CRIME

A 19-year-old Romanian woman was forced into prostitution from a London flat after being trafficked into the UK and having glamour photos taken.

The Rt Rev Dr Alastair Redfern told a local paper that criminal gangs were moving trafficked women between rented holiday homes they used as temporary brothels.

Callum Walker, 23, was out with friends in Sutton Coldfield when he was stabbed in his head, chest and hand after altercation in the early hours of 23 December.

Ten Christmas shoppers were injured after a bomb with the equivalent of 200g of TNT ripped through the Perekrestok market in the north west of the city.

A church was burgled on Christmas Day, losing thousands of pounds worth of silverware, and police think thieves may have carried out the crime after attending midnight mass.

Japanese police say they have arrested a couple whose 33-year-old daughter, Airi Kakimoto, froze to death in a tiny room where she had been confined for more than a decade.

A new survey has said one in four Brits admit to stealing items while using self-service tills, resulting in an estimated £3.2bn of theft a year.

Vegan chef Anthony Milan Ross has been accused of shooting dead his wife and two children on Christmas Day in Phoenix, Arizona.

Tramadol, a powerful opiate painkiller, is illegal in Egypt but available on prescription in the UK. Plummer claimed the pills were for her Egyptian boyfriend who suffered back pain, and she was not aware they were illegal in Egypt.

Adam Nicholls and Alexandra Knight both spent Christmas working in children's intensive care wards but spent Boxing Day searching for their missing cat after a callous burglary.

Convicted acid attacker Arthur Collins likely to spend even more time behind bars after admitting to smuggling a phone into prison to call his ex-girlfriend Ferne McCann.

Paedophiles are using YouTube as a shop window to advertise abused children and underage pornography to other predators, it has been claimed.

Ilya Averyanov, the factory's ex-owner has barricaded himself inside the building and warned that he would "fight until the very end".

Arthur Rathburn, the man behind the operation, pleaded not guilty to defrauding customers by sending them diseased body parts.

Ronnie Lynn Gipson confessed to the crimes while chatting with the victim on Facebook before telling her to "get over it".

Retailers have reportedly complained that the £200 threshold to probe thefts has prompted a rise in shoplifting from organised crime groups.

The 69-year-old victim had walked into Lloyds Bank in Ilford to withdraw £1,000 cash from her account before she got into a lift, where she was pick-pocketed.

Christmas celebrations in the UK have been marred by tragic deaths, road incidents and violent robberies.

Laura Plummer, 33, travelled to Egypt with nearly 300 tablets of Tramadol, as well as some Naproxen, which she claimed were for her sick partner.

Tarek Hawchieh confessed to murdering Rebecca Dykes while she was returning home from a party, and then dumping her body at the side of the road.

The suspect started acting as a mute to throw the police off his trail after he allegedly killed his wife's uncle over a financial dispute.

After hitting Taranjit Parmar's jeep, Daniel Coppolo fled through a parking lot "in an extremely reckless manner while the girl was holding onto the car".

Sarah L Myer, 41, admitted to having sexual relations with the boy between November 2016 and April 2017.

Steven Seiler, 60, told police he never bothered to check on his wife despite the foul smell in the apartment.

British tourist Laura Plummer wept in an Egyptian court on Christmas Day over a drug smuggling charge that could lead to a death penalty.

It is not clear whether the attack on 19-year-old Jasmine Vega was random or targeted.

Dean Cotter, 29, escaped from HMP Kirkham, where he was serving a sentence for tying up an elderly man and slashing him with a machete.

After taking office in 2012, President Enrique Pena Nieto pledged to curb gang violence but the official data proves it has not had any effect.

The boy went on to shoot himself after murdering the couple and is currently being treated at a hospital in Virginia.