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Ex-pop star Gary Glitter has appeared in court charged with sexual offences dating back to the 1970s against a girl aged between eight and 11.

A former X Factor finalist has denied murdering a social media influencer by ramming her with a Mercedes in central London.

A teenage hitman who flew into the UK from Norway to murder a stranger on behalf of one of Europe’s most dangerous crime gangs is facing a life sentence.

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has admitted attacking a new partner following his release from prison.

An international kart racer accused of stabbing his Airbnb host to death in her £4million Hyde Park mansion within hours of arriving in the UK has denied murder.

Two teenagers have been convicted after they stormed a restaurant, poured petrol on customers and set them alight.

Michael Stewart, 57, and Anthony Stewart, 60, were just 15 and 18 when they set upon Anthony Littler, who was bludgeoned to death as he walked home in East Finchley, north London, on May 1, 1984.

Former Tesco worker Alfie Coleman, now 22, was just 14 when he first began to trawl the internet for extreme right-wing material on is electronic devices.

A 20-year-old man in the UK who was under the scanner of security agencies after a trip to Pakistan has been convicted of sharing and possessing Islamist terrorist material.

Two criminal proxies branded "useful idiots" have been jailed for a series of arson attacks targeting Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

A former British immigration official and a retired Hong Kong police officer have been jailed for spying for China.

Shortly after midnight on May 13, 2025, Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych messaged someone he knew as ‘EL Money’, a mystery figure who had instructed him to commit three arson attacks on property linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK prime minister, an FT investigation has found.

An Essex-based gang fronted by a career criminal have been found guilty of smuggling Afghan migrants into the UK using a truck, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency.

Two men found guilty over a series of arson attacks on property linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer were instructed to do so by a Russian-linked social media channel.

A Norwegian teenager accused of traveling to the UK to carry out a "hit" was seen pretending to shoot one of the officers arresting him, in police body-worn camera footage shown in court.

Three Kurdish activists accused of being members of banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will be retried after a jury was unable to reach a verdict in their case.

It took more than 40 years, but patient murder detectives finally caught their killers by exploiting a family rift.

A failed asylum seeker has been handed a two-and-a-half year prison sentence after planting a fake stick of dynamite outside MI5 headquarters on New Year’s Day.

A hero off-duty volunteer police officer apprehended a knifeman who carried out a brutal attack on a woman and two children in East London.

Two men, including a British immigration officer, were found guilty in a London court on Thursday of spying on behalf of Hong Kong and ultimately China

A man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder in connection with the Golders Green attacks yesterday.

Alexander Cashford, 49, was brutally attacked by two boys, 15 and 16, and a girl, 16, on the Isle of Sheppey, with the assault filmed and posted to social media.