Database of Fleet Street deals with investigator may be as damaging as hacking scandal. The full details of the 2003 “Operation Motorman” inquiry into Fleet Street’s widespread use of a private investigator could be published following a request from the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham. In a proactive move that would sideline the current restrictions of [...]
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Apr 2012
Publication of Motorman files could go ahead
April 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Apr 2012
Appeal for calm after ten-year-old girl attacked
April 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
POLICE last night appealed for calm after tensions ran high on a housing estate where a ten-year-old girl was found with serious head injuries. A huge police search operation was launched after the youngster went missing from her home in Stockton on Tees on Saturday. A 16-year-old boy was arrested yesterday in connection with the attack. The [...]
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Apr 2012
Crime boss held in Amsterdam
April 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
One of Britain’s most wanted crime bosses has been captured in the Netherlands. Kirk Bradley, who had been on the run since fleeing a Manchester prison van in July, was arrested with his uncle in Amsterdam on Wednesday, the Serious Organised Crime Agency said. He is expected to be returned to the UK to serve [...]
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Apr 2012
Appeal date set in Melsonby murder case
April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A POSTMASTER’S appeal against his conviction for murdering his wife will be heard next month. Robin Garbutt, 46, formerly of York and Haxby, was found guilty last April of bludgeoning his wife, former Selby woman Diana Garbutt, to death at their home at Melsonby Post Office, near Richmond, in 2010. He was told he must serve a minimum [...]
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Apr 2012
Calls for ‘dead laws’ to be repealed
April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
More than 800 dead laws, some of which date back to the 14th century, should be swept away in a bid to clear up the statute book, a report said today. The oldest, from around 1322, regulated how animals should be taken to pay the king’s debts, including details on how they should be fed, [...]
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Apr 2012
Businessman murdered by wife and daughter for cash
April 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The daughter of a retired businessman who disappeared without trace had made detailed notes describing how she had killed a man and hidden the body in a car, it emerged yesterday. Lynette Banfield, 40, and her mother Shirley, 64, were both jailed for life after a jury convicted them of murdering Donald Banfield, 63. The [...]
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Mar 2012
Paedophiles can “groom” children for sex through the internet in as little as eight minutes, a British study has concluded. In a new warning for parents, criminologists discovered that online predators are exploiting an array of techniques to “break the ice” with children aged as young as 12. The Middlesex University, London, study found that [...]
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Mar 2012
A cash-strapped police force are recruiting five spin doctors – at a cost of £140,500 – whilst axing 500 front line officers. Sussex Police say they need to spend the money on the posts within the press office to maintain their ‘popular website’, teach officers to use Twitter and sell the idea of cuts to [...]
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Mar 2012
New Claudia Lawrence TV appeal sparks 8 calls
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
CRIMEWATCH received eight calls following their renewed appeal for information about the disappearance of York chef Claudia Lawrence. The BBC programme repeated its previous appeal last night, as police continue to seek information about the case. North Yorkshire Police also received one call directly, and a force spokeswoman said all the calls would be “fed [...]
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Mar 2012
End of ‘bobby on the beat’ as third of police stations close
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A third of police stations have closed or are set to close, most of them in small towns and villages. Hundreds of thousands of residents living in rural areas will soon be left without a local station and will have to report crimes to officers based miles away. A survey by the Sunday Telegraph of [...]
