Missing toddler scandal rocks Britain

Posted on: December 23rd, 2009 Posted by Kate Welch

The 18-month-old baby of a woman who is under police investigation for immigration offences in Britain has caused massive public outcry, with police admitting that they have made a great mistake.
The child’s grandmother, 54-year-old Careworker Agatha Owsuah of London’s southern suburb of Peckham, should now be looking after the child after the mother was detained [...]

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Extradition for Cyprus death crash pair

Posted on: December 2nd, 2009 Posted by Adam Owens

The two cousins from Essex that were inside a car that hit and killed a teenage boy in Cyprus have been extradited to a Cypriot prison.
Luke Atkinson and Michael Binnington, both from Whitlam, were transported to Heathrow Airport before being flown to Cyprus. There they will serve jail terms for manslaughter. The pair had last [...]

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In what has been compared to a Clockwork Orange-style sexual attack, a British couple have been terrorised, drugged and raped on the resort island of Koh Chang.
The unnamed couple, one a government employee and the other a businessman, had decided on the Thai holiday island as the end of their one year sabbatical holiday. They [...]

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Military-style unmanned drone aircraft could soon be seen in the ranks of the UK police force as the fight against drug smugglers and illegal immigrants continues along Britain’s coastline.
The drones or Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS) have been employed by British armed forces in order to monitor enemy action in Afghanistan. The new proposal would see [...]

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Japanese police have released images of what they believe the wanted Tatsuya Ichihashi now looks like after he had plastic surgery to change his appearance to avoid capture.
Ichihashi is the wanted for the murder of expat Lindsay Ann Hawker, the teacher who was found in his Chiba apartment tied and naked in a bathtub filled [...]

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Millions of dollars worth of equipment and cash seized by the government from criminal activity is being put back into the community thanks to the new Community Cashback Scheme.
The scheme has allowed local people to have their say into how the assets are best put to use and has been rolled out by the government [...]

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In what was billed as the largest ever investigation into the practice of sex trafficking for the purposes of prostitution, the results have failed to identify a single individual who was forced into the practice.
The investigation was a collaborative effort by nationwide police, specialist agencies and various government departments and was carried out over a [...]

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A husband and wife have been sentenced to prison after attempting to smuggle cocaine into Britain via Manchester Airport.
Both individuals were believed to have concealed drugs internally and the man resisted arrest, attempting to assault an immigration official before trying to escape the airport while being detained.
Carmen Rodrigues-Angeles, 34, and her husband Mark Thornton, 48, [...]

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