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Patrick Mackay, 70, has served 47 years for three killings but originally owned up to eight more – before retracting his admission

Mum-of-two Holly Thackeray, 31, said she was scammed after posting some appeals on social media when her beloved American Bulldog, named Chapo, escaped from her garden in West Yorkshire

Several houses were evacuated in Derbyshire after a man was arrested on suspicion of explosive offences leading to a massive cordon being set up as officers investigate

The Grand Annual Steeple Chase cup was being worked on ahead of the 2023 Cheltenham Festival. The theft comes just days after the dress code was ditched at The Jockey Club's tracks

Pictures appeared on social media pages of Kelly and Stacey after Dale Cregan’s nephew Oscar was jailed for drug dealing. The images show barristers sitting in a courtroom

Leanne Slater made off with the floral tributes she stole from the boy's grave at a cemetery in Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, so police issued a warrant for her arrest

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Yisrael Amir, now 22, was just 12 years old when his father ripped him away from his home in Israel with the promises of a heavenly life in Guatemala, but he instead arrived at a cult compound where leaders have been accused of raping children

Large amounts of cash of up thousands of pounds have been charged for poor trade skills and work, found to affect the ability of the property to secure a mortgage, say Trading Standards bosses

Paul Savage, a postman, 'wonderful' dad and husband was found beaten to death in Flintshire, Wales, in a pool of blood on February 4, 2003. Police have now issued a fresh plea and a £20k reward for information 20 years after his brutal murder

Essex Police suspect the victim, a man in his 40s, had been assaulted close to a nearby pub after being called to a car park in Canvey Island in the early hours of this morning

Suspected gang members Noah David Beard, 25, and Angel "Nanu" Uriarte, 35, were dragged into custody after six people were murdered in a brutal massacre in January, including a teen mother and her six-month-old baby boy

John Michael Musbach, 31, from New Jersey, pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot where he paid $20,000 in Bitcoin to have a 13-year-old girl killed after having exchanged naked images with her

Petrus-Ionut Apostoae, 25, was jailed for more than 14 years after entering a stranger's home and raping her in a sickening attack while her children slept in the next room

Paedophile Gary Glitter, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls and was today freed after serving half his sentence

Taiba Alali fled her homeland in 2017 to start a new life in Turkey and had planned to wed her Syrian-born boyfriend. But when she returned to support the Iraq football team her family kidnapped her

Mason Mills stabbed Kieron Moore to death after the victim attacked him with a plank of wood as he stood smoking outside his sister's house, wrongly believing him to be involved with his girlfriend

Analysis by the House of Commons Library found that the number of community police officers have fallen by more than 4,000 since 2015 across England and Wales. See how your area has been affected

Police began investigating Lyne Barlow in 2020 after victims came forward to claim that they hadn't received holidays they had paid her for - she has now been jailed for nine years

Nicola Bulley's disappearance has gripped the nation as police today shared they believe she fell into the River Wyre and it was not suspicious

Donna Dixon was left devastated when a woman - Leanne Slater - stole the flowers she had left on the grave of her son, Keiran, who had passed away in 2014 aged just 14

Callum Halpin, 28, fled the country and went on the run for four years following the murder of Luke Graham in 2018, and has today been jailed for 30 years for his part in the crime

The charges against Mason Greenwood - attempted rape, engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm - were dropped on Thursday

A bill proposed by Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature would allow prisoners in the US to exchange bone marrow or an organ for time off their sentence, capped at one year

Kendra Gibson targeted four shops in less than a week and assaulted three members of staff in Middlesbrough. She threatened to a punch a shop assistant and stab another with a needle

Abusive woman Jody Simpson, 29, abused baby Tony Hudgell with her partner so badly he needed his legs amputating. She has now been released less than five years into a 10-year sentence