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UK crime

  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Drop jury trials for some fraud and sexual crimes, official report recommends

    Former judge Brian Leveson says backlog in England and Wales ‘jeopardises’ entire system without radical overhaul

    General view of Blackfriars crown court
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Three men found guilty of Wagner-linked arson attack on London warehouse

    Group targeted units of a company shipping humanitarian aid to Ukraine

    Two units in the Cromwell Industrial Estate were set on fire in March 2024
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Crown Prosecution Service UK
    Jury retires to consider verdict in Wagner Group arson case

    Six men stand accused of taking part in London attack allegedly backed by Russian mercenary group

    Court artist drawing of six men
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Lucy Letby
    Senior managers at Lucy Letby hospital arrested

    Police say three suspects worked in leadership team during period crimes were committed

    Lucy Letby
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    UK politics
    Four arrested by UK counterterrorism police after RAF break-in

    Palestine Action campaigners sprayed paint into aircraft engines in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza

    Aerial view of an aircraft at RAF Brize Norton after it was sprayed with red paint by Palestine Action members in June 2025
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    The Big Read
    The high-tech fight against shoplifters

    Companies are building up an arsenal of antitheft technology as organised crime fuels an epidemic of petty larceny

    montage showing CCTV and a person shoplifting
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Maternal health
    MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

    Women would no longer face a criminal prosecution for ending their pregnancy after 24 weeks

    Activists from pro-choice group ‘Abortion Rights’ gathered near the House of Commons on Tuesday as MPs voted
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Data collection on England’s grooming gangs is a ‘disaster’, says Casey

    Author of report into child sexual exploitation complains to MPs about ‘incomplete and unreliable’ statistics

    Louise Casey at the home affairs select committee on Tuesday
  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    UK politics
    Cooper to set out national inquiry into grooming gangs

    Announcement by UK home secretary follows a recommendation by Baroness Casey who conducted a review into the scandal

    Montage of a girl, a laptop and packets of pills
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Trio accused of Starmer arson attacks set to stand trial next April

    The three men have been charged over three fires in north London in May, including one at prime minister’s family home

    Fire-damaged door at house belonging to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on May 13 2025
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Fourth man arrested over suspected arson attacks on Starmer properties

    Metropolitan Police detained 48-year-old at Stansted airport on Monday

    A view of the entrance to Sir Keir Starmer’s house in Kentish Town
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Russell Brand
    Russell Brand pleads not guilty to rape and sexual assault

    Charges relate to incidents that allegedly took place at locations including MTV and a Labour conference

    Russell Brand arrives at Southwark Crown Court on Friday
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    UK police
    London police chief warns crime pledge needs more funding

    Labour’s commitment to make streets safer unlikely to be met without extra money, Mark Rowley says

    Mark Rowley
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Financial services
    FCA bans third ex-Credit Suisse banker over ‘tuna bonds’ scandal

    Detelina Subeva’s decision to keep $200,000 in tainted funds revealed lack of ‘ethical compass’, says regulator

    Detelina Subeva leaving Westminster Magistrates Court in London, England in March 2019
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s agenda on criminal justice stands apart from the policy fog

    Government’s political and communications management is stronger here than in other areas

    Shabana Mahmood
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Keir Starmer
    Third man charged over fire at Starmer’s London home

    Ukrainian national is accused of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life

    A police officer stands outside Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s family home in Kentish Town after it was damaged by fire
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Tommy Robinson to be released from prison within days

    Far-right activist’s 18-month contempt of court sentence reduced by High Court

    Tommy Robinson arriving at the Old Bailey in London, England in July 2019
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Second man charged over fire at Starmer’s London home

    Romanian national is second person charged following three arrests

    Court artist’s drawing of Stanislav Carpiuc’s appearance at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London, England on May 20 2025
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Third man arrested over suspected arson attacks on Starmer’s London home

    Man, 34, held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life

    Forensic specialists at the scene of the fire at Keir Starmer’s family home in Kentish Town last week
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    UK
    UK police arrest second man in connection with Starmer arson attacks

    26-year old arrested at Luton airport on Saturday after Ukrainian national was charged this week

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Man remanded in custody over attacks on property linked to Starmer

    Roman Lavrynovych has been charged with three counts of arson

    Screengrab from a video of firefighters tackling a burning car in the same north London street where Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has a property
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Financial fraud
    Ex-BGC tax adviser jailed for failing to repay group after fraud

    Michael Viney found to have devised scheme to hide funds he was meant to return to former employer

    BGC’s logo on the side of a building in London, England
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    UK police hold Starmer arson attack suspect for extra 36 hours

    Court application suggests that the man, aged 21, is not being held under Terrorism Act

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    UK counterterror police arrest man on suspicion of arson after Starmer fires

    Metropolitan Police try to reassure MPs after three potentially related fires on property linked to PM

    The three forensics officers are wearing white and blue overalls. A uniformed officer is also on duty
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Russell Brand
    Russell Brand appears in court charged with rape and sexual assault

    Charges relate to incidents that allegedly took place at locations including MTV and a Labour conference

    Russell Brand arriving at Westminster Magistrates’ Court
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