Crime & Courts

Onlookers stand near the scene where a semitrailer with multiple dead bodies was discovered, Monday, June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay).

Three in custody after 46 bodies found in southern Texas lorry trailer
Three people were in custody after 46 bodies were found in a lorry trailer containing suspected migrants on the outskirts of San Antonio.

The accused Josef S. covers his face as he sits at the court room in Brandenburg, Germany, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. A 101-year-old man has been convicted of 3,518 counts of accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp

101-year-old man convicted of being Nazi guard jailed for five years in Germany

Three in custody after 46 bodies found in southern Texas lorry trailer

Three in custody after 46 bodies found in southern Texas lorry trailer

Photo issued by US Department of Justice of Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein, shown to the court during her sex trafficking trial in the Southern District of New York. Picture: PA

Who was Ghislaine Maxwell's dad? The life of infamous media tycoon Robert Maxwell

What time is Ghislaine Maxwell sentencing today?

What time is Ghislaine Maxwell sentencing today?

In this video still imgage forensics are investigating after a knife attack at an asylum seeker shelter in Kressbronn, Germany, Sunday, June 26, 2022. A knife-wielding attacker has stabbed several people in a shelter for asylum-seekers in southern

Knife attacker kills one and wounds five at German asylum shelter

A person typing on a laptop. Credit: Canva

Scots warned over latest online holiday and gig scams as demand soars

Police Scotland have strip searched more than 1,000 children in two years

PREMIUM More than 1,000 children strip searched by Police Scotland since 2020

Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin and John Anglin (L-R) as they were when imprisoned in Alcatraz and how they could look now around their late 80s as the US Marshal service continues to hunt the escapees

Issue of the day: Did the Alcatraz escapees make it to shore 60 years ago?

Police work near a site after a man killed some people in Kongsberg, Norway, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. A man armed with a bow and arrows killed several people Wednesday near the Norwegian capital of Oslo before he was arrested, authorities said. (Terje

Norwegian sentenced to psychiatric care after bow-and-arrow murders

Barlinnie Prison

Prisoners on remand soared to highest level during pandemic as prison population fell

Photos of the victims of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, are shown on a video display at T-Mobile Park Friday, May 27, 2022, during a moment of silence before a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Houston Astros in

Uvalde school police chief put on leave after response called 'abject failure'

Diego Maradona holds up his team's trophy after Argentina's 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final soccer match at Atzeca Stadium in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli, File).

Medical personnel who cared for Maradona to stand trial for criminal negligence

Ghislaine Maxwell(United Nations Photo/Rick Bajornas via AP, File).

Ghislaine Maxwell ‘deserves at least 30 years in prison’

Scots justice secretary insists ScotGov looks after police officers better than 'Tory England and Wales'

Scots justice secretary insists ScotGov looks after police officers better than 'Tory England and Wales'

Calls for diversity training to tackle Police Scotland 'boy's club' culture

Calls for diversity training to tackle Police Scotland 'boy's club' culture

Ministers accused of 'derelicition of duty' as police threaten action in escalating pay dispute

Ministers accused of 'dereliction of duty' as Scots police threaten action over pay

Mourners pay their respects to the victims killed in last week's elementary school shooting, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay).

Top Texas officer: Uvalde police response was 'abject failure'

Man charged in connection with crash as girl, 3, taken to hospital

Man charged in connection with collision as girl, 3, taken to hospital

Two women comfort each other during the burial service for Irma Garcia and her husband Joe Garcia at Hillcrest Cemetery, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Irma Garcia was killed in last week's elementary school shooting. Joe Garcia died two

Police in Uvalde had rifles earlier than previously thought, report says

Marengo Road, Kirkwall

Man charged after body found at property on Orkney

Arrest made over death of man found injured in Orkney house

Man charged in connection with death in Orkney home

The Tyre Extinguishers movement is spreading and they say anyone can take part

Issue of the day: The rise of The Tyre Extinguishers

Federal police officers load body bags with recovered human remains onto a police vehicle after being found during a search for Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira of Brazil and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state,

Suspect fatally shot British journalist Dom Phillips, Brazilian police say

Man charged in connection with Buchanan Bus Station suspicious package

Man charged in connection with Buchanan Bus Station suspicious package

Council officials have now checked and cleaned the playpark and a heightened police presence has been put in place.

