All news on the topic: Crime

A caregiver in Oklahoma was reprimanded by police this week after she gave her elderly mother, who has dementia, a gun before leaving the home. Her mother killed herself almost instantly

Mark Lang suffered fatal injuries as he was dragged hundreds of metres by his vehicle after trying to stop Christopher Elgifari from getting away with this stolen van in Cardiff

Britain’s seventh largest city, Liverpool plays an outsized role in the importing of drugs primarily cocaine which has had a devastating effect on the community

Child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison - now, two years later, she is being sued by a woman who testified she was raped multiple times by Epstein

Authorities managed to capture landlord and accused serial rapist Sean Williams in Florida after a month-long escape - a store clerk recognised one of his tattoos

Curtis Warren, 60, from Liverpool, is due to appear in court in December charged with breaching the terms of a crime prevention order on 11 separate occasions

Thanksgiving took a fatal turn for one Florida family when an estranged relative turned a holiday gathering into a bloodbath when Paul Merhige, 35, opened fire

James Witham was imprisoned for life with a minimum term of 43 years, and driver Joseph Peers was told he must serve at least 41 years following the murder of Ashley Dale

The teenage son of a Reddit user found himself in a difficult situation when he nibbled on the forbidden cheeses sitting in the fridge. Now, his mum is considering banning him from Thanksgiving dinner

Lawrence Jones, the founder of huge Manchester tech company UK Fast, was accused of raping the two women in the 1990s while he was a piano player in pubs and hotels across the city

Tarik Oulida, the former Ajax and Sevilla midfielder, was sentenced by a court in Malaga but will not serve any time in prison, despite the 30-month sentence that was handed down

David Charles Zold, who was described as a "deviant, sexually manipulative individual" by a judge, has died at HMP Wakefield, aka Monster Mansion, while serving a life sentence for his vile crimes

World snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan - dubbed The Rocket - turned professional the same year his dad was locked up for stabbing Bruce Bryan to death in a nightclub

Pensioner Roy Lockett, from Llanelli, Wales, and rugby coach son Austin left the young victim feeling 'worthless' after the two sick men sexually abused her in succession

Channel 5's Devil in Disguise: The Murder of Ronald Platt documentary airs tonight and examines the heinous crimes of Canadian fraudster Albert Walker, who murdered his pal and then stole his identity

PC Rowan Horrocks, who was based in Sheffield, left the woman with multiple and extensive injuries after he took her home with him after a night out in November 2021

Video captured the shocking moment a car exploded at the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls between the US and Canada, shutting down the border and prompting an investigation - New York Governor Kathy Hochul has tonight said there was 'no indication' of a terrorist attack

Nicholas Fryers, 56, met the worker at Sainsbury's Dartford Distribution Centre through a scheme with HMP Standford Hill in Kent - he knifed her nearly 80 times in a frenzied attack

Michael Rowe, 36, killed 61-year-old Bernadette Rosario - known as Bernie - in her house in the village of Penwithick, outside St Austell, Cornwall, during a drug-fuelled attack

Kadees Mohammed is accused of 'smothering' and beating his three-week-old son to death as well as attacking his mother and wife as they tried to stop him at their home in Birmingham - he has denied murder

Ashley Dale, a environmental health worker, was shot dead by James Witham who, with co-defendants Joseph Peers, Niall Barry and Sean Zeisz, was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court

Little Olivia Pratt-Kobel, was just nine years old when she was gunned down by cruel dealer Thomas Cashman, 35, who had chased another supplier into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool last year

Liam Hughes, 18, raped three girls in Grangemouth, Falkirk and Stirlingshire during his campaign of abuse between 2020 and 2022

Ashley Dale's killers were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court today. James Witham, 41, Joseph Peers, 29, Niall Barry, 26, and Sean Zeisz, 28, were all jailed for life

Dawn Coleman faced charges of aiding inducing or causing murder. She was further charged with neglect, obstructing justice and causing the death of Cairo Jordan after packaging his body in a suitcase