All news on the topic: Crime

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Carer punched woman, 91, - and was caught thanks to victim's five word clue
Jack Winter left the elderly woman with "extensive bruising" after the attack at Brooklands Care Home in Old Swan, Liverpool, where he had only been working for two weeks
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Dark world of the metaverse - virtual rape and grooming in paedophile playground
Welcome to the metaverse - a network of 3D virtual worlds where people of all ages interact as digital avatars - but what starts out as a bit of fun can quickly turn dark, with charities issuing chilling warnings
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Thug says 'thanks for ruining life' as he's jailed for 'pool ball' attack
Jonathon Wood, 50, told a judge "thanks for ruining my life" after he was jailed for a vicious attack where he beat his victim using a suspected pool ball inside a sock in Chesterfield town centre
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Virginia Giuffre had sex with second prince in France aged 17, documents claim
Giuffre infamously claims to have been used as a 'sex slave' and 'pimped out' to high-profile men including a 'prince' who she says Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell introduced her to in 2001 at a party
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'My husband was destroyed by Post Office scandal - he will never see justice'
Marion Holmes says her husband Peter was “destroyed” when he had to plead guilty to false accounting in order for the police to drop the theft charge in a plea bargain
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Armed gunmen storm live TV set and hold broadcasters hostage with 'bombs'
Armed gunmen stormed the set of an Ecuadorian TV station on Tuesday, holding journalists hostage as they desperately pleaded for help from terrified viewers watching it unfold on their TVs at home
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24 Hours in Police Custody - how baby shower row turned into sickening bloodbath
As a special episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody tells the story of a baby shower row that led to a brutal double murder, we take a look at the killers behind the 'senseless' crime
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Pub's licence under review because employees 'keep fighting with the punters'
Denbighshire Council's licensing committee is set to meet after North Wales Police called for the Millbank in Rhyl to have its licence revoked after incidents between staff and customers
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'Suicide' of fashion model scout linked to Epstein to be reinvestigated
Prince Andrew continues to reel from the recent release of court papers that named him 67 times as they revealed the names of people associated with rapist and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
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Horror moment armed robbers burst into travel agent and force staff to the floor
The criminals were jailed for a total of 54 years after footage emerged of them using hammers, knives, and even an axe to threaten a number of businesses across the West Midlands
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Adoptive dad guilty of murdering 'bright and intelligent' two-year-old
Jan Gholami was accused of taking out his “bad temper” on little Zahra Ghulami and bashing her head against a wall. He and his wife Roqia Ghulam denied murder
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Ex-butcher 'hacked girlfriend to death and left organs next to UK passport'
WARNING, DISTURBING DETAILS: Jozef Hanuska, who is said to have been trained as a butcher, has been charged with murder of his girlfriend after she was found dead with her heart cut out at her property in Slovakia
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Ecuador's 'most dangerous prisoner' escapes with state of emergency declared
Ecuador's most dangerous drug lord Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias Fito, has escaped from the high security Guayaquil prison. He is head of Los Choneros linked to El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel
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Teenager shot dead just three weeks after giving birth as police hunt attacker
Dallas police said a 17-year-old suspect is wanted on a charge of murder after the killing of a popular high school student who had just had a baby daughter in Texas
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Woman pleads guilty to 'helping mother kill 19-year-old and cut baby from womb'
Desiree Figueroa entered a guilty plea which stipulates she must testify against her mother Clarisa Figueroa, who is accused of strangling 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez with a cable
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Post Office workers to have appeals fast-tracked so they can clear their names
Just 93 of the 900 sub-postmasters wrongly prosecuted after the faulty IT Horizon system made it look like money was missing have had their convictions quashed so far
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'Now the Post Office lie has been exposed we need a criminal investigation'
The victims of the Post Office scandal have been waiting for justice for too long and we should clear their names for good, writes Conservative MP and former minister David Davis
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'Idris Elba's knife crime campaign is welcome, it remains on us to protect kids'
The superstar advocacy of Idris Elba helping to draw attention to the scourge of knife crime will help the conversation, writes Mirror columnist Darren Lewis, but real action begins at home
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Man, 24, stabbed to death after fight over woman at NYC tent city
Dafren Cabello, 24, from Venezuela, had crossed from the Southern border of Texas with his brother last month and has been described as a "good father" and a "good man"
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Patient in wheelchair robbed by three thugs who forced him into hospital toilet
Lancashire Police issued CCTV after three robbers pushed a patient in a wheelchair into a toilet at the Royal Preston Hospital, threatening him and demanding cash
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Teens admit unlawful killing of dog walker found dead at his home after park row
John Hackett, 26, was tragically found dead inside his home on April 26 just one day after he had an 'altercation' with three teenagers at Snowhill Recreation Ground in Nuneaton
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'Highly aroused' mum armed with 'martial arts sticks' smashes into ex's home
Buathip Kendray, from Suffolk, was furious after she discovered that her former boyfriend Steven Woods had moved on with someone else - she smashed her way through his home to confront the pair
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Mum of murdered teen says there is no justice 'because she will never come home'
Mum Esther Ghey says although she 'doesn't carry any hate' for Brianna's killers, the only way for her to get justice is to 'turn back time and have her back home'
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Moment brazen thug steals mum's birthday present Ford Fiesta from outside home
An unnamed Birmingham mum had treated herself to a Ford Fiesta for her birthday but hadn't had the car a year before a brazen thief broke into the car and drove off with it
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'Idris Elba wouldn't need to ask for a knife ban, if 247 Eton boys had died'
Hollywood star Idris Elba has launched a campaign to ban knives and fund community programmes, says Fleet Street Fox. He wouldn't have to if the country was run by a truly representative Parliament