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Liverpool EchoM62 police stunned to discover what 'broken down' driver was doing
Police spotted the Audi on the motorway
- The Guardian
Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it?
A devoted father with a zest for life, he was given an indeterminate sentence in 2006. He is still locked up – and losing hope that he will ever be released
- The Independent
Police in violence-hit Indian state led women to mob which stripped and raped them, probe agency finds
Two women and a man, fleeing the violence, sat inside a police vehicle, begging officials to drive them to safety but they drove them to the mob instead, CBI finds
- The Independent
Hainault stabbing: Everything we know as man with sword arrested and five in hospital
A 14-year-old boy was killed and four others were hospitalised after a man wielding a sword attacked them near a London tube station
- Glasgow Live
Man battered for bully dog worth £3,000 jailed for a year for picking up knife
Martin Templeton was attacked by a man with a hammer and another would-be thief with a knife in Motherwell. The court heard he picked the blade up 'for less than a minute' after fighting them off.
- Bromley News Shopper
Man tried to throw woman onto New Eltham train tracks after ‘Nigerian feet’ comments
Matthew Griffin was jailed after he tried to throw a woman onto the train tracks at New Eltham station.
- Evening Standard
Two men charged over felling of beloved Sycamore Gap tree
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, are due in court next month
- The Telegraph
‘I fled to Ireland from Britain to avoid being deported to Rwanda’
Home for Abdul Mhammed, a 20-year-old Channel migrant from Sudan, is a blue tent with frayed edges in an encampment that has sprouted up around the main asylum office in the heart of Dublin.
- Evening Standard
This London borough has the most mobile phone thefts
Metropolitan Police data highlights boroughs with the highest number of incidents
- York Press
Appeal to find two women after theft in North Yorkshire
POLICE are trying to trace two women after a theft from One Below in Selby.
- Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh police release CCTV of man following city centre street attack
Police have launched a public appeal following the incident which took place on Friday, March 22, at around 5pm on Grassmarket, near Victoria Street.
- PA Media: UK News
Police officer who faced sword attacker suffered ‘horrifically serious’ injuries
A 36-year-old suspect remains in hospital after a 14-year-old boy was killed and four other people were injured in Hainault, east London.
- Evening Standard
Hainault sword attack: Boy, 14, dies and four others injured in rampage
A man, 36, was arrested after multiple people were stabbed after a van was driven into a building in a suburban street
- Manchester Evening News
Heartless teen stopped people trying to save boy, 13, after inflicting fatal injuries on him in 'abhorrent' scenes
A drunk driver hit and killed 13-year-old Kaylan Hippsley in February
- PA Media: UK News
Case dropped against ‘traumatised’ former senior officer Novlett Robyn Williams
Novlett Robyn Williams was accused of failing repeatedly to comply with her sex offender notification requirements.
- Echo
IN PHOTOS: Chop shop with stolen cars and bikes uncovered in south Essex
Essex Police's stolen vehicle intelligence unit were led to the chop shop in the Billericay area following a tracker activation in Blind Lane on Saturday
- Manchester Evening News
Children who lay by dying mother after she was stabbed by ex-partner tell murderer they hate him as he's jailed for life
Obert Moyo has been sentenced for the murder of Perseverance Ncube
- The Telegraph
How ‘desperate screams’ woke quiet neighbourhood to swordsman’s bloody rampage
Shortly before 7am, residents of the quiet north-east London neighbourhood of Hainault were awoken by a series of piercing screams and the sound of a van crashing into a home.
- My London
Four men jailed for murder after woman lured victim by telling him she wanted to buy drugs
The killers lured him to the scene on the premise of a drug deal. The group was imprisoned for a total of 89 years
- The Independent
Man jailed for stabbing his teenage wife to death at their Croydon home
Sahil Sharma phoned 999 to inform police that he had killed his wife