One of Damilola Taylor’s killers is jailed for four years for dangerous driving

One of Damilola Taylor’s killers is jailed for four years after driving into a female police officer Ricky Preddie, 32, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving He has been sentenced to four years behind bars by Harrow Crown Court   Ricky and his brother Danny killed schoolboy Damilola Taylor in November 2000 By Sophie Tanno … Read more

Stab victim asks ‘where am I?’ in hospital

Stab victim wakes up asking ‘where am I?’ as medics battle to stem blood gushing from wound in footage highlighting the horrifying consequences of Britain’s knife epidemic Victim arrived at Aintree Hospital’s major trauma centre after being stabbed  15-strong team of medics battled to save his life after he was knifed in the chest He woke … Read more

Naples housing estate known as Gomorrah for links to the Mafia is demolished

Bulldozers started work on Thursday demolishing a crime-riddled, crumbling housing estate on the outskirts of Naples, notorious for its links to the local mafia. Mechanical diggers ripped into the facade of one of the concrete tower blocks, shaped like a gigantic sailboat, in the Scampia neighbourhood that was a nerve centre of Italy’s illegal drug … Read more

Drug dealer inmate who was at the centre of a coronavirus scare pleads guilty to charges

Drug dealer who was at the centre of a coronavirus scare when he collapsed in HMP Bullingdon after being transferred to the UK from a Thai jail pleads guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis as second in command of a 15-strong crime gang Mark Rumble was one of two inmates isolated but both … Read more

Alesha MacPhail’s teenage killer, 17, ‘took his time’ with murder claims psychologist

The teenage killer who raped and murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail ‘took his time’ with the crime because ‘enjoyed’ harming her and knew she would be his only victim, claimed a psychologist.  Aaron Campbell was 16 when he took Alesha, six, from her bed as she slept and carried her to a remote woodland.  It was … Read more

Missing torso of dismembered 17-year-old ‘was sent to notorious Dublin crime boss’

The missing torso of a murdered Irish teenager has been sent to a notorious crime boss and will never been found, it has been claimed. Keane Mulready-Woods, 17, was barbarically decapitated and chopped up in Drogheda on January 12. Mulready-Woods was abducted from the streets of Drogheda and taken to a pebble dash home, where … Read more

How Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse may have inspired real-life serial killer Graham Young

The BBC’s lavish adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse reached its gripping conclusion on Sunday.  Yet few of those enthralled by its tale of mystery and murder know of the strange afterlife of this remarkable novel. That is because The Pale Horse, written by the Queen of Crime in 1961, is credited with having … Read more

Gang is jailed for up to 44 months each after hacking more than 2,000 BT customer accounts

An organised crime gang has been sentenced for carrying out a sophisticated fraud by using hacked BT and PayPal accounts to purchase luxury goods including Rolexes and TVs worth £358,000. The fraudsters targeted more than 2,000 people across the country but focused on the Hampshire and Portsmouth area, the court heard. They used their ill-gotten … Read more