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Paul Peachey

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Paul Peachey is Crime Correspondent at the Independent

Police declined to speculate on what had happened, but confirmed that it would take some time for the remains to be identified
Crime

Body of missing policeman found after smell alarms neighbours

Researchers say the way crime has been calculated in the UK is wrong
Crime

Governments have 'overstated reductions in crime'

Inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp use water from a pond to wash for the first time following their liberation by British troops
Home News

Cannibalism 'rampant' at Nazi concentration camp, new documents r

The Great Escape
Home News

'Great Escape' team member refused compensation by British government

Professor Mohammed al-Massari at his London home yesterday
Crime

British dissident investigated over plot to to assassinate Saudi king

A soldier patrols inside the arrival terminal of the Charles de Gaulle Airport
Europe

Security officials 'missed opportunities to stop Brussels attackers'

Crowds gather to pay tribute at a makeshift memorial at Place de la Bourse in Brussels
Europe

Brussels residents gather to mourn and stand defiant in face of terror

The district of Molenbeek has a population of 90,000
Europe

How extremism flourished amid lack of integration in Molenbeek

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has come in for fierce criticism
Crime

Police forced to defend VIP paedophile probe after inquiry closes

He is being questioned after detectives were called in to scrutinise his books.
Crime

Former Police Federation vice-chairman arrested over £1m charity fraud

A lawyer for three victims of Ball, the disgraced former Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Gloucester, made the claim to Dame Lowell Goddard's public inquiry into child sex abuse.
Crime

Archbishop ‘failed to pass on details of paedophilia’

Mr Gove also said there would be “dipstick measures” of prison performance, including those detailing the number of hours that inmates spend out of their cells.
UK Politics

Successful jails could take over failing ones, Gove tells MPs

A CCTV image of the burglar, released by police
Crime

200 break-ins and counting: the hunt for the Wimbledon Prowler

Crime

200 break-ins and counting: the hunt for the Wimbledon Prowler

A CCTV image of the burglar, released by police
The Derby Hippodrome Theatre was partly demolished in 2008
Home News

Latest Derby Hippodrome blaze being treated as arson attack

Mohammed Emwazi of west London, graduated from the University of Westminster with a computer programming degree
Home News

Jihadi John biographer pulls out of speaking event over 'gagging'

John ‘Goldfinger’ Palmer was shot dead in June last year
Crime

John 'Goldfinger' Palmer 'may have been shot for Hatton Garden links'

John Collins, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader in a London pub from video surveillance
Crime

Hatton Garden gang sentenced to total of 34 years in prison

John Collins, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader in a London pub from video surveillance
Crime

Hatton Garden gang sentenced to total of 34 years in prison

The body of Sebastiano Magnanini was found tied to a submerged shopping trolley
Crime

Body dumped in river revealed to be failed Italian art thief

Serco runs five of the 14 private prisons in the UK
Crime

Violence, hostage taking and gang attacks rife in private prison

John Collins, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader in a London pub from video surveillance
Crime

Hatton Garden raiders say they worked under instruction from 'Basil'

Brian Reader was allegedly left for two days without care after falling inside Belmarsh jail
Crime

Hatton Garden heist ringleader 'may only have months to live'

Watching the watchmen: Metropolitan Police Constable Yasa Amerat and a colleague show off body-worn video (BWV) cameras
Tech

How the police's body-worn cameras are changing the justice system

Richard Sheridan, right, with Corin Redgrave
Crime

Rhino horn smuggling gang member fought to save Travellers' site

Rathkeale's notoriety is unmatched by its population of 1,500
Crime

A small Irish town swollen by the proceeds of crime

The scene of the robbery at Durham University's Oriental Museum, where two items where stolen
Crime

How an enthusiastic gardener helped to bring gang leaders to justice

Richard Sheridan, right, with Corin Redgrave
Crime

Rhino horn smuggling gang member fought to save Travellers' site

Rathkeale's notoriety is unmatched by its population of 1,500
Crime

A small Irish town swollen by the proceeds of crime

The scene of the robbery at Durham University's Oriental Museum, where two items where stolen
Crime

How an enthusiastic gardener helped to bring gang leaders to justice

One of the four rhinoceros heads worth about £428,000 each which has been stolen from museum storage in Ireland
Crime

Gang convicted of £57m plot to steal rhino horn and Chinese artefacts

Crime

Gang convicted of £57m plot to steal rhino horn and Chinese artefacts

One of the four rhinoceros heads worth about £428,000 each which has been stolen from museum storage in Ireland
A 27-day police search of the house uncovered 463 firearms, including machine guns and anti-tank missiles (pictured)
Crime

Anti-tank missile among largest ever UK weapons cache found by police

Supreme Court judges ruled that trial judges have wrongly interpreted the joint enterprise law for some three decades, which allows accomplices of crimes to be convicted of the same offence as the actual perpetrator.
Crime

