More than 10,000 sex offences and rapes are yet to go to trial in huge Crown Court backlogs, new figures have revealed. According to the Ministry of Justice, there are now more than 67,500 crimes across England and Wales that are waiting
Campaigner Richard Taylor, whose son Damilola Taylor was murdered at the age of just 10, has died, his family have announced. The former Nigerian civil servant dedicated years to improving the lives of disadvantaged children in the wake of his son’s tragic death in November 2000,
JK Rowling vowed to defy Scotland’s “ludicrous” new hate crime laws in a transgender row. Activists have been attempting to have the Harry Potter author arrested for calling trans broadcaster India Willoughby a man on social media. Rajan Barot, a former fraud
Plans to ban MPs from Parliament if they are accused of wrongdoing have been condemned as “a terrible mistake” by Tories who say it would encourage “vexatious” accusations. Tough measures are designed to “safeguard” people who work at Westminster by banning MPs
The Home Office is waiting for suspected organised crime bosses to leave the country before stripping them of their British citizenships. The tactic is being used in cases where police have been unable to prosecute certain foreign nationals, who have obtained British
Japanese Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa has been charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries, federal prosecutors in New York said on Wednesday. Ebisawa “and his confederates showed samples of nuclear materials in Thailand” to an undercover US
A shop thief has been jailed following a massive six-month spree during which police believe he struck supermarkets more than 500 times. Samad Ali is believed to have stolen up to £18,000 worth of items from supermarkets across the West Midlands. Ali,
Sadiq Khan has been accused of holding back money needed for policing in London to look good for this year’s Mayoral election. Conservative candidate Susan Hall has claimed that Mr Khan has built up an election war chest at the cost of
The stabbing of Zacharia Doar, a 23-year-old Palestinian American, near the University of Texas, has been classified as a hate crime. Bert James Baker, 36, allegedly approached Doar’s truck, yelled racial slurs and physically assaulted Doar before stabbing him. Baker was arrested
The Environment Agency has launched an economic crime unit to address “serious financial offences” in the waste sector, the quango has announced. Waste crime costs the economy an estimated £1 billion every year and is often linked to other serious offences involving