It is the most miserable day of the week, a return to reality from the elation of the weekend. To compound Monday’s reputation problem, new figures indicate it is also the day when people are most likely to have their mobile phone stolen – with skint thieves who have spent their funds over the weekend to blame.

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Police target Soho drug dealers in overnight raids

Police have targeted dozens of crack cocaine and heroin dealers who operate in one of the busiest parts of London in an overnight operation.

Indian gang rape suspect, Vinay Sharma, ‘attacked in prison’

One of the suspects in a brutal gang rape of a student in India is in a criticial condition after being attacked and poisoned in prison, his lawyer says.

Wanted Briton Andrew Moran is arrested in Spain

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Moran, from Salford, was convicted in 2009 of an armed robbery involving a gun, machete and baseball bat

Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe

Metropolitan Police issues 29,000 cautions in a year

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The plane in Brussels that was raided by eight men in February

Luxury car dealer from Cote d’Azur under arrest over £30m airport diamond heist

Eleven held in custody after swoops in three countries, with cash and jewels recovered

Sean Rigg died while in police custody in 2008

Damning report: Mistakes by police dealing with people suffering from mental illness could have contributed to dozens of deaths

Multiple mistakes by police in dealing with people suffering from mental illness could have contributed to dozens of deaths, an independent commission concluded today.

Escaped Colombian gangster undergoes sex change and dresses as a woman to evade capture

An escaped convict underwent a sex change and started living as a woman in an attempt to avoid recapture by the authorities.

Armed men made off with a shipment of diamonds as it was being loaded on to a plane of Helvetic Airlines at the Brussels airport

Police hunting £30m diamond plane heist gang arrest 31 people across Europe

Massive operation with suspects held in France, Switzerland  and Belgium

Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, has called for better rehabilitation in prisons

Chris Grayling calls for better rehabilitation after 200,000 crimes a year by ex-prisoners expose 'depressing merry-go-round' of re-offending criminals

Nearly 66,000 burglaries last year were committed by people who had spent at least a year in prison

Beate Zschäpe, the suspected neo-Nazi ringleader, with Uwe Boehnhardt, a co-founder of their terrorist organisation

Neo-Nazi Nuremberg: Germany forced to confront its dark side

The long-awaited appearance in court of a far-right group accused of murdering immigrants has revived awkward questions for the country

Jim Broadbent

Jim Broadbent takes on Great Train Robbers role for BBC

Oscar winner Jim Broadbent will play the detective charged with tracking down the Great Train Robbers in the second of two programmes dramatising the historic heist.

Home Secretary Theresa May defeated over policy of treating 17-year-olds taken into custody as adults

Another blow for Theresa May: human rights law means 17-year-olds in custody must be treated as children

A teenager has won a High Court victory over the Home Secretary Theresa May's policy of treating 17-year-olds taken into custody as adults - depriving them of protections offered to those aged 16 and under.

Sergei Pomazun, a former convict, who is the main suspect of a shooting on April 22 in Belgorod

Man wanted for massacre of six people in Belgorod captured after manhunt

Sergei Pomazun arrested by two transport police as he tried to flee the city on a freight train

Investigators inspect the body of a victim killed by a gunman in Belgorod. A gunman shot dead five people in the western Russian city before speeding away in a car, local police said.

Six die after man opens fire in the street in Russian town of Belgorod - 'because someone had scratched his car'

Six people were killed in the Russian town of Belgorod yesterday after a gunman opened fire in a central street, reportedly in anger that someone had scratched his car.

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