Amy-Clare Martin

Crime Correspondent

Amy-Clare Martin is a British Journalism Award-nominated correspondent covering crime, courts and policing. She joined The Independent in 2023, after nine years covering news. She has a special interest in victim’s rights, violence against women and girls and knife crime. Contact her with story ideas and tips: amy-clare.martin@independent.co.uk

<p>Policing this summer’s unrest cost £31.7m, chiefs have revealed. Pictured, officers clashing with rioters outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham </p>

Policing riots cost £31.7m and bots ‘turbo-charged’ misinformation

<p>Chris Philp said such incidents should only be investigated by police where there is ‘a real risk of imminent criminality’ (Jonathan Brady/PA)</p>

‘You are not the thought police’: Philp tells police chiefs at summit

<p>Ronan Kanda was stabbed to death in a case of mistaken identity (West Midlands Police/PA)</p>

Mother ‘lost her life’ too on day son, 16, was stabbed through heart

<p>Yvette Cooper said police forces in England and Wales are ‘buckling under the strain’ as she laid out her vision for reform </p>

Pledge to halve violence against women is ‘ambitious’, Cooper admits