US detectives are investigating how two British friends came to be shot dead on holiday in Florida

US detectives are investigating how two British friends came to be shot dead on holiday in Florida, several miles from any recognised tourist area.James Kouzaris, 24, from Northampton, and James Cooper, 25, of Warwick, were found shot dead 50ft from each other in a street in the city of Sarasota.A 16-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of murder after the friends from university were found on Saturday.Tutors from Sheffield remembered...

Danielle Lloyd yesterday told jurors a suspected armed robber was with her the night he was accused of raiding a building society for £80,000.

Danielle Lloyd yesterday told jurors a suspected armed robber was with her the night he was accused of raiding a building society for £80,000.Craig Mason, 32, was allegedly part of a gang which netted more than £161,000 at two branches of Nationwide.Advertisement - article continues below »But Miss Lloyd, 27, told the court she was with Mason at a party in London on the night of one of the raids in Brightlingsea, Essex. Miss Lloyd, who...

bust targets members of the Italian Mafia and biker gangs.

A major police operation targeting drug traffickers with ties to organized crime began in several regions of Quebec on Tuesday morning.Cops are expecting to arrest dozens of people, mostly in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, but also in the North Shore, Montreal, Trois-Rivieres and Quebec City.The bust targets members of the Italian Mafia and biker gangs.This follows a 20-month investigation by RCMP, provincial cops and Saguenay poli...

fugitive murderer has been convicted of killing a young father in Essex in front of his children and fleeing to the "Costa del Crime".

Killer James Tomkins, 61, lived in exile under an assumed identity on the Costa del Sol, Spain, after the "brutal execution" of 24-year-old Rocky Dawson.Mr Dawson was shot several times in the back as he put the children, aged two and six, in his Fiat Punto on the drive of the family's home in Hornchurch in 2006.After several years on the run, Tomkins, who was named as one of Britain's 10 most wanted criminals in 2008, was traced to near...

THE director of Fuengirola TV, Diaz Rincon, has been charged with alleged corruption and influence peddling

THE director of Fuengirola TV, Diaz Rincon, has been charged with alleged corruption and influence peddling. General Secretary of the local PSOE, Javier Garcia Leon, explained that the corruption charges stem from the director providing services to the local government through his private company.The influence peddling refers to his relationship with Mayor Esperanza Oña to allegedly get various contracts for his production company.These...

17 year old Moroccan has died after being stabbed by another of the same nationality after an argument in the Era de Cieza football ground

17 year old Moroccan has died after being stabbed by another of the same nationality after an argument in the Era de Cieza football ground on Saturday afternoon.La Verdad reports that the victim died in the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital in Murcia after emergency surgery.The Cieza Guardia Civil have arrested the aggressor, although his identity has not been released. It says that when the argument started he went to his home to return with...

Baxendale then fled the country on a ferry and travelled to southern Spain where he had been jailed for a previous murder in 2001.

convicted killer who carried out a ferocious attack on a Nutfield woman, stabbing her to death, has been jailed for life for her murder.David Baxendale, 40, subjected 38-year-old mother-of-three Sarah Thomas to a “sustained and savage attack” in her flat just hours after meeting her.She suffered multiple injuries, including a fatal knife wound to the neck, in the brutal assault in May last year.Baxendale then fled the country on a ferry...

James Tomkins (61) murdered Rocky Dawson in front of his children and then fled to the Costa del Sol resort of Puerto Banus hit-man hid out in Spain for four years using the names Michael Lynch, Ronald Farmer and O’Flynn.

British contract killer who used a fake Irish passport to flee to Spain has been sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison following an international investigation. The hit-man hid out in Spain for four years using the names Michael Lynch, Ronald Farmer and O’Flynn.James Tomkins (61) murdered Rocky Dawson in front of his children and then fled to the Costa del Sol resort of Puerto Banus, in Spain, using a fake Irish passport. Having...

LIVERPOOL drugs baron Curtis Warren was today told he will stay in jail for years to come

LIVERPOOL drugs baron Curtis Warren was today told he will stay in jail for years to come after unanimously losing his final appeal against his conviction for a £1m cannabis plot.In a judgement lasting no more than a minute, the five Law Lords of the Privy Council today condemned the Toxteth-born gangster to the confines of his cell at HMP Belmarsh for at least the next five years.The Law Lords, led by the Right Hon Lord Dyson, listened...

Slades were married in the 1998 and lived with their five children in the Spanish resort of Puerto Banus between 2001 and 2005 before returning to West Yorkshire.

Paul Greaney, prosecuting, told Teesside Crown Court how the pair were married in the 1998 and lived with their five children in the Spanish resort of Puerto Banus between 2001 and 2005 before returning to West Yorkshire.They rented a £2,200 a month house on Norfolk Road, Harrogate, before moving to the lavish home on Sandmoor Drive.Mr Greaney said the ownership of the property was disguised in the name of one of Slade’s associates but...

Britons in Spain have just launched an appeal against their conviction for killing an ex-pat playboy criminal, Colin Nobes,

Britons in Spain have just launched an appeal against their conviction for killing an ex-pat playboy criminal, Colin Nobes, whose body was dumped, wrapped in a tarpaulin, under a flyover in the province of Alicante in 20...