An NGO has filed a lawsuit against French and British authorities over their failure to rescue 27 migrants who died in the English Channel last month
Utopia 56 files a complaint to the prosecutor of the Paris Judicial Court for manslaughter and failure to provide assistance,” the NGO said in a statement on Monday. The lawsuit targets a French Prefect, French rescue services CROSS Gris Nez, the UK Director of Her Majesty’s Coastguards as well as “any other perpetrator, co-perpetrator […]
A man has been sentenced for killing a 93-year-old grandmother at a residential care home in Catford
Alexander Rawson, 63 , was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Monday, 20 December to an indefinite hospital order Last month, a jury at the same court found that Rawson had attacked and killed Eileen Dean less than two weeks after he moved into the home in which she was living. Police were called at […]
Life imprisonment has been imposed on a convicted murderer who shot dead a man while he called 999 for help.L
A call operator heard David Hucker fire two shots at 43-year-old Robert Williamson, who called for assistance while the pair argued at a Dartford home in May 2021. Hucker, 69, a former firearms instructor with then City of London London of Dartford Road, Dartford, was charged with murder by the Kent and Essex Serious […]
Two charged over Kingston murder
A man and a teenage boy have been charged with the murder of Farhad Khalili in Kingston. Sean Deery, 27 (31.08.94) of no fixed address and a 15-year-old boy were charged today (Sunday, 19 December) They are due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 20 December. Police were called to Surbiton Road at […]
A serving Met Police officer has been charged with sexual communication with a child
PC Will Scott-Barrett, who is based in the Met’s Intelligence command, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 20 December. He was charged on Tuesday, 16 November following an investigation by the Met’s Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Command. The charge relates to an allegation made in February 2021, and relates to […]
Charges have been authorised against a man by officers investigating an incident involving a child in Sittingbourne
Harry Morris, 24, has been charged with child abduction and sexually assaulting a child under 13 years old. Mr Morris, of Peregrine Drive, Sittingbourne, was charged following an allegation that a man approached a girl in an alleyway off Rectory Road at around 8.15am on Wednesday 8 December 2021. After a […]
A man, reported to police after he was seen wearing T-shirts supporting proscribed terrorist groups, has been sentenced in relation to offences under the Terrorism Act
Feras Al Jayoosi, 34, of Swindon was observed on Tuesday, 8 and Wednesday, 9 June wearing two T-shirts in Golders Green in north London – one bearing the logo of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group, and the other with the Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades logo. Both are proscribed terrorist organisations. The sightings […]
Two men who attacked members of the public in Ramsgate have been jailed for a combined six and a half years
Michael Rowe, 26, and Aston Cocks, 28, left two victims injured following the assaults in King Street, Ramsgate in January 2020. Rowe, of St Anthony’s Way, Margate, was also subsequently charged with dealing heroin and cocaine following a separate investigation by Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team. At Canterbury Crown Court on 8 December […]
A 12-year-old girl who was attacked in Liverpool city centre died from a stab wound to her neck, an inquest has heard
Ava White was with friends at a Christmas lights switch-on when she was stabbed on 25 November. Senior Liverpool coroner Andre Rebello said she was then taken to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital where she died. The teenager 14, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with her murder and possessing a […]
A man is being sought by police in connection with a kidnapping
South Wales Police officers are looking for Benjamin Willie following the apparent abduction last year of a 20-year-old man from Cardiff.Police say the man was driven from Cardiff in a grey Audi Q5 with false number plates to a property in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.The incident happened between 11 and 12 December 2020, and the man […]
