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A man who had a 'heart of gold' and was killed in broad daylight in Birmingham has been named locally as Darren 'Wiffa' Smith. A murder investigation is now underway

El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail

A murder investigation is underway after a man was found dead with fatal injuries at a popular shopping precinct in Birmingham. Witnesses claimed he was attacked with a hammer for his designer watch

Savers at risk because social media giant fails to tackle the running sore of frauds on its platform

Young dad Jordan Trengrove says he tried to take his own life after Eleanor Williams falsely accused him of rape, and has now hit out at those who still believe her lies

A 25-year-old Canadian tourist fell to his death from the bridge on a peripheral road near Barcelona after police believe he was targeted by a group of five youths trying to mug him

The Gold, written by Neil Forsyth, aired on BBC One on February 12 and stars Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Sean Harris and Jack Lowden

One image shows clutter filling the house including an unused exercise bike covered in paint, while in another room we see an Autocars magazine dated 1964

Denise Fergus was deflated when informed of a parole hearing for Jon Venables, who murdered her son James. Now she is urging officials to keep him locked up forever

Joshua Bowles, 29, was arrested following the attack on a woman at around 9.15am on March 9. He has now been charged with attempted murder and causing actual bodily harm

Chico Police Department were called to Food Maxx grocery store in California, US, on Sunday afternoon after a passerby discovered a man's body in a shopping trolley

12-year-old Luise F was walking home from her best friend's place when she was stabbed to death by two of her close friends in Hohenhain, near Freudenberg, Germany

The trial of Fiona Beal heard that plastic bags, rubble, mortar, polystyrene, laminate flooring, and sections of fabric and vinyl were recovered from a "built structure" hiding the body of Nicholas Billingham

Jayden Robker, from Kansas, US, was reported missing on February 2 after he went out skateboarding near Terrace Mobile Home Park. He was last spotted at a connivence store on CCTV

In a blistering condemnation, Labour's Jess Phillips asked the Prime Minister what she should say to the next trafficked woman who is being repeatedly raped who comes to her for help

Thomas Cashman, who was arrested on September 4 on suspicion of murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, told officers 'you're stitching me up' when they handcuffed him, court hears

Sidney Holmes, 57, was sentenced to 400 years in prison for an armed robbery which took place in 1988, but he was found innocent in a reinvestigation of the case in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

A 29-year-old man who was unable to control his anger, stabbed his 37-year-old friend 11 times following a heated argument in a sauna over the size of their penises

Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, killed his niece Somaiya Begum, 20, on June 25 last year, before dumping her body on waste ground. It was found decomposed 11 days later

Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, has been told he will serve at least 25 years behind bars for the brutal murder of his niece Somaiya Begum, 20, as she had refused to marry her cousin

Brave couple Malcolm and Elise Abelson have been praised after facing up to an armed robber who tried to target their Manchester jewellers in a would-be attack caught on CCTV

The 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly groomed by the 34-year-old suspect Jorge Camacho through online video games, was found locked in a shed in Lexington, North Carolina, US

Many trains are still operating without CCTV despite British Transport Police seeing a huge upturn in sex crimes on the rail - from harassment and voyeurism to rape

Eleanor Williams, 22, was jailed yesterday after falsely accusing multiple local men of grooming and raping her, even going so far as to injure herself with a hammer as "proof"

A Hendon schoolgirl says she was attacked by a group of boys who had sent her racist threats in the past, while her older sister claims school staff failed to take care of the 14-year-old