Broken Britain

The first specialist burns service attached to a major trauma centre has treated 150 patients in its first nine months - thanks to a rise in acid attacks. The clinic at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, is the capital's first, and will treat those affected by the huge increase in acid attacks. More than 800 of the 1,500 reports of acid attacks in London over the last five years have happened in east London. The unit, which...

Police are hunting a pair of lowlife thieves who were caught on CCTV distracting a elderly woman before snatching her a purse as she shopped in a supermarket. Shocking footage shows the callous crooks targeting the 87-year-old victim as she wheeled her trolley around an Aldi on Tuesday (24/10). One man can be seen distracting the pensioner by pointing out items on the shelves while his accomplice spends a few seconds rooting around in her bag. He then retrieves the...

A woman has been jailed for life for murdering her sister by stabbing her 68 times after a family funeral. Sabah Khan lured her 34-year-old sibling Saima to their home in Luton by pretending her children were unsettled before brutally killing her and staging a burglary. Saima Khan. The 27-year-old calmly removed her blood-stained clothing and protective gloves before concealing them in a bin bag with the bloodied knife and hid it in her bedroom, the Old Bailey heard. A...

This unbelievable picture captured the ultimate fly-ship as 'naughty' sailors apparently abandoned their ride in front of a no fly-tipping sign. Despite prosecution warnings the would-be pirates brazenly dumped their boat in full sight of the road between the villages of Cadeby and Sprotbrough - 23 miles from the sea. Tim Hadfield, 52, snapped the picture at the entrance to a former landfill site near Doncaster, South Yorks. "I was on my way to a supplier and I spotted it...

A son has spoken of how he watched his mum die slowly after she waited five hours for an ambulance to take her to hospital. Kim Hawkins, 59, was devastated when he discovered his mum having hallucinations and her skin had turned dark grey. He says ambulances failed to arrive more than five hours after Jeanette Hawkins, 81, fell to the floor in agony with severe abdominal pains - as her condition was not treated as an emergency. The paramedics...

A crooked company director who splashed out on lavish cars and exotic holidays after fleecing investors out of £3 million has been ordered to pay back - just £1. Alan Chandler, 46,pretended he was a multimillionaire and the son of a High Court judge to swindle cash from a venture capital company using forged documents. A court he persuaded them to invest in his green energy company Soleil Holdings Ltd by claiming his business was thriving, despite actually being almost...

A teen was recruited by a gang to approach jurors with £500 to return a 'not guilty' verdict during a trial but “got her words WRONG” - and asked them to find the defendants GUILTY, a court heard. The girl, 15, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was part of a trio who allegedly approached five members of a jury to attempt to bribe them with cash to find the defendants not guilty. Leeds Crown Court, West Yorks., heard...

A vulnerable teenage girl with learning difficulties was forced into prostitution by an 18-year-old man she had just met, a court heard. The girl, who was just 17 at the time of the alleged offence in 2005, was tricked into meeting defendant Shane Whiteley in a car with another male. Whiteley, 30, who was 18 at the time, asked to meet his victim under false pretenses and it was only when she got into his car with another unknown male...

A man 'chiselled' a cross into his forehead so he would be taken to hospital for treatment - and then abused a Muslim doctor by telling him to ‘get back to Iraq’. Joe Edgar, 50, hurled racial insults at the A&E doctor in front of other patients and hospital staff which made him feel ‘degraded, distressed and disgusted’. Edgar was admitted to Scarborough Hospital after he carved a cross into his forehead, a court heard. While he was being seen...