Crime News

Police are investigating after a driver apparently boasted on Twitter that she had knocked over a cyclist. More »

The mother of a 20-month-old child found dead at a house in Oxfordshire is wanted by police on suspicion of her murder. More »

Detectives are treating the death of a 20-month-old girl as murder and have named her mother as a suspect. More »

The family of a woman who was strangled after being left in the clutches of a convicted murderer plan to sue the police over a catalogue of blunders. More »

The family of a woman who was strangled after being left in the clutches of a convicted murderer plan to sue the police over a catalogue of blunders and are calling More »

Police have recovered the body of a man from the rubble of a terraced house in Nottinghamshire after a suspected gas explosion. More »

Criminal suspects who have been arrested should not be named until they are charged except for in "clearly identified circumstances" such as a threat to life, More »

A man and his daughter-in-law are believed to have been killed in a suspected gas blast, police said. More »

The man accused of murdering schoolgirl April Jones told police he "most certainly did not" sexual assault her, a court has heard. More »

The offices of Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans were searched by police on Sunday inconnection with a rape investigation. More »

A retired Church of England priest found guilty of a catalogue of historic sex attacks on young children at a Barnardo's home has been jailed for 10 years. More »

The offices of Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans were searched by police on Sunday in connection with an investigation into allegations of rape and sexual assault. More »

The former slaughterman accused of murdering schoolgirl April Jones told police that he "could have burnt the body", a court has been told. More »

Entertainer Rolf Harris has performed his first live show since his arrest over historical sexual assault claims, and thanked fans for their ongoing support. More »

One-eyed police killer Dale Cregan "bizarrely" pleaded not guilty to two murders despite admitting them "numerous times", a jury has been told. More »

The father of footballers Phil and Gary Neville is to be charged with sexual assault. More »

Neville Neville, the father of former England footballers Gary and Phil Neville, has been charged with sexual assault, prosecutors said Monday. More »

French prosecutors said Monday they were currently not charging a 48-year-old divorced Briton with premeditated murder after he admitted slitting the throats of his More »

A man who allegedly posed as the brother of comedian Peter Kay to con pub landlords has been charged with fraud, police have said. More »

Rescuers on Monday recovered one body and were searching for another person after a suspected gas explosion tore through a house in Newark, Nottinghamshire, police More »

A British father is due to appear in court in France, where he is expected to be formally charged with slitting the throats of his two young children. More »

A man has died and another person is still missing after a gas explosion which destroyed a terraced house, police said. More »

Mairead Philpott - who was jailed for killing her six children in a house fire - is planning to appeal her 17-year sentence. More »

A mother jailed for 17 years for killing her six children in a house fire is to appeal against the length of her sentence, her lawyer has said. More »

A British skier has died while tackling a famous off-piste glacier in the French Alps, local police have said. More »

A murder investigation has been launched following the shooting of a man on Saturday night, police said. More »

Police have launched a murder investigation following the death of a man who was shot dead in Hove. More »