Munich police have detained a suspected knife-wielding assailant after several people were attacked and injured in various locations across the Bavarian capital. The attacks prompted a citywide manhunt.more
Irish teenagers have joined a dangerous Facebook game in which they "disappear". Kids as young as 14 are taking part in the 48-Hour Challenge during which they vanish without a word to families, often in pairs or small groups, according to Belfast Live.more
A man who racially abused his Polish neighbours was forced to hide in a take away after other residents stood up for them. Sean Cameron, 30, racially abused the family when he thought his next door neighbours in north Hull, had been 'taking photographs of his girlfriend' with their CCTV, Hull Crown Court heard.more
The family of convicted killer Marta Herda have posted a letter online which appears to have been sent on behalf of Pope Francis. Translated from Polish to English, the letter reads: "On behalf of his saintness, the Franciscan thanks for the letter of the day in which you write with great vigor about the difficult situation of your daughter, set in prison.more
A night porter who was sacked after allegedly threatening to kill his boss has been awarded €3,500 in compensation for unfair dismissal by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). The unnamed Polish national was employed at a hostel for asylum-seekers for 11 years before his sacking, which happened after his wife told a manager he was on his way to the hostel to kill her.more
The Guerrilla Butungu, the alleged head of the Rimini gang, who in August has committed a brutal assault on two Polish tourists, will be tried immediately - a court has ruled in this Italian city, at the second hearing in the trial.more
A charity worker stabbed to death for his iPhone by a moped gang today became the latest victim of surging violent crime in London. Abdul Samad, 28, was knifed in the heart on his doorstep hours after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death by a moped-riding knifeman outside Parsons Green Underground station in a separate murder.more
People who are caught twice with corrosive substances in public will automatically face a prison sentence of at least six months under government proposals to counter the threat of acid attacks.more
A smuggler carried contraband on a truckload of car parts. Krzysztof Trznadel placed small boxes of tobacco on top of the large containers of German parts. He was arrested by Border Force officers at Dover Eastern Docks on Wednesday, September 6.more
A major new court specializing in cybercrime, economic crime and fraud is set to be built in the City of London, in a bid to preserve the UK's status as a leading global legal and financial center post-Brexit.more
A convicted rapist who was found guilty of murdering a man and woman in Dundee will serve at least 26 years in prison. Krzysztof Gadecki, who is 38, was given a life sentence after being convicted of stabbing to death Ronnie Kidd and Holly Alexander in December last year.more
Gordon Ramsay has claimed that cocaine use is so rife in the restaurant industry that diners have asked him to sprinkle the class A drug over a soufflé and a customer at one of his venues took a plate to the toilet so they could snort lines of the drug.more
UK drug dealers are now giving their customers 'medical advice' and prescribing different cannabis strains for various ailments. Cannabis dealers and growers are trying to gain an edge on their competition by copying sophisticated marketing methods of American medical cannabis companies.more
A chef has been found guilty of attempting to murder a schoolgirl by removing her seatbelt and deliberately crashing the car in which they were travelling after he discovered his wife had killed herself. The crash happened hours after Lukasz Jarosz found the body of his wife, Aneta, in the bathroom of their home in Wilton, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, in January.more
A man who trafficked four Polish workers to London to exploit and use as slaves has been jailed, police say. Jonatan Majewski, 26, recruited the quartet from Poznan, western Poland, deceiving them with the promise of good jobs and excellent pay.more
German police have announced the arrest of a 55-year-old man "strongly suspected" of poisoning baby food and threatening to contaminate other products in stores nationwide and across Europe.more
Children as young as 13 are openly being sold meat cleavers and knives by shopkeepers in London, an investigation has found. Fifty shops across London were found to be selling kitchen knives, razor blades and meat cleavers to children, in the probe by Trading Standards and Scotland Yard.more
Ms Ayling, 20, claims she was snatched, drugged and held hostage for six days by a group calling itself Black Death after being lured to a fake modelling shoot in Milan in July.more
