A 9-year-old boy was rescued in France after being locked inside a van for over a year, discovered naked and malnourished in the village of Hagenbach. The boy's father has been arrested on charges including sequestration and deprivation of care.
Courts in Sweden and the United Kingdom have handed down significant prison sentences in a series of severe sexual offense cases, involving child pornography, rape, grooming, and institutional abuse.
A 21-year-old film student was fatally stabbed on London's Primrose Hill, part of a series of knife attacks across the UK that have left several dead and injured. Police are investigating multiple incidents while the government announces plans to tighten online knife sales.
A one-year-old marmoset monkey was discovered alongside Class A drugs during a police vehicle search near a Doncaster prison, leading to arrests and a rescue operation.