Ria Chatterjee

Jagtar Singh Johal was arrested on 4 November 2017, in the city of Jalandhar in the north Indian state of Punjab. Mr Singh Johal’s family has always maintained that he was an online activist highlighting the persecution of Sikh communities in India.

Two days after Met officer Martyn Blake was cleared of murdering Chris Kaba, the Home Secretary has announced a raft of measures aimed at restoring accountability and trust in the police. 

New details can now be reported about Chris Kaba – who was shot dead by a police marksman – alleging he was a ‘core member’ of one of the country’s most dangerous criminal gangs.

The officer who fired the shot that hit Chris Kaba in the head said he believed he and other officers were in mortal danger. 

The police marksman who shot Chris Kaba has told a jury he did not intend to kill him when he opened fire.

A Metropolitan police officer on trial accused of murdering Chris Kaba has spoken for the first time in court today.

A 36 year old woman from Essex has been jailed for life for the murder of her own parents. Virginia McCullough had been living with the bodies of her dead father John and her mother Lois – for the past four years, and their remains were only just discovered. A warning, this report includes some…

Thousands of people gathered in Hyde Park in London earlier to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks.

In the UK, tens of thousands of protesters have marched through central London, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the violence in Lebanon.

Prosecutors have told the Old Bailey that the moment a police marksman opened fire, fatally shooting Chris Kaba – there had been no imminent danger to officers surrounding his car.

Britain’s youngest knife murderers have been sentenced to a minimum of eight and a half years in youth detention, for a random machete attack on a teenager.

The social ills that underpin knife crime whirl and tumble within a vicious cycle that has consumed mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and an endless stream of loved ones.

Sentencing is underway for two 12-year-old boys from Wolverhampton convicted of murdering a teenager in a random machete attack.

The Home Secretary has pledged to halve knife crime in a decade. A ban on machetes and so-called zombie knives came into force in England and Wales today.

Storm Boris has already swept across Central Europe, dumping five times the average rainfall for a month, submerging entire neighbourhoods and killing 24 people. Now Italy is feeling the fury of this low pressure system.