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Hate crime against Muslims soars by more than 170 per cent following Paris attacks

In the 12 months to November, the number of Islamophobic crimes recorded was 818 - 63.9 per cent higher than the 499 crimes recorded in the year to November 2014.




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Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for crimes committed by minors after abolishing flogging 

Minors will now receive a prison sentence of no longer than 10 years in a 'juvenile detention facility'. Pictured: Abdulkareem al-Hawaj was one of the minors executed in 2019.




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CLASSIC CRIME 

It's 1929. A freight train arriving at Kings' Cross carries rhubarb fresh from the West Riding. Not so fresh is the corpse found in one of the trucks.




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CRIME 

Foley burst on to the crime scene with her debut The Hunting Party last year, and this second outing confirms her exceptional talent.




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CRIME 

This debut from Cambridge graduate Moor is vastly impressive and also shines a light on violence and abuse directed at women.




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CLASSIC CRIME

It is a tough life for Peter Diamond. As head of Bath's CID he is used to doing battle with the criminal class.




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CRIME 

This heart-rending story set in one of the poorest parts of rural America is among the most powerful and moving I have read in years.




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CLASSIC CRIME

A life-class model, a woman of some notoriety as a sexual predator, is found murdered at her place of work, an art school built on high ideals but down on its luck




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Cops issue warning to crime family of prime suspect in Melbourne murder of young mum

Ricardo 'Rick' Barbaro is on the run after police named him as a suspect in the death of his girlfriend, 26-year-old Ellie Price. Her body was found in a South Melbourne townhouse on Monday.




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Louis Tomlinson EXCLUSIVE: Singer pays homage to Danny Dyer's crime caper The Business

Louis Tomlinson, 27, was joined by British actor Geoff Bell, 56, on the set of the short film as they channelled the 1980s' The Casuals fashion scene.




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Daisy Ridley is in talks to take the lead role in Swedish crime thriller The Ice Beneath Her

The Hollywood Reporter claimed on Monday that she has in talks to take the lead role in crime thriller The Ice Beneath Her.




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Former Lucchese crime boss Matthew Madonna 'ordered hit on Michael Meldish over unpaid $100K loan' 

Former acting-Lucchese family crime boss Matthew Madonna, 83, was alleged to have ordered a hit on Michael Meldish, the notorious leader of the Purple Gang who was murdered in 2013.




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Putin brands treason the 'gravest crime' as he shrugs off Skripal row ahead of May meeting

The Russian President will meet Theresa May at the G20 in Russia today where the Prime Minister will demand he admits to the Novichok attack and hand over the two spies sent to kill Sergei Skripal.




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Will Smith boards new Netflix true crime drama The Council playing New York crime boss Nicky Barnes

While coming off his blockbuster Aladdin and with another potential hit in Gemini Man coming soon, Will Smith has just landed his next role in Netflix's The Council.




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Man who calls police to Surrey burglary is now facing extradition over Greek 'crime' 11 YEARS AGO

David Familton rang 999 after intruders ransacked his Surrey flat but was left stunned when cops later arrested him instead for beating up a holidaymaker in Crete in 2009 when he worked in a nightclub.




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Trump brushes aside Giuliani's 'insurance' claim and defends former mayor as 'great crime fighter'

Donald Trump said he has no idea what kind of 'insurance' Rudy Giuliani has but defended his personal attorney after the former mayor warned the president not to throw him under the bus. 




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Chuck Schumer: Donald Trump hid impeachable Ukraine crimes

Chuck Schumer accused Donald Trump of covering up his actions in regards to the Ukraine and claimed many Republicans have 'privately' told him they want to hear new evidence during Senate trial.




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Donald Trump defends Rudy Giuliani as a 'great crime fighter' who does it 'out of love'

President Donald Trump hailed lawyer Rudy Giuliani as a 'great crimefighter' as the House prepares to vote on two presidential impeachment articles after a probe that focused on Giuliani's role.




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Donald Trump enters 2020 claiming he is victim of 'the crime of the century' 

After a mostly quiet New Year's Day, President Trump started out the second day of 2020 on a Twitter tear.




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Putin oversees hypersonic missile test launches as part of huge military drill off coast of Crimea

The Russian president watched Kalibr cruise missiles and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles being launched from the deck of the Marshal Ustinov cruiser off the coast of Moscow-annexed Crimea.




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Army major would rather face war crimes tribunal at The Hague than endure 'witch hunt'

Major Robert Campbell, 46, was cleared more than a decade ago of the manslaughter of 19-year-old Said Shabram, who drowned in a canal in Basra in 2003.




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New York City subways have become a hotbed of crime amid pandemic

Since the pandemic exploded in New York City and millions stopped going to work, ridership has decreased by 90 percent but there has been an increase in crimes on the underground network.




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De Blasio 'added fuel to the fire' of anti-Semitic hates crimes, says Jewish civil rights group

Leading Jewish civil rights group The Lawfare Project has filed a freedom of information request against the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio regarding a Jewish funeral on April 28.




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'They don't even allege a crime': Trump adds 'No crime!' to 'No collusion' and 'No obstruction'

Trump claimed Democrats are impeaching him without evidence of a crime. 'I did nothing wrong. This will be the first Impeachment ever where there was no crime. They don't even allege a crime.'




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London police accused of ignoring crime epidemic after PR stunt where BMW was dressed up for patrol

The flashy car, an eco-friendly hybrid BMW i8, patrolled the roads near the Met's headquarters yesterday as part of the police's efforts to prove it is obeying the city's new Ultra Low Emission Zone.




