Across Europe children are being forced onto the streets to beg and steal. They come from one of the poorest communities in Europe - the Romanian Gypsies.For centuries Gypsies have lived on the margins of society and faced brutal discrimination. Many have resorted to stealing and begging to survive.But in the last 20 years, organised crime has taken over. And since 2007, when Romania joine
Gary Ridgway is one of Americas most prolific serial killers, he was convicted of having murdered forty eight people but later confessed to having killed nearly twice that number. Although his identity was not yet known, he struck fear into the state of Washington during the 1980's and 1990's, where most of his victims had been prostitutes. The first five of Ridgway's victims had been fo
Beware the Slenderman is a HBO feature length documentary which visits the strange incident where two 12 year old girls attempted to murder one of their friends. It was an effort on their part to appease Slender Man, a fictional monster who originated from an internet phenomenon known as "creepypasta". These creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted ar
The way that we meet, flirt and become intimate has dramatically changed over the last 10 years, but now that so much of our private lives have migrated online we're vulnerable in ways we have only just begun to understand.Revenge porn is a new form of epidemic with thousands of websites dedicated to it. The term "Revenge Porn" itself is defined as the nonconsensual sharing of sexual materials
Back in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, there were a number of murders committed over a period of about ten months. 16 people were killed in total and this spree would later become known as the Burke and Hare murders, due to the fact that it was William Burke and William Hare who had committed the crimes.At the time Edinburgh could have been considered to be a leading European centre with regards
Last year (2018), a group of male students made rape threats against their female peers at Warwick University which lies on the outskirts of Coventry between the West-Midlands and Warwickshire, England. These threats were made via a private Facebook group chat, this resulted in several of these men receiving significant bans from the university but later these 10-year bans were reduced to 12 month