Female paedophile seduced boy, 15, with cannabis texting him saying she was having 'dirty thoughts'
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.
Man who tried to murder victim on his 17th birthday with paving slab was 'fixated' with violent rape
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.
Grandfather who had conversations about child sex abuse with another paedophile is spared jail
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.
Teenagers accused of sexually assaulting boy with a toilet brush handle and suffocating him
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.
British paedophiles jailed after global investigation into app which posts shocking live child rape
Stephen Stott, 23, and Dean Jones, 34, were arrested after US Homeland Security investigators discovered large groups of paedophiles watching rape videos together.
Police appeal for 13 missing Vietnamese teenagers who may be in hands of slave gangs
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.
Man had sex with a horse called Ruby which he treated like his girlfriend
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.
Inmate slashed throat of prisoner because he thought he had stolen his rosary beads
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.
Parents charged with abuse after '4-month-old baby with fractured skull put in microwave'
Derick Boyce-Slezak and his wife Mikala, both 22, from Park Hills, Missouri, have been charged with felony abuse or neglect of their baby boy.
Urgent appeal for parents after lone toddler 'aged 2 or 3' wanders into shop on his own
Police have appealed for information after a child wandered into a newsagents in Wigan, Greater Manchester, with no sign of his parents anywhere nearby.
Wife arrested after husband's decomposing body found eaten by dogs inside his mobile home
Jennifer Denton, 36, was arrested after the body of her husband 49-year-old Wade Denton and his two dogs were found in a mobile home in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Step-dad who killed 19-month-old boy by swinging head into fireplace in 1968, jailed for life
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.
Crack and heroin gang kidnapped and tortured man in field they thought had stolen £40k drug stash
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.
Murder victim's dad detonates grenades in courtroom killing himself and defendant
A murder victim's father detonated two grenades in Nikipol, a Ukrainian city in Dnipropetrovsk, with police saying he 'died on the spot after the explosion'.
Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa says final season will be 'greatest thing ever aired'
Aquaman actor Jason Momoa, who played Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, found out some inside information when visiting his former co-stars in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Poppi Worthington: Dead baby's DNA found on father's genitals, hearing told
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.
Heroin addict arranged to have £35k worth of skunk posted to her home
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.
Volcanic super-eruption that could wipe out civilisation closer than first thought, say scientists
Scientists previously estimated that super-eruptions happen every 45,000-714,000 years but new estimates say they happen a lot more often.
A drug dealer dubbed 'untouchable' was caught after a baseball and machete fight with a gang
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.
British woman may face jail in Dubai after 'witnessing fight over selfies' in hotel lounge
Ex-pat Asa Hutchinson, 21, from Chelmsford, Essex, had been to a brunch in Dubai with fellow Brits who came to blows with a Swedish man.
'Ringleader' of 2012 attack on US consulate in Benghazi guilty of terrorism but not murder
Ahmed Abu Khattala was convicted of terror charges but found not guilty of murder after the incident that resulted in the death of US ambassador Chris Stevens, and 3 others.
Man in his 60s is stabbed to death in children's adventure playground - suspect arrested
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).
Two arrested on suspicion of 'wilfully ill-treating child' after boy, 7, found dead in Birmingham
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).
Ex-SAS pilot threw £2.5m worth of cocaine from plane for three men waiting below
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.
German mayor 'attacked with knife in kebab shop in botched assassination attempt'
Mayor of Altena Andreas Hollstein was allegedly targeted by a man wielding a 15-inch knife possibly because of his 'very liberal views on refugees', said German media.
Boy, 14, screamed as he found bloodsoaked body of his mum who had been stabbed to death
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.
Paedophile postman who sexually assaulted and 'traumatised' schoolgirl for years is jailed
Alec Heaps, 53, from Stockport, was found guilty of six sexual assault charges at Manchester's Minshull Crown Court, and jailed for five years.
Teenager, 17, guilty of plotting Isis-inspired lorry terror attack at Justin Bieber concert
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.
CCTV shows moped robbers 'spotting dad wearing Rolex before stealing it and knifing him to death'
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.
Woman who 'sent letter bombs to Obama and Texas governor caught after cats' hair found in packages'
Julia Poff, 46, from Brookshire, Texas, is charged with sending explosives made from a cigarette packet and a salad dressing cap to Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2016.