A young man who was jailed for kidnapping and attacking his girlfriend has been given 24 hours on his release from prison to get in contact with the probation service.

The 25-year-old man who abducted a teenage Spanish student from Dublin city centre and raped her repeatedly over a 21-hour period had a 'very very difficult and interrupted upbringing', a court has heard.

Gardaí are urging people not to share fake kidnap warnings on social media or in WhatsApp groups.

The chief suspect in the alleged kidnap of a British model in Milan has said he did not knowingly take part in any crime.

The dark web has been thrown into the spotlight following the kidnapping of a British model in Milan.

A British model who claims she was kidnapped and held captive in Italy, is back in the UK and being interviewed by police and officials from the Foreign Office.

A Pakistani takeaway delivery driver was shocked to find a man standing beside the open boot of a car wearing a balaclava and pointing a gun at him.

A man had boiling water poured over him after he was kidnapped in north Belfast, police said.

Investigators have found a body during a search of land in South Carolina where a missing woman was discovered "chained up like a dog" in a large storage container, a prosecutor said.

A group of Nigerian parents are excitedly waiting to be reunited with 21 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram two and a half years ago, and freed in the first negotiated release organised by Nigeria's government and the Islamic extremist group.

A "very dangerous" tattooed attacker who kidnapped a 27-year-old man and subjected him to a series of horrific physical and sexual assaults has been jailed for life.

A terrified US woman called her husband from the dark boot of a moving car to say she had been overpowered at a highway rest stop before she was found dead.

A Minnesota man has confessed to abducting and killing an 11-year-old boy nearly 27 years ago, putting to rest a mystery that has haunted the state and led to changes in national sex offender laws.

A South African woman who kidnapped a newborn baby nearly two decades ago from a hospital and raised the girl as her own has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law, who had been kidnapped in Brazil for a ransom of £28 million, has been freed, according to police.

A woman in South Africa has been convicted of kidnapping a baby from a hospital ward 18 years ago.

A South African woman who allegedly kidnapped a baby from a hospital nearly 19 years ago and raised the child as her own has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against her.

Suspected Muslim militants have posted a video purportedly showing two Canadians, a Norwegian and a Filipino woman abducted last month from a southern Philippine resort.

A judge has sentenced three men to 1,560 years each in prison for the kidnap and murder of 12 youths taken from a bar in Mexico City’s Zona Rosa tourist and nightclub district.