Crime

Pros ‘stealing to order’ in the Great Louvre Robbery

Gems could be recut or broken up in Eastern Europe, but there is hope they can be retrieved intact

‘Lawless London’ is safer than it’s been in decades

Official data suggests the capital may be safer than at any time in the past half century, beating other major cities

‘Jail is inevitable’ for politician awaiting bribery sentence

Two other MEPs joined Nathan Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests – and 6 weeks later repeated his talking points

Louvre heist was 800 metres from police headquarters

The robbery happened in broad daylight and took just seven minutes

Lostprophets singer convicted of child sex crimes is killed in jail

Ian Watkins, 48, said to have died having being knifed by a fellow prisoner in HMP Wakefield after surviving earlier attempt

The Met isn’t sullied by a few ‘bad apples’. The barrel is rotten

After 30 years in the force, and in the wake of the Panorama revelations, I can no longer accept excuses for institutional decay

Gisèle Pelicot faces more court trauma after appeal

Incredulity at convicted man’s claim that victim’s husband tricked him into raping her, despite evidence

Nicolas Sarkozy’s ‘corruption pact’ and France’s fractious politics

Public trust in politicians was already at rock-bottom in a country on its seventh prime minister in eight years

A brush with the ‘world’s best art forger’

David Henty sells copies of masterworks to financiers, footballers and gangsters. Is it art or opportunism?

Joseph Kony is being tried in the ICC – without him

The court’s first in-absentia hearing could set a precedent for how to pursue cases against Netanyahu and Putin

Nepal faces a dangerous power vacuum

The prime minister has resigned in the middle of escalating protests

Guns and bomb threats target US politicians

A house speaker killed, a state senator shot, bomb threats and online harassment – a growing hostility is redefining US politics

Teenage boys claimed by growing knife crime crisis

The number of teenage boys killed on our streets has more than doubled in a decade. We spoke to some of the bereaved parents trying to make sense of it all

Bangladesh war crimes tribunal puts its founder in the dock

The ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina is being tried in absentia as she refuses to leave India. She is in other trouble too

‘The torment that drove my mother to kill my father’

The writer reflects on a crime which shaped his own life, 10 years after coercive control was made a crime

Potential pardon for Maxwell is a political ploy

Speculation that Epstein’s ex-girlfriend could be surprise beneficiary of partisan US politics

How DNA discovery freed a mother jailed for killing her children

Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison until scientist Carola Vinuesa uncovered the truth about her case – in a drop of blood

Court backlogs mean rape victims are giving up on justice

A report into the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) finds prosecutors too often focus on the behaviours and actions of the victim