Crime
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Kyle Clifford: crossbow suspect caught near Enfield cemetery
Speed Read The 26-year-old is alleged to have killed the wife and two daughters of BBC racing commentator John Hunt
By Arion McNicoll, The Week UK Published
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The secret hospitals offering criminals new faces in the Philippines
Under The Radar Two clinics suspected of giving plastic surgery to fugitives and scam centre workers expected to be shut down soon
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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Alec Baldwin on trial over on-set Rust shooting death
In the Spotlight Hollywood actor denies involuntary manslaughter charge in fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021
By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK Published
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Iwao Hakamada: Japan's record-breaking death row prisoner
Under the Radar Former boxer spent 46 years condemned to execution but his retrial could clear his name
By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK Published
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Trump ally Bannon reports to prison
Speed Read He will serve a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress
By Rafi Schwartz, The Week US Published
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How strawberries are funding crime in Sweden
Under the Radar Police say illegal fruit sales turn over 'billions' of kronor a year for gangsters
By Sorcha Bradley, The Week UK Published
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Europe's drug gangs in the spotlight
The Explainer The illegal narcotics trade is fuelling a surge in gang violence across the continent
By The Week UK Published
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Mexico's avocado militias
Under The Radar The country supplies around 80% of the avocados eaten in the US but they have now been branded 'blood diamonds'
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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Dine and dash – the new shoplifting?
Under the Radar 'Epidemic' of grocery theft seems to be spreading to restaurants
By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK Published
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'Baby Elsa' and two other babies abandoned in London are siblings
Speed Read Baby 'Elsa', rescued in sub-zero temperatures, is third abandoned child born to the same unknown parents, court hears
By Julia O'Driscoll, The Week UK Published
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France's 'swinger' capital rocked by fortune teller scandal
Under the Radar Mayor charged with corruption for 'lavishing' taxpayers' money on clairvoyant who 'impersonated' his dead father
By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK Published
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Germany's trial of the century: the plot to topple Scholz
In The Spotlight Elderly aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss makes an incongruous terrorist, but prosecutors will argue Reichsbürger coup plan was deadly serious
By The Week UK Published
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What are IPP sentences?
The Explainer Thousands of prisoners remain incarcerated with no fixed date of release
By The Week Staff Last updated
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Trump won't testify as trial enters final phase
Speed Read Despite his public insistence on testifying, Trump's defense team called two witnesses, "neither of them the former president"
By Rafi Schwartz, The Week US Published
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