The Eastern European gang hijacked 6,000 identities to make claims for Universal Credit and used the names of children living in Bulgaria as part of the five year scam. They set up three 'benefit factories' across London churning out bogus tenancy agreements, counterfeit payslips and forged letters from landlords, employers, and GPs to trick the DWP. The group appeared to be hiding in plain sight - posting photos on social media smiling and posing behind the counter of Antonia's Foods supermarket in Wood Green. A system involving burner phones lowered down to waiting customers via a bucket pulley mechanism was also used to improve the scam's efficiency. The enormous haul of money gained from their 'complex financial web' of claims was laundered through a number of accounts, then withdrawn in cash - with ￡750,000 in bank notes found stuffed in suitcases at one of their homes.
A Costa Brava town has banned penis suits and sex dolls, and said it will fine stag and hen dos up to 1,500 euros if caught.? Platja d'Aro, a popular resort town on Spain's Costa Brava, is?considered a favorite for stag and hen dos, thanks to package deals that include flights, hotels and the provision of strippers.? ?Party-goers have often been seen sporting penis suits and other items of clothing and accesories that reflect human genitalia, but locals are growing sick of their crude antics.
The Princess of Wales will not attend the Colonel's Review - the traditional rehearsal for Trooping the Colour - on June 8, royal officials confirmed today in a rare update as she continues her treatment.
The cabinet minister has accused a senior judge of ignoring evidence. Mr Mercer (pictured)), 41, has been threatened with jail for not naming whistleblowers.
A Tory source told MailOnline being a professional footballer is 'not an exemption', adding: 'They are extremely highly paid people with long off seasons.'
Latest updates from the campaign trail as Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer head to events across the country in the build up to the general election.
Services are being?cancelled and delayed because of the incident on the West Coast Main Line between Carlisle and Oxenholme Lake District on Wednesday afternoon.
They were the baby-faced troublemakers who terrorised Britain's streets. From the infamous 'Asbros' who brought mayhem to their community, to the 'Ratboy' burglar who received his first caution at the age of 10, the notorious 'ASBO Kids' became the poster boys for youth street crime . The ASBO, or anti-social behavioural order, was introduced by Sir Tony Blair 's Government in 1998 as a way to deter crime by putting a curfew on an individual and banning them from certain places. But for many yobs it became a badge of honour, and more than half of those who received one would breach its conditions. The ASBOs were scrapped in 2014 and replaced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by civil injunctions and criminal behaviour orders. Left, Danny and Ricky Oakley. Right, Anthony Kennedy. Top inset, Alfie Hodgin. Bottom inset, Calvin Hooper and his brother Kyle.
Faisa?Shaheen said she will challenge a decision made last night to prevent her from running against former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith in?Chingford and Woodford Green.
Locals named the victims as Maria Ricotta, 53, and her son Guiseppe Morreale, 29, and said they 'kept themselves to themselves'.
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Beal, 50, lured builder Nick Billingham, 42, into the bedroom with the promise of sex before 'executing' him in the Northampton home they shared. The Year 6 teacher was jailed for life today with a minimum term of 20 years. Beal told friends they had tested positive for Covid so she would not be disturbed while she built a makeshift grave and repainted her home to hide the blood. Twelve days after the murder, on November 1, 2021, she hid Mr Billingham's van on a side street a mile from the home and went to B&Q to purchase items for a makeshift grave.
The spate of horrific attacks, as well as others earlier in the year since the ban was imposed, has seen people call into question whether it is working.
Charlotte Unwin, 23,?kicked her victim in the face and stamped on her head in the horrific attack outside the Blackamoor pub in Selby, North Yorkshire, in March 2022.
Finland, Norway, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will pool resources to ensure thousands of military grade and consumer drones can patrol the skies
Wilshere and his wife Andriani Michael welcomed daughter Siena just a year after their wedding in June 2017 - but noticed that she was always coughing shortly after her first birthday. During a family holiday in Cyprus, a doctor detected a heart murmur and urged the family to take Siena to see a cardiologist - where they discovered that Siena had a hole in her heart. Recalling the terrifying phone call he had with his wife, Wilshere told the BBC: 'I was preparing to travel with the team, my team, for a game like we normally do any my phone rang.'
