- NewsAndy Wells
Police hunt thug caught on CCTV snatching a handbag from an elderly woman in the street
The 79-year-old victim suffered a broken arm in the attack.
- NewsMatilda Long
80-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman, 76, stabbed to death in Essex home
Police have today identified the victim as Janet Lewis, who was found with stab wounds to her neck on 1 September.
- NewsAndy Wells
Hungry burglar caught out after leaving traces of DNA while eating fishcake
Jan Gina stole left a half-eaten fishcake on the kitchen table.
- NewsAndy Wells
Britain's worst female paedophile to be released in weeks, government confirms
Vanessa George was locked up for a minimum of seven years in 2009.
- NewsAndy Wells
Mum in charity sleep-out has face attacked by thug ‘demanding sex for a donation’
Jen Ross was offered £500 to sleep with Craig Jones.
- NewsRoss McGuinness
Moped crime in London halved after police introduce tough measures to ram suspects
The number of crimes in London involving mopeds has fallen by 53% in a year, the Metropolitan Police said.
- NewsEllen Manning
Motorist fined after being caught driving with another car on top of his car
Glyndwr Wyn Richards, 51, from Llanfarian, Wales, was caught on camera driving the car through an industrial estate with another car strapped to the top.
- NewsEllen Manning
Pictured: Teen murderer, 17, who stabbed schoolgirl Ellie Gould to death
Thomas Griffiths, the killer of Ellie Gould, has been named for the first time after a judge lifted reporting restrictions at Bristol Crown Court.
- NewsAndy Wells
Thai killers who murdered British backpackers to get death penalty after appeal fails
Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin had denied killing David Miller and raping and killing Hannah Witheridge.
- NewsAndy Wells
Teenager arrested on suspicion of murder after teaching assistant’s body found in cemetery
Lindsay Birbeck's body was found in Accrington Cemetery on Saturday.
- NewsEllen Manning
Tourists warning after spike in violent crime in Barcelona dubbed a 'crisis'
According to figures from local police, violent crimes rose by nearly a third from the first six months last year to the same period this year.
- NewsEllen Manning
Parents who left baby toothless and malnourished through forced vegan diet are spared jail
The couple avoided a prison sentence at court in Sydney after leaving their daughter, now three, so malnourished that she had no teeth, developed rickets and could not stand.
- NewsAndy Wells
Man who raped and murdered teen is executed by lethal injection... at sixth attempt
Larry Swearingen was the 12th inmate put to death this year in the US.
- NewsAndy Wells
Trafalgar Square stabbing: Police hunt suspect in late-night knife attack
The victim's injuries were not life-threatening.
- NewsEllen Manning
Andrew Harper: Newlywed police officer, 28, killed on duty at suspected burglary
PC Andrew Harper died while attending a reported burglary near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, on Thursday night, Thames Valley Police said.
- NewsAndy Wells
Asda store closed after man in his twenties is stabbed in the back
The store in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, was closed following the stabbing.
- NewsAndy Wells
Pictured: 'Devoted father', 52, stabbed to death with screwdriver near Greggs as seven teens are arrested
Peter Duncan was attacked in Old Eldon Square, Newcastle, on Wednesday.
- NewsAndy Wells
Camden stabbing: 16-year-old victim was ’Southampton youth team player who had gone off the rails’
The 16-year-old died on Munster Square in Camden on Monday night.
- NewsRoss McGuinness
Boris Johnson’s prison proposals branded ‘monumental waste of money’
The prime minister has made tackling crime one of his key policies since he entered Number 10 last month.
- NewsEllen Manning
Serial burglar's foul-mouthed rant as he's jailed for 23 years for killing pensioner he'd robbed
Johnny Brazil, 27, of Kingston Road, Epsom, Surrey, was sentenced for the manslaughter of Joyce Burgess, who died after he robbed her in her own home in Woking, Surrey.
- NewsMatilda Long
Leyton machete attack: First picture of hero police officer who Tasered and arrested thug who assaulted him
Stuart Outten managed to Taser Muhammad Rodwan even after being slashed in the head and hands in the attack in Leyton, East London.
- NewsEllen Manning
Lawyer for British woman accused of making up claim of gang rape in Cyprus quits over 'disagreement'
The news of the lawyer's withdrawal from the case came as the 19-year-old woman's family reportedly set up a GoFundMe page to raise £15,000 towards her legal fees.
- NewsEllen Manning
Four dead and two injured after two-hour rampage by man 'full of anger'
A 33-year-old was arrested after the killings in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, south-east of Los Angeles, California.
- NewsAndy Wells
Man who murdered five children and three adults in house fire is jailed for life
Shahid Mohammed murdered eight people in a house fire in 2002.
- NewsEllen Manning
Burglary victim, 69, feigns heart attack in desperate bid to stop criminal
The 69-year-old woman pretended to be having a heart attack in the hope it would stop the burglar who burst into her home in Wednesbury, West Midlands.
