A Polish rapist with an appalling criminal record dating back 20 years slipped into Britain undetected and battered a man with learning difficulties 48 hours later. Damian Pankiewicz (pictured, right) came to Britain only weeks after being released from prison in Poland. While high on drugs he attacked an innocent man at a bus stop, punching him to the ground. He was caught on camera (left) dragging him in front of a double decker bus, where he narrowly escaped being crushed to death.

Gangs of people smugglers now operate along all 450 miles of the north French coast - from Calais on the Belgian border to Cherbourg and beyond, reports Sue Reid. During the past week they have used small fishing vessels, private yachts and speedboats to slip migrants onto England's South Coast beaches under cover of darkness. The determination of migrants and the greed of traffickers has not been diminished by the French government's demolition in March of the 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais, an unhygienic shanty town of 4,000. The migrants simply moved on - initially 30 or so miles away to Dunkirk, where thousands live in a camp near the port, paying traffickers to cross the Channel, and then spreading further along the coast.

Muhammad Ali has been placed on life support and his family have been warned that it 'won't be long until he passes away', a report has claimed. The legendary boxer, 74, was taken to an undisclosed hospital in Arizona on Thursday after he was discovered at his home 'barely breathing'. The former heavyweight champion's family rushed to be at his bedside after doctors reportedly warned that his condition was 'rapidly deteriorating'. A source close to the family said Ali's condition is 'very, very grave' and 'it could be hours' until he dies. Ali was taken to hospital on Thursday with an 'unshakeable cough', a separate source said, with his reported respiratory problems likely to be complicated by his Parkinson's disease. 'Doctors are telling the family that it likely won't be long until he passes away,' one insider said. Another source said Ali's vitals 'are terrible', adding: 'Ali is in dire straits and is rapidly deteriorating. His breathing has become very shallow, requiring tubes.'

Jan Moir reflects on the 10-year anniversary of the introduction of the England squad's WAGs - an acronym used to refer to the wives and girlfriends of the country's most high-profile footballers. In 2006, Mrs Beckham was photographed leading the WAGs out to dinner as their partners prepared for their matches during the tournament in Germany. She was walking alongside, Coleen Rooney and Louise Owen. Becky Nicholson, who recently married Leicester City star Jamie Vardy, is in the new crop of England's WAGs (right).

Beverley Deakin, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said her daughter Destiny's happiness justified the £12,000 of taxpayers money spent on a 'fat camp'. The then-12-year-old (right with her mother) attended a specialist weight loss programme on two occasions funded by the local council. She is now 15 years old (left with Beverley) and weighs a healthy 11st, having kept the weight off by attending the gym and changing her diet.

It is not hard to understand why retired businessman Donald Marcus (pictured left), 57, and his long-term partner Patricia Wilson (pictured left and right)fell in love with the place when they first saw it, or why they decided to leave their home in Leeds and retire to the depths of rural Midi-Pyrenees in 2008. What is perhaps more difficult to comprehend, however, is how quickly this French bucolic dream soured, turning to horror and, ultimately, to a murder still shrouded in mystery - as Patricia's body is still missing despite lover Jean-Louis Cayrou (inset) being jailed for 30 years for her murder.

A devastated family were forced to cancel their £2,300 all-inclusive dream holiday to Tenerife because their Easyjet flight was overbooked - and other passengers then refused to budge. Jay and Carolyn Mortimore, along with their two children Ryley, 12, and Brayden, seven, from Exeter, had to spend their half-term holiday in a caravan in Exmouth (inset) instead.

Kay Hollingsworth, 31, left and right, was banned from teaching National College of Teaching and Leadership (pictured) panel in Coventry after sending sexual messages to the 11-year-old boy. She sent one suggesting he think of her in the shower and also said she had just broken up with her partner. However, due to her remorse, the panel said the ban may not be for life and she could seek to have it lifted in the future.

