Britain will be a ‘more volatile and agitated society’ when it comes out of coronavirus lockdown, senior police officer warns Concerns raised about the ‘unintended’ effects of mass unemployment, domestic abuse and mental health issues on society Police Superintendents Association (PSA) President said senior officers fear a rise in crime and disorder post-lockdown Paul Griffiths … Read more
Our brilliant new series began in Saturday’s Weekend magazine with a countdown of the 80 most compelling True Crime TV shows and podcasts available. It continues all this week in the Mail with four-page specials featuring stories from our archives — with Crimes of Passion, Rough Justice, Serial Killers and Unsolved Crimes to come. But … Read more
The fearsome knock on the door came after nightfall. Outside were two men in hazmat suits who told businessman Fang Bin they had come to take him into medical quarantine. But the textile trader, a gangly man in his early 40s, wasn’t ill and the men outside his Wuhan apartment weren’t doctors. They were police … Read more
From Stephen King’s If It Bleeds to The Switch by Beth O’Leary and new novels from Michael Arditti and Martin Edwards, this week’s best new fiction By Anthony Cummins and Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson Published: 22:01 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 18 April 2020 If It Bleeds Stephen King … Read more
The Armchair Traveller: Soak up some Mallorcan sunshine and enjoy a rollercoaster ride in Holland – how to explore the world from the comfort of your home Follow detectives in The Mallorca Files as they solve cases on the Spanish island Plunge 130ft on a virtual rollercoaster ride at Holland’s Efteling Park Get the blood … Read more
A second sweeping and ambitious novel from the talented Australian Hammer, whose debut, Scrublands, last year won a string of literary prize nominations.
Crime near traveller sites is around 50 per cent higher than the national average while police are frustrated at not being able to tackle it effectively. An investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches has found that the crime rate in some traveller sites was substantially higher than the UK average. The show claims the average crime … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:44 BST, 31 January 2020 THE BODY ON THE TRAIN by Frances Brody (Piatkus £8.99, 384 pp) THE BODY ON THE TRAIN by Frances Brody (Piatkus £8.99, 384 pp) It’s 1929. A freight train arriving at Kings’ Cross … Read more
The likelihood of determining whether someone is sharing a real or false memory of a crime that has been implanted in a person’s recollection is ‘no better than tossing a coin’, a new study reveals. People listening to recounted events of a criminal act were only able to determine between the two with 53 percent … Read more
‘After all that… WERE they guilty?’ Quiz finale leaves viewers reeling as it hints that ‘coughing Major’ Charles Ingram and his wife Diana are INNOCENT By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 22:51 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 00:01 BST, 16 April 2020 The third final episode of Quiz aired on Wednesday night, and left … Read more