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    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      UK
      UK police arrest man after car crashes into gates of Downing Street

      Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was in his office at time of incident

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Cryptocurrencies
      UK crypto fraud losses jump 40%

      Data from national reporting agency for cyber crime shows £300mn in losses over past year

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Police in England and Wales failing to curb online child sex abuse, says watchdog

      Constabulary inspectorate says forces ‘do not understand’ the growing scale of exploitation

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Ministers accused of ‘creating blind spots’ in tackling child sex abuse cases

      PM says key evidence ignored in historic scandals due to ‘political correctness’ over race

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Britain risks becoming ‘haven for fraudsters’, MPs warn

      Home Office slammed as ‘sluggish and outmanoeuvred’ on launch of new economic crime plan

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Visual and data journalism
      British public U-turn on attitudes to immigration

      Other charts of the week: Antarctic sea ice, gender inequality among decision makers, economy concern

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      FT Magazine
      How Glasgow’s tiny, muckraking crime mag stays afloat

      Every week, some 700 newsagents display the latest issue of The Digger. What’s the paper’s secret?

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      Victoria Dowd
      The tragic consequences of the have-a-go detective

      Crime tourists who flocked to Nicola Bulley’s village expose the perils of a macabre public pastime

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Labour to set out campaign against antisocial behaviour in England

      Plan for ‘end-to-end reform’ of criminal justice system using science to examine causes of offending

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Former Met police officer jailed for minimum of 30 years over series of rapes

      David Carrick raped and sexually abused 12 women over the course of 17 years

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Metropolitan Police Service UK
      London police officer admits series of rapes and other sex crimes

      Metropolitan Police missed ‘numerous opportunities’ to remove David Carrick, who has pleaded guilty to 49 offences

    • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
      UK crime agency arrests wealthy Russian businessman at London home

      58-year-old man and two others held by NCA’s anti-kleptocracy unit

    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      UK prisons
      UK justice ministry requisitions police cells after jails fill up

      Government blames barristers’ strike for a surge in number of prisoners on remand

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Inquiry finds ‘epidemic’ levels of child sex abuse in England

      Recommendations include mandatory reporting of allegations and creation of child protection authorities

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Online fraud an ‘afterthought’ for crime agencies, say MPs

      Only 2% of police funding spent on fraud despite it making up 40% of reported offences

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Personal Finance
      Scammers prey on fears over the cost of living crisis

      Losses from the UK’s fraud ‘epidemic’ rose to £1.3bn last year

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      News in-depthMetropolitan Police Service UK
      Can London’s new Met Police chief fix the force’s problems?

      Sir Mark Rowley will be under intense pressure to stamp out a toxic culture and restore public trust

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      InterviewCrown Prosecution Service UK
      Compensation for crime victims should be increased, says CPS director

      Head of public prosecutions for England and Wales wants more money to go to those affected by financial fraud

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Money Clinic Podcast: Fraud and the fight to get your money back

      We help a listener to recoup £17,000 from her bank

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Fraud epidemic: antidote urgently required

      Record levels of online fraud in the UK show a vastly different approach is needed

    • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
      InterviewFinancial fraud
      Policing needs reform to tackle UK’s growing fraud problem

      Tackling surge in scams, especially online, is complicated by ‘higgledy-piggledy’ national approach, says England’s lead commissioner for economic and cyber crime

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK lawyers plan further protest over legal aid rates

      Solicitors in London to refuse burglary cases from May 25 as criminal barristers’ dissent continues

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      UK criminal justice creaking under ‘unacceptable’ levels of delay

      Sector was under-resourced at start of Covid crisis and is still struggling to recover, inspectors find

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Enough — an impassioned plea to end violence against women

      The murder of Sarah Everard is at the core of Harriet Johnson’s book — but what can she add that feminists haven’t said for decades?

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      Personal Finance
      A quarter of young people trust scam messages

      Fraudsters target UK shoppers on average twice a week, research finds

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