A 15-year-old and an 18-year-old stabbed to death in attacks in Stratford and Camberwell
Two teenagers have been fatally stabbed within hours of each other in London.
A 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death outside a busy shopping centre in Stratford, east London, shortly after 3pm on Thursday.
Continue reading...Woman who fled country is a suspect in relation to a collision that killed Harry Dunn, 19
Police chiefs have written to the US embassy in London to demand immunity is waived for an American diplomat’s wife who is a suspect in relation to a fatal road crash.
Nick Adderley, chief constable for Northamptonshire police, said US authorities had been appealed to in “the strongest terms” to apply a waiver and “allow the justice process to take place”.
Continue reading...The Met had vowed not to shy from historical sex abuse after the Jimmy Saville scandal
The revelations about the Jimmy Savile scandal in 2012, and how the popular entertainer abused hundreds with the authorities ignoring concerns about him, created a shockwave.
Continue reading...Belfast prosecutors considering action against ‘Stakeknife’ and his British army handlers
A police inquiry into one of the biggest spy scandals in the history of British intelligence has recommended that more than 20 people including senior security force personnel and ex-IRA members be considered for prosecution, the Guardian has learned.
Operation Kenova, the multimillion-pound investigation into “Stakeknife” – the army agent at the heart of the IRA during the Northern Ireland Troubles – has now sent files identifying military commanders and at least one IRA veteran with a so-called “get-out-of-jail” card to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) in Belfast.
Continue reading...Who was the mastermind? Who were the ones who got away? And why do we still want to know? Nearly 60 years after the Great Train Robbery, fresh claims are being made about who planned it and who were the robbers who were never caught. Never mind whodunnits; there’s now a genre of whoreallydunnits.
A book published this week, written by a former British Transport police detective with the help of one of the robbers, will claim that the mastermind of the heist was the late gangster Billy Hill, and that one of the team who got away with it was a relative of an Arsenal and England football player. It will also suggest that the person named recently as the “real” inside man was, in fact, a blameless postman. Already some of the new claims are being challenged by relatives of the men named.
Continue reading...The pair, both believed to be in their 20s, were found at an address in Ilford
Two men are in a critical condition following a shooting incident in east London.
Police were called to reports of shots fired in Courtland Avenue, in Ilford, at 12.06am on Saturday. Armed officers and ambulance crews found two men suffering from gunshot injuries, Scotland Yard said.
Continue reading...Toyota has seen a 2,000% rise in demand for parts for models that contain precious metals
An explosion in thefts of catalytic converters from hybrid cars has left hundreds of owners of the vehicles unable to drive them because of a shortage of replacement parts, the Guardian has learned.
Criminal gangs are believed to be targeting easily identifiable models such as the Toyota Prius and Lexus 400h, because hybrids contain more precious metals than other vehicles.
Continue reading...Gadget entangles suspects in fibre and billed by US maker as painless alternative to Taser
A Spider-Man-like gadget that brings suspects to a halt by entangling them in cord fired from a hand-held device could be adapted for use by UK police.
The US-made BolaWrap 100 restraint, which is being demonstrated to forces in the UK this week, is billed as an alternative in some situations to the Taser stun gun.
Continue reading...The victim was found in the Kingstanding area in the north of the city at 7am on Saturday
A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a fatal stabbing in Birmingham.
West Midlands police opened a murder investigation after a man aged in his 30s was found in Cooksey Lane, Kingstanding, shortly before 7am on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Continue reading...We learn to lie as children, between the ages of two and five. By adulthood, we are prolific. We lie to our employers, our partners and, most of all, one study has found, to our mothers. The average person hears up to 200 lies a day, according to research by Jerry Jellison, a psychologist at the University of Southern California. The majority of the lies we tell are “white”, the inconsequential niceties – “I love your dress!” – that grease the wheels of human interaction. But most people tell one or two “big” lies a day, says Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire. We lie to promote ourselves, protect ourselves and to hurt or avoid hurting others.
The mystery is how we keep getting away with it. Our bodies expose us in every way. Hearts race, sweat drips and micro-expressions leak from small muscles in the face. We stutter, stall and make Freudian slips. “No mortal can keep a secret,” wrote the psychoanalyst in 1905. “If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
Continue reading...Holidaymaker died during a robbery in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Masked gunmen have shot dead a 71-year-old British holidaymaker in a robbery in the Turks and Caicos Islands, police have said.
The victim had been visiting a friend in the British territory, about 150 miles (200km) north of Haiti, when two assailants burst into the home shortly after 11pm on Tuesday local time.
Continue reading...The National Police Chiefs’ Council seeks recommendations to protect frontline staff
Police chiefs are to carry out an urgent review into the safety of officers. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) commissioned the inquiry on behalf of all chief constables when they met on Monday to discuss the rise in attacks on officers and the latest string of serious incidents.
The move comes after the death of PC Andrew Harper on 15 August, who died while responding to a burglary in Berkshire.
Continue reading...Children tell charity workers of being knocked into the water as attempts to reach UK from France increase
Smugglers are cramming up to 30 people on to small boats to cross the Channel from France to the UK, and children have been among those who have recently fallen overboard, campaigners have revealed.
As crossing attempts surge at the close of summer amid rumours that Brexit will mean tighter border restrictions, criminal gangs are loading inflatable boats up to five times their capacity. Previously, people smugglers would put about eight passengers on each vessel.
Continue reading...Met police said man in his 30s arrested on suspicion of murder after incident in Southall
A man in his 60s has been stabbed to death in west London. The Metropolitan police said a man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the incident on Saturday evening in Southall.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene in St Mary’s Avenue and his family has been informed. The arrested man is in hospital where he is under police guard and being treated for minor injuries.
Continue reading...Victim, believed to be a loyalist, found in car in village of Waringstown
A man has been shot dead at a petrol station in County Down, police have said.
The shooting took place on Main Street in the village of Waringstown on Monday night.
Continue reading...Killer’s identity not known, say police, as ‘devastated’ family raise funds to bring body home
A British woman has died in Barbados after being doused with a flammable substance and set alight as she lay in bed.
The family of Luton-born Natalie Crichlow said they were “shocked and devastated” by her death.
Continue reading...Large police cordon in place and murder inquiry launched after latest attack in north-west London
A 16-year-old boy has died after a stabbing in north-west London.
The Metropolitan police were called to Munster Square in Camden, close to Regent’s Park, at about 11.10pm on Monday. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, with paramedics in attendance.
Continue reading...Victim, aged 49, died at the scene in Widnes, say police
A man has died after being stabbed in an attack outside a Cheshire pub.
Police were called to reports of a serious assault near the Hammer and Pincers pub in Widnes at 3.20pm on Sunday. A 49-year-old man was found with serious stab wounds and died at the scene, police said.
Continue reading...Prime minister also announced creation of 10,000 more prison places at a cost of £2.5bn
Boris Johnson has said he is determined to tackle rising levels of knife crime by announcing an extension of police stop-and-search powers.
At the same time, the prime minister announced the government would be investing £2.5bn in creating 10,000 new prison places to ensure serious violent and sexual offenders got the sentence they deserved.
Continue reading...UK police have updated family of 29-year-old Joel Eldridge about the development
Portuguese police investigating the disappearance of a man from East Sussex have discovered a body.
Joel Eldridge, 29, from Bexhill, was living in Macieira, near Serta in Portugal, when his family last heard from him in mid-July last year.
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