The brother of Daniel Morgan has accused Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick of putting ‘every possible obstacle’ in the path of progress into the investigation of the 1987 murder and called for her to resign. Alastair Morgan was speaking in the aftermath of the long-awaited report into the unsolved murder of his brother, private detective […] […]
Two police staff members have been served misconduct notices over alleged failings in the investigation into the disappearance of Richard Okorogheye. Richard went missing after leaving his family home in Ladbroke Grove, west London, on March 22 this year. The 19-year-old had sickle cell disease and had been shielding during the pandemic. Richard’s body was […] […]
A police chief has apologised “unreservedly” for failings by Greater Manchester Police in the emergency services response to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling gave evidence at the public inquiry into the attack, which killed 22 people. He began by offering condolences to those affected by the events which took place […] […]
Sarah Everard’s murderer Pc Wayne Couzens has been linked to an alleged indecent exposure incident as far back as 2015, according to the police watchdog. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched an investigation into alleged failures by Kent Police to investigate. A probe is also ongoing into alleged failures by the Metropolitan […] […]
Wayne Couzens kidnapped Sarah Everard in a hire car as she walked home alone from a friend’s house and went on to rape and strangle the 33-year-old marketing executive. Couzens kidnapped Ms Everard in a hire car as she walked home alone from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, in March. The 48-year-old firearms-trained […] […]
During her career, Cressida Dick, Britain’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has repeatedly escaped full accountability over her role in controversial cases. One murky episode is her time in the ‘Foreign Office’, understood to really mean MI6. There is something very curious about Cressida Dick, something that has protected her, Teflon-like, from criticism and allowed her to […] […]
The brother of Daniel Morgan, the private detective murdered in South London in 1987, has told London Assembly Members that “the Metropolitan Police have colonised my life for three-and-a-half decades” during which he has sought explanations for the failure to secure a conviction for the killing. Alastair Morgan, appearing before the Assembly’s police and crime […] […]
A gross misconduct hearing is to be held following allegations a former police officer “harassed” his neighbours. The case of former Pc Valmeekee Singh, who was attached to the Met’s north east borough command covering Newham, is due to be heard from July 12. It is alleged ex-Pc Singh “harassed his neighbours both verbally and via text”, sending […] […]
An inquiry into the murder of a pensioner whose body was dismembered has said police missed opportunities to safeguard him. Graham Snell is thought to have been killed a day after he visited a police station to tell officers that Daniel Walsh was staying at his home uninvited and had stolen cash from his bank […] […]
An ex-Lancashire police officer and current serving Magistrate, who went on to become the Chairman of a Blood Bike charity has finally been exposed, by […]
former police community support officer who stored a makeshift explosive device and potentially dangerous chemicals at her home has been jailed for 27 months. Zoe Watts was dismissed as a staff member at Lincolnshire Police last December, two months after being arrested in a raid which saw bomb disposal officers called to her three-bed semi-detached […] […]
A leading Telford councillor has called on the Home Secretary to introduce more rigorous police recruitment procedures after a West Mercia Police constable was jailed for killing football star Dalian Atkinson. Telford & Wrekin’s Councillor Kuldip Sahota, a recent candidate in the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner elections, described Pc Benjamin Monk as a […] […]
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