Man, 43, attacks multiple people with a bat on two-hour New York City crime spree

A New York City man allegedly attacked multiple people on Saturday, leaving one unconscious and another with a broken arm, before carjacking two vehicles.  The bat-wielding man was identified as 43-year-old Bryan Thompson.  According to the New York Post, Thompson started his alleged violent spree around 7pm on Saturday in the subway station at Varick … Read more

Businessman accused of trying to rip off a Muslim woman’s HIJAB on Tube has assault case thrown out

A Polish businessman who was accused of an anti-Islam hate crime had an assault case against him thrown out by a judge after the Muslim woman’s key witnesses gave conflicting stories in court. Aniso Abulkadir claimed that she and her friends Luxika Rajeswaran and Oyindamola Olatuyi were assaulted at Baker Street Tube station by Pawel Uczciwek … Read more

Child litter louts are going ‘unpunished’, warn experts as figures

Child litter louts are going ‘unpunished’, warn experts as figures reveal 72% of fines for dropping rubbish are given to men in their 20s Children are getting away with the unsociable crime by escaping fines Litterbugs caught  in 2020 were overwhelmingly aged between 20 and 29 years But littering is an ‘unpunishable crime for youngsters’, … Read more

Man, 43, charged with causing Wythenshawe house explosion

Shocking moment blast rips through house as man, 43, is charged with causing explosion that put woman, 32, and 11-year-old girl in hospital Blast occurred at a home in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday Clinton Parren, 43, charged with causing the explosion after being arrested A woman, 32, and an 11-year-old girl were taken to … Read more

African internet scammers target lonely locked-down Brits as romance fraud hits 7,000 cases in 2020

African internet scammers target lonely locked-down Brits as romance fraud hits record 7,000 cases in 2020 and detectives call on ministers to crack down on Facebook Graeme Biggar, head of National Crime Agency’s National Economic Crime Centre, said agency is combating surge in fraud during Covid-19 pandemic He warned social media companies like Facebook would … Read more

Police hunting killer release image of suspect, 28, as boy, 16, is arrested on suspicion of murder

Police hunting the suspected killer of a retired farm worker allegedly beaten to death during a burglary at his Essex home have released an image of a suspect as a 16-year-old boy is arrested on suspicion of murder. Essex Police have released an image of Leighton Snook, 28, but warned the public to stay away … Read more

Elderly man found murdered in house near Colchester, Essex

Police are hunting for a killer believed to have murdered a retired farm worker in ‘a targeted incident’ at his Essex bungalow before making off with the victim’s Volvo. Donald Ralph, 83, is thought to have been murdered at his bungalow in Aldham, near Colchester – his body was discovered by a neighbour on Tuesday … Read more

Fugitive convicted paedophile ran through the Channel Tunnel in an attempt to evade police

The British fugitive who ran through the Channel Tunnel and was arrested by French police in Calais is a convicted paedophile wanted by UK authorities, MailOnline can reveal. Ryan Murryland, 31, was apprehended in the French section of the tunnel that links Folkestone in Kent and Coquelles in northern France on December 21. Murrayland, from … Read more

5ft Santa Claus stolen from outside Richard Curtis’s home in London

‘Please look after him well’: Partner of screenwriter Richard Curtis appeals for help in finding 5ft Santa Claus figure which was stolen outside their front door in London’s Notting Hill Thieves steal 5ft Father Christmas from outside Richard Curtis’s £15m home His long-time partner, broadcaster Emma Freud, has urged for its safe return She makes … Read more

Britons arrested overseas do NOT have a ‘legal right’ right to government help, Foreign Office says 

British citizens who are wrongfully arrested and tortured overseas will have ‘no legal right to consular assistance’ or protection from the state, the Foreign Office has announced.  In a letter to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe‘s lawyers, the Government said it was under no legal obligation to provide assistance to citizens who were falsely accused of a crime while travelling … Read more