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People who completed their tax return for the 2022-23 tax year by the January 31 deadline may be taken in by an email, phone call or text message offering a bogus tax rebate

Stephen and Carol Baxter, 61 and 64, of Mersea Island, Essex, ran a company called Cazsplash and were both found dead in their conservatory by their daughter last year

A gang who shot dead rookie officer PC Sharon Beshenivsky during a botched raid in Bradford in 2005 watched the news on TV 'in panic' from a safe house in Leeds, a court heard

Jamie Oakes, 37, has been jailed for more than three years after a "violent and frightening" incident in which an employee was accused of theft and threatened by his boss

The gang behind a robbery at Universal Express Travel in Bradford in 2005 which left rookie police officer PC Sharon Beshenivsky dead allegedly went on a champagne and vodka fuelled night out at a brothel hours before

Home Office officials have reportedly drawn up a shortlist of celebrities in Albania who they want to post TikTok videos discouraging people from travelling to the UK by small boat

Criminals may also pose as police officers, claiming a fraud has taken place on someone's account

Alan Lawson, 36, was found with serious injuries at his home in Saltcoats, Ayshire, before he died in hospital - with a man allegedly confessing to his torture on Snapchat

The girl's terrified stepmother has claimed in court she saw the alleged killer Adam Montgomery take his daughter, Harmony's lifeless body, "fold her in half, and squished" her inside a duffel bag after he killed her

The British Retail Consortium's annual survey found that violence and abuse against shop workers spiked last year with about 1,300 incidents a day

Mum Ruth Purcell Healy, 37, appeared at Waterford District Court last night charged with the murder of her six-year-old son Matthew Purcell-Healy, whose body was found in a car

New figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) found a 50% increase in assaults and abuse of shop workers as it slammed the Government's "woefully inadequate" action

A Florida woman, Talia Nelson, faces severe charges after her 14-year-old son Zayke Smith-Nelson died weighing only 2 stone 3 (33 pounds), revealing a disturbing case of alleged neglect and starvation

Erin Patterson remains in prison in Victoria, Australia, accused of murder over a deadly mushroom lunch which killed three in her ex-husband's family and left another man in intensive care

Heba Alhayek, 29, Pauline Ankunda, 26, and 27-year-old Noimutu Olayinka have been found guilty of a terror offence after displaying images of 'paragliders' at a pro-Palestine march

Israel's invasion of Gaza continues at pace, with the country's government now considering a ground attack on Rafah, where 1.4million Palestinians fled to avoid conflict elsewhere in the Strip

A mass stabbing inside a technical school in Manassas, Virginia, resulted in one death and one critical injury as the police announced the suspect was shot dead on the scene. All involved were males

A woman familiar with violence who would wield guns and crossbows while doing 'Heil Hitler' salutes at her neighbours hated her disabled son so much she would only call him 'the boy'

In 1975, the British public were left horrified by the appalling case of Lesley Whittle, whose naked body was found hanging at the bottom of a 54ft ventilation shaft connected to a disused mine

A Florida woman who had been in the middle of a divorce took a trip to Spain but then vanished with almost no trace as a man wearing a helmet was seen blacking out security cameras, sparking kidnapping rumours

Scarlett Blake, who is charged with murdering Jorge Carreno and dumping his body in a popular bathing spot in Oxford, was earlier found to have filmed herself dissecting a cat

Allan Grimson, known as the 'Frankenstein killer', could be freed from jail this week as the family of one of his suspected victims branded him a 'danger to society'

Jamie Cassidy, an ex-Liverpool footballer who played alongside Premier League stars at youth level, pleaded guilty to involvement in the EncroChat drugs racket alongside his brother

Danyal Sajid, 25 offered the false PCR swab tests to travellers who needed them to go abroad due to pandemic border restrictions - by selling false documents on Snapchat

Darren Steel, 39, is accused of beating older brother Martin Steel, 48, to death in a drunken rage, with their mother Diane Steel finding his 'lifeless' body in an armchair