Law & Order
A Huddersfield man stabbed his ex-lover's mother to death as a revenge aimed at his ex-partner, left a message in blood behind and then lept to his death from a car park.
The British government is planning to introduce a "competency test" for dog owners in order to curb the number of dangerous dogs at households.
Veteran BBC TV and radio presenter Ray Gosling was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday after confessing he killed an ex-lover suffering from AIDS.
UK prosecutors consider torture charges against officers from MI5 and MI6
Senior prosecution lawyers are being consulted by police over the possibility of bringing criminal charges against two British intelligence officers suspected of complicity in torture.
Over 1,000 Britons are jailed over drugs abroad
British travellers have been warned not to get involved with drugs abroad, as figures show a large number of those detained are accused of drugs offences.
Britain bans Islamist group at centre of march row
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will outlaw an Islamist group that provoked anger with a plan to march through a town where British troops killed in Afghanistan are honored, the interior minister announced Tuesday.
Three held over alleged bomb threat at Heathrow
LONDON — Three men were on Saturday in police custody after being arrested by armed police at London's Heathrow airport on suspicion of making a bomb threat.
British man's penis removed from pipe
A man who went to casualty with his penis stuck in a steel pipe had to be cut free by firefighters using a metal grinder.
UK parents pose as 11-year-old daughter to catch Facebook pervert grooming her for sex
A paedophile who thought he had lured a girl of 11 for sex was snared when her parents took over her online chats. But the pervert was unaware the girl's mum and dad had been posing as their daughter and he walked into their trap when he turned up...
British widow forgives murderous pirates who threw husband's body overboard
A widow who heard her husband being beaten to death by pirates yesterday appeared to forgive his killers.
UK man cleared of wife's death during nightmare
LONDON — A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found innocent in her death.
British girl, 8, claims she was raped by two 10-year-old boys
Two 10-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of raping an eight-year-old girl in her local park. The alleged victim, who cannot be named, returned from playing near her home in Hayes, west London, on Tuesday afternoon to tell her mother th...
Eight Lockerbie suspects were never interviewed, says former police chief
A detective who headed the original Lockerbie investigation has revealed that eight other potential suspects in the bombing were identified at the time but they were never interviewed.
Parliament rooftop protesters arrested in London
LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested 20 environmental protesters who climbed onto the roof of the Houses of Parliament, the latest in a series of security breaches at the London landmark.
This is your lucky day: What masked gun raider told terrified woman who was seven months pregnant as he raped her
A heavily pregnant woman was raped at gunpoint by a burglar who told her it was her 'lucky day'. The 33-year-old victim was only two months away from giving birth when masked raiders burst into her home and held a sawn-off shotgun to her partner's...
New CPS guidelines could lead to rise in assisted suicides in UK, admits chief prosecutor
Assisted suicides in the UK could rise because of a new "tick-box" approach to deciding if relatives and friends should be prosecuted for helping loved ones to die, Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has admitted.
UK unveils rules on prosecuting assisted suicides
Guidelines to be used in deciding whether to prosecute people who help others commit suicide were published for the first time in Britain on Wednesday to clarify a law challenged repeatedly in the courts.
LONDON — An Indian-born woman who murdered her two teenage daughters with kitchen knives while they slept was jailed for 33 years by a court on Tuesday.
U.K. Attorney General Fined for Employing Illegal Immigrant
U.K. Attorney General Patricia Mawhinney, who steered through a law tightening immigration controls, was fined 5,000 pounds ($8,167) for employing a housekeeper who was not permitted to work in the country.
Expat Flies To Uk From Thailand To Rob Bank
A 60-YEAR-OLD man who used a fake bomb to try to rob a bank was arrested by police when he fled to Brixham, a court heard. Police caught Michael Metcalfe when he was traced to his elderly mother's home in the port following the robbery bid at a br...