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Crime

In the UK the Home Office is responsible for the reduction and prevention of crime and oversees policing. The Ministry of Justice oversees prosecution and sentencing. For both victims and perpetrators, crime can mean lives are never the same again.

Chilling moment woman drinks cup of ice coffee 'her friend had laced with cyanide' before collapsing and dying

Crime

CCTV captures final moments of Mirna Salihin's life as she drinks from glass laced with cyanide — Mirna Salihin was allegedly poisoned by her friend Jessica Wongso in a twisted revenge plot

Sadie Hartley murder trial: 'Killer' bedded three ski instructors behind her partner's back

Murder trial

Sarah Williams, 35, is accused of stabbing the businesswoman, who was her love rival, to death

'Depraved' dad forced own children into sex games but when jailed one victim shouted 'daddy I love you'

Court case

Liverpool Crown Court — The 50-year-old raped five of his own children, beginning when some were six, while his wife sat watching TV, a court heard

Rapist finally behind bars 35 years after attacking woman at knifepoint

DNA

Steven Blackburn raped his terrified victim after grabbing her as she stepped out of her car. He was caught after a cold case review threw up a DNA match

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Courts

Man charged with attempted child destruction after heavily pregnant partner suffers life-threatening stab wounds

Edmonton beheading

The woman, in her 30s, is fighting for her life in hospital after suffering critical injuries during the alleged attack in Edmonton, north London

Sadie Hartley murder trial: 'Killer' bedded three ski instructors behind her partner's back

Murder trial

Sarah Williams, 35, is accused of stabbing the businesswoman, who was her love rival, to death

'Depraved' dad forced own children into sex games but when jailed one victim shouted 'daddy I love you'

Court case

Liverpool Crown Court — The 50-year-old raped five of his own children, beginning when some were six, while his wife sat watching TV, a court heard

Pistorius Trial

Camera in court

Plans for court cases to open up to TV cameras and be shown in the home

Crown court

Pilot scheme will see eight crown courts being filmed

How Oscar Pistorius' former lover Jenna Edkins supported "broken" Paralympian in court as he's sentenced for girlfriend's murder

Oscar Pistorius murder trial

Ms Edkins, 26, watched on with members of Pistorius' family as the former Olympic and Paralympic star was jailed for six years for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp

Oscar Pistorius will return to notorious prison filled with South Africa's most violent criminals after six-year sentence

Oscar Pistorius trial verdict

Kgosi Mumpuru II Management Centre — The athlete will spend up to six years inside South Africa's notorious Pretoria Central Prison

Murder

CCTV captures final moments of Mirna Salihin's life as she drinks from glass laced with cyanide

Chilling moment woman drinks cup of ice coffee 'her friend had laced with cyanide' before collapsing and dying

Crime

Mirna Salihin was allegedly poisoned by her friend Jessica Wongso in a twisted revenge plot

Sadie Hartley murder trial: 'Killer' bedded three ski instructors behind her partner's back

Murder trial

Sarah Williams, 35, is accused of stabbing the businesswoman, who was her love rival, to death

'Numerous leads' after police release CCTV footage of witness in Stephen Lawrence case 23 years after racist murder

Stephen Lawrence

The CCTV was taken from an off-licence near the scene of Stephen's stabbing in Eltham, south-east London in 1993

Police

Cop still DRUNK when he drove shoplifting suspect to police station

Court case

Iain Norton was still sozzled from the night before when he arrived at Blackpool Police Station

Birmingham 'road rage' attack: First picture of 'gentle giant' dad-of-one fighting for life as builder is charged

West Midlands Police

Richard Bayley, 37, who has a four-year-old son, was allegedly punched after a 'minor prang' with a van while driving home from work on Friday evening

OAP, 78, lay unconscious in locked public toilet cubicle for 21 HOURS after having a stroke

Missing persons

Norma Webster,78, suffered a stroke and lay unnoticed in public toilet cubicle for 21 hours — A police search involving a helicopter and sniffer dogs was launched after Norma Webster was reported missing - but nobody had checked the toilets before locking them

CCTV captures final moments of Mirna Salihin's life as she drinks from glass laced with cyanide

Chilling moment woman drinks cup of ice coffee 'her friend had laced with cyanide' before collapsing and dying

Burglary

'Burglar lunged at me with a knife, but I was arrested on suspicion of assaulting HIM'

Burglary

Dad-of-four Brian Sharp spent seven hours in the cells and had the clothes he was wearing seized as evidence when the burglar suffered head injuries after leaving his property

Family doctor 'thought she would die' after finding two armed men inside in her home wearing masks

Crown court

Tom Colwyn Price, John Henry Janes and Simon Patrick Dooley — GP Aparna Amin was popping back to her home at lunchtime when she stumbled into the pair, who then led her upstairs

Woman aged 101 was sexually assaulted in her bed by burglar looking for drugs money

sex attack

Samuel Cooper, 27, has been jailed for eight years after leaving the pensioner seriously injured following the break-in

Prisons

Policeman jailed for grooming teen for sex may have set up fake model agency to lure other victims

Crown court

Christian Richardson, 22, a special constable who changed his name by deed poll to America Luke Richardson, was today sentenced to five years in prison