SARAH RAINEY took on a Come Dine With Me-style challenge at her London home where she cooked for strangers (main and inset) and was then rated on her cooking, conversation and hospitality. The We Find Food (WeFiFo) nights were launched just six weeks ago but hundreds have already taken place across the UK. The host advertises their menu, the number of guests they want and the cost, then simply waits for people to say yes. Afterwards, they rate their guests and the guests rate them, both on a scale of one to five, with feedback displayed on the site for all to see.

Johnny Depp is accused of being a drug-addled abuser while Amber Heard has been called a gold-digging liar. Tom Leonard discusses the marriages, the violence, the evidence, the scheming and the infidelity and presents both sides of the case for the most toxic divorce of our time.

The SAG Team rider was taking part in the second practice session of the Moto2 World Championship when he fell at turn 12 of the Catalunya Circuit near Barcelona. The 24-year-old from Mallorca was taken to the nearby Hospital General de Catalunya but after undergoing surgery he passed away at 16.55 local time on Friday.

The atmosphere at Deepcut became more akin to a Club 18-30 holiday camp than a British military base. Young teenage Army recruits hellbent on letting their hair down indulged in alcohol and drugs brought into the Surrey barracks. Young female recruits were regularly propositioned by both officers and instructors. It was against this morally repugnant backcloth that 18-year-old Private Cheryl James (right) died in November 1995 from a gunshot wound to the head. 16 years later Anne-Marie Ellement (left), a 30-year-old corporal in the Royal Military Police, hanged herself at Bulford Barracks in Wiltshire.

Lady Victoria Hervey has claimed that a 'friend of a friend' stole her £400 mobile phone during a taxi ride home from a star-studded Gucci bash. The 39-year-old, shared an Uber cab from Mayfair on Thursday night with her friend American actress Lindsay Lohan (pictured background left and right) and other partygoers but she soon realised the Samsung smartphone (file picture inset), which holds personal photos and the contacts of her VIP friends, had disappeared from her lap - and tweeted the news to her followers.

Robert Hardman gets a privileged peek inside the Queen's secret sanctuary and fairytale gardens (bottom right) inside the grounds of Frogmore (top picture), a Georgian house inside the Home Park of Windsor Castle. The house and grounds were designed as a place of study, contemplation and escape for Queen Charlotte, the green-fingered wife of George III. Not only have successive royal generations enjoyed its privacy, but many members of the family, including Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are buried in the gardens (along with several corgis). Queen Victoria's Tea House (bottom left) seems unchanged since the 19th century. But it is the Queen (inset top right) who is unquestionably the boss here, discussing all the comings and goings with the five-strong gardening team. No tree or shrub is removed or planted without her say so.

The lost Tommies of The Great War have been brought back to life by a dedicated colourisation artist in a bid to help identify some of the unknown soldiers. The 4,000 images of anonymous Western Front troops were uncovered almost a century after they were taken, having lay hidden in an attic in a farm house in northern France. For much of the First World War, the small French village of Vignacourt was always behind the front lines - as a staging point, casualty clearing station and recreation area for troops of all nationalities moving up to and then back from the battlefields on the Somme.

Parisians were urged to avoid the banks of the river Seine, which was expected to reach a peak of 19ft amid torrential rain that has killed 14 across Europe. Tourist boats (top left) have already stopped running. Meanwhile, The Louvre, the most visited gallery in the world containing masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa, has been forced to close to protect its treasures while work is underway to move artwork to higher ground. Elsewhere in France, a man on horseback died after he was swept away in a swollen river in Evry-Gregy-sur-Yerre, southeast of Paris, local authorities said today. And in Germany, a 65-year-old man was found dead in the flood-hit town of Simbach am Inn, bringing the total death toll in the country this week to ten.

