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Mother stabbed to death after being bound and gagged 'may have known attacker'
London's Metropolitan Police found the body of Catherine Burke in her Muswell Hill home last Thursday. Police say she may have known her attacker.
Young father 'used dying breaths to name friend who attacked him and his new girlfriend'
The Old Bailey heard that Lee Hatley was stabbed 29 times by his friend, Bradley Wood, who also stabbed his girlfriend, Lauren Egan-Perkins, while she slept in her flat in London.
Newcastle United in £300m formal takeover bid by Amanda Staveley-led PCP Capital Partners
Mike Ashley took over the running of Newcastle United in 2007 but announced plans to sell in October. British businesswoman Staveley has been spotted at St James' Park.
Racist child killer loses legal bid to return penis pump that was delivered to his jail cell
Imran 'Baldy' Shahid, who was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years in 2006, demanded the penis pump returned because he has a 'bad reaction' to Viagra tablets.
Raped at the age of four, Jehovah's Witness told 'not to report' child abuse
Victims claimed they were advised not to report the crimes and that the religion protected perpetrators.
Pervert, who sexually assaulted elderly woman with dementia who later died, jailed
Winston George, 57, denied penetrative sexual activity with mentally disordered female, but was convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison at Amersham Crown Court.
Muslim convert mum was 'banned from seeing family then stabbed to death, dumped in woods and torched'
Leeds Crown Court heard prosecutors claim that her husband, who is charged with murder, sent fake frantic messages to her phone to mask the killing.
Two men found guilty of murdering music producer after stabbing him 14 times
Dean Pascal-Modeste, 21, known as Floss, was stabbed 14 times in the street in broad daylight in Mottingham, south east London.
Girl, 14, held prisoner by 3 men, plied with drugs and forced to have sex 'with 20 punters'
The sick trio Jake Cairns, Brandon Sharples and Jack McInally, all from Coventry, even took pictures of the child and posted them on an adult website to attract clients.
Manchester 'jihadi listed as Isis sniper in leaked terror documents'
Mohammed Abdallah, of Moss Side, Manchester, denies terrorism offences at the Old Bailey in London despite being listed as a specialist sniper in Isis documents, a court heard.
Dramatic video shows 'have-a-go hero throwing thief off a stolen motorbike' in London
TV presenter Charley Boorman has called for more police protection after he posted the video on Twitter. The clip shows what appeared to be a bike owner pursuing a thief.
Cockfighting gang convicted of running brutal sport from 'blood and feather splattered' home
Mohammed Asab, 51, from Seven Kings, east London, was pictured showing off his fighting cockerels in a video seized from his mobile by the RSPCA.
How cyclists and guide dogs are reacting to the rise of self-driving cars
Cycling UK wants the blame of a crash involving self-driving cars to lay with the software engineer and manufacturer.
Missing British explorer Benedict Allen found 'alive and well' in Papua New Guinea
Allen had set out to find the remote Yaifo tribe of headhunters, and was dropped into the dense jungles via helicopter in mid-October.
Couple 'starved baby to death before burying him in shallow grave in park and denying he existed'
Anthony Clark, 35, and Catherine Davies, 25, are accused of not feeding or clothing their baby before murdering him and burying him naked in a shoe box in a shallow grave.
'I'll show you rape' says man on bail for sex attack on ex-lover who then killed herself
Ryan Graham, from Irvine, has been jailed for 10 years after being convicted of rape and sexual assault. His 34-year-old victim took her own life during the investigation.
Man raped 14-year-old girl en route to fireworks display as she cried and begged him to stop
Fesal Aidarus was found guilty of rape at Birmingham Crown Court after an incident in October 2015. A girl, who was 14 at the time of the attack, was praised for her courage.
North Korea could launch a nuclear blitz against London in just '18 months'
British general said that should the UK be the target of a foreign attack, it would simply "fall over."
Britain facing 'catastrophic' Brexit border chaos as negotiations drag on
One MP has warned that HMRC needs more than £7m to help prevent lengthy queues at Britain's borders.
Cousins were teenagers when they raped and sexually assaulted two children
David Jones, 32, and Daniel Woodbridge, 31, from Bridgend, Wales, abused their victims both together and alone whilst they were both under 16, a court heard.
British backpacker and Canadian found dead in Cambodian hostel 'after taking stomach upset tablets'
Natalie Jade Seymour, 22, from Shefford, Bedfordshire, died alongside Canadian, Abbey Gail Amisola, 27, from Winnipeg, in the Monkey Republic Guest House in Kampot on Tuesday.
Stepdad 'killed toddler by swinging him into fireplace in 1968', says witness who was 3 at the time
David Dearlove, 71, is accused of killing his stepson Paul Booth, 19 months, at their home in Stockton-on-Tees in October 1968. He denies murder at Teesside Crown Court.
Child porn hoarder with 11,000 pictures, some showing 'visible pain', is spared jail
Police raided Terence Patrick Corcoran's Scarborough home after tracing his suspicious internet activity.
Iraqi man who took Spice for the first time beat to death fellow inmate in detention centre
Zana Yusif has been jailed for 15 years after he killed vulnerable Bangladeshi grandfather Tarek Chowdhury, 64, in a cell at the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre in London.
Pulp Fiction-obsessed schoolboy, 15, asked student to film as he fatally stabbed teacher 7 times
Will Cornick, 19, stabbed to death school teacher Ann Maguire during a school Spanish lesson in 2014 at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
EU preparing for Brexit talks collapse says chief negotiator Michel Barnier
Barnier's words came days after he gave the UK a two-week ultimatum to reach an agreement on the divorce bill.
Network Rail spent £500k of taxpayer money on staff taxis and business-class flights
Tens of thousands of taxi journeys - including one costing over £450 - were paid for by taxpayers' money in two years.
Abusive thug, who killed lover's chihuahua by kicking it against wall as she looked on, jailed
Serial domestic abuser Adam McCarthy, 28, killed ex-girlfriend Sophie Ing's pet chihuahua 'outright' during a blazing row at his home in Sunderland, where he also attacked her.
Arctic blast will make the UK colder than Iceland this weekend
The Met Office predicts that the mercury could dip to as low as -8 degrees Celsius in parts of Scotland.
Uber driver 'killed his 2 children by smothering them with petrol-soaked rag while mum slept'
Endris Mohammed, 47, from Birmingham, denies murdering Saros Endris, 8, and sister Leanor, 6, and the attempted murder of mum, Penil Teklehaimanot, but admits manslaughter.