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Discuss| Showing page 1 of 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next » | Last update: Sunday 22nd November |
| Police have launched an investigation into allegations of racist behaviour at a BNP festival. Derbyshire Police launched a probe into claims made by a Sunday newspaper that an undercover reporter witnessed the behaviour at the party’s Red, White and Blue festival in Codnor. The newspaper claims to have filmed members of the party burning a golly doll at the event. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 27 August 2009 |
| Nearly 500 criminal cases in Cheshire East have ended with an apology from offender to victim, thanks to the restorative justice programme. Cheshire Constabulary says this new approach to dealing with minor crimes has been very successful, allowing victims to gain closure and enabling offenders to address their criminal actions. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 31 July 2009 |
| Hundreds of innocent people have been branded criminals after errors by the Criminal Records Bureau more than doubled in a year. A total of 1,570 people, in the 12 months to 31 March had a criminal record wrongly attributed to them, were accused of offences more serious than those they had committed or were wrongly given a clean record. In the previous year the bureau, an agency of the Home Office, made 680 mistakes according to official figures. | |
| Crime | Salvationist- August 2009 |
| A gang of youths hurled a bottle of alcoholic drink through an ambulance window while medics were treating an elderly woman. Glass and the remains of the drink, hit the crew and their 70-year old patient in the incident near Banknock in Stirlingshire. The patient was taken onto the Stirling Royal Infirmary in another ambulance. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 10 August 2009 |
| The Mexican Government has apologised after police burst into a parish and interrupted Mass to arrest drug-cartel suspects. The incident happened in the western state of Michoacan. A statement from the Secretariat of Public Security apologised to the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Miguel Patino Velazquez of Apatzingan and the faithful “for the circumstances in which the operation had to be carried out”. The statement said that the raid in an Apatzingan parish was undertaken to avoid gunfire and a “violent incident”. The police operation resulted in the arrests of 33 alleged members of a cartel known as La Familia Michoacana and the seizure of cash, weapons, grenades and luxury vehicles. | |
| Crime | The Universe- August 2009 |
| A programme to tackle teenage knife crime has seen no reduction in the number of killings. The Tackling Knives Action Programme launched in 10 police areas in July last year, saw a 17% reduction in knife-related violence against under-20s. However, the number of under-20s killed by knives did not change. There were 23 deaths during the time of the scheme, the same as last year. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 22 July 2009 |
| Police forces and councils need to tell the public more about what they are doing to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. That is the view of Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s neighbourhood justice co-ordinator Graeme Drayton, who has urged the authority to help make residents feel safer in their communities by telling them about local successes in the fight against crime. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 7 July 2009 |
| Nearly half a million pounds fraudulently claimed in benefits is being recovered. Figures released by Stoke-on-Trent City Council show £472,356 in overpaid benefits currently being repaid to the council following work by the Benefit Investigation Team. In total, 95 benefit cheats were sanctioned and 40 prosecuted following investigations during the last financial year. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 22 June 2009 |
| A church in Belfast gave overnight shelter to more than 100 Romanian migrants who fled their homes in the Lisburn Road area of the city after suffering racist attacks. The pastor, Malcolm Morgan, said that he was ready to help. ‘It’s a sad indictment of our society... but hopefully we can show them a caring side to Northern Ireland’, he added. Anna Lo of the Alliance Party said the attacks on the Romanians’ homes – which included bricks being thrown through windows, had been going on for almost a week. The Romanians were later taken to other temporary accommodation. | |
| Crime | War Cry- June 2009 |
| A suspected stolen Stradivarius violin worth millions has been discovered for sale online for £13,000. Police in eastern Romania said a 43-year-old man trying to sell it was visited by undercover officers posing as customers. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 4 June 2009 |
| Nine people have been arrested by police investigating a gang who made hundreds of thousands of pounds in commission by buying their own music online with stolen credit cards. Detectives from the Met Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) raided properties in London and the Midlands, including Birmingham and Wolverhampton, as part of the operation. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 11 June 2009 |
| War crimes suspects who come to the UK are escaping justice because of “legal loopholes”, according to a report by the Aegis Trust. The report, which calls for changes in the law, names Felicien Kabuga - who is accused of financing the Rwandan genocide - and Liberian Chucky Taylor, who was convicted of torture in the U.S., as two who came to the UK and not brought before courts. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 16 June 2009 |
| Thieves have stolen priceless floor tiles from a Norfolk church in what is believed to be the first theft of its kind. The irreplaceable tiles – which have been in place for over 500 years – were taken from the entrance porch of the historic St Peter’s Church in Crostwick, near Norwich. The church is hidden from the road and discovered only by exploring the common on which it stands. The tiles are thought to date back to when the porch was built in 1504, with money bequeathed for that purpose. Some of the tiles were deliberately smashed so that others could be freed, so even those that have been left in the Grade 1 listed building have been ruined. Police believe that the tiles were stolen to order. | |
| Crime | Church of England- May 2009 |
| Prisoners smashing up their cells fuelled a prison maintenance bill of £320 million last year, a report revealed. In some jails, maintenance teams spent half their time fixing damage caused by inmates, auditors found. The National Audit Office said vandalism was one of the principal causes of maintenance work, accounting for 75 per cent of unplanned maintenance at Stoke Heath Young Offenders Institution, in Shropshire. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 21 May 2009 |
| Criminal assets confiscated by forces and other asset recovery agencies between October and December 2008 totalled £31.8 million, nationally. Half that sum is to be shared between police, prosecutors, courts and other agencies. A total of £5.5 million will be given to the 43 police forces in England and Wales, compared with £5.14 million paid out in the same quarter last year. Staffordshire will receive £96,905.31 while Cheshire Police will be given £207,564.25. Since the Proceeds of Crime Act came into effect in 2003, £530.5 million has been seized. An incentive scheme introduced in 2006 allows the police and recovery agencies to retain half of all cash they seize from criminals. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - April 15 2009 |
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