THE husband of a North Yorkshire postmistress will appear in court today charged with her murder. Robin Garbutt, 44, is accused of killing Diana Garbutt, 40, at their village post office in Melsonby, near Richmond, last month. Police said he would appear before Northallerton Magistrates this morning. Mr Garbutt lived and worked in York until [...]
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Apr 2010
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Apr 2010
The Daily Telegraph today reports that the police watchdog has been criticised for using retired officers to investigate complaints against their old colleagues in a critical MPs report. I have a couple of issues here. Firstly, who better to investigate the alleged wrong doings of the police than ex-police officers who are aware of all [...]
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Apr 2010
Fury as hundreds of rapists ‘escape jail with a caution’
April 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
According to today’s Telegraph; “Hundreds of self-confessed sex offenders were cautioned over the past five years in one police force area alone, figures show, prompting fury from child abuse campaigners”. I personally find the whole idea of this quite appalling. The system of cautioning people for offences, as far as I am concerned was introduced to [...]
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Apr 2010
“A murderer in prison for killing three people with a machinegun is to claim compensation after prison staff allegedly wrote false entries on his files”. This makes me laugh how this ‘outlaw’ can use the law for which he apparently has so much disregard in order to defend his ‘rights’. Rights he never afforded to [...]
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Apr 2010
POLICE investigating the murder of a North Yorkshire postmistress have begin interviewing drivers of vans as they follow up a potential key line of inquiry. Former York woman Diana Garbutt, 40, was found dead in the upstairs living room of the shop and post office in Melsonby, near Richmond, last week. Her husband, Robin, 44, [...]
