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Five held over stabbing of Shakilus Townsend

Two men, two male youths and one girl arrested over murder of teenager who cried for his mother after London attack

The murder that shook Harrow

One teacher’s son killed another teacher’s daughter. But the signs of an increasingly troubled mind had been apparent for many years

Postcode lottery of rape conviction

Women who report a rape are five times less likely to see their attacker convicted in some parts of the country than in others

Baffling knife laws to be rewritten

Downing Street examines plans for overhaul of knife and gun laws amid claims that current legislation is a 'convoluted mess'

Royal police lose fortune in betting ring

Dozens of royal protection officers ran up serious losses in a spread-betting syndicate operated inside royal palaces

French students: parents' warning to killer

Murder squad detectives arrest a suspect known to local police as parents of victims vow to do all they can to get justice

Arrests made after baby found dead

Kinsella letter urged Brown to stamp out knife crime

The 16-year-old, stabbed to death last weekend, wrote the letter as part of his English GCSE coursework, suggesting possible solutions

Man arrested over murder of French students

Police are holding a 21-year-old man over the incident, but would not say whether he was the prime suspect in the case

French duo may have been tortured for PINs

Detectives believe that science graduates killed in South London could have been the victims of a bungled burglary

Knife crime 'overtakes terror as police priority'

Senior officer admits that moves to stop teenagers carrying weapons are not working

Teenager becomes 18th knife victim this year

Three masked and hooded boys attacked Shakilus Townsend, 16, with knives and a baseball bat in a South London doorway

Teenager stabbed to death is 18th victim

Shakilus Townsend, 16, shouted 'I don't want to die' as gang descended on him in broad daylight in South London

Russia rated biggest threat after al-Qaeda and Iran

British security services fear that Russia’s three main intelligence agencies have now flooded the country with agents

French families call their children home

Director of the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Polytechnic said families had expressed concern for safety of their children

Confused picture of criminality

As career criminals become more aware of the power of forensics, arson is becoming the favoured method to destroy DNA

Inquiry as role-play uses ‘blacked-up’ actor

The incident occurred in a recruitment process for candidates applying to be overseas liaison officers for the SOCA