Jonathan Tucker (left), 50, avoided jail after admitting to controlling behaviour. Shiree Fisher (right) was living in fear of her ex-fiance, Chester Crown Court heard.
Protesters, sporting Trump apparel and waving MAGA flags,?yelled 'f**k the Queen' and 'f**k the King' at a British couple as they walked through a park near Donald Trump's hush money trial.
Hundreds of Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport will launch a three-day strike on Friday in a dispute over rosters coinciding with the end of half-term holidays.
Three men, aged 26, 37, and 42, were sprayed with bullets last night at around 9.20pm as they sat outside?Evin restaurant on Kingsland High Street.
Businesses in Magaluf are worried about the lack of holidaymakers in the party city in the lead-up to the busy holiday season.? Photos show Magaluf, one of Majorca's busiest cities, is still half-empty days before tourists are meant to be flooding its streets, bringing with them much-needed spending money.? The Majorca Daily Bulletin reported that businesses are anxious about whether enough tourists will come to the island.?
Ms McKee, 29, died after being struck in the head by a bullet as she stood close to police vehicles while observing rioting in the Creggan area of Londonderry on April 18 2019.
The ex-UKIP leader, who is now honorary president of Reform UK, appeared at a London press conference as he helped launch his party's new immigration policy.
Gary Priddle (pictured) dumped the bodies of ten tortoises across east Devon including in the National Trust Killerotn estate.
Manchester United legend Roy Keane did not intentionally elbow a football fan accused of headbutting him, a court heard. Scott Law, 43, of Waltham Abbey, Essex, has pleaded not guilty to assault by beating over the incident at a Premier League?match at Emirates Stadium last September. Chaos ensured towards the end of Arsenal's 3-1 victory over Manchester United, where ex-Ireland international Keane was working as a pundit for Sky Sports.
The Autoglass employee from Kent heard a loud buzzing over his shoulder moments before the insects descended on the car.
Liverpool-based charity group Big Help has agreed to give up leases on more than 600 properties, which equates to around 30 per cent of Home Reit's portfolio.
An Antiques Roadshow participant revealed the drama that goes on behind the scenes and the warning that producers give to guests on the TV show.
The wife and mother of missing hillwalker Tom and Richie Parry said she is 'heartbroken' after two bodies were found by police. Tom, 49, and his 12-year-old son went missing in Glen Coe in the Scottish Highlands. Speaking at the family home in Alsager, Cheshire, Gemma Parry said: 'I've not heard anything more.' Asked how she was coping, she said: 'I'm doing the best I can. I'm heartbroken.'
Race Across The World gripped viewers as the winners of its fourth series were crowned during Wednesday night's episode after a gruelling eight week challenge.
Scotland Yard has launched an investigation after a woman was said to have been attacked outside a money exchange shop in Coventry Street, Westminster.
Gee, 44, was a leading member of a powerful gang that turned the Grizedale estate in Everton, Liverpool into a 24-hour drug market.
Eight British 'stag do' male tourists have been arrested following a mass fight at a Majorca restaurant. The violent incident occurred at around 7.30pm yesterday at the Balneario Illetas beach club restaurant in Calvia, the municipality where party resort Magaluf is located. Town hall chiefs said a waiter had been injured after being hit in the head and two police officers were also hurt.
One particularly burly guard took umbrage when a slender woman in a green dress appeared to swing her handbag at him. He retaliated with a violent slap that clouted the side of her head
Commuters have been warned not to travel north of Preston as multiple services between England and Scotland have been disrupted. Disruption is expected until 6pm.
Companies are clamping down on in-flight safety measures after two shocking incidents of turbulence took place last week, resulting in the death of a 73-year-old man.
The fatal collision in Penkridge, Staffordshire, occured on Saturday.?Dafydd Huw Craven-Jones (left) , 18, and Morgan Jones (right) , 17, died on Saturday night while a third unnamed 17-year-old girl died in hospital on Tuesday. Staffordshire Police said another 17-year-old girl remains in a 'stable condition' in hospital. A welsh flag has been left on Cannock Road where the tragic crash happened in memory of Dafydd and Morgan who were both from Wrexham. Dafydd was a student at Ellesmere College - an exclusive private school in Shropshire where fees can cost up to?￡40,635.