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Sadiq Khan's former policing adviser defects to Liberal Democrats over knife crime in London

In a shock switch, Leroy Logan, a former police superintendent, said that he was quitting the Labour Party over the London Mayor's record.




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Sadiq Khan's £1.7million Twitter 'Hate Crime Hub' has prosecuted just six trolls in two years 

The London Mayor promised a zero-tolerance stance towards abuse on social media when the police unit was launched more than two years ago, which is staffed by five Scotland Yard officers.




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Misogyny should be classed as a 'hate crime', says Sadiq Khan  

London Mayor Sadiq Khan underlined his credentials as a 'proud feminist' as he spoke at a Women of the World event yesterday.




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Jennifer Lawrence set to star in and produce true-crime mafia movie Mob Girl

The 28-year-old will also put on her producer hat for the movie, which is being released through indie film studio Makeready.




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Arrested Huawei CFO's lawyers argue that the charges against her are not a crime in Canada

Meng Wanzhou, 47, appeared at the hearing in Vancouver on Tuesday wearing the GPS ankle monitor she has been fitted with while free on bond pending extradition to the U.S.




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Glamorous 20s crimebuster Miss Fisher is heading for Blighty 

A new featurelength set to air on Good Friday, stars Game of Thrones' Essie Davis as Miss Phryne Fisher. The heroine swings between the Middle East and England, as she battles crime in the 1920s.




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Police photographer reveals how Oscar Pistorius crime scene haunts him

Morne du Toit was one of several official police photographers called to Pretoria's Silverwoods Country Estate on Valentine’s Day 2013 after Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend.




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Briton, 34, who is 'part of global crime syndicate' is caught aboard yacht

The 34-year-old Briton appeared in court in Sydney on charges relating to a huge haul of suspected methamphetamine found onboard the vessel.




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Sydney crime cousins Talal and Bilal Alameddine escape without extra jail time

Infamous cousins Talal and Bilal Alameddine (pictured) were over the past week both sentenced in NSW courts for crimes carried out behind bars at separate New South Wales prisons.




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Funeral is held for Mexico's 'Kim Kardashian of crime'

A funeral has been held in Sinaloa, Mexico, for one of El Chapo's 'top assassins' dubbed the 'Kim Kardashian of crime.' She was found dead from a suspected drug overdose earlier this month.




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Former MI5 'child killer' gets £60k after claiming his crime was sparked by PTSD

A former British spy who murdered a child was awarded £60,000 by blaming his horrific crime on alleged PTSD caused by working for UK intelligence (pictured, MI6 building, Vauxhall).




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Naomi Campbell's knife crime lesson about her uncle's tragic fate is inspiring

AMANDA PLATELL: Naomi Campbell delivered a message of hope to inner-city secondary school children living in an area blighted by gang violence, near where she herself grew up.




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Merkel says Germany 'takes responsibility for Nazi crimes in Greece'

Merkel, who is in Athens for a two-day visit, said Germany was 'aware of our historical responsibility' and 'how much suffering' it had caused Greece during the Second World War.




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Roberts-Smith denies war crimes allegation

Australia's most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has rejected allegations aired in a Nine Network report that he had been involved in a war crime.




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How wife of SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith fought her own battles before war crime claims

For more than a decade, Emma Roberts-Smith, Australia's most decorated SAS trooper Ben Roberts-Smith, went to bed some nights not knowing if her war hero husband was still alive.




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UK government and Army are accused of covering up war crimes

An investigation has spoken to 11 British detectives who said that they have found evidence of war crimes as insiders say soldiers should have been prosecuted for the killings.




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Cocaine Cassie Sainsbury says she was raped by drug lord her forced her into her crime

In a bombshell interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night, Sainsbury claimed a Brazilian drug lord named 'Angelo' engineered the ill-fated smuggling operation.




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Killing Eve's evil inspiration: The real crimes that inspired Villanelle's onscreen murders

Dressed in braces and bow tie, with frizzy hair and a bulbous red nose, assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) arrives at a children's party to make balloon animals (episode two, series three).




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TOM UTLEY: How daft to claim calling someone a nerd is a hate crime

Sonja Falck, senior psychotherapy lecturer at East London University has claimed someone who uses terms such as 'geek' or nerd' should be prosecuted for a hate crime, writes TOM UTLEY.




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Adam Schiff accuses Donald Trump of 'organized crime' language after president tweeted 'threat'

Adam Schiff claimed that Donald Trump engages in 'organized crime speak' after the president took a hit at the Intelligence chairman for his role in the impeachment proceedings.




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Where suicide is a crime, but not murder | No, I will not give back my awards!


In this edition we remember the hunger strike launched by Irom Sharmila fifteen years ago and which is still going strong. We also have a national award winner explaining why she will not give back her awards like the other awardees, and much more.




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Casting out caste crime


Pushpa Achanta describes the unrelenting efforts of the KDMV in educating members of the Dalit and Adivasi communities about their legal entitlements and helping them wage battles for justice in cases involving caste atrocity and discrimination.




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Reporting the crime


Year after year, Police refuse to act and file thousands of complaints made by citizens. Arvind Verma looks at the FIR mechanism that forms the basis of criminal investigation.




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Fighting crime on the tracks


For the Railways, the key to crime-control is to concentrate on the smaller issues of orderliness, abatement of nuisances, petty crimes and rule of law.




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Crime in the city


Data from UP's Crime Records Bureau shows only a small number of crimes against women, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Police officials' unwillingness to register and investigate crimes is a key reason, and the State Commission for Women is largely mute. Puja Awasthi reports.