A thief who prowls for victims on social media is locked up, thanks to the sheath of his knife, and a plea for help scrawled on a £10 note puts two kidnappers behind bars.

An elderly murderer is convicted after a cat-and-mouse chase with armed police. He had killed a man in a feud over garden clippings. And a fraudster is locked up after using dummy phone handsets to con high-street shops out of tens of thousands of pounds.