The troubled jet firm has been set a deadline to present its plans to federal regulators Federal Aviation Administration on how it will fix the safety problems that has plagued some of its aircraft.
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey hurtled himself down a giant slip 'n slide in an inflatable ring for his latest general election stunt this morning in Frome, Somerset to announce a new policy.
Nichola Dame Hartwell (pictured), 50, is the director of 'Mr and Miss Black and Beautiful', a non-profit social enterprise aimed at helping the young and underprivileged.
Locals in Barnham, West Sussex, say violent and intimidating gangs of youths acting like a 'pack of animals' rule the village streets at night, leaving them too scared to leave their homes. Local Facebook groups for the previously sleepy village are full of posts from angry residents reporting attempted thefts, anti-social behaviour and drunken, 'weed-smoking' youths. Business owners have been attacked, a pensioner's dog kicked and residents abused by gangs of young people travelling between towns and villages along the south coast by train. Sick of the lack of police presence, businesses have resorted to hiring their own private security firm to protect themselves and their premises.
Naveed Hussain (pictured), 25, started his elaborate lie in 2020 after he was arrested for cannabis possession.
The Labour leader is embroiled in a major row after Ms Abbott and other Corbynistas said they were blocked from running in the July 4 general election.
Prosecutors have begun an appeal after three teachers from England were cleared of the manslaughter of a British schoolgirl who drowned during a school trip to France.
Amanda Wilkie, 44, (left) who had been looking after the hounds, sparked terror when she let them off their leashes at Willow Park in Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside, whilst she staggered around. The powerfully built XL Bullies - called Mavis and Missy - darted over to one woman and her dog, biting them both and dragging her along the grass. They then bounded over to attack two small dogs belonging to Christina Potts (top right) and Tracey Heyhurst who were chatting on a park bench. In the melee the two friends tried to save their dogs, a 16-year-old West Highland Terrier called Rosie and a two-year-old Papillon called Mylo, but Miss Potts was bitten in the face and finger.Jacqueline Mahoney (bottom right) was also attacked.
Richard Tice claimed the Conservatives had 'betrayed Britain' and rejected the possibility of striking an agreement with PM Rishi Sunak 's party before polling day on 4 July.
Residents of picturesque Whitstable in Kent - including an Airbnb owner himself - have blasted holiday lets for forcing out families who were born and raised in the coastal resort.
For some contestants the risk they might fail to score the winning prize is too much - and they seek to secure their hopes through nefarious means.
Angela Rayner waded into a furious party row over the future of Diane Abbott today by saying that the veteran leftwinger should be allowed to represent Labour at the next election.
Bryony Nierop-Reading, 78, has sacrificed her garden to save Happisburgh's car park. The road to the car park is currently crumbling into the sea due to erosion.
What Starmer has failed to understand is that the private sector offers an unparalleled education for hundreds of thousands of children, many of whom aren't from well-off backgrounds.
Inviting minor royals to join her on the Buckingham Palace balcony had been the late Queen Elizabeth's way of thanking relatives for their support.
Officers were called at around 9.20pm last night to reports of a shooting near Evin restaurant (pictured left) on Kingsland High Street. Eye-witnesses say a motorcycle drove by and sprayed bullets in the direction of the diners, before speeding away down the road. Three adults and a child were found with gunshot injuries. The condition of the three adults is unknown. They have all been taken to a major trauma centre at an east London hospital, where the child remains in a critical condition. A diner who was at the Evin restaurant at the time of the alleged shooting told the Hackney Gazette how everyone dived under the tables during the 'chaos' and he used his coat to stop the bleeding on someone's leg. 'There was a big group having dinner in the rear,' he said. 'I couldn't get my usual table so got one close to the front window. The big group paid up and left and shortly afterwards that's when the loud bangs - which were obviously gunshots - happened.'
Police searching for father and son Tom Parry, 49, and Richie Parry, 12, who went missing after going hillwalking in Glencoe in the Highlands, have found two bodies.
