UK crime

Richard Spottiswood, 34, and Lucy Burn, 29, have denied murdering Darren Bonner, 24, following a furious row about drugs at Cresswell Towers caravan park, Northumberland.

The Attorney General has deemed the sentence handed to child killer Craig Smith, 28, too soft. Smith was jailed for life with a minimum term of 17 years in November 2017.

Asylum seeker Munir Mohammed volunteered for a 'lone wolf' mission and drafted in the help of pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan, who he met on SingleMuslim.com.

Burglar Peter McGlade on the run after busting out of the North Sea Camp prison near Boston on Sunday.

Black cab driver John Worboys, 60, has spent 9 years and 9 months in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women, and raping another woman.

Mark Meechan, 30, on trial at Airdrie Court, is accused of committing a hate crime by posting a video of him saying 'Sieg Heil' and forcing his dog to perform Nazi salutes.

The vulnerable woman was raped in her home in the Rossmore area of Poole, Dorset, after 10pm on Saturday (30 December). Dorset Police say no arrests have been made.

Cambridgeshire police officers were forced to cordon off a section from a church in Cottenham on Friday (5 January) amid suspicions that a child's grave had been disturbed.

A group of joggers reportedly tried to save the boy's life after he was stabbed in Friars Wharf, Oxford, close to the River Thames, but he sadly died at the scene.

Police say a 44-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene, in Ilford, east London. A 45-year-old man was arrested by detectives at an address in Newham on suspicion of murder

An 18-year-old man who was caught brandishing a large sword while wearing a ski mask in a residential area in South London has been jailed for more than three years.

World-renowned royal harpist Danielle Perrett is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy with her lover in 1984.

A 22-year-old man from Lancashire is said to have breached the Public Order Act at a demonstration by a group called the North West Infidels in Blackpool in March 2016.

Andrew Macrae, 43, also secretly wore a female colleague's underwear and admitted to filming up women's dresses on the train on his way to and from work.

PCSO Jacqui Fairbanks, who works with prostitutes in Hull's Hessle Road, said that many women working in the red light district, had been physically and mentally abused.

Theodore Johnson, 64, killed his former partners in 1981 and 1992, and was twice convicted of manslaughter only to be freed in 1995 to kill Angela Best in December 2016.

Kasim Lewis, 31, has been charged with murder of 22-year-old Luliana Tudos he body was discovered in Finsbury Park, north London, on 27 December.

Woman who made 'unsubstantiated' sexual abuse allegations against her ex-partner has been barred from seeing their four-year-old daughter.

Andy Sami Star, 31, and Farhad Salah, 22, both of Iraqi origin, were arrested on 19 December in Yorkshire. They are alleged to have been in possession of a 'low explosive black powder'.

Northumbria Police have charged Mark Smith, 41, with the murder of Jillian Grant whose body was found in a North Shields house on Christmas day.

Natasha Claus, 36, of no fixed abode, has been jailed for 13 months and banned from Woking town centre after arriving at Guildford Crown Court four hours late.

A 36-year-old woman has been left with life-changing burns to her leg and face after being victim to an acid attack in Canary Wharf, east London.

The figures showed that of 4.2m crimes recorded in 2016/17 suspects were identified in 2m. The Sun found that there was also a disparity across England and Wales between forces.

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.

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.

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

Mark Nesmith, from Coventry, was stabbed to death by Tyler Smith outside a BP garage in Butts Road, Spon End. Smith, 21, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.

A man in his 20s was shot in the head with a shotgun in front of shocked Christmas shoppers at lunchtime in Southport town centre, Merseyside, on Thursday (21 December).

Ismael Watson, formally Jack Watson, from Walsall, has been jailed for planning to join Isis before his pregnant wife told the authorities.

Former police officer Andrew Stevenson, of Morriston, Swansea, screamed 'she has taken everything from me' as he launched into the attack in September 2017.