Simon Israel

Some were deported, some lost their homes and jobs. Now, the Home Office says it’s extending the deadline for responses to the planned Windrush compensation scheme, amid growing opposition to the proposal to cap awards. The daughter of one victim, Sarah O’Connor, whose funeral was last week, told this programme that the government failed her mother and…

PC Keith Palmer’s widow said her husband had been “left alone, unarmed, guarding an open gate”, saying the family now had to live with the consequences of Scotland Yard’s failure.

“I am sorry I was not vigilant enough”: the widow of Khalid Masood has apologised to his victims in last year’s Westminster Bridge terror attack, at the inquest into the deaths. Rohey Hydara said she had no idea what her husband had been planning, calling him ‘evil’. Masood’s mother also gave evidence about her son’s farewell visit days before…

Senior police officers have given a stark warning about what Britain’s departure from the EU could mean for public safety on our streets.

Marooned on a British army base for nearly 20 years. The future of five families from Sudan, Ethiopia, Syria and Iraq – 10 adults and 17 children, recognised as refugees – will be decided by the UK’s most senior judges.

Environmental protesters are claiming a moral victory after a High Court Judge said they were free to demonstrate at drilling sites across southern England. However, the UK Oil and Gas company welcomed the judge’s decision to prevent them from any activities that interfere with its business.

Relatives of a man from the Windrush generation – who died of heart failure while trying to prove his British citizenship – have stormed out of the inquest into his death today. 

Too many of Britain’s prisons are blighted by violence, poor safety and high levels of drug use – a situation, say ministers, which simply can’t go on. Today Prisons Minister Rory Stewart announced a £10m plan to curb the supply of drugs at ten of England’s “most challenging” jails. He called it a “back to…

Counter-terrorism officers are still questioning a 29-year-old British man who drove a small car into a security barrier in front of the Houses of Parliament early this morning, injuring pedestrians and cyclists. The police say the man, who’s not known to them, is not co-operating with the inquiry. Officers have been searching three properties in…

The family of a murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has begun a legal battle with the island’s Prime Minister for a public inquiry into her death.

More than a hundred education leaders are calling on the Home Secretary to reduce Britain’s child citizenship fees, which a campaign group says are the highest in Europe. At a thousand pounds per child, registration costs ten times more than in Spain, France and Sweden. The chief inspector of borders and immigration has launched a…

The Prince of Wales has written a letter expressing deep regrets over being deceived by a former bishop, a friend of his, who was convicted of historic child abuse. He described his remorse in a letter to an inquiry today. He also denied trying to influence a police investigation into the disgraced bishop, Peter Ball.…

The recent number of emotive cases involving children who are unable to get legal prescriptions for the cannabis derived medicines they need, prompted an outcry of public sympathy. Today, the Home Secretary Sajid Javid responded with the announcement that he’s relaxing the laws to allow medicinal cannabis to be made available on prescription. The decision…

The Home Secretary has apologised unreservedly to the family of a Windrush migrant and has offered to meet them. This programme has seen Sajid Javid’s letter on the day an inquest opened into Dexter Bristol’s death. He came to Britain from Grenada as a child in the 1960s. But he died jobless and fearing deportation,…

Figures released today show that the rates of murder, robbery and carrying knives have risen sharply. Alongside this is a decline in detection – only 9 per cent of crimes now result in either a charge or a summons. Please be warned – there are distressing images from the start of this report.