Successful joint enterprise appeals 'unlikely to secure compensation'

Officers are being diverted from beat patrols
Home News

Police officers 'becoming isolated from communities they serve'

Demonstrators in Myanmar hold placards protesting against the court's verdict sentencing the two migrant workers to death
Crime

UK intelligence used to put two workers on Thailand’s death row

Demonstrators in Myanmar hold placards protesting against the court's verdict sentencing the two migrant workers to death
Crime

UK intelligence used to put two workers on Thailand’s death row

Adam Johnson admits engaging in sexual activity with the girl, but denies two more serious charges
Crime

Adam Johnson's alleged victim cries in court

Former Sunderland soccer player Adam Johnson arrives with his girlfriend Stacey Flounders at Bradford Crown Court in Bradford,
Crime

Johnson 'abused position in society to sexually touch 15-year-old fan'

Mohammed Rafiq, a factory owner who employed large numbers of Hungarians as a "slave workforce" to supply beds to top high-street retailers, as he has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for people trafficking.
Crime

Bed factory owner jailed for employing slave workforce

Aseel Muthana made a video with one of his supporters in which he fantasised about being in Syria
Crime

Three jailed for helping teenage jihadi travel from Cardiff to Syria

Bijan Ebrahimi
Crime

Police officers jailed for misconduct over vigilante murder

Selling sex for cash is not a criminal offence
Home News

Sex workers should be not treated as criminals, police chiefs say

Business Secretary Sajid Javid appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show
UK Politics

Google’s £130m tax deal ‘wasn’t a glorious moment’, Sajid Javid admits

Roger Gower, the pilot who was shot down, moved to Africa in 2006 and was keen to help to secure the survival of Tanzania’s elephants
Africa

Five arrested over shooting of UK helicopter pilot tracking poachers

Azezur Khan, who was shot and killed after attending a gang member’s funeral in south London in 2011
Crime

Met to face scrutiny over failure to prevent gangland funeral killing

Jean-Claude LaCote, who has been on the run for 20 years, is one of 57 names on Europol’s list
Crime

How a conman went from reality TV star to Europol's 'most wanted'

Douglas Richard told the trial that he had been seeking fantasy relationships
Crime

Dragon's Den star Douglas Richard cleared in child sex case

Crime

Dragon's Den star Douglas Richard cleared in child sex case

Douglas Richard told the trial that he had been seeking fantasy relationships
Katy Morgan-Davies, 33, formerly known as Rosie Davies,who was imprisoned at home by her father
Home News

Daughter of cult leader: this is my chance to be myself

Levi Bellfield
Crime

Detective who caught Levi Bellfield sceptical of confessions

Norfolk Police now say it is possible the victim was a woman known as The Duchess, who was originally from Denmark but lived and worked around the docks in Great Yarmouth
Crime

Headless corpse 'could have been sex worker known as "The Duchess"'

Douglas Richard at the Old Bailey on Monday
Crime

Ex-Dragon's Den star accused of paying for sex with 13-year-old girl

Douglas Richard at the Old Bailey on Monday
Crime

Ex-Dragon's Den star accused of paying for sex with 13-year-old girl

Aaron Murray, 29, of Witley Point, Wandsworth pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transfer prohibited weapons.
Crime

Kids Company client helped run armoury selling guns to gangsters

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, chairing a Kremlin meeting yesterday, was directly implicated by the inquiry in the death of the former spy
Europe

Moscow rages at 'Kremlin killing' verdict as Putin avoids sanctions

Dave Brown’s cartoon – for more of his work see the link below
Crime

What we now know about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko

The blizzard of bad news is challenging leaders who once blithely said that 2016 would be a year of recovery rather than continued recession.
Crime

Vladimir Putin 'probably' approved poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

The National Crime Agency was set up in 2013 to tackle the most serious drugs, sex, trafficking, cyber and international crimes
Crime

Crime agency threatened by shortage of techno-savvy cops

A screengrab of of 'Basil' taken on day one of the robbery
Crime

Police hunt for thief who got away after Hatton Garden heist

Collins, Perkins and Reader in the Castle Public House, Pentonville Road
Crime

Hatton Garden heist: The target, the plan, the job, the investigation

Michael Marsden, Simon Tansley and Sergeant Jan Kingshott in the dock at Bristol Crown Court
Crime

Mentally ill man 'suffocated when unlawfully restrained’, court hears

Ugandans take part in an anti-gay protest in Kampala. The Church of Uganda has been prominent in the Anglican realignment movement
Home News

African Anglicans may trigger formal schism of Church at Canterbury

Police recruits
Crime

Police Federation sacks officer defending ethnic minority colleagues

The Cleveland Police firearms officer Nadeem Saddique outside an employment tribunal, which found he had been discriminated against
Crime

