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Tom Harper

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Tom Harper is Investigations Reporter for the Evening Standard

<p>In July 2022, Scotland Yard suffered the ignominy of being placed into special measures</p>
Home News

The dramatic decline of Britain’s biggest police force

Rewired: firm is accused of overclaiming for maintenance on social housing
Home News

Social housing landlords cheated by repair firm Mears Group, tribunal

The Chinese action superstar Wu Jing as Leng Feng in 'Wolf Warrior 2'
Features

How Chollywood blockbuster Wolf Warriors echoes China's foreign policy

Reviews

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser, book of a lifetime

Michelle Young has received none of the £26m she was awarded
Crime

Fraud police focus on former MI6 spy's role in high-stakes divorce

Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, at Southwark Crown Court in 2012; she was later cleared of making corrupt payments
Crime

Police did not see an email showing Brooks had to sign off all

Sir James Munby released a damning judgment castigating the “state”
UK Politics

Judge attacks legal aid cuts as couple fight to keep their son

Claudia Schiffer and husband Matthew Vaughn at Chequers in 2010
UK Politics

Cameron dined with Schiffer (and her husband) at Chequers

Belhaj, pictured in 2011, was once emir of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, considered a terrorist body by the US
Middle East

Libyan dissident can sue over claims of MI6 torture and abduction

After Roberts went on the run in 1966, a £1,000 reward (around £17,000 today) was offered
Crime

Police killer Harry Roberts 'spoke of remorse' in 2008 interview

Jamshed Javeed, 30, a chemistry teacher, was planning to go to Syria to fight Assad
Middle East

Teacher facing jail for planning to travel to Syria condemns Isis'

One of Britain's most notorious killers Harry Roberts
Crime

Outcry as police killer Harry Roberts finally gets out of jail

The tiny island of Sark held its first election in 2008 but the Barclays argued its system breached European laws
UK Politics

Barclay brothers lose legal fight over the future of Sark

UK Politics

Barclay brothers lose legal fight over the future of Sark

The tiny island of Sark held its first election in 2008 but the Barclays argued its system breached European laws
Jenny Jones was arrested for 'obstructing' police
UK Politics

Senior Green Party politician arrested at Occupy London

Rebekah Brooks after her acquittal at the Old Bailey in June
Crime

Phone hacking: MPs challenge prosecutors on evidence in Murdoch case

Criminals would be awaiting police raids with the kettle on after tip-offs from corrupt officers, a 2003 report said
Home News

Investigation after '2,000 police officers' implicated in corruption

The pensioner, who has terminal cancer, won an appeal against convictions for four counts of robbery dating back to 1978
Crime

Dying man wrongfully convicted twice following investigation from

The pensioner, who has terminal cancer, won an appeal against convictions for four counts of robbery dating back to 1978
Crime

Dying man wrongfully convicted twice following investigation from

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Erol Incedal (centre), appearing at the Old Bailey accused of preparing acts of terrorism and possessing a document entitled Bomb Making
Crime

Tony Blair 'terror attack': Former prime minister potentially target

Crime

UK terror threat: Police put on special alert for their own safety

The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham
Tech

New ‘blue-chip hacking’ cover‑up feared as fresh details emerge

Official statistics reveal police and security services obtained communications records under Ripa more than 514,000 times last year
Press

Police told to reveal extent of 'anti-terror' spying on journalists

14-year-old Alice Gross, who went missing more than a month ago while walking along a canal in west London.
Crime

Alice Gross and the mystery of the two women who disappeared nearby

Former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson, 45, who has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to plotting to hack phones
Crime

Former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson pleads guilty to

Kuntal Patel is charged with trying to kill her mother, Meena; Walter and Jesse plot to poison various enemies with ricin in ‘Breaking Bad’
Crime

‘Breaking Bad murder plot': Woman says mum ‘beat’ her

UK Politics

David Cameron hit by double resignation of Mark Reckless and Brooks

Former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson, 45, who has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to plotting to hack phones
Crime

Former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson pleads guilty to

Kuntal Patel is charged with trying to kill her mother, Meena; Walter and Jesse plot to poison various enemies with ricin in ‘Breaking Bad’
Crime

‘Breaking Bad murder plot': Woman says mum ‘beat’ her

UK Politics

David Cameron hit by double resignation of Mark Reckless and Brooks

Carol Howard was held by the police on three separate occasions in the year leading up to her victorious employment tribunal against the Metropolitan Police
Crime

