Police in Malmö, southern Sweden, have admitted that they are “embarrassed and irritated” after a man was murdered and a police station fire bombed, despite a huge drive to combat crime in the area. Read the full story

A man in his twenties is in police custody suspected of having killed a woman yesterday in Hafnarfjörður in the Reykjavík region, Icelandic police say. Read the full story

Two notorious Swedish murderers plan to marry after meeting and falling in love in a high security psychiatric ward. Read the full story

A mother who pushed her two sons into a river and watched them drown is being charged with their murder in a Swedish court. Read the full story

The Finnish Interior Ministry is to investigate a spate of family killings after a father murdered his wife and their two children before burning down their Helsinki apartment last week. Read the full story

Four Bulgarians, including one 14 year-old girl, have been arrested in Denmark for the murder of an 81 year-old woman. Read the full story

A Swedish man has been formally charged with killing his grandmother because she would not allow him to borrow her car. Read the full story

The ‘Amager Attacker’ has been sentenced to life in jail for a series of murders and rapes spanning 23 years. Read the full story

The chief suspects in the recent gruesome ‘murder’ by drowning of a dog in northwest Iceland have gone missing. Police are looking for them but stopped short of saying they have gone on the run. Read the full story

A husband and wife and one other man have been given jail sentences for Finland’s so-called ‘sports bag killing’. Read the full story