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Child killers and the criminal justice system

On Sunday 22 April, 2018, 28-year-old Hollie Kerrell disappeared from her home in Knucklas, mid-Wales. Concerned husband Chris Kerrell had sent texts to friends and family, but no one had seen or heard from her.

The axe murderers of two teenage girls on the banks of the Thames by idyllic Teddington in 1953

Gerald Matovu would drug and rob men he met on gay dating apps. Then one of his victims died...

Domestic abuse is at a five-year-high: what should be done?

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Organised crime in Europe - noteworthy players, their Rackets and their stories

The psychiatrist believed that Jeremy did kill his family but had suppressed the memory until it was no longer real

In the last five years, over five hundred domestic cats have gone missing only to be later found dead and dismembered

The world's most notorious serial killers of all-time.

The true-crime obsessive whose desire for fame led him to emulate his heroes and become a killer

The meticulous pedophile who sexually assaulted and killed young girls across the country

One in six men have been sexually assaulted in their lifetimes but there is still a stigma about male rape

Everything about Kids Who Kill: Evil Up Close: Episodes

Domestic violence is the silent killer

Suicide In Soho or a mystery murder?

Britain’s youngest ever double murderers

Aaron Campbell is one of those very rare humans that would keep you up at night as a parent'

He raped and strangled 15-year-old Flintshire, Janet Commins while someone else was jailed for the murder.

We may never know what became of three-year-old Madeleine but certain competing theories have persisted over the years.

Sixty Five years on since Ruth Ellis was hanged what has changed for women who commit crimes?

It was a ferocious murder in residential Luton, made all the more shocking the victim was murdered by her own sister

In the first month of lockdown alone, charities, support services and police forces all reported a surge in cyberstalking

12-year-old Keith was snatched, murdered and buried by The Moors Murderers Brady and Hindley

Some of Britain's most notorious killers come in pairs

Two decades later Sarah Payne’s case has left a lasting legacy and influenced the way police and the media approach cases involving children.

Anthony Walker was only 18-years-old when he was killed in a racially-motivated attack in Merseyside in 2005 | Image: Shutterstock

The emotional and physical abuse at the centre of British Gymnastics.

11-year-old children shouldn’t be killed in gun violence.

Police brutality in the US is a real issue. But Britain is not so innocent.

Much might have changed in the 30 years since the teenager’s death, but it’s also clear that not enough has.

His now-famous photograph – warmly smiling, radiating innocence – became a kind of cultural touchstone in the wider discourse about street crime and gang violence in Britain.

Blue light flasher atop of a police car. City lights on the background.

Despite the promises made after the Stephen Lawrence case, racist murders still continue to this day

'Until his family is identified we will act as his family,'

Few serial killer couples evoke as much repulsion and horror as Ian Brady and Myra Hindley