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Crime

Electrician faces life sentence for murdering judge’s daughter in rage

Clifton George, 45, killed his partner Annabel Rook, 46, by stabbing her 31 times during a row at their north London home

9 Jun 2026
Showbiz

Stormzy fined for using phone while driving £400k Ferrari in London

Rapper, 32, was pulled over by the Metropolitan Police near his home in Kingston

4 Jun 2026
Crime

Stormzy fined for using phone while driving £400,000 Ferrari

The incident happened last November near the rapper’s home in south-west London.
4 Jun 2026
Crime

Woman’s desperate wish to leave partner who stabbed her to death

Annabel Rook wrote that she lived in fear of her abusive partner’s temper in a letter discovered by police

3 Jun 2026
Annabel Rook murder
Crime

Man guilty of murdering partner before blowing up Stoke Newington home

Clifton George, 45, killed his partner Annabel Rook, 46, by stabbing her 31 times during a row at their home in Stoke Newington

3 Jun 2026
Crime

Man guilty of murdering judge’s daughter before blowing up house

Clifton George faces a life sentence for murdering his partner Annabel Rook before blowing up their home in a gas explosion.

3 Jun 2026
Crime

Liverpool star watched video on phone while driving on motorway

Giorgi Mamardashvili convicted of using handheld mobile phone while driving motor vehicle on road

27 May 2026
File picture of a white van driver
Crime

Van driver fined for tooting his horn to get friend’s attention

Jamie Spence, 52, was spotted by an Essex Police officer while sounding his horn outside Braintree train station

23 May 2026
Crime

London teen denies hate crime over ‘behead Jews’ social media video

Muhammed Rachid, 18, is accused of saying: ‘You Jews, you are gonna get beheaded one by one, you dirty Jews’

19 May 2026
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Crime

Two men 'burgled Spurs Stadium while Beyonce performed'

Alirza Dag, 22, and Murat Kodalakoglu, 23, have been charged after allegedly accessing a VIP rooftop terrace at the north London venue

18 May 2026
Crime

Failed asylum seeker who made 'foolish' bomb hoax at MI5 HQ jailed

Julian Valente Pereira, 33, made the bomb hoax at the security service base on New Year’s day - the day after being given a deportation notice

15 May 2026
Crime

Magistrate ‘dispensed justice from Portugal home’, says whistleblowing official

Chris John blew the whistle on a magistrate sitting on Single Justice Procedure cases by dialling in from Portugal.
14 May 2026
Crime

Ex-Havering councillor remanded over historical sexual abuse charges

Jeffrey Tucker, 66, is facing allegations from two women who say they were sexually abused as children in the 1980s and 1990s

11 May 2026
London

Images of house wrecked by explosion after woman 'stabbed to death'

Jurors have been shown pictures of the Stoke Newington home in the aftermath of a gas explosion in June last year

7 May 2026
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Showbiz

Paul Hollywood caught speeding at 100mph to 'get sick cat to the vet'

The Great British Bake Off judge, 60, previously admitted Mary Berry told him off for speeding

7 May 2026
London

Judge’s daughter 'stabbed to death by partner who then blew up home'

Clifton George, 45, is accused of murdering 46-year-old Annabel Rook during an argument at their home in Dumont Road

6 May 2026
London

Attack suspect 'tried to murder friend before stabbing two Jewish men'

Essa Suleiman appears in court accused of trying to kill Shloime Rand and Norman Shine during a knife rampage through the streets of Golders Green

1 May 2026
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Crime

Bonnie Blue's charge for outraging public decency in London dropped

The adult content creator was accused of mimicking a sex act outside the Indonesian embassy in London

30 Apr 2026
Crime

Asylum seeker who raped girl, 16, in south London detained for 7 years

Shahram Rasouli, 19, carried out the attack on the girl in August last year after she and a friend were convinced to go to his Salvation Army-run accommodation in Denmark Hill, south London

30 Apr 2026
Crime

Man accused of stealing £125,000 of wine and whisky from Mayfair shop

Mohamed Hammoud, 20, pleaded not guilty to burglary at Southwark Crown Court on Friday

24 Apr 2026