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Drugs smuggler ordered to pay £2.6m

By on Saturday, February 18th, 2012 | No Comments

A drugs gang “Mr Big” who smuggled £25 million of cannabis into the UK from Holland in lorry loads of flowers has been ordered to pay £2.6 million. David Barnes, 42, who is serving a 12-year jail term for plotting to supply cannabis, has six months to pay up or face an extra eight years’ [...]

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British men forced into ‘modern slavery’ abroad

By on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

Criminal elements of the British and Irish travelling community have been transporting vulnerable British men abroad to work as virtual slaves. An investigation by the BBC Ten O’Clock News and Radio 5 Live Breakfast has uncovered at least 32 victims. The European Commission describes it as modern slavery and says this is the tip of [...]

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Bigamist wins ‘family life’ human rights case

By on Monday, January 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

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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Senior policeman blasts Britain’s ‘Only Fools and Horses’ culture

By on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | 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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Serial killer ‘targeting the homeless’, police warn

By on Friday, January 6th, 2012 | No Comments

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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Pakistani student held over ‘terror document’

By on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | No Comments

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 [...]

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Fake goods save money but at what cost?

By on Monday, December 19th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Tempted to buy a bottle of luxury brand perfume or aftershave at a bargain price from a street vendor? Think again – the smell might be similar to the one being sold in an established outlet, but the liquid providing the base is usually urine. “They use horse urine,” says David McKelvey, from counterfeit and [...]

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Missing British boy’s family given new hope with DNA victory

By on Saturday, December 17th, 2011 | No Comments

The family of a British toddler who went missing 20 years ago have won a High Court battle to have his DNA released in a new attempt to trace him. Ben Needham disappeared in July 1991 when he was just 21 months old on the Greek island of Kos, where his mother Kerry, then aged [...]

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Police probe Spanish link in Madeleine McCann case

By on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 | No Comments

SCOTLAND Yard detectives have flown to Barcelona to probe a theory that Madeleine McCann was taken to the Spanish resort. The move follows a review of the four-year-old case, triggered by an emotional plea from the abducted girl’s parents Kate and Gerry in The Sun. A sighting of a suspicious Victoria Beckham lookalike in Spain [...]

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Four granted new trials in racially motivated rape/torture murders

By on Friday, December 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

It’s known as the Knoxville Horror, one of the most gruesome racially motivated killings in US history. In January of 2007, a young white couple was on a date in Knoxville, Tennessee. Their names were Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23. They were attacked by three black males. Newsom was gang [...]

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