Black female Met Police firearms officer who won £40k at tribunal has

Crime

Black female Met Police firearms officer who won £40k at tribunal has

Carol Howard was held by the police on three separate occasions in the year leading up to her victorious employment tribunal against the Metropolitan Police
John Cantlie appeared in a second Isis film yesterday
Middle East

Syria air strikes: British hostage John Cantlie delivers scripted

Alan Henning, who is being held by Isis, had his life threatened in the video in which the group beheaded another Briton, David Haines
Middle East

Alan Henning: Al-Qaeda appealed to Isis to release him

David Haines was 44 and had two children. He used his military experience from 12 years in the Royal Air Force to support various humanitarian missions throughout Syria, Libya, Sudan and the Balkans
Profiles

David Haines remembered: Death of British hostage executed by Isis

An undated handout photo released by the Foreign Office with the permission of his family, showing Alan Henning at a refugee camp on the Syrian-Turkish border
Home News

Alan Henning: Second British hostage in Isis beheading video named as

An undated handout photo released by the Foreign Office with the permission of his family, showing Alan Henning at a refugee camp on the Syrian-Turkish border
Home News

Alan Henning: Second British hostage in Isis beheading video named as

Admiral Lord West warned the jihadist believed to have killed two US journalists is a 'dead man walking'
Home News

British hostage threatened by Isis militants was seized last year in

John Sweeney doorstepped the Russian President asking him whether he “regrets the killings in Ukraine”
Europe

British journalist John Sweeney doorsteps Putin over killings

The South Yorkshire Police raid of Sir Cliff Richard’s £3.1m Berkshire apartment was broadcast live on the BBC
TV & Radio

BBC to divulge discussions with police over Cliff Richards raid

A view over Rotherham
UK Politics

Rotherham: probe over what Blair's government knew

Money man: Paul Moore
Business News

HBOS accused of misleading the public over £4bn rescue

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls will seize upon the findings
UK Politics

George Osborne accused of lying to Parliament on his 'hard line'

Members of the Islamist Liwa (brigade) Hamzah hold flags of Jabhat al-Nusra at a rally in Deir Ezzor earlier last year
Home News

Challenge of taming Generation Jihad still poses more questions than

Journalist Didier François after his release
Americas

James Foley: I know the identity of Isis killer 'John', says French

Crime

James Foley beheading: Police 'could have narrowed hunt for killer to

The main entrance to Tilbury Docks in Essex
Crime

Tilbury Docks: Man arrested over death of immigrant found in container

Assange has not confirmed any rumours about his health
Home News

After two years inside, Assange 'will leave embassy'

Home News

After two years inside, Assange 'will leave embassy'

Assange has not confirmed any rumours about his health
Business News

Taxpayer left with £244m bill to compensate US defence giant

A group of Police Officers stand by the main entrance to Tilbury Docks in Essex, where a shipping container was found with 31 illegal immigrants inside
Crime

Tilbury Docks: Man dies as 35 stowaways are found 'screaming and

Patrick Foster has published a strongly worded statement on Twitter, denouncing the “unnecessarily heavy-handed police investigation”
Crime

Former Times reporter Patrick Foster accepts caution for alleged email

Crime

Brother of murdered City trader accuses police of ‘cover-up’

Crime

Brother of murdered City trader accuses police of ‘cover-up’

Lynton Crosby, the Tories’ election strategist, who hired Mr Curley
UK Politics

Man linked to scandal hired by Tory election strategist

Three former Scotland Yard detectives were part of 'highly corrupt cells within the Metropolitan Police Service' but have never been brought to justice, according to a secret internal report seen by The Independent
Crime

Exclusive: Secret internal police report points to ‘highly

Craig Mackey
Crime

Police files reveal 'endemic corruption' at the Met

James Ibori, the ex-governor of Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta State
Crime

Former Met detective alleged to have billed lawyers for invoices worth

Information was unlawfully stored in Metropolitan Police vaults for 20 years
Crime

Police broke rules to spy on Lawrence and De Menezes campaigners

The firm behind Terra Firma is listed at a George Town address in the Cayman Islands that is home to 18,000 companies
UK Politics

Exclusive: British taxpayers underwrote deals worth £140m by firm

The Met’s Sapphire unit is a team of specialist officers who investigate only rape and serious sexual assault cases
Crime

Detective charged with misconduct in handling rape and sexual assault

Lord Brittan has admitted receiving a file with allegations of an abuse network
Crime

Pressure mounts over file on alleged Westminster paedophile ring

Determined: Daniel Morgan’s mother, sister and brother at the Old Bailey in 2011
Crime

Teresa May appoints Baroness Nuala O’Loan to head up inquiry into

New Articles

Thatcher minister insists he probed 'paedophile ring'

