricio Colón Pico, of the Los Lobos group, escaped from a different jail in Ecuador

Jack Frankland has been jailed after stealing Rolex Sea-Dweller Deepsea watch valued at £10,750 from an elderly victim during a meeting arranged on Facebook Marketplace

Ivan Bonaparte, 33, carried out the horrific boiling oil attack in the hope of going to prison, after he faced eviction because he spent all his rent money on drugs

Amanda Knox was imprisoned after being found guilty for the murder of of British student Meredith Kercher in 2009, with a prison sentence of 26 years before it was later overturned

Birmingham criminal Olsian Vogli and Londoner Orest Malushi have been jailed for almost eight years after stashing £100,000 drug money inside a Lidl carrier bag

Kevin Conway was shot dead in west Belfast last night, almost a year to the day since the 'execution' style killing of Shane Whitla, which the 26-year-old was accused of committing

Dean Nicholas hurled the handheld shears at Paul Benton before the pair were seen swearing outside their homes, in a no-longer-quiet cul-de-sac in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire

The Safer Pod S1s security device is in a "handful" of Morrisons stores and features the supermarket's logo on the side alongside the statement: "We're keeping an eye on things to keep your store more safe"

You could end up in prison for seven years or have to pay an unlimited fine if you 'have a little nibble' around supermarkets. Hundreds say they 'do it all the time' but others brand it 'disrespectful'

Amy Louise Harper, 31, died from a head injury following an 'unexplained' fall at home in Huddersfield, as an inquest heard her abusive partner waited 33 hours before calling an ambulance

Nottinghamshire Police had to deploy a stinger to stop the 14-year-old motorist, who is alleged to have stolen the blue Hyundai i20 and driven it under the influence of cannabis

Traumatised Janet Skinner was wrongly accused of stealing nearly £60,000 from her Post Office in Hull, Yorkshire, and was sent to prison for nine months in 2007 aged 35

Rival drug lord Fabricio Colon Pico, alias The Savage, has now escaped prison in Ecuador following Fito with President Daniel Noboa saying there is a "terrorist threat" against the country which is in chaos

Bargain Hunt star Charles Hanson has appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court after being charged with assault and coercive behaviour – where he pleaded not guilty

Since Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, was discovered missing from his cell in a low-security prison in Ecuador more attacks have burst out across the country