New government plans will allow foreign criminals in England and Wales to be deported after 30% of their sentence, down from the current 50%.

Jack Watkin, 26, pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud for a designer handbag scam, leveraging a fabricated luxurious lifestyle to con victims out of significant sums.

A 22-year-old British man has been arrested at Disneyland Paris after allegedly organising a staged wedding ceremony involving a nine-year-old Ukrainian girl.

A 75-year-old woman, Louisa Dunne, was raped and murdered in her Bristol home almost 60 years ago; her case was reopened in 2023 after new DNA evidence linked it to Ryland Headley.

Baroness Louise Casey’s rapid audit has found that a “culture of blindness, ignorance and prejudice” allowed grooming gangs to operate for decades in the UK, with authorities repeatedly failing vulnerable victims as young as 10.

The Home Office today announced a major, nationwide police operation targeting grooming gangs, led by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Over 800 historical cases have been reopened, with specialist teams—including Operation Hydrant and the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce—mobilised to identify and prosecute offenders who had been previously overlooked.