In 2012, gangster Dale Cregan made a hoax 999 call to lure unarmed PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone into a gun and grenade ambush. Here is the full story.

The Man Who Had to Fly On the morning of 2 July 1982, a 33-year-old Los Angeles truck driver named Larry Walters strapped himself into an aluminium garden chair, attached 42 helium-filled weather balloons to it, packed a pellet gun, two litres of Coca-Cola , a six-pack of Miller Lite, some sandwiches, a CB radio, and a parachute, and floated off into the sky above California . He had planned to drift gently about 100 feet above his neighbourhood, enjoy the view, pop a few bal

Japan's wartime PM Hideki Tojo shot himself to avoid capture, received American blood to survive, and then walked into his war crimes trial with "Remember Pearl Harbor" drilled into his dentures in Morse code.