Fareed Amir died following the incident on 25 November 2022

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Data for 2025 will be good news for the Met and the mayor Sadiq Khan as they bat away claims of a lawless city

• Capital’s murder rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

The number of murders in London in 2025 is drawing attention for being the lowest in more than a decade. Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police commissioner, and Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, say figures show their policies and plans are working, which are best summed up as tough on crime, tough on the complex causes of crime.

Has the Met turned a corner and can Khan shake off claims he presides over a city where crime is out of control?

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Federal judge reverses decision, will now hold hearing on Luigi Mangione backpack evidence seized at McDonald's during arrest for alleged CEO murder.

Essex Police confirmed that Oaveed Rahman, 26, pleaded guilty at Basildon Crown Court on Monday

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Ex-husband allegedly kills Ohio dentist's wife and husband in Columbus double murder. Michael McKee, 39, arrested in Chicago area after shooting.

Emmy-winning actor and director allegedly touched child inappropriately on set of The Cleaning Lady TV series

Authorities in New Mexico issued an arrest warrant recently for the director and Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield to face a child sexual abuse charge.

An investigator with the Albuquerque police department filed a criminal complaint in support of the charge, which says a child reported that Busfield touched him inappropriately. The acts cited in the warrant – issued on Friday – allegedly occurred on the set of The Cleaning Lady, a TV series Busfield directed and acted in.

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The baby was discovered lying face down under a duvet by family members

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Seattle's new drug enforcement approach sparks debate as police and advocates warn of rising crime and open-air drug markets returning to streets.

Ohio dentist's wife and husband allegedly killed by her ex-husband, who waived extradition from Illinois. Michael McKee faces double murder charges.

Reform’s new candidate for mayor claims people pity Londoners for living in an unsafe capital. But the evidence is clear: we’re making our streets safer

Last year, something extraordinary happened in London. As the conversation about crime got even louder, London quietly reached the lowest per capita homicide rate in its recorded history. Even London’s harshest critics have to accept this is impressive progress.

For too many, it will no doubt come as a surprise. In recent years, politicians and commentators have sought to spam our social media feeds with an endless stream of distortions and untruths – painting a dystopian picture of a lawless place where criminals run rampant.

Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London

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Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world

London’s murder rate has dropped to its lowest in more than a decade with police in the capital and the mayor saying it is now one of the safest cities in the western world.

The figures come as those on the radical right criticise the city for having a crime problem, hoping to gain politically from such claims being believed.

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Turning Latin America into a theater of war will not weaken transnational crime; it will entrench it.

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Ecuador gang violence escalates as five severed heads discovered on tourist beach in Puerto Lopez, highlighting country's record homicide rate amid military crackdown.

This is believed to be one of UK’s largest ever seizures

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Nicolas Maduro arrested on federal narcotics trafficking charges as Venezuelan President allegedly led "Cartel of the Suns" cocaine network, prosecutors say.

Multiple Torah scrolls were damaged after fire broke out early Saturday at Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson

A suspect has been taken into custody after a historic synagogue in Mississippi was badly damaged in a fire that authorities described on Sunday as an arson case.

According to officials, the blaze broke out shortly after 3am Saturday at Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson. No one was hurt in the fire.

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Malgré la déception d'un week-end sans médaille pour le fleuret hommes à Paris, le clan français a brillé avec cinq podiums, porté notamment par les victoires de Marie-Florence Candassamy à l'épée ce samedi à Fujaïrah (Émirats arabes unis) et de Sébastien Patrice au sabre ce dimanche à Tunis.

Chicago doctor arrested in Ohio double murder case after surveillance footage allegedly shows his car at victims' home during the time of killings.

Unknown recordings reveal how journalist Laura Greenberg befriended serial killer Doug Gretzler, visiting him 350 times. Her story is told on Oxygen's "Charmed by the Devil."

Suspect arrested after apparent arson destroys sacred Torahs at Mississippi's largest synagogue. FBI investigating the blaze at Beth Israel Congregation.