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The final hearing in the extradition trial of Michał Kuczmierowski, former head of the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves (RARS), is scheduled for 18 December, according to an official at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, where the trial is being held.more

The court in London, where the final hearing in the extradition trial of Michał Kuczmierowski, former head of the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves (RARS), was to take place today, has been closed due to a sewerage failure in that part of the city, a court official said.more

A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex "as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace".more

An Italian court upheld the arrest of a 34-year-old Polish man yesterday after he killed two 21-year-old women walking on the roadside in Lombardy while driving a van under the influence of drugs, the Ansa news agency reported. The accident shocked the public. The Polish man has been charged with road rage.more

The Chelmsford Magistrates' Court in eastern England today sentenced an asylum seeker staying at a hotel in Epping to one year in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. The incident sparked a wave of anti-immigrant protests across the United Kingdom.more

There was no love lost between Donald Trump and Sir Sadiq Khan this week, as the US President claimed crime in London is 'through the roof'. Official Home Office data on crime tells a story the Mayor would rather avoid.more

The extradition trial of Michał Kuczmierowski, former head of the Government Agency for Strategic Reserves (RARS), will begin today at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, a court official announced. The trial is scheduled to conclude on Thursday.more

Two men and a woman were arrested in Essex, eastern England, on suspicion of collaborating with Russian intelligence services, British police said yesterday.more

The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann was released from a German prison on Wednesday after serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated sex crime. German prosecutors first named Christian Brueckner as a suspect in 2020, when he was already serving the sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal.more

The trial of a former soldier accused of murdering two people during Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972 began today at the Crown Court in Belfast, Northern Ireland. At that time, the army brutally suppressed civil rights demonstrations in the Northern Irish city.more

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