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Prominent MP for the UK's ruling Conservative Party Crispin Blunt confirmed last night that he had been arrested the day before in connection with allegations of rape and possession of a restricted substance.more

The system for issuing visas for people drawn from abroad to work as carers in the UK is being massively abused, with some agencies involved even being set up by criminals, Sky News reports today.more

Three activists from the Just Stop Oil group, which claims to be fighting climate change, yesterday sprayed orange paint on Wellington Arch, a nearly 200-year-old triumphal arch located near Buckingham Palace in London.more

During an anti-terrorist operation, the police detained Mustafa Maya Amaya alias Mustafa Maya Amaya in the Spanish autonomous city in northern Morocco - Melilla. "The Taliban", whom he considers "the largest jihadist recruiter in Europe".more

Shoplifting will be targeted like organised crime as part of a plan to help police to crack down on theft. more

A man who was spared jail for abusing his ex-girlfriend went home and attacked her just hours later. more

Acid attacks have risen in London by 45% in a year, Met Police data revealed. The force recorded 107 of such attacks in 2022, up from 74 in 2021, a Freedom of Information request stated.more

The Metropolitan Police plans to use facial recognition technology going forward to try to identify and arrest London's most prolific shoplifters. more

Police arrested six men in Bleiswijk in the central Netherlands last night for transporting 7.7 tonnes of cocaine in a banana truck. The driver of the vehicle was a 43-year-old Pole, the remaining detainees have the citizenship of Belgium and the Netherlands.more

Phone companies are to meet London's mayor and the Met Police commissioner to discuss how smartphones can be designed to make them harder to steal.more

A high street chain is offering customers with intel on shoplifters a reward of up to £500 to help catch the thieves. more

Two Swedish fans were shot dead in Brussels before their national team's match against Belgium in a European Championship soccer qualifier. The drama occurred near Place Sanctelette in the Molenbeek district, about 5 km from King Baudouin I Stadium.more

The number of murders is increasing dramatically in the Netherlands, nine people have been killed in the last week, police say. This is almost twice as much as the average.more

Sadiq Khan is offering all 500 secondary schools in London knife wand metal detectors to screen pupils for weapons in the wake of 15-year-old Elianne Andam’s murder.more

Former long-time Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, 92, has been sentenced by a London court to 17 months in prison suspended for two years for tax fraud. The Briton owes the tax authorities €750 million.more

Rapists and burglars will avoid jail because the country is running out of prison places. more

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK has more than quadrupled since the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israel, a charity that helps Jews in the UK reported today.more

Waving a Palestinian flag or singing a chant advocating freedom for Arabs in the region may be a criminal offence, Suella Braverman has told senior police officers. more

The majority of the Swedish population, 53%, do not feel safe in their country, according to a 2023 study by the Council for the Prevention of Crime (BRA) published yesterday. This is the highest level of concern since the survey began in 2007.more

In December 2021, a young British man attempted to enter Windsor Castle to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. A subsequent investigation revealed that Jaswant Singh Chail had been planning the assassination of the monarch for many months. A verdict has just been reached in this case. The man was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. He will serve part of his sentence in a psychiatric facility.more

British Home Secretary Suella Braverman ordered the police to respond strongly to any expressions of joy over Hamas' operations. Such events occurred especially in London.more

Female motorists driving through Richmond Park are being abused and harassed by irate male cyclists, the Met Police has said.more

If the threats related to clan crime are not taken seriously, "unfortunately, it is to be feared that in ten years we will also have conditions in large German cities that currently prevail in Sweden", where clan and gang crime is growing - says the former police chief in Essen Frank Richter.more

Duchess Sarah Ferguson has passed along information that her one-time assistant, Jenean Chapman, was murdered in Texas. The aristocrat wants to help the woman's family transport her body from Dallas - where the crime was committed - to New York.more

The Carabinieri are looking for an Italian and a Polish woman who fled after their wedding near Frosinone in the Italian region of Lazio without paying a restaurant bill of 8,000 euros. As it was established, the spouses flew to Germany - it is not ruled out that they will go to Poland from there.more