CRIME

Police seek "well spoken" suspect who assaulted a schoolgirl in Ladywell Park in a Scottish town over the weekend.

Byron White has now been charged with nine counts of third-degree rape and continuous sexual abuse of a child.

Mark Fry, 22, stopped a police vehicle and asked the officer to arrest him for sexually assaulting a young girl, who was found in the man's car.

Prosecutors have revealed that the mother, Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, along with her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, had horrifically abused the boy.

Police in Davie, Florida arrested and charged an 11-year-old schoolgirl after she wrote a note threatening to shoot up her middle school.

The Ministry of Justice will enact an early release scheme freeing thousands of prisoners to ease overcrowding in British jails.

Madan Lal, 45, of Ponteland, Northumbria, was planning to meet a 15-year-old boy from gay dating app Grindr as he is spared jail and handed a community order.

A 21-year-old Russian woman admitted to killing her boyfriend during a BDSM sex game before dismembering his body.

Joanne Lee, 38, from Dublin, was reported missing on Tuesday (13 February) and her body was discovered a week later in the wardrobe in a property, on Ranelagh Road.

Police in the city of Everett, Washington have said that a report from a grandmother led to authorities arresting her grandson on suspicion of planning a school shooting.

The pair, Thomas Woodhulme, 27, and William Henderson, 34, were both found not guilty of causing actual bodily harm to Strangeways prisoner Nigel Halfacre at Manchester Crown Court

A London Uber driver is accused of grooming a 'tipsy 14-year-old schoolgirl' he was giving a ride to by telling her she was 'hot' and 'had nice lips'.

Michael Pillar was charged by police after an alleged meth lab fire led to four floors of an Atlantic City hotel being evacuated.

Married father Shuaib Muhammad, 24, of South Shields, committed a sex act in the house, hacked her Facebook and made silent calls to the woman who has had to move home.

Mihai Varga brought Eastern Europeans into the UK then paid them less than £2 per hour for 12-hour shifts in a food processing factory. He has been jailed for slavery offences.

A former science teacher who filmed schoolgirls and teachers in female toilets at three schools he worked at has been jailed.

Self-proclaimed paedophile hunter Walter Rodríguez claims he pretended to be his daughter after she confided in him about inappropriate conversations with Germán Acosta.

Shanghai Public Security Bureau shared the video of two would-be criminals attempting to break a window – that is until one threw a brick straight at his partner's head.

Jose Irandir Cardoso was part of an armed band known as The Water Rats that stormed Sir Peter Blake's boat as it lay anchored in the Amazon delta in 2001.

Many Americans used the #GunControlNow Twitter hashtag following the Parkland, Florida mass school shooting to call for action from Congress and other lawmakers.

Beggar was arrested 50 miles north of Stockholm for harassing commuters outside a train station who did not give him cash.

Twitter user Kaitlin shared the text messages she received from her sister Hannah as she hid in a classroom during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Spalding County Sheriff's Office say the body is that of Timothy Johnson, who disappeared on 6 December.

Police arrest 32-year-old man in connection with incident in Charleston which left victim with severe injury.

Donald James Smith took eight-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle out promising to buy her a McDonald's meal.

The alleged incidents took place in the Big Cypress National Preserve, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrest report.

Avadhesh Sakya kidnapped the child for ransom but killed him after police got involved in the search for the missing boy.

Joseph and Juliann Chmielewski had allegedly willingly did not take medical help for their newborn daughter.

Jacob LaRosa's sentencing will take place in April at which he could be facing life in prison without parole or parole only after 20, 25 or 30 years.