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Man arrested after five people stabbed in London suburb
A man in his 30s has been arrested in north London over a series of random stabbings after a fifth person was knifed in the street early this morning, yards from the scene of an earlier attack.
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Met Police gangs ‘matrix’ database under scrutiny
The increase in teenage knife crime has put Britain’s largest police force under increasing pressure to tackle gang-related violence. One of the systems the Metropolitan Police use is its gangs matrix database, which holds information on thousands of people.
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FactCheck: Russia is spreading discredited theories about the Salisbury attack
Some of the points being raised by official Russian spokesmen are theories that have already been debunked.
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15-year-old boy stabbed to death in east London
Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder – after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death after a fight broke out at a birthday party. The event at a community centre in Romford in east London, turned violent as scores of young people were apparently turned away. Scotland Yard is now investigating more…
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London Bridge attack victims remembered one year on
Theresa May joined the London mayor Sadiq Khan and the head of Scotland Yard to observe a minutes silence in memory of those who died in the London Bridge terror attack a year ago today. At a special service in Southwark Cathedral, next to the spot where three attackers drove a van into pedestrians before…
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Police investigate death of Russian businessman
Counter-terrorism officers are investigating the death of a man in south-west London who was reportedly a Russian businessman. Scotland Yard said the cause of his death is unexplained, though there is no evidence to suggest a link to the incident in Salisbury.
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FactCheck: High-profile deaths on British soil with alleged links to the Kremlin
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in hospital after exposure to what is believed to be a nerve agent. There’s no conclusive evidence yet to tell us who’s responsible. But this isn’t the first time that someone with links to the Kremlin has been attacked on British soil.
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John Worboys ‘facing fresh allegation’
Scotland Yard says officers are now investigating another allegation of historical sexual assault, thought to involve the black cab rapist John Worboys. It’s emerged that Worboys was moved to London’s Belmarsh Prison over the weekend, prompting outrage from lawyers, who said it was “extremely distressing” for his victims.
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Met reviews sex cases after prosecutions collapse
Scotland Yard is urgently reviewing about 30 rape and sexual abuse cases which are on the verge of coming to trial, after two prosecutions collapsed in the last week. The Met said more sex cases would also be examined, but denied that systemic failures meant officers were breaking the rules set up to ensure a…
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Damian Green denies computer porn claims
The First Secretary of State, Damian Green, has denied that he “watched or downloaded” any pornographic images after a former police officer claimed thousands of images, all legal, were found on a computer used by Mr Green in 2008. Mr Green’s allies have accused the retired detective of a vendetta, while Scotland Yard has launched…
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Kevin Spacey under investigation for alleged sexual assault
It’s understood that Scotland Yard is investigating the Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey over an alleged sexual assault in South London nine years ago – although they wouldn’t identify him by name – and he hasn’t been charged with any crime. Theatre has been another industry caught up in the wave of revelations about sexual harassment…
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Moped crimes stagnate as stop and searches increase
Now Scotland Yard says the alarming rise in moped crime may have reached its peak, revealing new high tech tactics they’re deploying to tackle it across the capital. They’ve doubled the number of stop and searches in the last few months as part of efforts to combat violent youth crime. 33 people aged under 25…
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More police deployed after Parsons Green attack
More armed police have been deployed across London’s transport network, as the Prime Minister said the UK’s threat level would stay at its second highest – severe. Mrs May also had some strong words for the US President Donald Trump after he tweeted that the people behind the attack had been in Scotland Yard’s sights. It was not helpful to speculate,…
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Grenfell: police have ‘reasonable grounds’ for corporate manslaughter
The police say they have ‘reasonable grounds’ to suspect Kensington and Chelsea Council and the authority’s Tenant Management Organisation may have committed corporate manslaughter. At least eighty people lost their lives in the fire. Scotland Yard said that a senior representative from each organisation would be interviewed as part of their ongoing criminal investigation.
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Assange hails ‘important victory’ after charges dropped
Pale but defiant, Julian Assange stepped into the daylight on the balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy in London and declared an “important victory”. This was after Sweden dropped its seven-year investigation into sex offence allegations. The Wikileaks founder said his legal battle wasn’t over, warning “the proper war is just commencing”. He’s still holed up…
