Crime

Piper Kerman testified before Congress to highlight what she called disparities in the US criminal justice system.

Police and social services are investigating after a boy was accused of forcing a girl to simulate a sex act.

A 68-year-old Russian woman arrested for alleged killing and dismembering of 13 people.

Fifteen-year-old boy to be charged as adult for gruesome rape and murder of young California girl.

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Officers in Belarus arrest drunk man who drove a Winnie the Pooh toy car out of a supermarket.

An unassuming building housed the tunnel used by the world's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

The 21-year-old woman died in hospital after she was stabbed several times in a rural area of Basildon.

In one of the worst infanticide cases in French history, woman is charged with suffocating eight of her babies.

Police have released footage of robbers threatening staff before escaping with £186,000 of watches.

Travis Boys is suspected of shooting Daryle Holloway as he was being transported in a police vehicle.

Masked vigilante nicknamed the 'Bromley Batman' has been saving local residents from gangs and muggers in South London.

After 22 years on death row, Christian Pakistani inmate Aftab Bahadur - who was convicted of murder as a teenager - will hang in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat prison.

Concerns over policing levels after a shooting, a stabbing and the discovery of a body in Newcastle.

The 16-year-olds also stole the woman's iPhone, bank cards, ID and house keys.

Birmingham woman given two-week jail term for disturbing neighbour with loud sex screams.

Ofsted says youth training centre 'inadequate' and claims staff smuggled in DVDs for offenders

Three suspects in custody after two police officers fatally shot after a routine traffic stop in Mississippi.

Woman and her children rescued from drugged-up boyfriend, after she left message for 911 on pizza delivery site.

Attacker 'regrets' sexual assault in Camden on student Ione Wells.

Grammy-winning R&B singer Chris Brown was named by Las Vegas police on Monday (4 May) as a misdemeanour battery suspect.

Australia called for an urgent investigation into reports alleging two Australian drug traffickers were sentenced to death in an Indonesian trial tainted by corruption.

Scots soldier beat up man near Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire.

Father 'petrified' by incident in which robbers fled with no cash.

Motaz Zaid remains in intensive care after gang torture with pliers and bleach over a minor car incident.

An 'insider' may have helped thieves, who used heavy cutting equipment to get into the vault.

Michael Haigh denies murdering Ryan Kennedy during row.

Gregory lost job over bomb hoax at Ormiston Victory Academy.

The court annulled the conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.

Woman found living with dead bodies of her two children stored in her apartment freezer for over a year.