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Drink spiking offences in London have roughly quadrupled over the last five years, new figures reveal. Met Police data shows that while there were 497 offences related to drink spiking in the capital in 2018, the number had risen more than 300 per cent, to 2,066 offences, by 2022. more

A Thai para-athlete and former soldier shot his wife and three other people during his wedding and then committed suicide, BBC reported.more

The drug boss of the Neapolitan mafia - Camorra, Raffaele Imperiale, handed over his island, which is located in the archipelago opposite the coast of Dubai, to the Italian authorities, the prosecutor said during the trial of about 20 mafiosi. One of them is Imperiale, which has started cooperation with the Italian justice system.more

Women in the British military who report sexual assault are not supported but are ostracized and punished for breaking minor rules, a study published yesterday found.more

A 41-year-old man turned himself in to the French police on Sunday and confessed to murdering his three daughters, aged 4, 10 and 11, in his house in Alfortville on the outskirts of Paris, AFP reported.more

Disabled athlete from South Africa, Oscar Pistorius, serving a 13-year prison sentence for the murder of his fiancée, will be able to leave prison in Pretoria on January 5, 2024, local judicial authorities announced.more

By Friday, Spanish police officers had informed 7,076 women that the men living with them had in the past committed domestic violence against their former partners.more

Contrary to the concerns expressed by the Irish police, the night from Friday to Saturday passed peacefully in Dublin and there was no repetition of the riots that took place on Thursday evening. Nevertheless, a small number of people were arrested last night.more

Serious riots occurred last night in Dublin as a result of a knife attack that in the afternoon attacked three children of several years coming out of school. A police car and two city buses were set on fire during the riots, and there are also incidents of shoplifting and clashes between demonstrators and police. Irish police described the riots as the most serious in many years.more

Shoplifting is “creeping in” among the middle classes because of faulty self-checkouts, the chairman of Marks & Spencer has said... more

Last New Year's Eve in the German capital Berlin, there were violent riots and attacks on the police and rescue services. According to Franziska Giffey, senator for economic affairs and former mayor of Berlin, "it certainly won't be easier this year, especially when we see what is currently happening on the streets of Berlin."more

The body of an approximately 20-year-old woman was found on Saturday evening in one of the apartments in Krakow. The injuries on the victim's body indicate that she was murdered, and the perpetrator is probably her 21-year-old partner, who fled to the capital of Great Britain.more

Two Dutch businessmen, who were offered a share in the profits from a gigantic operation amounting to USD 439 billion via WhatsApp, flew to Kenya to finalize the "transaction" - reports the daily "De Telegraaf". It turned out that they fell victim to fraudsters.more

Residents of a North London neighbourhood have complained of being ‘too scared to walk home at night’ because of abusive behaviour fuelled by alcohol. One woman claimed she was ‘threatened with a bottle’ for not giving a man her number. more

Two 12-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 19-year-old man was stabbed to death in Wolverhampton. West Midlands Police said Shawn Seesahai died after being stabbed near Laburnum Road, East Park, just before 8.30pm on Monday.more

Prince Andrew, the younger brother of Britain's King Charles III, is under increasing pressure to testify to the FBI in the case of the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was involved in the pimping of young women, reports the Daily Mirror.more

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg pleaded not guilty in a London court today to the charge of disturbing public order, which she was charged with following her arrest during a protest in the British capital on October 17.more

A quarter of teenage children living in London have been a victim of violence in the past year, a survey has revealed. The study by the Youth Endowment Fund lifts the lid on the extent of youth violence in the capital. more

Manchester United fans, angry and frustrated after losing 3-4 to FC Copenhagen in a Champions League group match on Wednesday, robbed duty-free shops at Copenhagen airport on their way home.more

33-year-old Slovak citizen Jozef Puska was found guilty of the highly publicized murder in Ireland of 23-year-old teacher Ashling Murphy. The mandatory penalty in this case is life imprisonment.more

The District Court in Sopot sentenced 43-year-old Michał B. to 10 months of restriction of liberty with the obligation to perform 20 hours of unpaid community service a month, a ban on approaching Donald Tusk and his family, and an apology to the head of PO for threatening him and his family with death in an e-mail. The judgment is invalid.more

Every police force in England and Wales has reported migrants who are domestic-abuse victims to Immigration Enforcement, new data suggests.more

A rogue landlord who left tenants living opposite Hyde Park in damp-ridden conditions and cooking their food on camping stoves has been fined nearly half a million pounds. more

The police have launched an investigation into the death of a 40-year-old Pole from Bunschoten-Spakenburg in the central part of the Netherlands. "We are investigating the circumstances of the death and do not rule out a crime," said Tom Heutz from the Midden-Nederland police unit.more

Fuel thefts from petrol stations in the UK have risen sharply, which may be due to the rising cost of living, but also to organised criminal activity, it was reported yesterday.more