Britain's most prolific paedophile Richard Huckle targeted poor children in across Southeast Asia in a sickening catalogue of sexual abuse. Now, a series of chilling emails sent to the New Hope for Children Orphanage in Bangalore, India (where he is pictured left), uncovered by MailOnline exposes exactly how the grammar schoolboy from Ashford in Kent was able to trick his way into positions of power over his young and vulnerable victims. The emails, which were sent in June and July 2013, reveal how Huckle, 30, (right) posed as an English teacher and photographer to gain access to the orphanage where he 'took new video and photos of the children'. No abuse is believed to have taken place there as Huckle was given no unsupervised access to children. He was finally arrested at Gatwick Airport in December 2014 after he returned to visit his parents Edwin and mother Christina at their home in Ashford for Christmas. After discovering the truth of his horrific crimes the Huckles reported what he told them to detectives and gave prosecution statements at his trial. Huckle now faces 22 life sentences at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to 71 child sex offences.

Princess Leonore of Sweden, two, gave her mother Princess Madeleine the run around as they visited stables in Gotland today for her first meeting with Haidi, the horse she was given for her christening. At first the toddler was more interested in playing in the fields than meeting her horse and even chomped on the carrot that was meant for Haidi.

Judge Mary Stacey accused Snobs in Birmingham of 'abandoning' the 19-year-old victim to be picked off 'like prey' by two sex attackers. She even suggested the nightclub was partly to blame for the rape by saying they had 'created the circumstances for the crime to occur.' The university student was thrown out by bouncers after she collapsed at the popular nightspot on February 20 last year. A court heard after being ejected she became separated from her friends and was lured into a transit van by Zaheer Abbas, 30, right, and Sajad Hussain, 35, left. She was then driven to an industrial estate where she was brutally raped and sexually assaulted in the back of the vehicle by the evil pair during an hour long ordeal.

A woman who filmed the antics at a hotel in Benidorm said the man, believed to be from Nottingham, had spent the afternoon drinking with mates before performing the painful stunt. 'You could see them all whooping and cheering. I couldn't believe he did it. I saw him around the hotel afterwards and he was covered in cuts and bruises to his legs and arms,' tourist Kelly Crouch said. '...They rubbed him up with suncream thinking it would help with the friction. 'The ground was solid concrete. Even though they covered it in water, it still must have hurt like hell.'

Yamato Tanooka (inset) was rushed to hospital (main) suffering from exhaustion and dehydration but otherwise apparently unharmed on Friday morning after he was found deep in woods on the northern island of Hokkaido. He was discovered inside an old military training facility (bottom right) around three miles from where he disappeared after a massive search involving hundreds of police, military and volunteers. He did not shed a tear when he was found and told his rescuer he was hungry before wolfing down rice balls and bread. He said he survived by sleeping between two mattresses (bottom left) inside the abandoned dormitory which was an unheated wooden building (top left). His parents left him behind in a wooded area as punishment for misbehaving last Saturday, but when they returned minutes later, he had disappeared. Appearing outside the hospital where he was reunited with his son, his father Takayuki Tanooka (top right) said he thought he was punishing him for his own good, but realised 'we went too far'. Police said they are considering filing neglect charges against them.

The Honduran mother who delivered what is believed to be the first baby to be born with a Zika virus-related condition in the New York tri-state area has broken her silence. In an interview with Fox News Latino, the young mother (pictured bottom right), whose name has not been released publicly, explained that her initial symptoms were 'underestimated' by medical doctors in her native land. She was diagnosed with Zika in Honduras before she traveled to New Jersey, where she has relatives, to seek treatment. The woman, who is unsure of how she contracted the virus, said that it may have happened because of a mosquito bite. She gave birth to a baby girl by cesarean section on Tuesday at Hackensack UMC. The baby has intestinal and visual issues.

Freya, a six-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier cross, has been overlooked by more than 18,000 potential families who have visited her rescue centre. It led to a Facebook page being set up which gained a rapid following and was noticed by the movie's director Michael Bay. The animal loving film-maker has now cast her in the fifth instalment of the franchise, which is due to start shooting this summer.

