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Justin Davenport, Crime Correspondent

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Blind woman tells of horror as pitbull mauls her guide dog

Video: Blind woman whose guide dog was savaged by a pitbull-type terrier in a railway station subway spoke of her fear during the attack

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Pitbull savages woman's guide dog at train station

Video: This is the shocking image of a guide dog being savagely attacked by a pitbull-cross dog in a railway station subway

Women who carry firearms escape with cautions

Almost two out of three women caught with firearms are not prosecuted, according to police figures

Murder probe after mother killed in fire

Police launched a murder inquiry after a mother of two was found dead in a fire at her home today.

Ben Hitchcock's killers still free, two years after fatal fight

Detectives issue new appeal to solve the murder of a London teenager with a plea to witnesses of the killing to come forward

Severed hand woman found dying on street

Murder inquiry launched after woman found dying in a west London street from multiple injuries including a severed hand

Tragic son taken abroad for a new life

Alex Hanscombe was a month short of his third birthday when Robert Napper stabbed his mother 49 times in a frenzied attack

Shooting victims 'stay silent and hit back with guns'

Victims of shootings in London are increasingly taking the law into their own hands and settling scores with guns rather than talking to the police

Kidulthood star in play based on Kodjo murder

Star of the films Kidulthood and Adulthood is to take the lead role in a new play based on the murder of teenager Kodjo Yenga

9/11 mastermind to go on trial in New York

Self-proclaimed ringleader of the 9/11 terror attacks is to face public trial in New York, President has announces

Police visit classes to keep 10-year-olds out of gang crime

Children as young as 10 could be taught about the dangers of gun and knife crime to try to steer them away from gangs

Anger as police report doesn't recognise 'gang rape'

Campaigners accused Scotland Yard officers of being politically correct for not using the term 'gang rape' in a report to police leaders

'Terror attack on New York subway' foiled by Scotland Yard tip-off

Suspected al Qaeda plot to bomb the New York subway was foiled by British anti-terror investigators, it was claimed

Asian students attacked by gangs

Police were today investigating at least two racist attacks on Asian students outside a London university.

Third of gang rape victims are aged under 15 and attacks are increasing

Scotland Yard has launched an inquiry into gang rapes after new figures revealed a massive rise in the number of incidents and that victims were getting younger

Met Pc faces internal inquiry after being cleared of race assault

Met police officer who was cleared of racially assaulting two teenagers could face the sack if he is found guilty in internal misconduct proceedings

Two boys held over ‘rape’ of girl, eight, in playground

Parents living near a park where an eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two primary schoolboys spoke of their fears of letting their children out unsupervised

‘The Wire’ comparisons can go, says Met as murders fall

London's murder rate is falling to 28-year low after campaigns against gangs and youth violence, as Met chief attacks politicians’ comparisons between London and The Wire

Masked knifemen leave shopkeeper's 'face hanging off'

Family of a shopkeeper fighting for his life after his head was sliced open in a knife attack was due to get married next month

Sir Paul Stephenson under attack as he admits Met gun patrol blunders

Scotland Yard chief Sir Paul Stephenson faces criticism over blunders that allowed armed police patrols

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