Thomas Gibson, 40, was found unresponsive at his home in Manchester by partner Rebecca Moss who was 39 weeks pregnant with their daughter Harper at the time.
Party leader Richard Tice claimed the UK economy had a 'deadly, deadly addiction' to the 'drug of cheap overseas labour'.
The former UKIP leader turned president of Reform UK denied that he was trying to 'alienate' Muslim communities across Britain in a clash with Robert Peston on Wednesday night. Instead, Mr Farage, 60, claimed Muslims viewed different parts of their community as 'other', adding: 'That's the problem.' Last Sunday the veteran general election candidate was accused of Islamophobia after claiming on Sky News 'a growing number of young people in this country... do not subscribe to British values' - later clarifying that he was referring to Muslims.
The unmanned stop serving the town of Kearsley near Bolton in Greater Manchester with Northern Rail trains came bottom out of 2,625 stations for the four weeks to date.
Nadine Bradley, 43, was surprised when a large envelope was dropped off at her house containing six strangers' passports, none of which shared a surname.
More than 1,700 users reported issues with their TSB app, according to DownDetector, after it was revealed the service suffered an outage.
The coalition will seek to house hundreds of migrants in centres in Kerry and Westmeath, with plans to develop the existing Thornton Hall site in Dublin, according to plans seen by the Irish Independent. Amid growing concerns about the appearance of scores of tents across the city, the government has reportedly greenlit plans to set up a new?International Protection Office (IPO), responsible for examining and processing applications for international protection, outside of the capital.
Holly Willoughby - once the 'golden girl' of ITV daytime television - has suffered a sharp decline in her fortunes according to her company accounts.
A horror drive-by shooting has taken place in Dalston, leaving three adults injured and one child in the hospital.
Ireland has long enjoyed a reputation as the land of 'a hundred thousand welcomes'. But with record numbers arriving, there's a backlash - and it's clear the state is struggling to find accommodation.
Gen Z youngsters spend too much time chasing 'get rich quick' side hustles while finding their primary jobs a bore. A series of studies have found the generation, known for its woke attitudes, is packed with millions of kids who admit to being less ambitious but still moan their elders are giving them a tough time. Millions of kids have moaned that other generations don't like them - but research shows many of them spend their days chasing an easy fix rather than working hard at their primary jobs. James McNeil, 37, the founder of Leicestershire car company Ready2Lease , said it was a 'given' that people with side hustles would focus more on that than their primary jobs. He told MailOnline: 'I had a couple of guys who had other things going on. One of them was a music producer on the side, the other made oven gloves.'
Sadiq Khan, who has just begun an historic third term in City Hall as the capital's mayor, claimed a youth mobility agreement with Brussels would be a 'win-win' for Britain.
Jeremy Smith, a top-ten shareholder in the parent company of Royal Mail?has today said that current management can add more value to the struggling company.
Vanity Fair France has issued an apology after the publication edited a portrait of Guy Pearce to remove a Palestinian flag pin he wore to Cannes Film Festival.
Elle Bolland, 32, who has spent more than ￡1million refurbishing an old hotel and establishing her eatery employing 30 staff, released CCTV images of the suspects. Mrs Bolland, who is eight months pregnant with her second child, said she had been angered by the brazen bunch who racked up a ￡150 bill and polished off their meal by downing cocktails. 'If people like this get away with it, then businesses are going to potentially face closure. You have still got to be paying the bills and staff. People walking out apparently without paying, especially when they have ordered steak, can send you under.' The three men arrived in a pick-up truck and parked in the car park of the Station Restaurant & Bar in Blaxton, Doncaster.
Phillimore Road, in Saltley, Birmingham , was dubbed one of the 'worst' streets for parking -?as locals described getting a space as 'gold dust'.
The property on?Pleasant View in Norbury, Staffordshire has been almost entirely reclaimed by?nature and is going up for auction at ￡140,000?- but you can't view it beforehand.
The court in Ciudad Real in central Spain ruled that the relationship was 'always consensual within the frame-work of a romantic relationship', adding that the two were 'close in age and maturity.'