Final video of murdered April Jones shows tragic schoolgirl smiling on horse just months before her death

April Jones

April Jones' mum shares final family video of smiling daughter taken just two before she was murdered by Mark Bridger — Evil paedophile Mark Bridger would go on to murder the youngster just months after the happy footage was recorded

Woman pregnant with drug dealer's 28th baby spared jail because judge believes she's been 'used and abused'

Crime

Jennifer Dunn arrives at Hull Crown Court where she received a suspended sentence today for drug offences after her partner convicted drug dealer Tony Henderson, was jailed for 12 years last month — Jennifer Dunn was dumped "like a hot potato" by Tony Henderson before he was jailed for 12 years for running a cocaine and heroin drugs ring, a court heard

Investigations

Jimmy Savile

Jimmy Savile child abuse

Silhouette

Operation Yewtree

Elm Guest House

Missing Maddy

Terrorism

Hundreds of crack British troops to be sent to smash ISIS in the Middle East

Special forces

Elite SAS and SBS squads have been in the Middle East targeting jihadi thugs and calling in air strikes

German terror police 'arrest high-ranking ISIS member planning attack on Bundesliga football match'

ISIS

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Mainz said an attack is believed to have been planned on the opening weekend of the Bundesliga season

Fears ISIS terrorists are using British schoolboy to lure other young teens from UK

ISIS

Ibrahim Iqbal, who was the 14-year old schoolboy who was feared to have fled to Syria with 11 members of his family, posted pictures of weapons on Facebook — A specialist counter-terrorism unit is looking into chilling Facebook pictures which appear to show Ibrahim Iqbal wielding an AK-47 rifle and pledging allegiance to Islamic State

Speeding

Shocking CCTV shows killer driver going 124mph moments before stranger he was road racing died

Crime

Mohammed Abdul-Wahid was racing down the A1 when Ryan Charlton was killed as his Honda Civic Type R flipped, a court heard

Lunatic driver caught doing 154mph on dual carriageway gets just 56-day road ban - leaving police 'really disappointed'

Speeding

Road safety chiefs have slammed 21-year-old Louie Howlett, who put the lives of innocent people at risk

Jenson Button stopped by traffic cop in Monaco - and doesn't look happy about it at all

Jenson Button

The former F1 world champion was pulled over by a police officer in Monaco as he drove through the principality in his C-Class Mercedes

Recent cases

Joanna Dennehy

Fusilier Lee Rigby

Lee Rigby trial

William Roach

Bill Roache

Dave Lee Travis

Dave Lee Travis

Bride to be Cecilia Siaw was forced to pose for a police mugshot in her wedding dress after being arrested for immigration crimes

Bride poses for mugshot in her wedding dress after being arrested moments before she got married

Weird Crime

Novelist carries out bank raid same as plot of one of his books

Crime

Author tried to rob bank with mask and starters pistol like one of his characters

Man set on fire as he walked through grounds of church in horrific 'homophobic hate crime'

Hate crime

Yarm Lane, Stockton — The 20-year-old man was approached by four men who questioned him about his sexual orientation before he was attacked

Celeb crime

Celebrity Big Brother's Renee Graziano opens up about her mobster father Anthony saying she's ''never known'' details of the crimes

Celebrity Big Brother

A housemate bravely asked Mob Wives star Renee Graziano about her father and his crimes

Michael Douglas' son Cameron released from prison after seven years behind bars

Michael Douglas

Michael and Cameron Douglas — The actor was sentenced to five years for possession of heroin but was extended after he confessed to smuggling drugs into prison

Chris Evans in the clear over sex assault claim as police drop investigation

Chris Evans

The Radio 2 presenter, who denied any wrongdoing throughout, was interviewed under police caution today

Remembered

Stephen Lawrence (Pic:PA)

Stephen Lawrence

Milly Dowler

Daniel Pelka

James Bulger (Pic: PA)

James Bulger

UK riots

Riot police 'attacked with bottles' after illegal street party turns into warzone

Metropolitan Police

Female officer injured as police were pelted bottles as they helped a woman who had collapsed in the middle of the chaos

Black Lives Matter protests: More planned in major UK cities tonight as part of 'national shutdown'

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter — After bringing Heathrow and Birmingham airports to a standstill, BLMUK are planning further demonstrations in London, Nottingham and Manchester

Boris Johnson's banned water cannon costing taxpayers £25,000 a year to maintain and insure

Boris Johnson

Johnson shelled out £218,000 to buy the trucks and a further £23,573 to repaint them in Met Police livery - but they have never been fired or driven on a public road

Serial killers

Ashlee Martinson and stepfather and mother

Teen 'horror' blogger shot her abusive stepfather, then stabbed her mother more than 30 times

Crime

Ashlee Martinson, 17, hid behind the name Vampchick on a blogging site – but in real life, she was a cold-blooded killer…

Hammer murderer Michael Stone wants Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield to be quizzed over murders of Lin and Megan Russell

Michael Stone

Stone still insists he is innocent and supporters say serial killer Bellfield, 48, matches an e-fit of the man who killed the mum and daughter

Police hunting serial killer who has murdered SEVEN people just four months

Serial killers

Officers in Phoenix, Arizona, say the man has also attempted further killings and police fear he'll strike again