Notorious criminals who dodge their sentencing hearings could be dragged into the dock using “reasonable force” with the ...

Social media accounts featuring ad-style video testimonials from people smuggled into the UK were among more than 8,000 shut ...

The search for a British sailor missing in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France has been suspended. The 73-year-old man, ...

The allegation against consultant Dr Stephen Brearey will be in an appeal centring on disturbing new evidence about alleged ...

When a crime shakes the public’s faith in humanity as these murders have, the debate around capital punishment soon rears its ...

Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana received the second-longest life sentence in English history and the government does ...

Rudakubana, 18, murdered three girls aged between six and nine in a frenzied knife attack in Southport last year ...

Axel Rudakubana is the latest high-profile killer to avoid facing his victims’ families while being sentenced. The Southport killer was removed from his own sentencing twice for repeatedly shouting, ...

“For example, football hooliganism will terrorise people, criminal gangs will terrorise, arguably domestic violence terrorises, and, if I were a moth in Lucy Letby’s ward, I would be terrorised.” ...

The Prime Minister has promised to give judges powers to force criminals to appear in the dock when they are being sentenced, after meeting with the mother of murdered nine-year-old Olivia ...

After 16 years as a journalist at The Herald, including eight covering health, Helen McArdle reflects on that stories that stood out and what ...

Lucy Letby will be sent to HMP Low Newton - a high security Category A female prison near Durham city, which sits adjacent to ...