Yusuf Sonko was brutally murdered by being shot in the head in a busy Liverpool street on 2 June. His parents are now appealing for information in a heartbreaking letter.
Andrew Soper, a former abbot who molested children at a scandal-hit St Benedict's Catholic school, has been jailed for 18 years.
A witness recorded the scene in Pueblo, Colorado, when a robbery suspect's trousers fell down during an altercation with a staff member. Jeremy Aragon, 26, was later arrested.
Around 230 partygoers were rounded up for drinking and dancing by police in Iran, according to the official Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).
Robert Anthony Resendiz held on suspicion of child abuse after pressing boy's legs to chest to try stop him crying.
A Florida Boy Scout leader, Michael Douglas Hanen, has been arrested for possessing child porn, police said.
The objects include a 3,000-year-old Mycenaean sword, a golden crown with an inscription of the ancient Greek sun god Helios and a bust of Alexander the Great.
Santangela Turner allegedly claimed that she left the three-month-old girl in the woods after trying to kill her.
Danny Kay, a man sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for rape, has had his conviction quashed after his lawyers recovered deleted Facebook messages.
"Hey guys I just killed him. I just killed him," Nickolas Khalil Vinson is reportedly seen saying in the clip which showed Oscar Lemar Owensby bled to death.
Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, aged 12, had stabbed their classmate Payton Leutner in 2014 to please the fictional character Slender Man.
A man in his 20s was shot in the head with a shotgun in front of shocked Christmas shoppers at lunchtime in Southport town centre, Merseyside, on Thursday (21 December).
A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an incident in Aldi, Keighley Road, Skipton, Yorkshire, shortly before 3.30pm on Thursday (21 December).
A party of college students broken up by police had so much alcohol that the ambient air in the building registered on a breathalyser.
Twelve people in Manchester were handed sentences totalling just under 69 years for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin.
Police in Houston say that the 28-year-old Erika Jisela Miranda-Alvarez killed a 33-year-old mother and kidnapped her daughter after allegedly going through a miscarriage.
Ismael Watson, formally Jack Watson, from Walsall, has been jailed for planning to join Isis before his pregnant wife told the authorities.
Police raided the ceremony of a ten-year-old girl in Pakistan who was about to be married to a 50-year-old man to settle family debts.
Paedophile ring members live-streamed each other sexually abusing children in shocking case that shakes judge's faith in humanity
Sara Thornton, head of National Police Chiefs Council, warns that policy of always believing alleged victim has warped judgment of officers.
A 42-year-old man in Italy with connections to the Sicilian Mafia has allegedly been killing patients in an ambulance and then referring grieving families to a funeral service.
Deepa Ram admits to killing wives by setting fire to car they were in following "differences" with his family
A London gang who kidnapped and tortured a man they believed had stolen £40,000 of drugs were caught when an Air Ambulance accidentally spotted them in rural Kent.
Pensioner Paul Edmunds linked to more than 100 shootings after making bullets from home used in weapons imported from US.
Armand Krasniqi discharges gun passed to him by friend during late-night street fight in north London.
Governor of Tennessee clears Lawrence McKinney, 61, after DNA tests show accused was not rapist. Accused in line for big compensation payout.
Samantha Ciotta was arrested in September after she was allegedly spotted in the boy's drunken Snapchat video wearing "a shirt and panties".
Innocent victim walking dogs on New Orleans street targeted by Glen Alveris during heated argument with his girlfriend.
The caller told police that the child's stepfather informed him that they decided to bury the boy after he was found unresponsive.
More than 30 years later, Gregory Keith Davies has been sentenced to life behind bars, setting a minimum term of 28 years.