As many as 10,000 people took to the streets of Mallorca's capital, Palma, last weekend to demand limits on the number of visitors. The Mallorca Platja Tour protest group took to social media to call on locals, writing on X: 'Call for residents to fill the beaches of Mallorca as a protest against overcrowding.' The group, who said it is organising a mobilisation for the middle of next month, added: 'We invite all the residents who live near the beaches to go there to recover our beaches and enjoy them as before.' The group described itself as 'a civic, peaceful and family response' to mass tourism, adding: 'We will simply go swimming, to show that the beaches belong to everyone, they are a public asset and we are not going to resign ourselves.'
Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, 63, (pictured) last year sparked a political row by criticising the government's small boat policy.
Kate Garraway, 57, (pictured) has been ordered to pay a ￡32,000 flat fee as well as 40 per cent of assets recovered from psychotherapeutic company Astra Aspera.
The Labour veteran broke cover today as Sir Keir Starmer's party struggles to contain a row over whether she has been blocked from standing as a candidate at the July 4 general election.
The Mail has obtained a sensational, never-before-seen Scotland Yard report from almost 50 years ago that finally reveals the definitive account of the Lord Lucan mystery. The newly discovered, previously confidential 60-page document chronicles in astonishing detail the Crown's case against the missing peer, suspected of bludgeoning his children's nanny Sandra Rivett to death with a lead pipe and then trying to kill his estranged wife in one of Britain's most notorious crime cases. It will be the basis for a world-exclusive, week-long Mail true crime podcast event, The Trial of Lord Lucan, which begins today.
Inspired by the discovery of a report written by a senior detective into the murder of Sandra Rivett and months away from the 50th anniversary of the crime, we present: The Trial of Lord Lucan .
This is the sensational, never-before-seen Scotland Yard report from almost 50 years ago that finally reveals the definitive account of the Lord Lucan mystery.
Janet Smith, 62, from Colchester, Essex, genuinely believed she was talking to the Take That singer for about a week, after she added him as a friend on Facebook .
The unpublished memoirs of Alan Fisher, a man from the slums of Manchester who rose to become one of the most sought after butlers in the world, are going under the hammer, along with an unseen photo of Edward in royal robes, as if dressing up as a king, with Wallis at his side (left). The memoirs lift the lid on high society courtesy of a man who served royalty, the rich and famous and describe Wallis (right) as a woman who would have been 'Queen Dictator' if she'd ever ascended the throne.
The royal mother-of-two, 34, shared a series of previously unseen photos on Instagram to mark August's first birthday.
Crown Princess Victoria shared a loving moment with her daughter, Estelle, earlier today as the royal attended the inauguration of a new installation at the Sculpture Park in?Djurgarden, Stockholm.
Experts in the US, who tracked the self-reported behaviours of almost 10,000 psilocybin users, discovered hundreds of reports of paranoia and even vivid hallucinations.
Queen Mary's nephew Count Nikolai has revealed his shock opinion of Australia, after spending six months studying at the?University of Technology in Sydney.
The IDF announced last night it had captured the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow demilitarised zone that runs the 8.6-mile length of the Gaza side of the border with Egypt and includes the Rafah crossing. Israel says the corridor is peppered with at least 20 tunnels that have funnelled weapons and other goods for Hamas - despite a yearslong blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt - and now aims to locate and destroy all the shafts. But taking the corridor could complicate Jerusalem's relations with Cairo, which are already strained after an Egyptian soldier was shot dead on Monday in a brief skirmish with IDF troops. It comes as the IDF deepened its incursion into Rafah, sending thousands more troops to join existing operations and seizing control of Tel al-Sultan - the neighbourhood where 45 Palestinians perished in a fire Sunday night following an Israeli bombing raid.
The Kremlin accused NATO of 'provoking' Kyiv into prolonging the conflict in Ukraine, whose officials have been appealing its allied to target Russia with Western-supplied weapons.
Basam Hafiz's three-year-old son was playing on the equipment at Pennington Primary when a 'loose' dog tore skin from his cheek and mouth.
The father came across the profile by recommendation of his friends, and went on to interact with the creator for months before speaking to a therapist (pictured)
