UK crime

Stealing items like cups and cutlery from restaurants has become a viral TikTok trend, but many are concerned about its implications.

Retailers face rising thefts, worsened by middle-class individuals using self-service checkouts, affecting large chains and small businesses.

New findings regarding Lucy Letby's are making expert's question the validity of her conviction for the deaths of 7 infants.

In a statement released by Leicestershire Police, the Kohli family expressed their heartbreak and described Bhim Sen as a loving husband, father, grandfather, son, brother, and uncle

According to the charity, Retail Trust, one-third of retail workers said that they are victims of customer abuse on a weekly basis.

The man admitted to filming two of his patients without their knowledge in a state of undress.

The Ministry of Justice has invested £15 million into organisations that tackle drug abuse and rehabilitation for women in the UK. The scheme will also reduce the £18 billion overall cost of reoffending for the taxpayer.

A 21-year-old paedophile posed as a 14-year-old boy in an attempt to enrol as a pupil at a school in Ilkeston, England.

A police officer has been fired for abandoning his duty to have sex during his shift.

A suspected child sex offender who allegedly jumped into a freezing river to escape police was found hiding in a wheelie bin.

The former girlfriend of Met Police officer David Carrick has claimed that he would abuse her if she refused to engage in "weird, crazy" sex with him.

More than 1,000 Metropolitan Police officers and staff have been accused of being involved in sexual and domestic abuse.

A woman who was killed by her husband more than 20 years ago will finally be laid to rest as the police have finally been able to discover her remains.

A woman who had her iPhone and handbag stolen in a street attack in Derby managed to track down her device using another Apple device.

A 38-year-old woman has been accused of murdering and decapitating her friend before dumping her body in woods in Devon, UK.

A woman who stole more than £12,000 along with a colleague from a couple suffering from dementia, has been asked to repay just £1.

A 46-year-old man named Stuart Paul McPhee has been jailed for 32 months for torturing and falsely imprisoning his neighbour after the latter stole a tin of chicken curry from McPhee's flat.

A 67-year-old man accused of rape has finally been brought to justice, after he was handed over a 12-year extended sentence at Newport Crown Court, South Wales. He had committed the crime in Cardiff in 1980.

Peter Pickering who was found guilty of raping a teenager and killing another minor girl almost 40 years ago had also managed to successfully escape the justice system for the murder of 14-year-old Elsie Frost in Wakefield in 1965.

A UK court has given a life sentence to a 17-year-old boy who stabbed a disabled teenage girl at least 99 times before leaving her alone to die in Sittingbourne, Kent in July last year.

A 36-year-old police officer from West Yorkshire has been accused of raping and impregnating a "paralytically drunk" woman in 2016 during a night out. She added that the cop kept "plying her with drinks," on that fateful night.

Agampodi Dezoysa, 25, from Brent, north London, has been jailed for 12 years after he admitted 4 counts of rape, assault causing grievous bodily harm, and criminal damage.

Michael Gallagher, 34, was jailed for 6 years and 9 months at Liverpool Crown Court after he admitted attacking Christine Bell, 70, with a wheel brace.

Leader Paul Golding and deputy leader Jayda Fransen were jailed for a total of 54 weeks after being convicted of hate crimes convicted at Folkestone Magistrates' Court.

The increase in knife crime has not gone unnoticed in the capital, with police facing new challenges everyday.

A 17-year-old girl, of Cannock, Staffordshire, and the 45-year-old man that she vanished with have both been critically injured after an incident in the back of a police van.

The Old Bailey said Lucian Stinci was 'infatuated' with his flatmate Florina Pastina, who he repeatedly hit her over the head with a hammer at the home they shared in London.

21-year-old Paul Moore drove his Volkswagen into Hussein in Leicester, then ran her over as she lay on the ground. Hussein suffered fractures to her pelvis, her spine and leg.

Terence Riley, 38, from Liverpool, was a 13-year-old boy when he found murdered James Bulger's body abandoned on a railway line in Walton, Merseyside, in 1993.

Great-grandmother Anne James, 74, was pronounced dead in her cottage in Highgate, Walsall, on Thursday (1 March) after suffering a 'shocking, violent' attack.