Crimes

An online child sex offender has been jailed for six years after using social media to target and exploit two young girls. Rehan Ali encouraged the children, who were only seven and eight years old, to send him indecent images. He also sent messages encouraging them to carry out sexual...

Three men jailed over an al-Qaeda-inspired plan to kill large numbers of people could be released from prison in the coming months. Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman were found guilty of conspiracy to murder after becoming involved in the 2006 terror plot. The wider plan involved using...

Richard Tice has strongly criticised the police after a new development led officers to reopen an investigation into an alleged firebomb attack at Nigel Farage’s property. Mr Tice, who is the deputy leader of Reform UK, accused the authorities of failing to take threats against the party’s politicians seriously. He...

A delivery driver in Massachusetts has been arrested after police accused him of entering the home of a disabled woman without permission and sexually assaulting her while delivering medicine. The suspect has been identified as 39-year-old Qaisar Ali, who lives in Brockton, Massachusetts. Police said he was working for a...

An 18-year-old girl has described the terrifying moment she woke up in the early hours of the morning after feeling her blanket being pulled away, only to discover that a stranger had entered her bedroom and was standing over her. The frightening incident happened at around 5am on June 4...

A failed Kurdish asylum seeker has been jailed after sexually attacking a 19-year-old university student inside her student accommodation in Birmingham. Mohammad Hasani, 29, sexually assaulted the young woman after he was invited to the flat by her roommate. The court heard that although the student repeatedly rejected his advances...

Court records claim that British woman Sonia Exelby tried to pull out of a disturbing arrangement before she was killed, and prosecutors now believe her final messages could become some of the strongest evidence when the case goes to trial. Dwain Hall, 54, from Ocala, Florida, has been charged with...

A former Indian university student has been jailed after a court heard he tried to arrange a marriage with what he believed was a 13-year-old British girl in an attempt to stay in the UK after his visa expired. Vijay Mundrathi, 41, had been studying as a postgraduate student at...

A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to 100 years in prison after taking part in a gang-related shooting that killed an innocent woman. Jo'Majze Larry, from Anderson, Indiana, was found guilty over the deadly attack, which prosecutors said was meant for someone else. The victim, 26-year-old Dayla Swain, was shot...

An asylum seeker accused of killing his girlfriend is said to have entered the UK through what has been described as a "£10 visa loophole" before later travelling to Ireland. Ahmad Al-Saqar, 28, is alleged to have fled to Jordan after his girlfriend, 43-year-old Jamey Carney, was found dead inside...