A Greater Manchester Police firearms officer who was sentenced for animal cruelty after punching a puppy is not suspended but will now be subject to an […]
A British news documentary questions whether police in London halted their sex trafficking investigation against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell because of their friendship with the queen’s son A former U.K. prosecutor and a human rights attorney agree in a new documentary that London police probably passed on fully investigating the alleged sex trafficking crimes […] […]
he police constable convicted of the manslaughter of Dalian Atkinson was found guilty of gross misconduct before he killed the football star, after failing to mention two cautions on his application to join the force. Birmingham Crown Court was told Benjamin Monk kept his job with West Mercia Police in 2011 after being found to […] […]
English police have refused a request by the family of Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly accused of the Guildford pub bombings, for a fresh investigation. The Guildford Four, which included Mr Conlon, Paul Hill, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson, were falsely accused of two pub bombings in Guildford in October 1974 that killed four British […] […]
A police officer hit a man in the face and then lied to her colleagues about it, an internal misconduct hearing has ruled. The constable committed the act of violence when she was off duty in December 2019. She resigned from Leicestershire Police before the force was able to bring the matter to a misconduct […] […]
A man has died after police fired gun shots at a property in Milton Keynes where a second man was found dead and a young child seriously injured. Thames Valley Police (TVP) said in a statement officers were called to an address in Denmead, Two Mile Ash, at about 9.40am on Saturday and made a […] […]
On 15 August 2016, ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson died as a result of excessive use of force by police. West Mercia officers shot Atkinson with a taser, beat him, and kicked him in the head. On 23 June, the court found PC Benjamin Monk guilty of the manslaughter of Atkinson. According to INQUEST, this is the first time in […] […]
More than 200 police officers in the UK have been caught breaching coronavirus restrictions during the pandemic according to data released under the Freedom of Information Act. One police constable failed to self-isolate despite having Covid-19 symptoms, while several officers were fined for attending parties and other events that broke lockdown rules, according to figures […] […]
West Mercia’s police and crime commissioner says the conviction of a serving police officer for the manslaughter of Dalian Atkinson cannot draw a line under the case. John Campion was speaking after Benjamin Monk, a West Mercia Police officer, was convicted of the manslaughter of the former Premier League star. A jury failed to reach […] […]
An off-duty police officer who left a pensioner a double amputee after hitting her with his car has been fined £1,800. PC Luigi Vezza, 55, struck Alice Sheppard, 78, as she crossed a road in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire. She had been walking to visit her son when she was struck by Vezza. The impact sent her over […] […]
Cherelle Ying, 35, conspired with her her former partner 42-year-old Derrick Dixon to supply drugs. Ying, who had been employed by West Midlands Police since March 2008 and was based at Nechells police station, was found guilty of conspiring to supply Class B drugs at Birmingham Crown Court on June 24. Ying, of Grindleford Road, […] […]
Young victims and survivors of child sexual abuse are often accused of lying when trying to report the abuse to police, a report from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has revealed. Police and other professionals were also said to be dismissive of peer-on-peer abuse, with a tendency to label it as ‘domestic’ or […] […]
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