West Midlands Police officers are accused of telling an alleged rape gang victim, aged 12, that she was “lying” about her abuse, and told her mother she was “prostituting herself”.
“I was 12 or 13 when I went with my mum to the police to report the first rape.
A former prisoner has been convicted of planning an Islamic State-inspired sword attack.
Sahayb Abu, 27, was found guilty by a jury of preparing an act of terrorism and will be sentenced on 9 April.
Muhamed Abu, his 32-year-old brother, was acquitted of failing to warn police about the plan.
Sahayb’s preparations included buying a sword, a knife, balaclavas, fingerless gloves, and a combat vest, and paying extra to have the sword sharpened.
The Yellow Card scheme tracking potential vaccine injuries has flagged a combined 191,832 individual adverse events, or side effects, related to COVID vaccines.
A failed asylum seeker who chopped up a woman he met and had sex with, told police he was gay as he tried to put them off the scent, a court heard today.
Azam Mangori was ruthless in the way he tried to cover his tracks after he had lured drunken Lorraine Cox back to his room above a kebab shop in Exeter city centre last August Bank Holiday Monday, jurors were told.
Lorraine Cox, 32, disappeared after the night out with friends and her whereabouts were a mystery prompting a missing persons inquiry by police.
An alleged terror plotter said he wanted to “hunt down” gay people in the UK, a court has heard.
Sahayb Abu, 27, denies planning an atrocity and told the Old Bailey he was just “flexing his muscles” in a pro-Isis chat group.
The court heard that in a message posted to a private group on the encrypted Telegram app, Mr Abu wrote that he had “panic attacks” when he saw gay people, adding: “I need to hunt them down.”
IS bride Shamima Begum is “very angry, upset and crying” after being refused permission to return to the UK to fight a decision to strip her of British citizenship.
We should support the Syrian Democratic Forces to bring jihadists to justice.
A dark cloud hangs over the Al Roj camp where Shamima Begum is being held in north-eastern Syria. She is said to be ‘angry and upset’ at the decision of the Supreme Court not to allow her to return to the UK to contest the loss of her citizenship. This bleak picture stands in stark contrast to the feelings of the vast majority of the British public, who will be raising a toast to the Supreme Court and thanking it for putting their interests ahead of an ISIS terrorist.
The treatment of Ms Begum as a victim – of groomers, of racist Tories – is perverse.
So, the Shamima Begum Welcome Committee can stand down. Those commentators and activists who devoted a bizarre amount of energy to depicting Ms Begum as a victim – of Islamo-groomers, of evil Tories, of good ol’ British racism – can put away their confetti and balloons. She isn’t coming home. The Supreme Court has ruled that it was well within the government’s rights to rescind Begum’s citizenship and block her from returning to the UK. The identitarians will have to find a new victim to rally behind, hopefully not one who was complicit in slavery, murderous homophobia and violent religious supremacy this time.
New joint report with terror tsar calls for tighter rules to stop spread of hate online
Extremists who turn young people to terrorism are operating with impunity in the UK because of a “gaping chasm” in the law, the UK’s former counter-terror chief has said.
In a report to be presented to ministers, Sir Mark Rowley said the UK’s laws were so ill-defined that hate preachers such as Anjem Choudary had been able to get away with recruiting hundreds of young people to terrorism without being prosecuted and were still able to do so.
He cited cases of how extremists could use social media to glorify terrorism by Islamic State (IS) murderers and evade prosecution as long as they avoided “encouraging the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism”.
Shamima Begum, who fled Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State in Syria, has failed to restore her British citizenship after the supreme court ruled she had lost her case.
The judgment on Friday from the UK’s highest court is a critical – and controversial – test case of the UK’s policy to strip the citizenship of Britons who went to join Isis and are being detained by Syrian Kurdish groups without trial.
Farcical scenes on the Wirral, where the police have apologised for a billboard reading “BEING OFFENSIVE IS AN OFFENCE”. Superintendent Martin Earl announced that this alarming declaration “although well-intentioned was incorrect.” Earl stressed, at some length, the importance of combatting hate, the outstanding credentials of the local “Hate Crime Co-ordinators”, and so on, but made sure to “clarify that ‘being offensive’ is not in itself an offence.” Nevertheless, it raises a question: Where on earth did Wirral Police get such a strange idea in the first place?
Liverpool’s Merseyside Police in the UK have apologised after stirring up controversy with a campaign that ominously warned Brits they could be charged with “being offensive.”
Superintendent Martin Earl apologised in a statement on Monday for “any confusion” the campaign caused, declaring: “We would like to clarify that ‘being offensive’ is not in itself an offense.”
Hundreds of independent schools left in dire financial straits by the coronavirus pandemic are being targeted by Chinese investors, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Experts anticipate a ‘feeding frenzy’ as firms, including some run by high-ranking members of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, seek to expand their influence over Britain’s education system.
Seventeen schools are already owned by Chinese companies, but that number is set to rocket. Amid rising concern about Beijing’s tentacles reaching into British classrooms, an investigation by this newspaper can reveal…
People in the U.K. with learning disabilities have been told they will not receive resuscitation if they contract COVID-19, according to learning disability charity Mencap.
The Beeb’s removal of a clip featuring the new head of the Muslim Council of Britain is a chilling sign of the times.
If you want to understand what’s going wrong at the BBC right now, you could do worse than look at the bizarre Zara Mohammed controversy. The Beeb has removed from social media a clip of Ms Mohammed, the new head of the Muslim Council of Britain, being interviewed on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Cancel-culture mobs had complained that the interview was a form of ‘bullying’ and that it had undertones of ‘Islamophobia’. And now the BBC has caved to these crazy, unfounded criticisms and shoved the interview clip in the memory hole. This reveals a lot about the great moral anchoring of the BBC in the 21st century.
