All news on the topic: Crime

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Family's tribute to 'beautiful boy' stabbed to death after 'row'
Dorset Police has confirmed the identity of the 18-year-old who was murdered in Bournemouth on Saturday morning as Cameron Hamilton's family release a statement with a murder investigation underway
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'My son was killed trying to save me - I'll never escape the guilt that he died'
Katarzyna Bastek says she will always live with the "guilt" that she survived the attack by Suleman Altaf and her tragic son Jakub Szymanski as his killer is jailed
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Dad dies six weeks after cancer news as tributes paid to Newcastle United fan
Barry Sweeney, an avid Newcastle United fan, tragically lost his son in the MH17 crash in 2014, and following being diagnosed with cancer six weeks ago he sadly passed away
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Ex-girlfriend of paedo Ian Watkins breaks silence over horrific prison attack
Jo Mjadzelics is the whistleblower who first told police about the Lostprophets rocker's fantasies about children - she is dismissive about fears for the sex offender's health
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Brutal cartels pimping up Mad Max-style monster trucks with machine gun turrets
Deadly drug cartels in Mexico are loading up armoured trucks with advanced weaponry like rocket launchers and sniper rifles to display dominance and rule rival cartels in the cocaine trail
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Fraudster on run and hunted by three police forces after fruit and veg scam
Mark Bullen, who appeared on BBC's Crimewatch, is currently wanted by police in Kent, Sussex and Edinburgh for pulling the fruit and vegetable scam and has a previous conviction
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'I'm a shop owner losing £1,500 a month to the epidemic of shoplifting'
Four of Saba Mahesh's shops across Sheerness, Kent, are targeted daily by youths whose anti-social and criminal behaviour has worsened since the coronavirus pandemic
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Boy, 12, killed 'trying to cross motorway' as police hunt for driver who fled
West Yorkshire Police said a 12-year-old boy died on the M62 yesterday night and a 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing or allowing the death of a child
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Paedo Ian Watkins 'depraved' sex crimes and sentence as he's stabbed in prison
Speaking after Ian Watkins' sentencing in 2013, a Detective Chief Inspector said the investigation uncovered 'the most disturbing child abuse evidence I have seen in my 28 years as a police officer'
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'My nan should be safe in care home - but a man broke in and tried to rape her'
Jake Astley broke into a care home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, chased terrified staff with a butter knife and then went into the victim's bedroom, a court was told
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Succesful property developer dad trafficked cocaine under nickname 'Covid kid'
Dad-of-four Wesley Campbell trafficked massive amounts of drugs for Craig and Ashley Gallagher as they called on contacts from all around the world to flood Britain with class A substances
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'Zombie hunter' canal killer who slaughtered two young women faces death penalty
For nearly three decades, a brutal murderer walked free until advances in DNA technology finally caught up with him
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Russian 'beasts' bomb blood transfusion centre as Zelensky condemns 'war crime'
Volodymyr Zelensky spoke out after the strike on the Kupiansk community in the Kharkiv region on Saturday night. Rescuers are still trying to tackle the blaze after the strike
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Man wrongly jailed for rape will not pay for 'board and lodgings' in jail
Andrew Malkinson faced deductions of tens of thousands from his future compensation to pay the state for his living costs while wrongly incarcerated - but the law is now changing
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Frantic man screamed 'they're going to kill me' in 999 call moments before death
Saqib Hussain pleaded for help during a high-speed car chase after Ansreen Bukhari and her daughter Mahek hatched a plan to take him down after he threatened to leak intimate videos
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Brit who killed dying wife sent to psych ward where naked inmates pooed on bed
David Hunter suffocated his terminally ill wife Janice at the couple's home in Cyprus, and was jailed for two years for the killing - now he's revealed his ordeal right after her death
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Drug-addict parents unremorseful as baby girl starves to death in deplorable pad
Drug-addled Angel Taylor and Chevy Lafountain of Louisiana have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after their four-month-old baby girl was found dead of starvation
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Paedo rock star Ian Watkins fights for life after brutal stabbing in jail
Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins is said to be in a critical condition after three inmates at HMP Wakefield - dubbed Monster Mansion for its inhabitants - "took him hostage" before launching a violent attack on him
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'Perfect' wife became 'Bahamas bad girl' and sent hitman 'kill him' pic of hubby
Former-beauty pageant queen Lindsay Shriver went from housewife to 'Bahamas bad girl' plotting to kill her former college football star husbandRobert Shiver
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'Welcome to the Monkey Tennis era of government straight out of Alan Partridge'
The government must stop these "bizarre" ideas, like ordering over-50s to get on their bikes, and instead concentrate on education, training and rehabilitation, argues Keir Mudie
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Man was on Judge Judy using alias before 'imprisoning woman in cinderblock cell'
Negasi Zuberi has been accused of kidnapping a Washington state woman and imprisoning her in a cinderblock cell before she beat hear hands bloody breaking the door down and escaping
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Mum's vow to keep schoolgirl's killer behind bars forever
The distraught mum of Rebecca Aylward, 15, said: "That cowardly monster planned to kill my beautiful daughter in the most horrific way possible – he should never be released"
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Killer of innocent beautician cost taxpayers an eye-watering sum
Legal aid payments have been used to cover scores of Connor Chapman’s offences since he was 14. Last month, he was jailed for a minimum of 43 years for killing Elle Edwards
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Tarot card reader sent pals eerie voice note just before being stabbed to death
David Xavier has been jailed for at least 18 years after he stabbed his partner Andreia Guilherme more than 50 times in a 'frenzied attack' at their home in Croydon, south London
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Black man's conviction overturned after judge says 'looks like a criminal to me'
The white judge in Detroit claimed he was fed up with what he perceived to be the defendent's time wasting. He said: 'I’m tired of this case. I’m tired of this defendant. I’m tired of getting the runaround.'