UK crime

Armed thugs burst into jewellers in broad daylight and attacked a shop assistant after tricking staff into opening the door at SP Green in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham.

William Watkinson Dec 12, 2017

Jinal Pethad, 29, from Edgware, London, opened 105 sham accounts for two Moldovan nationals involved in the scam using fake ID documents.

William Watkinson Dec 12, 2017

Samuel Armstrong, 24, an aide for South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, allegedly raped a woman in his boss's office in the Palace of Westminster in October 2016.

William Watkinson Dec 12, 2017

Demi Pearson, 14, Brandon, 8, and sister Lacie, 7, died in the fire on Jackson Street in Walkden, Salford, with 5 people now arrested in connection with the suspected arson attack.

William Watkinson Dec 12, 2017

Detectives investigating the double murder of sex offender Noel Brown and daughter Marie Brown in Deptford, east London are looking at whether they were killed by a vigilante.

Paul Wright Dec 08, 2017

Amanda Leather, 28, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, smoked cannabis and drank alcohol with a 15-year-old boy before having sexual activity with the child.

William Watkinson Dec 08, 2017

Charlie Pearce, from Leicester, had been out celebrating his 17th birthday when he raped and bludgeoned his victim in Leicester's Victoria Park last year.

William Watkinson Dec 07, 2017

Merseyside resident Alexander Dobbie was handed a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of making indecent images and one count of possessing them.

William Watkinson Dec 07, 2017

The boy was burned with cigarettes during a 36-hour ordeal prior to the alleged sex attack in a disabled toilet in the Bristol's Children's Hospital, Bristol.

William Watkinson Dec 07, 2017

Six arrested after police in Staffordshire uncover more than 3,000 cannabis plants in former poultry barns in Wheaton Aston.

Paul Wright Dec 07, 2017

Stephen Stott, 23, and Dean Jones, 34, were arrested after US Homeland Security investigators discovered large groups of paedophiles watching rape videos together.

William Watkinson Dec 07, 2017

Northamptonshire Police say 13 missing Vietnamese teenagers, all aged between 14 and 18, have vanished from Northampton and Corby between June and September this year.

William Watkinson Dec 06, 2017

George Smith, 48, was given a suspended jail sentence, after he was found standing on a wooden crate having sex with a mare in a stable in Hinckley, Leicestershire.

William Watkinson Dec 06, 2017

David O'Brien, 39, in Strangeways prison, Manchester, got a second life sentence after pleading guilty to slashing a man's throat after he thought he had stolen his rosary beads.

William Watkinson Dec 06, 2017

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

Jordan Bhatt Dec 06, 2017

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

Paul Wright Dec 05, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Dec 01, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Dec 01, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Nov 30, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Nov 29, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Nov 29, 2017

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).

William Watkinson Nov 28, 2017

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).

William Watkinson Nov 28, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Nov 28, 2017

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

Paul Wright Nov 28, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Nov 27, 2017

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

William Watkinson Nov 27, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Nov 27, 2017

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

Dan Cancian Nov 26, 2017

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.

William Watkinson Nov 23, 2017