Crime

A bogus caller targeted the homes of three pensioners before stealing a woman’s purse in Hull.

A man who was assaulted in Sheffield earlier this month has today died from his injuries, prompting police to launch a murder inquiry.

AN 18-year-old man who has admitted “hideous” sex crimes against seven teenage girls in Rotherham may have had other victims, police said last night.

Material from the Hillsborough inquests suggests that South Yorkshire Police was trying to “spread the blame” during the long-running hearings into the deaths of 96 football fans, according to a review by a leading QC.

THREE brothers who helped the managing director of a Leeds company launder more than £600,000 of drugs money through his business have been jailed.

A FORMER Yorkshire Dales boarding school teacher who sexually abused four teenage girls and had sex with one pupil on his wife’s wedding dress has been jailed for 12 years.

A postmaster who was attacked by shotgun-wielding thugs said he still gets flashbacks of the robbery.

Three cars were attacked and had items stolen on the same day while parked up at a popular North Yorkshire beauty spot.

Police have issued CCTV images of two women they would like to speak to after mobile phones were stolen from shoppers in York.

A woman returned home to find people in her house who then fled with sentimental jewellery and money which was to help her daughter fight a disease.

A man had his car stolen when he was ambushed by two men as he went to an off-licence.

ARMED robbers have targeted three shops in north Leeds in less than a week, police confirmed today.

A man suffered facial injuries as he was the victim of an attempted robbery while walking home from work in Rotherham.

Detectives investigating a rape in Sheffield city centre have issued a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the incident.

The growing scandal surrounding allegations of historical child sex abuse has shocked the world of football.

DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING a 24-year-old man’s murder are trying to trace distinctive items found to be missing from his Leeds home.

A PRISONER takes their own life every three days as the number of suicides in jails reaches “epidemic proportions”, campaigners have warned.

A Leeds man high on drink and drugs “lost it” when broke into his former partner’s home and discovered she had a new boyfriend, a court heard.

Two people have been charged with the murder of a man in Leeds.