Crimes

A 68-year-old Somali asylum seeker who fatally stabbed a pensioner and seriously injured two other people during a shocking attack on Remembrance Sunday has been given a hospital order instead of a prison sentence. Musse Ali, who had no fixed address at the time, launched the violent attack in November...

A group of five men have been convicted after kidnapping a 21-year-old man from his home in Telford and taking him to a storage unit where he was brutally attacked. West Mercia Police released CCTV footage showing the terrifying moment the victim was forced from his home in Arleston before...

Two asylum seekers who repeatedly raped a vulnerable woman on Brighton beach while a third man filmed the horrifying attack have been jailed for a combined total of more than 60 years. Ibrahim Alshafe, 26, Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, and Karin Al-Danasurt, 21, were sentenced after a jury found them guilty...

The family of 18-year-old Henry Nowak have spoken out after the mother of his killer was sentenced to prison for helping her son after the fatal stabbing. Henry's family said they were deeply disappointed with the outcome of the case, even though Kiran Kaur has now been jailed. They made...

Elie Mey, a 25-year-old drug dealer from Erdington, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after helping his brother escape the UK following a deadly drive-by shooting that claimed the life of a rival drug dealer. The case centred on the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Neo Graham, who was...

Neighbours of the man arrested on suspicion of murdering former MP Ann Widdecombe have spoken about what they say they saw shortly before he drove away in a red car. They claimed the man appeared to place what looked like “some kind of wooden stick” into the passenger side of...

Amir Khan, a 25-year-old man who entered the UK illegally by hiding in the back of a lorry, has been jailed after carrying out a horrific attack on his wife that has left her in a coma with little hope of recovery. Khan, a Pakistani national, first came to the...

Two men have been sent to prison after admitting their part in a violent kidnapping in Bradford that left the victim traumatised and had a lasting impact on both him and his family. At Bradford Crown Court, Judge Ahmed Nadim described the incident as a carefully planned and serious crime...

An Iraqi man who was previously jailed in France for running a large people-smuggling operation has reportedly been found living in Leicestershire while waiting for a decision on his asylum claim in the UK. The case has attracted widespread attention after an investigation claimed he had once made huge amounts...

Vickrum Digwa, the man serving a life sentence for the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, has reportedly been moved into the segregation unit at HMP Frankland in County Durham after refusing to move onto one of the prison's main wings. The high-security prison is widely known by the nickname...