All news on the topic: Crime

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Police say Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused more than 111 women
Scale of the criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders
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Real estate deal with royal raises questions about drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale’s business in Dubai
Imperiale, who lived freely in Dubai for years despite being wanted for drug trafficking in Italy and Spain, was a shareholder in a real estate company that built luxury villas in the Emirati city-state.
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Man, 32, arrested for ’attempted murder’ after 8-year-old girl and her father were shot in a car attack
A second man has been arrested after an eight-year-old girl was ‘caught in the crossfire’ of a shooting in west London on Sunday night.
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NGOs: trafficked women in Mexico face "judicial indifference"
Organized crime, systemic corruption, and a culture of machismo are fueling a devastating crisis for women and girls in Mexico, where only a tiny minority of human trafficking cases are investigated by authorities.
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Kensington shooting: Girl, 8, injured and man seriously hurt as police search for gunman
Met Police were called to Kensington following reports of a shooting - a man and a young girl were found suffering from serious injuries at the scene on the weekend
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Man shot dead and another critically injured in Birmingham shooting, with a murder suspect arrested
West Midlands Police say they worked through the night to determine the cause of the shootings and are urging anyone with information to come forward.
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Two men who operated a people-smuggling ring from a car wash in Caerphilly plead guilty
Dilshad Shamo, 41, and Ali Khdir, 40, had previously denied all five counts but pleaded guilty to all charges on the tenth day of their trial.
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Murder at Brazil’s busiest airport highlights failures in witness protection
The assassination of a police informant in São Paulo’s main international airport has exposed serious flaws in Brazil’s witness protection system, complicating efforts to dismantle powerful organized crime networks.
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Dylan Thomas convicted of murdering his ’best friend’ on Christmas Eve in Cardiff
Thomas had tried to break into Buckingham Palace and written messages to Elon Musk about gravity. His defence argued his schizophrenia made him incapable of murder - but the prosecution pointed to online searches he made before attacking his "only real friend".
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Smuggling adapts to the reopening of the Colombia-Venezuela border
As darkness falls over Cúcuta, Colombia’s bustling border city, shadows provide cover for criminal networks.
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Major Canadian banks TD and RBC hold mortgages for alleged Toronto mafia boss
Angelo Figliomeni became the center of a media storm when police filed organized crime and money laundering charges against him in 2019.
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Getaway driver sentenced to life in prison for teens’ murders
A man who drove four teenagers on a revenge mission that led to two best friends being murdered has been jailed for life.
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Marius Borg Hoiby, son of Norwegian princess, arrested on suspicion of rape
Marius Borg Høiby, detained in August following an incident at a woman’s apartment in Oslo, was arrested on Monday evening.
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International manhunt launched for husband of woman found in car boot
The husband of a woman who was found dead in a car boot in east London is a prime suspect in the case and is believed to have fled the country, police said.
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Murdered woman found in car boot identified as police suggest she may have been ’targeted’
Police believe Harshita Brella was attacked by someone known to her, but say they are keeping an "open mind" about the circumstances leading to her death.
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Train passenger stabbed following row over bag on empty seat
A man was stabbed and left with blood pouring from his hand after an argument over his bag being left on a train seat.
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Eight dead and at least 17 injured in mass stabbing at college in China
Police are investigating whether the suspect, believed to be a recent graduate, carried out the attack after he failed an exam and was denied a graduation certificate
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Woman’s body discovered in car boot in east London as two police forces begin murder investigation
A woman’s body has been found in the boot of a car in East London.
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Teenager sentenced to prison for shaking partner’s baby to death
The baby suffered "catastrophic" brain injuries after being shaken by Alesbrook, who had met his mother just weeks earlier. She has also been sentenced to time in prison for child cruelty offences.
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Four boys and a 45-year-old man found guilty of mistakenly murdering innocent Bristol teenagers Mason Rist and Max Dixon
Four teenagers and a man have been found guilty of the murder of teenagers Mason Rist and Max Dixon in Bristol.
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Prime suspect in estate agent’s murder dies in jail from apparent ‘aneurysm’
The prime suspect in the disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh died in prison as a result of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, an inquest has heard.
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Urgent hunt for missing man due to stand trial for rape
A man who is on trial for rape has gone missing after breaching his bail conditions.
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Europol warns that organized crime groups are recruiting minors
Roughly 70 percent of criminal markets now involve minors to some extent, Europol said.
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Dead drops, publicity stunts, and punishment beatings: the rapid ascent of Russia’s powerful darknet drug industry
Tech-savvy organised crime groups profiting from billion-dollar enterprise that is spreading beyond Russian borders