CRIME

Police have launched a murder inquiry and started digging up a suburban garden after a 63-year-old woman told police she had killed her father 'a number of years ago'.

New York police solved a nearly 24 year old rape that occurred in Prospect Park using DNA from the victim and serial rapist James Edward Webb.

Police rushed to the scene after receiving a number of calls from terrified residents on Roden Street, just off Grosvenor Road in Belfast.

Eleven convicts were caught on film prising open their bars and breaking out of a jail in Brazil's crisis-hit prison system.

British Transport Police are appealing for information after a man and his teenage son, dressed in a penguin costume, were assaulted on a train out of London on 21 December.

Kosher store in Paris suburb Créteil was destroyed by fire in a suspected arson attack on the third anniversary of a terror attack by an Isis gunman against a kosher supermarket.

A police officer who was once hailed a hero has been sacked for sharing racist posts on Facebook, including one calling travellers "f***** scumbags".

Cheryl and Robert Prudham took nine of her kids on an 14-day trip to Menorca worth over £7,000 back in 2014.

Men who robbed a house 22 miles north of Durban in South Africa have made off with cash and four mobile phones. Victims were tied up and locked in a bedroom while the thieves tore a safe from the wall.

Nine men in Sheffield and Cleveland arrested in morning raids during investigation into claims multiple women trafficked and raped.

Suzy Cairns pleaded guilty to possessing bestiality porn, which she made with her pet Labrador, and also child porn, which she did not feature in.

Ashley Foster accused of murdering 17-year-old Megan Bills before hiding her clingfilm-wrapped body in a wardrobe.

Gay man Gordon Maxwell required surgery after he was violently attacked for wearing a white dress in Tower Hamlets, London. Metropolitan police release CCTV in witness appeal.

According to the Met police, the incident happened at a convenience shop when three teenagers asked for Rizla cigarette papers at around 11.45pm on Saturday night.

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.

A 50-year-old father of four has been accused of sharing videos that prosecutors allege encourage terrorism, including one featuring Tony Blair, the Old Bailey has heard.

Shanta Myers, 36, her girlfriend Brandi Mells, 22, and Myers' children, Shanise, five, and 11-year-old Jeremiah were killed at a house in upstate New York on 21 December.

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.

A man in Nebraska charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old reportedly told police that the minor "made a move" on him.

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.

The Old Bailey was told that Leah Adri-Soejoko, 80, was strangled to death by a fellow member of an allotment association, Rahim Mohammadi.

Two sisters have been jailed for smuggling seven Albanians into the UK in an unbearably smelly camper van - which they blamed on overripe cheese.

Christopher Hauptmann, 44, did not contest a bigamy charge relating to his marriage to Kaylee Durovick while he was already wed to her mother Shannon Deitrich.

'I'm not racist - I have Muslim friends,' says man who threatened on Facebook to burn mosques and kill Muslims after London Bridge and Manchester terror attacks.

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

Dante Bencivenga arrested after refusing to leave airport after urinating all over toilet of aircaft.

Judge rules mental health of former PC Darren Wright had significant impact on decision to break the law.

Britons more pessimistic of attack by terrorists than people in US, France, Germany and Turkey, reveals Ipsos-Mori poll.

Three men who kidnapped, drugged and forced a 14-year-old girl into prostitution will be sentenced on 8 January.