CRIME

A Metropolitan Police detective has said he fears the so-called Croydon Cat Killer could escalate his crimes and begin attacking women and girls.

A Sudanese man accused of planning a terror attack on British soil thought it was okay to download bomb-making instructions because they had not been deleted by Facebook.

Curtis Van Dam was employed by Sioux Center Christian School, but is now behind bars facing a flood of sexual assault allegations made by pupils.

Two paedophiles in Ekaterinburg, Russia, reportedly kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl while filming the abuse for fellow child sex offenders on the internet.

Abbas Allawi, from Watford, has been jailed for attempting to sell elephant tusks, hippopotamus teeth and rhino horns.

The 16-year-old girl who was sexual assaulted by three of her classmates from Cedar Hill High School, Dallas on 9 October, reported the assault four days later.

Police found the mutilated body of a koala which had its ears cut off. Police say have called the incident "troublesome and disgusting."

Father of two Imran Qureshi, 44, squeezed a 21-year-old nurse's breast and told her "it's what friends do" during a shift at a hospital in Manchester, a medical tribunal heard.

Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi's book Original Sin claims priests sexually abused teenage boys at a St. Pius X pre-seminary for middle- and high-schoolers in the Vatican.

Dmitry Luchin, 21, from Valday, in the Novgorod region of Russia, was known as a talented poet with a high IQ level before he allegedly attacked his 46-year-old victim, named only as Olga B.

The marriage between the mother-daughter duo came to light during an inquiry by a state child welfare investigator.

Tina Knight was found with a huge haul of drugs that included 158kg of amphetamines worth £1.5m and just under 1kg of cocaine worth around £100,000 on the street.

The Correctional Court also ordered 25-year-old Sandy Gaillard to pay a fine of £4,400 and seek psychological help.

A four-year-old girl from Melbourne was re-united with her puppy after robbers had a bout of conscience.

Substitute teacher Madeline Marx has been accused of having sex with at least two high school male students in Kettering, Ohio.

Neil Parrish was sentenced to 11 years for each rape charge, three months for affray, one month for criminal damage and one month for assault by beating.

Joshua Gurto is scheduled to be arraigned on 17 November and if found guilty, he could face death penalty.

Marissa Wallen, 21, has appeared in court after she allegedly shot a 36-year-old man twice in his Washington State home before stealing his wallet and fleeing.

Reker Ahmed, a Kurdish-Iranian student and asylum seeker, was left fighting for his life with a brain haemorrhage and a fractured spine, after being attacked outside a pub in London.

Republican Roy Moore, a nominee for US Senate in Alabama, is accused of initiating a sexual encounter with a woman when she was 14 years old.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal imprisoned inside the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following mass arrests of Saudi royals in anti-corruption crackdown.

Osman al-Alsaied was rushed to hospital after one of his buddies blasted some celebratory gunshots – but forgot to aim upwards.

Police in New Hampshire say Ivana Clifford, 26, told officers she cooked the beloved animal – named "Angel".

Hip-hop producer Ramsay Tha Great to spend a decade behind bars.

The incident occurred during an interview on clan Spada's alleged support of fascist group CasaPound, which scored 9% in Ostia's municipal elections earlier in November.

The 60-year-old drug baron has been in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility, New York, since January 2017.

A second woman, Aurélie Wynn, has publicly accused former Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick of rape following similar claims by actress Kristina Cohen.

Alaya Dotson, 16, told police she was not aware of her pregnancy and was startled after giving birth to the baby.

The family of Elijah Silvera, 3, who studied in pre-K class at Seventh Avenue Center for Family Services in Harlem, New York, want an independent post-mortem.