Five years after she vanished in Portugal, Scotland Yard insist that the hunt for Madeleine McCann is far from over. But is there really any hope? It is, said the detective, like a school photo that any parent or grandparent would put up at home for everyone to see. With her shoulder-length hair and gentle [...]
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Apr 2012
Madeleine McCann: Unfinished business
April 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Apr 2012
Spanish police have begun searching for Madeleine McCann in a Costa del Sol holiday resort, it has emerged. Detectives are making inquiries in Nerja after a tip-off from colleagues in Portugal. Portuguese police are understood to have received information from an informant about a Madeleine McCann lookalike spotted in the town near Malaga. Officers from a specialist [...]
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Apr 2012
A judge has praised police for their “dogged pursuit” of an Estonian gang who took low-cost flights to Britain to carry out armed robberies on jewellers. The jailing of Janno Heinola, 33, for nine years ended a seven-year operation in which eight men have been locked up for a total of 82 years. West Yorkshire [...]
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Mar 2012
Shooting suspect besieged by police in Toulouse
March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
French police officers have exchanged gunfire and are negotiating with a man who claims connections to al-Qa’ida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in three attacks. French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said three police officers have been injured in the raid on a house in the southern city of Toulouse. [...]
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Jan 2012
Bigamist wins ‘family life’ human rights case
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A foreign drug-dealing bigamist has won the right to stay in Britain because of his human right to “family life”. Home Office lawyers hoped the deportation of foreign criminal Taoufik Didi would be an open-and-shut case. He had been sentenced to three years in prison for selling cocaine to undercover police officers, and so exceeded [...]
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Jan 2012
Senior policeman blasts Britain’s ‘Only Fools and Horses’ culture
January 10, 2012 By 2 Comments
A senior detective attacked Britain’s ‘Only Fools and Horses’ culture today after a gang was found guilty of running a fake goods empire worth tens of millions of pounds. Detective Superintendent Dave Clark warned the public to shun market ‘knock-offs’ as four men face jail after attempting to flood the country with counterfeit products. Zoheir [...]
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Jan 2012
Serial killer ‘targeting the homeless’, police warn
January 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Police and advocates have warned homeless people not to sleep alone on US streets because a serial killer has already killed three homeless men. The US Orange County Rescue Mission is handing out flashlights and whistles to the homeless, in an effort to help them protect themselves, said Jim Palmer, the group’s president. Mr Palmer’s group is [...]
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Dec 2011
Pakistani student held over ‘terror document’
December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A Pakistani student was being questioned by detectives last night after he was arrested at Birmingham airport on suspicion of terror offences. The 22-year-old had arrived in the UK on a flight from Dubai and was held on suspicion of being in possession of a document likely to be of use to a person committing [...]