PC Carol Howard was found to be sexually and racially discriminated against
Home News

Met deleted details of sex and racial discrimination against female

Home News

Met deleted details of sex and racial discrimination against female

PC Carol Howard was found to be sexually and racially discriminated against
Freddie Scappaticci, codenamed Stakeknife, in 1974; and pictured bottom left at an IRA funeral in 1987
Crime

Phone records of IRA mole went to News International

Andy Coulson arrives at the Old Bailey yesterday, before hearing that the jury had failed to reach verdicts on the two outstanding charges against him
Crime

Hacking trial exclusive: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson cautioned by

Lord Coe is regarded as ‘a great leader’ by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson
TV & Radio

BBC chairman job description tweaked for Seb Coe

Selhouk Behdjet was murdered in 1994
Crime

Murder victim Selhouk Behdjet’s family not told about Met Police

Selhouk Behdjet was murdered in 1994
Crime

Murder victim Selhouk Behdjet’s family not told about Met Police

Layla Holliday, whose father Selhouk Behdjet was murdered in 1994
Crime

Major murder case collapses in new 'police corruption' scandal

International

Revealed: the Sepp Blatter cartoons that Fifa tried – and failed –

Rapper Drake at the O2 Arena
UK Politics

Crackdown on the trade in secondary ticketing: Would you buy a used

Jamie Cooper-Hohn and Chris Hohn are set to divorce
Business News

City power couple battle over financier’s £3.5bn fund

A premature baby in intensive care
Health News

Three more babies poisoned by suspected drip feed contamination

The PPI scandal was one of the most egregious chapters in the financial crisis
Business News

Banks may have cost PPI victims an extra £1bn in penalties

The moment when Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup, in December 2010
News

Qatar 2022: Fifa sponsors 'oblivious to scandals', warns expert

Tanking bank: Book claims RBS sponsored motor sport because Fred Goodwin is a fan
Business News

RBS could fail due to ‘£100bn black hole’ - with British

Several journalists were arrested outside the Marriott hotel in Copenhagen, where the talks are taking place
Europe

Is it the Bilderberg conference – or conspiracy?

On Google’s advisory panel: (clockwise from top left) Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder; David Drummond, Google senior vice president; Eric Schmidt, Google chairman; Frank La Rue, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression
Tech

Google privacy law ‘means total rethink of basic freedoms’

Nigeria players during a friendly played at Craven Cottage last year
International

Match-fixers target World Cup friendly in London

Scot Young arriving in court in 2009
Home News

Major accountancy firm writes 'extraordinary' letter to High Court

Supergrass: former police officer Neil Putnam
Crime

Met’s murky past reveals a network of corrupt officers still

Supergrass: former police officer Neil Putnam
Crime

Met’s murky past reveals a network of corrupt officers still

Mr Justice Holman expressed his disgust at Dr Peng’s non-attendance and dismissed the tycoon’s excuse
Home News

Judge’s anger adds to acrimony of £500m divorce acrimony of Laura

US soldiers along the Afghan-Pakistan border
Middle East

Five UK troops killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash

Supergrass: former police officer Neil Putnam
Crime

Met’s murky past reveals a network of corrupt officers still

Mr Justice Holman expressed his disgust at Dr Peng’s non-attendance and dismissed the tycoon’s excuse
Home News

Judge’s anger adds to acrimony of £500m divorce acrimony of Laura

US soldiers along the Afghan-Pakistan border
Middle East

Five UK troops killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash

Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom used controversial trusts to reduce her potential tax bill
UK Politics

City minister 'used trusts' to reduce her potential tax bill

Daniel Morgan, a PI, was found murdered with an axe in his head in a pub car park in 1987
Crime

More evidence of police corruption relating to notorious unsolved

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe revealed that Operation Othona had a projected budget of £7.82m over a three-year period
Crime

Shredded police corruption inquiry cost taxpayers £8m

Metropolitan Police’s Craig Mackey apologised for a report he commissioned into the Lawrence murder
Crime

Police chief Craig Mackey was abroad during discredited Stephen

New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police
Crime

Secret SECOND Metropolitan Police corruption probe

New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police
Crime

Something rotten in the Met: Corrupt officers may escape justice

Lloyds Banking Group has cost victims of the payment protection insurance (PPI) scandal tens of millions of pounds by wrongly cutting their compensation awards
Business News

PPI: Lloyds saved millions by cutting compensation awards

Two former Scotland Yard Commissioners have been asked to explain their knowledge surrounding the destruction of a “lorry-load” of top-secret files
Crime

Spotlight falls on former Met Police bosses in investigation into

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