Crime

A woman in Massachusetts has been accused of stealing a safe from her deceased mother's home while other members of the family were attending the funeral.

Tory Gentry, from Snellville, near Atlanta, Georgia, faces charges of aggravated battery and first-degree cruelty to children after his child was found with large burn on his side.

#JusticeForZainab is trending on Twitter following the kidnap, rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Kasur, Pakistan. Her body was found dumped in rubbish on Tuesday.

A court in Wales heard how Barry Rodgers and Penelope John allegedly conspired to kill 84-year-old Betty Guy at her home in Pembrokeshire.

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.

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.

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

A prostitute who fell five stories to her death was allegedly midway through "extravagant sex" with a British man.

British stores including Tesco, Waitrose and B&Q have banned the sale of acids to customers under the age of 18 to crack down on crimes involving corrosive substances

A 49-year-old police officer has been found innocent of claims that he sexually assaulted a 22-year-old girl in her home.

Police officers investigating a distraction theft against a 96-year-old woman in Chorlton, Manchester, have released CCTV images of three people they want to speak to.

Bulgarian Lilia Botuseva and her unnamed German boyfriend were found dead at a guesthouse in Kefalonia, Greece, after both suffered knife wounds, it has been reported.

A man has been charged with sexual abuse and faces up to five years in prison for allegedly groping a women while she slept on a flight.

A 26-year-old man from New York City has been sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison after he forced his girlfriend to walk the streets naked a punishment.

A woman who failed to pick up her dog's poo in Carmarthen, Wales, handed herself in to local authorities as footage of the incident was posted online, the council said Wednesday.

Alan Hawe killed his wife Clodagh and their three sons, Liam, 13, Niall, 11 and Ryan, 6 at their home, before taking his own life in Co Cavan, Ireland.

Mary Konye was jailed for 12 years for the attack in Dagenham, east London, in 2012.

34-year-old Pudit Kittithradilok pleaded guilty to running the pyramid scheme, which saw 40,000 people invest £120m into his companies

A photo depicting three young Moroccan migrants getting some rest in washing machines at a Paris launderette has attracted attention online.

Natasha Claus, 36, of no fixed abode, has been jailed for 13 months and banned from Woking town centre after arriving at Guildford Crown Court four hours late.

Four people found dead on Boxing Day in a New York basement apartment have now been identified and thought to have been victims of what police are describing as a quadruple homicide,

The figures showed that of 4.2m crimes recorded in 2016/17 suspects were identified in 2m. The Sun found that there was also a disparity across England and Wales between forces.

Dean Cotter, 29, escaped from HMP Kirkham, where he was serving a sentence for tying up an elderly man and slashing him with a machete.

Marquise Byrd, 22, was the front passenger in a car when a construction sandbag crashed through the windshield and struck him.

Shameless star Tina Malone was playing the evil fairy godmother in a performance of Sleeping Beauty at the Cloud 9 theatre in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

Ten members of a violent moped smash-and-grab gang have been jailed for a total of 110 years after a £1.2m series of raids on mobile phone shops.

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.

Passenger deliberately pushed into path of oncoming train at Bucharest station was pregnant, reports claim.

A man who claimed to be a nurse and was able to treat patients at four separate hospitals in Sweden has been jailed.

Essex police came under fire today for sharing what was seen as an 'offensive' and 'dangerous' campaign on domestic abuse where people stay in the relationships.