The Australian-born man, who wished to be known only as 'Cameron', was forced to chase the thief down his street in London (left) after he posed as a customer interested in buying the iPhone 6 (centre). Cameron, 25, met the would-be buyer outside his home last night and was stunned when after asking questions about the phone, the man backed away and began to run off. But he chased the thief down the street, hoping to recover the stolen phone - and even managed to take a picture as he made off on a moped. Metropolitan Police officers managed to get fingerprints and DNA off the helmet and expect Cameron's pictures will help with their investigation (right).

Colin Taylor (right) is a traditional bobby on the beat and his beat is one of the most crime-free in Britain: the Scilly Isles. His memoir has just been published and this is an adapted extract. He tells how he teases tourists by asking to see their passports and explains why the Scilly Isles is one of the few places in Britain where cars do not require MoT tests. Pictured: Mr Taylor hands out advice to a young lad on a lane on the islands (top left), and posing for a photograph with a tourist (bottom left).

These pictures either show some of the worst electricians around or they're so bored with their jobs that they want to make life a little more dangerous to keep themselves interested. Whatever the reasons these hilarious photographs show the risks some electricians take to get the job done - not that the finished product is up to much anyway.

A hysterical video taken on the helmet-cam of a fleeing bike rider shows the moment he was pulled over by a policeman eating an ice cream in Bavaria. Showing their utmost contempt for the motorcyclist the lawmen then causally insult his bike. 'You're gonna need a better bike if you want to flee,' one of them says.

A mystery blonde woman caused more than £17,000 worth of damage to 33 cars on Western Avenue in Chepstow, in south Wales last Monday night. The woman is being hunted by police after being caught on CCTV during her night of carnage. She is believed to have used a knife to cause as much damage as possible by scratching and scraping cars.

Thomas Hardy was haunted as 16-year-old after watching Martha Brown, 45, hang after killing her husband who had abused her for years. So struck was Hardy by this lasting memory of Martha that she became the inspiration for his penultimate novel, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles. When that much-loved classic was first published in 1892, it became an instant bestseller with its themes of frustrated love and unfair treatment of women. These recur throughout Hardy's writings and resonated all too tragically in the real-life story of Martha Brown.

A life-size statue which has taken pride of place outside a butchers for three decades has been threatened with removal by council bosses (left). The iconic figure - complete with straw boater, striped overalls and moustache - has graced the doorway of butchers Duncan Fraser & Son in Queensgate, Inverness, for more than 30 years. But Highland Council claim the figure is a 'nuisance' to pedestrians and has warned its owner he could be fined up to £2,500. However, butcher Duncan Fraser (right) is determined the jovial character will remain in its usual place.

Appleby in Westmorland, Cumbria, welcomes more than 30,000 travellers every year, but today, a group was seen getting out of town to enjoy the idyllic surroundings with their horses. It was a chance for some of them to show off their skills in the saddle, performing impressive trots and canters as they rode alongside the river, many riding bareback. Hundreds of travellers took their horses into the water today to cool off as they enjoyed Europe's oldest gipsy gathering (main image). Meanwhile, one man even stood on his horse as he made his way through the water (top left) and one woman looked as if she was in trouble as she appeared to struggle to stay on her horse (top right).

This is the horrifying moment a teacher at the RRK School in Moradabad, northern India, fell 50ft to the ground after a mock evacuation drill went terribly wrong. She was taking part in the display that was meant to show what would happen during an earthquake. She suffered critical injuries in the fall and is in an intensive care unit.

Laura Jane Williams, 30, from Derby has detailed how she travelled the world having casual sex after her long-term relationship broke down, in her new memoir Becoming. The writer travelled to destinations such as Paris, Detroit, Italy (inset), and Bali (left and right) enjoying meaningless sexual encounters with men - and even one with a woman - along the way.

Thai police have charged 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, with wildlife trafficking as they continue to make gruesome discoveries at the  infamous Tiger Temple. Wildlife officials found around 20 jars containing the preserved dead bodies of tiger cubs at the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua temple in Kanchanaburi province, north-west of Bangkok on Friday. They made the horrifying find just two days after uncovering the bodies of 40 dead tiger cubs in freezers on the temple's grounds.