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A man whose arrest led to protests outside a hotel in Epping has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman. Hadush Kebatu, from Ethiopia, touched the girl and said he "wanted to have a baby" with her during incidents in Epping, Essex, on 7 and 8 July.more

A man accused of deliberately driving his car into a crowd of football fans in Liverpool pleaded not guilty today at the local Crown Court. The incident, which took place on 26 May, left 134 people injured.more

Jasveen Sangha, known as the ‘Queen of Ketamine,’ has pleaded guilty to five federal charges related to the fatal drug overdose of actor Matthew Perry in 2023. She faces up to 65 years in prison.more

A new interactive map reveals London’s sex offences and stalking hotspots, as the mother of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman says women are still in “constant danger” 20 years on. Latest figures show Croydon - where 18-year-old Sally Anne was stabbed and raped yards from her front door - has the highest overall rate.more

A shooting at a school in Minneapolis that left two children dead and 17 others injured is being investigated as an anti-Catholic hate crime, the FBI says. "The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on X.more

Spain’s National Police on the Costa del Sol have detained a Polish crime boss listed by Europol as one of Europe’s most wanted, for alleged murder, drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal organisation. The suspect – who police believe to be the leader of a violent Krakow-based gang that moved narcotics from Spain to Poland – was tracked down and arrested in Benahavís (Malaga).more

A new survey reveals almost a quarter of Britons (23 per cent) have witnessed a minor crime, such as shoplifting, but did not report it.more

The grocery chain Iceland is offering customers who shop a thief a £1 reward on their loyalty card. The frozen food specialist said that anyone who spots a suspected shoplifter in its stores should inform the nearest Iceland employee who will verify the incident before adding the reward to the individual’s loyalty card for immediate use.more

A man accused of deliberately driving into a crowd of fans at Liverpool's Premier League victory parade has been charged with 24 new offences, including attempted grievous bodily harm against two babies.more

A talking parrot has helped bring down a major drugs operation after a gang member taught the pet how to say phrases used by dealers, like "two for 25". The bird was discovered when police raided homes in Blackpool where officers also seized large amounts of heroin and cocaine.more

A 76-year-old man has appeared in court facing charges related to sweets allegedly laced with sedatives after children fell ill at a summer camp in Leicestershire.more

Knife crime has surged by 58 per cent in London in three years, a report has revealed. Just 20 streets around Oxford Circus and Regent Street accounted for one in every 15 knife attacks across the capital, Policy Exchange said.more

Two men were killed and two others were injured in a stabbing in central London, the Metropolitan Police said yesterday. The authorities are investigating to determine the course of events. At this point, terrorism has been ruled out.more

Retailers say theft is "spiralling out of control" after official figures show shoplifting in England and Wales is at its highest level since current records began more than two decades ago. There were 530,643 reported shoplifting offences in the year to March, a 20% increase from the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).more

Police in Novi Pazar in southern Serbia yesterday detained two men suspected of seriously assaulting a Polish man, who was taken to a local hospital, the Beta news agency reported.more

A woman and two children were killed in a shooting yesterday morning in the village of Maguiresbridge in Northern Ireland, local police said. A seriously injured man is in hospital. Police have launched a murder investigation.more

Two people have died and two people have been seriously injured in a shooting incident in County Fermanagh. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said it received a call at 08:21 BST on Wednesday and sent three vehicles and the air ambulance to the scene in Maguiresbridge.more

Anyone complicit in facilitating people smuggling to the UK will be at risk of having their assets frozen and being banned from travelling to Britain, under new powers announced by the Foreign Secretary today.more

Six people have been arrested during a protest outside a centre for asylum-seeking refugees in Epping, Essex County in the east of England, the BBC reported today. Demonstrations have been ongoing since Thursday, when a court charged one asylum seeker with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.more

Four pro-Palestinian activists accused of breaking into the RAF air base at Brize Norton in June and destroying two aircraft there will stand trial in January 2027. - London's Old Bailey court was informed yesterday. The amount of damage they caused is estimated at £7 million.more

The chief executive of Co-op has confirmed that all 6.5 million of its members had their data stolen in a cyber-attack on the retailer in April. "I'm devastated that information was taken. I'm also devastated by the impact that it took on our colleagues as well as they tried to contain all of this," Shirine Khoury-Haq told BBC Breakfast in her first public interview since the hack.more

Four people have been arrested by British police over cyber attacks in late April this year that disrupted Marks & Spencer and Co-op Group retailers, Reuters reported, citing the National Crime Agency (NCA).more

The London boroughs with the highest rates of crime this year have been revealed. The Metropolitan Police has released the crime statistics for every London borough up to June this year. In total, there were 455,768 offences recorded by the country’s largest police force from January to June 2025.more

A Manhattan jury yesterday acquitted hip-hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs, founder of Bad Boy Records, of federal charges of conspiracy to commit extortion and human trafficking. However, after a seven-week trial, he was found guilty of two lighter offences - transportation to enable prostitution.more

Three former senior staff at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven others have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.more