British Crime

Britain’s most lucrative robberies...

The jobs you’re about to read about here were no piffling shoplifting trips or low yield house break-ins. We’re talking about tens of millions of pounds worth of diamonds, gold bars, bearer bonds and bags stuffed with used bank notes being stolen

Britain’s Worst Child Criminals

Should life really mean life for offenders that commit their crimes as children?

What the Killer Did Next, Series 1B

What's coming up in What The Killer Did Next?

The Senseless Murder of Norma Bell

The events of one day in 2017 would leave countless people in Hartlepool bereaved

The railway rapists

The rare bond of two psyches stimulating and encouraging each other to rape and murder

Sian Roberts and 'the sex game gone wrong' lie

Williams had planted a vibrator and a pair of handcuffs by Sian’s body. This, apparently, was a cack-handed attempt to confuse investigators and make it seem like Sian had died during a sex game gone wrong.

Why are we still fascinated with Madeleine McCann?

We are a nation obsessed with the disappearance of this one small child

Jack the Ripper's Diary

Did Jack the Ripper sign a murder confession in a lost diary that was rediscovered in 1992?

How a polygraph caught a killer, the Kate Prout case

Lie Detectors: Do They Tell Us The Truth?

Jack the Stripper' and the Hammersmith murders

The biggest unsolved serial murder case in British police history

How to catch a thief

You've been a victim of crime, how do you make sure it doesn't happen again?

Greenock: Crime Profile

Bristol: crime profile

Darlington: crime profile

While David Harker is perhaps the most depraved murderer ever to emerge from Darlington, there’s a grotesque runner-up in the shape of Peter Chapman

Angels of death: The nurses who kill

We don’t like to think that the people that are put in place to care for us at our most vulnerable—the doctors, nurses and other medical professionals—are also the ones that could willingly commit murder

Ipswich: crime profile

Middlesbrough: crime profile

One of the foulest crimes that has ever defiled the annals of our local history'

Wrexham: crime profile

Damned by evil' - Wrexham's murderous past

Portsmouth: crime profile

A serial sex killer, a Ripper connection and a famous miscarriage of justice

Croydon: crime profile

From Tia Sharp to Sally Anne Bowman, Croydon has been the location of some high-profile murder cases

Blackout ripper: A killer in wartime London

Under the cover of the blackout, Gordon Cummings strangled & mutilated five women during the London Blitz

Grimsby: crime profile

The most dangerous cities to live in the UK

How safe do you feel living where you do?

Nuneaton: Crime Profile

From killers high on crack to a faked kidnapping and bank robbery, this Warwickshire town has a dark history

Mentally tortured and murdered in a gaslighting plot

Ben Field plied his lover with drugs to make him think he was going mad in a campaign of mental torture

Interview with Benjamin Fitton presenter of the Murdertown podcast

Crime + Investigation sat down with Ben to talk about Murdertown and to find out what's it like being the voice of not one but two highly successful true crime podcasts.

Murdertown S2: episodes

Murdertown 2 episode summary in full

Responsible children: When kids kill

Child killers and the criminal justice system

Murdered By My Husband

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 towpath murders: death on the river bank

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

Drugged, robbed and left for dead

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

The sad truth about domestic violence

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

Murder and scandal in Victorian London - book competition

Enter our book competition to win two hardback copies by acclaimed true crime writer Sinclair Mckay

The biggest crime gangs in Europe

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

Jeremy Bamber : the White House Farm murders

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

The UK cat killer: fact or fiction, felon or fox

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