UK crime

Parliamentary member of staff held by police after reportedly attacking man by smashing glass into his face in House of Commons bar.

Stab victim Paul Millea died after he frantically dialled 999 and was put on hold, a court has heard.

David Dearlove denied killing 19-month-old Paul Booth almost 50 years ago. A prosecution was brought by Paul's brother, Peter, a witness, who was 3-years-old at the time.

The gang wrongly suspected a man stole £30,000 to £40,000 of crack cocaine and heroin from a drugs safe house in Plumstead, south east London.

Poppi Worthington died in December 2012 with a family judge ruling that on the balance of probabilities her father 'perpetrated a penetrative assault' on his daughter.

Geraldine Grant, from Widnes, Merseyside, was to receive a package containing 2.5 kilos of super-strength cannabis sent from Spain before it was intercepted at Gatwick Airport.

A drug dealer dubbed 'untouchable', Leevon Birchall, has been jailed for 4 years for possession of cannabis after he was caught in a fight with a gang with a baseball bat.

A man in his sixties was stabbed to death at Cherry Lane adventure playground, in Crawley, West Sussex, at around 10.30am on Tuesday (28 November).

A 56-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were arrested and later released under investigation after the boy was found dead in Nechells, Birmingham early on Sunday (26 November).

Belgian Rudi Sels piloted a light aircraft that dropped cocaine in plastic barrels over Kent while accomplices Jonathan Hart, Michael Mealing and Andrew Barrett waited below.

Paedophile John Page, from Kensington, London, has been jailed after having sex with dogs, sharing child porn and fantasising about child necrophilia.

A woman, named locally as 36-year-old Monika Lasek, was found dead at a property in Halifax, West Yorkshire. A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Alec Heaps, 53, from Stockport, was found guilty of six sexual assault charges at Manchester's Minshull Crown Court, and jailed for five years.

The teenager was found guilty of 5 terror offences after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court, which heard that he had searched for details of security at a Justin Bieber concert.

Victim was set attacked from behind, was left with a broken rib after being kicked and had her face and hair cut.

Danny Pearce, 31, who had a five-year-old daughter, was knifed and shot at after he refused to hand over his watch, London's Metropolitan Police say.

James Bulger's mother Denise Fergus has hit out at her son's killer, Jon Venables, after he was caught with child abuse images for a second time last week.

John Kilpatrick has been jailed for 44 months after he posed as a talent scout for top London modelling agency BMA Models asking girls to send increasingly revealing photographs.

Anthony Thompson attacked Cameron Sharp after he found out he was dating his ex-girlfriend Nicola Crossley. Thompson screamed: ' I am going to kill you, you're a f****** dead man'

Manhunt under way for murderer Nicholas Redding, 45, drug dealer James Vaughan, 37, and burglar Barry Anderson, 41, have all disappeared from HMP Spring Hill.

Gary Mottershead, 52, had spent 35 years believing he had got away with the rape and sexual assault of a child, Manchester Crown Court heard.

The footage shows the boys clinging onto the train as it travelled along, which could have resulted in their deaths.

London's Metropolitan Police found the body of Catherine Burke in her Muswell Hill home last Thursday. Police say she may have known her attacker.

The Old Bailey heard that Lee Hatley was stabbed 29 times by his friend, Bradley Wood, who also stabbed his girlfriend, Lauren Egan-Perkins, while she slept in her flat in London.

Imran 'Baldy' Shahid, who was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years in 2006, demanded the penis pump returned because he has a 'bad reaction' to Viagra tablets.

Victims claimed they were advised not to report the crimes and that the religion protected perpetrators.

Winston George, 57, denied penetrative sexual activity with mentally disordered female, but was convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison at Amersham Crown Court.

Leeds Crown Court heard prosecutors claim that her husband, who is charged with murder, sent fake frantic messages to her phone to mask the killing.

Dean Pascal-Modeste, 21, known as Floss, was stabbed 14 times in the street in broad daylight in Mottingham, south east London.

The sick trio Jake Cairns, Brandon Sharples and Jack McInally, all from Coventry, even took pictures of the child and posted them on an adult website to attract clients.