Child injured by uncapped nedle in East Ayrshire playpark

Hate crime charges relating to disability and sexual orientation rise

Hate crime charges relating to disability and sexual orientation rise

She was found guilty of the sexual offences on Thursday, April 28, 2022.

Teacher jailed for sexual offences against two boys

Police unable to explain sickening surge in Scottish voyeurism crimes

PREMIUM Police unable to explain sickening surge in Scottish voyeurism crimes

Two women comfort each other during the burial service for Irma Garcia and her husband Joe Garcia at Hillcrest Cemetery, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Irma Garcia was killed in last week's elementary school shooting. Joe Garcia died two

School police chief defends Texas shooting response

This image from video from a police worn body camera from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, was played as a committee exhibit as the House select committee investigating the the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, held a hearing Thursday, June 9, 2022,

Panel investigating assault on Capitol blame Donald Trump for 'attempted coup'

Search for man 'carrying box' after Buchanan Bus Station evacuated

Search for man 'carrying box' after Buchanan Bus Station evacuated

SNP Justice Secretary Keith Brown

SNP plans to cut prisoner numbers branded 'complete madness'

Mourners pay their respects to the victims killed in last week's elementary school shooting, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay).

House of Representatives votes to set 21 as minimum age for semi-automatic guns

Police officers control the scene of a fire in Daegu, South Korea, Thursday, June 9, 2022. A number of people were killed and dozens of others injured Thursday in a fire that spread through an office building in South Korea's Daegu city, local fire

Seven killed in suspected arson attack at office building in South Korea

Glasgow-born actor John Barrowman at scene in Berlin after vehicle drives into pedestrians

Scots actor John Barrowman at scene in Berlin after vehicle drives into pedestrians

A large teddy bear is placed at a memorial in front of crosses bearing the names of the victims killed in this week's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas Saturday, May 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong).

PREMIUM David Wilson: Uvalde school killings shocked world but there were 61 other US mass shootings in May

FILE - Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries arrives for a live TV show in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday Jan. 31, 2008. The trial with the suspects accused of killing Dutch investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries was scheduled to start in

Trial resumes after murder of Dutch crime reporter

Three teenagers arrested after gang attacked man in city centre car park

Three teenagers arrested after man attacked in Glasgow car park

Environmental campaigners from Just Stop Oil protest outside the UK Government building in Edinburgh to demand the UK Government reverses its decision to approve Shell's Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.

Six arrested after protest at UK government building in Edinburgh

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School to honor the victims killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas Sunday, May 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills).

'Enough, enough' - President Biden pleads for Congress to act on gun control

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff visit a memorial near the site of the Buffalo supermarket shooting after attending a memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, one of the victims of the shooting, Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Buffalo,

Buffalo gunman pleads not guilty to domestic terror charge

Sexual crimes in Scotland at six year high as rape detection rates fall

Sexual crimes in Scotland at six year high as rape detection rates fall

Photos: Gordon Terris

Six people arrested during protest at Glasgow arms factory

A peacock in a Dunfermline park has died. (Generic image of peacock)

Two children traced after peacock allegedly tortured and killed

28-year-old arrested after man dead and woman seriously injured

28-year-old arrested after man dead and woman seriously injured

Police officer patrol along The Mall, central London, as the Queen celebrates her official birthday, on day one of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Picture date: Thursday June 2, 2022.

Several arrests made after protesters attempts to enter Jubilee parade route

Tulsa police respond to a shooting at the Natalie Medical Building Wednesday, June 1, 2022. in Tulsa, Okla. Multiple people were shot at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus Wednesday. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)

Four killed in shooting at Oklahoma hospital building

Nightclub needle attacks puzzle European authorities

Man dies on street as police and forensics lock down scene

Man dies on street as police and forensics lock down scene

'Only the beginning': 'Glasgow SUV tyres deflated' as climate movement spreads

'Only the beginning': 'Glasgow SUV tyres deflated' as climate movement spreads

A peacock in a Dunfermline park has been killed during a break-in to a local aviary. (Generic image of peacock)

Peacock tortured and killed in Dunfermline aviary break-in

Pallbearers remove the casket of Amerie Jo Garza from a hearse before a funeral service at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Garza was killed in last week's shooting at Robb Elementary School. (AP Photo/Eric Gay).

Mourners gather as funerals begin for Uvalde school shooting victims

Memorial plaque to Craig Mallon was vandalised

Craig Mallon death: Sickening damage to memorial bench on 10th anniversary