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The prisons watchdog has warned that drones delivering weapons to two of England's highest security prisons have become a national security risk. The chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, said drops of contraband to inmates at HMP Manchester and HMP Long Lartin, in Worcestershire, were now so regular that guns could be smuggled in.more

Victims are being “let down time and time again” by police, a minister has said, as almost every violent or sexual offence went unsolved in hundreds of crime hotspots last year.more

The trial of 18-year-old Mohammed M., accused of shooting Polish man Mikael (Michał), began today in a court near Stockholm. The suspect pleaded not guilty and showed no emotion at the trial.more

The National Police have reported the arrest of 32-year-old Marek Dawid Legiec, one of the ten most wanted fugitives in Spain, who voluntarily surrendered at a police station in Murcia.more

A mother has appeared in court charged with murdering her son and attempting to murder her father. Karolina Zurawska, 41, from Gendros, Swansea, appeared before the city’s crown court on Friday morning. She is charged with murdering Alexander Zurawski, six, who was found dead at a property in Gendros on August 29.more

In 2024, crime in Poland decreased: there were fewer thefts, burglaries and murders. However, there were brazen robberies on the streets - reports "Rzeczpospolita".more

A 37-year-old Pole will be charged with murder after a policeman died while chasing car thieves in Brandenburg, eastern Germany, German prosecutors said yesterday. The man was driving a car that hit the policeman, killing him.more

A new map shows every killing MyLondon reported on in 2024. With official data on the number of people murdered in London in 2024 yet to be released, the map is by no means exhaustive, but it does give a sense of the geographic spread of violence around the capital over the last 12 months.more

The Met Police have been criticised for failing to solve 90 per cent of car thefts in London, with new figures described as “staggeringly high.” Home Office data revealed that 90.2 per cent of car thefts in the capital between February and June 2024 were classified as “unsolved cases” by the force, City AM reported.more

Detectives are hunting a “lone wolf” burglar who stole bespoke jewellery and designer items worth more than £10m in a 19-minute heist at a billionaire’s row mansion in London.more

Five people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne in Argentina, the authorities there say. The 31-year-old star died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.more

Some of the UK’s largest police forces have reported increases in religious hate crimes in the past 18 months, figures reveal, with the number of incidents rising after the start of the Hamas-Israel conflict in autumn 2023 and again after the Southport attacks in England this summer.more

In Sweden, 2024 was the calmest year in terms of the number of shootings and victims of gang hijinks since 2017, when such statistics began to be published, according to preliminary data from the Swedish police covering the past 12 months.more

A drugs smuggler caught trying to bring almost £100,000 of cannabis into the UK at Newcastle Airport said he had been pressured by an organised crime group. On August 30 this year, Border Force were monitoring passengers arriving at Newcastle Airport. Newcastle Crown Court heard they stopped and quizzed Arkadiusz Golab, a Polish national arriving on a flight from Dubai.more

The perpetrator of the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg several years ago repeatedly attracted the attention of the services by threatening to commit crimes. He was sentenced to 90 days in prison for disturbing the public peace, said Christian Pegel, the Minister of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.more

Last night in Magdeburg in eastern Germany, a car drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market. Initially, it was not clear how many people were killed. It was assumed that up to 11 and dozens were injured. Today, the death toll is four, the daily Bild reported, citing local police. more

Powiązany z gangiem 18-letni Mohammed M. został oskarżony wczoraj przez szwedzką prokuraturę o zastrzelenie w kwietniu w Sztokholmie 39-letniego Polaka Mikaela (Michała) na oczach jego 12-letniego syna.more

Portuguese police have detained a Polish citizen suspected of mass production of various types of drugs, public radio RTP reported. Among the drugs confiscated were tens of kilograms of cannabis, ecstasy and LSD, as well as hallucinogenic mushrooms.more

A London court today sentenced to 33 and 40 years in prison the father and stepmother of slain 2023. 10-year-old Sarah Sharif. Last week, a jury ruled that the couple were guilty of murdering and cruelly treating the girl from the man's first marriage.more

Domestic violence against men is on the rise in Portugal, according to a report by the Portuguese Association for Support to Victims (APAV), which shows that the number of cases of this type of abuse is at a record high.more

The father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif have been found guilty of her murder after subjecting her to "horrific suffering" for more than two years. Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during a campaign of abuse before her body was found with dozens of injuries at the family's home in Woking, Surrey, last year.more

More than 200 stalking offenders released from prison will be GPS tagged by March 2026 under a pilot scheme from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. People who have served custodial sentences for stalking offences will be tagged with a tracking device under strict licence conditions, City Hall said, to "protect victims and help prevent reoffending".more

London shops lost a record £15 million of items due to a shoplifting epidemic sweeping across the capital. Shoplifters are 20 per cent less likely to be arrested than they were a decade ago, a London Assembly Member has highlighted.more

A court today sentenced a Bangladeshi man to life imprisonment and 13 years in prison for the kidnapping, rape and brutal murder of a Polish woman, Anastasia, on the Greek island of Kos in 2023, reports the Rodiaki portal and other Greek media.more

The leader of a criminal group which, operating in Poland and Western Europe, defrauded more than 230 people using the accident method, has been arrested in the UK and handed over to Polish law enforcement authorities, the Gliwice prosecutor's office reported yesterday. The victims of the gang lost more than PLN 12.5 million.more