A FIFTH family has contacted detectives trying to solve one of North Yorkshire’s most famous mysteries. Police revealed the new lead today, as they prepare to begin digging up the woman’s remains in a new attempt to finally identify her. Officers have been granted permission to exhume the woman’s body at Malton Cemetery in order to extract [...]
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Jan 2012
Fifth new lead in “nude in the nettles” case
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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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
Knife crime rises fast as muggers target gadgets
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A surge in the number of murders and knifepoint muggings overshadowed yesterday’s release of crime figures that showed the number of offences is falling. The total number of offences reported to police fell by 4 per cent to 4.1 million in the year to the end of September – but violent attacks increased. More than [...]
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Jan 2012
Reinvented serious crime squad could lose staff
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The setting up of the NCA is described as the most radical change to policing in 50 years. The new organisation set up during a major overhaul of British policing to tackle the country’s most dangerous gangs will probably lose some of the staff currently fighting serious organised crime, its new head said yesterday. Keith [...]
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Jan 2012
Police to exhume ‘nude in the nettles’ body
January 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
Police investigating an infamous unsolved mystery are to exhume the remains of an unidentified woman whose body was found at a beauty spot more than three decades ago. Detectives at North Yorkshire Police have been given permission to disinter a woman whose naked body was discovered at a roadside in 1981 in what became known [...]
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Dec 2011
One in five bag thefts now occur on public transport
December 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
One in five bag snatches and pickpocket crimes now occur on public transport, figures show. Buses, trains and tubes are now the most popular target for thieves for the first time since crime surveys began. It has overtaken shops and supermarkets or in the street, which have previously been more popular. Theft from the person [...]
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Dec 2011
Claudia Lawrence’s father backs new policy
December 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The father of Claudia Lawrence, the York woman who disappeared in 2009, is backing a new move aimed at supporting the families of missing people. The Government has said every police force should ensure families are automatically signposted to support services when their loved ones go missing. Home Office Minister James Brokenshire said it was [...]
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Nov 2011
Future gang members ‘can be spotted at age three’
November 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Children as young as three can be identified as violent gang members of the future, according to a new Government report. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, unveiled plans to cut off gang violence at the root by intervening in “problem families” from the moment children are born. A new Home Office report said the beginnings [...]
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Oct 2011
Foreign drug dealer twice wins right to stay in Britain
October 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A violent foreign drug dealer who avoided deportation because of his “right to family life” went on to reoffend – and to win a second legal battle to stay in Britain. Gary Ellis, 23, could have been sent home to Jamaica after his first jail term for drug offences, but he persuaded judges that he [...]
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Jul 2011
Fingerprints Explained
July 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
It is widely known that the likelihood of two people having matching sets of fingerprints is many millions to one, therefore this makes fingerprints an effective and economic way of detecting crime. The tried and tested method of detecting crime is by speaking to people using classical methods of assessing and evaluating what they have [...]
