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  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    UK SFO director pushes to pay whistleblowers and use covert tactics

    Nick Ephgrave urges agency to ‘borrow’ more investigative techniques from policing

    Nick Ephgrave
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The puzzling afterlife of Britain’s last executioner

    What the enduring cult of Albert Pierrepoint says about the appeal of capital punishment in the UK

  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    India’s business elite sounds alarm over Rolex thefts in Mayfair

    Executives say police have been slow to respond to a spate of muggings in the UK capital

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  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    Justice charity uncovers evidence of racial bias in England’s magistrates’ courts

    Three-year probe reveals white people accused of serious offences are more likely to be granted unconditional bail

    The UK’s royal coat of arms above a sign for a magistrates’ court
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    News in-depth
    Cryptocurrencies play ‘endemic role’ in organised crime, says Met Police

    ‘Drugs, guns, girls and workers’ are areas where digital assets are increasingly being used

    Metropolitan Police and crypto currency
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    UK prisons
    Criminals in England convicted of less serious offences will avoid prison

    UK government plans to ease pressure on jails welcomed by lawyers and advocacy groups

    Less serious offenders will face punishment in the community under the proposals
  • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
    UK prisons
    British prisoners face serving time abroad to ease pressure on jails

    Moving UK nationals to detention centres in Europe among radical proposals aimed at tackling crisis in penal system

    Cell corridor at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham
  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    UK prisons
    Prisons are reaching bursting point in England and Wales, ministers concede

    Admission follows report that judges have been ordered to stop sentencing convicted criminals who are on bail

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  • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
    England’s most valuable shipwrecks to be protected with ‘forensic marking’

    Divers begin applying newly developed technology to ensure treasures can be traced if plundered

    A marine diver holds an underwater sign indicating that a site has been forensically marked
  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    Metropolitan Police Service UK
    UK army to provide back-up after police down weapons over murder charge

    Military will step in to support Met Police as firearms officers protest against colleague being charged over killing of Chris Kaba

    Chris Kaba
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    News in-depthUK retail industry
    The UK high street heist: how retailers are battling a crime wave

    Groups from Primark to John Lewis warn surge in shoplifting and abuse of staff is hitting profitability

    Pedestrians outside a branch of Primark in Romford, east London
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Metropolitan Police Service UK
    Met Police officer charged with murder over shooting of Chris Kaba

    Death of unarmed black Londoner last year sparked protests, contributing to falling confidence in UK’s largest force

    Chris Kaba
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Am I the victim of an AI-generated voice scam?

    I paid money to someone pretending to be my supplier

  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    UK politics
    UK makes inquiry into serial killer Lucy Letby statutory

    Government U-turn comes after ministers set out plans to force criminals to attend sentencing hearing

    A large television screen near Manchester Crown Court broadcasts the judge sentencing
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    British serial killer Lucy Letby to spend life in prison after murdering 7 babies

    Judge hands former nurse whole life sentence after ‘cruel, calculated and cynical’ campaign

    Lucy Letby
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Inquiry launched into murder of seven babies at English hospital

    Independent investigation will re-examine concerns raised over neonatal nurse Lucy Letby

    Lucy Letby
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    UK
    UK police arrest man after car crashes into gates of Downing Street

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was in his office at time of incident

    Police at the scene in Downing Street, London after a car collided with the gates
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    UK crypto fraud losses jump 40%

    Data from national reporting agency for cyber crime shows £300mn in losses over past year

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  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Police in England and Wales failing to curb online child sex abuse, says watchdog

    Constabulary inspectorate says forces ‘do not understand’ the growing scale of exploitation

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  • Monday, 3 April, 2023
    Ministers accused of ‘creating blind spots’ in tackling child sex abuse cases

    PM says key evidence ignored in historic scandals due to ‘political correctness’ over race

    Prime minister Rishi Sunak and home secretary Suella Braverman in Rochdale
  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    Britain risks becoming ‘haven for fraudsters’, MPs warn

    Home Office slammed as ‘sluggish and outmanoeuvred’ on launch of new economic crime plan

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  • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
    Visual and data journalism
    British public U-turn on attitudes to immigration

    Other charts of the week: Antarctic sea ice, gender inequality among decision makers, economy concern

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    FT Magazine
    How Glasgow’s tiny, muckraking crime mag stays afloat

    Every week, some 700 newsagents display the latest issue of The Digger. What’s the paper’s secret?

  • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
    Victoria Dowd
    The tragic consequences of the have-a-go detective

    Crime tourists who flocked to Nicola Bulley’s village expose the perils of a macabre public pastime

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    UK politics
    Labour to set out campaign against antisocial behaviour in England

    Plan for ‘end-to-end reform’ of criminal justice system using science to examine causes of offending

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