Police accused of using terror powers to spy on their own officers

Crime

Police accused of using terror powers to spy on their own officers

The Cleveland Police firearms officer Nadeem Saddique outside an employment tribunal, which found he had been discriminated against
Mohammed Rehman and his ex‑wife Sana Ahmed Khan, pictured, were found guilty of plotting an act of terror
Crime

Wife of 'Silent Bomber' blames husband as pair jailed over terror plot

A drone (which will soon have to be registered) flies above New York
Crime

Criminal gangs 'using drones to deliver legal highs to prisons'

Gerrard (left) and Moogan are sought by police for alleged drug-smuggling and firearms offences
Crime

Brothers who ran Dutch cafe for top-level drug gangs face trial

The average length of time for an investigation into police misconduct, following a public complaint, is approximately 12 months
UK

Scotland Yard wants to fast-track corrupt officers off the force

The average length of time for an investigation into police misconduct, following a public complaint, is approximately 12 months
UK

Scotland Yard wants to fast-track corrupt officers off the force

Victims have told officers they are not willing to accept a year of disruption while waiting for overwhelmed specialists to extract information
Crime

Police take a year to examine computers involved in cyber crimes

Bijan Ebrahimi's sisters Manizhah Moore (centre) and Ladin Ebrahimi make a statement outside Bristol Crown Court
Crime

Family of murdered refugee concerned police charges will be downgraded

Bijan Ebrahimi was killed by a vigilante group after being falsely accused of being a paedophile
Crime

Man killed by lynch mob pleaded with police for help

Police leaders said they were concerned about the number of armed officers available to respond to a suicide terrorist attack
UK Politics

Cameron orders review of legal protection for armed police

Six alleged victims of child abuse will press ahead with a legal claim for compensation after the death of the Labour peer Lord Janner
Crime

Janner ‘abuse victims’ to bring claims for compensation

Some police forces have failed to live up to their commitment to confront the scale of child sex abuse
Crime

Police failure to tackle child sex abuse ‘not good enough’

Brian Reader was jailed for his part in the 1983 £26m Brinks Mat gold bullion robbery
Crime

Hatton Garden heist ringleader 'was involved in Brinks Mat robbery'

Armed police officers hold guns as they stand in Downing Street
Crime

Trump 'couldn't be more wrong', say British police

Aravindan Balakrishnan with members of the cult he lead, including his daughter,
Crime

Police returned three enslaved victims to captors in four-year period

Josephine Herivel described Aravindan Balakrishnan as her “life-support machine”
Crime

Woman who helped cult chief's daughter flee refuses to believe verdict

Aravindan Balakrishnan, above, on his way to court and right in the 1970s
Crime

How cult leader Comrade Bala chronicled every detail of his tyranny

Aravindan Balakrishnan faces a long prison sentence for his crimes including regular physical attacks
Crime

Daughter forgives cult leader father despite 30 years of beatings

Nick Gargan, the former chief of Avon and Somerset
Crime

Former force boss hired by G4S after being found guilty of misconduct

People

The Apprentice contestant Scott Saunders quits show

TV chef Jamie Oliver championed a drive for labels indicating spoonfuls of sugar in fizzy drinks
Home News

MPs join fight for sugar tax to cut cost of obesity

The United States already has six body farms and a new site in Australia is due to open in January
Home News

UK researchers looking for site to set up body farm laboratory

People

The Apprentice contestant Scott Saunders quits show

TV chef Jamie Oliver championed a drive for labels indicating spoonfuls of sugar in fizzy drinks
Home News

MPs join fight for sugar tax to cut cost of obesity

The United States already has six body farms and a new site in Australia is due to open in January
Home News

UK researchers looking for site to set up body farm laboratory

Aravindan Balakrishnan told the court his mind-controlling accomplice was responsible for events such as the space shuttle disaster
Crime

Cult chief says challenge to leadership caused space shuttle disaster

UK Politics

HMP Holloway earmarked for closure

UK Politics

Police budget cut U-turn in wake of Paris attacks

From left: Carl Wood, William Lincoln, Jon Harbinson and Hugh Doyle
Crime

Two Hatton Garden jewellery burglars 'walked off job on eve of heist'

Most Kalashnikovs are imported leftovers of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, which left millions of weapons in civilian hands
Europe

Why getting hold of a Kalashnikov is so easy

A forensic expert at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Limited in April
Crime

How the Hatton Garden heist was done

The hole drilled in the vault wall at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Limited following the Easter weekend robbery in April
Crime

Hatton Garden leaders involved in 'biggest crimes of last century'

Unprecedented apology and payouts centre on conduct of officers working for the Special Demonstration Squad
Crime

Police apologises to women over relationships with undercover officers

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