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Four men jailed for drive-by shooting at London church that injured six

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 12 April - 16:55

Four women and two girls were injured in attack on memorial service near Euston station in 2023

Four men have been jailed after being found guilty of a “truly horrific” drive-by shooting outside a London church that injured four women and two girls.

The attack on a memorial service at St Aloysius church near Euston station in January 2023, in which a sawn-off shotgun was used, was part of a feud between gangs, Kingston crown court was told.

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Met refers itself to police watchdog over handling of woman’s suspected murder

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 11 April - 17:21

Friends called police to raise concerns about Kamonnan Thiamphanit on evening before officers found body

Scotland Yard has referred itself to the police complaints watchdog after a woman was found dead at a house near Hyde Park the morning after it received several reports from friends concerned about her welfare.

A murder investigation was launched after police forced entry to a property in Stanhope Place, near Marble Arch, central London, at about 8.30am on Monday and found the body of Kamonnan Thiamphanit.

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Man jailed for life after breaking baby son’s neck in Leicester

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 13:19

Judge says Michael Davis showed ‘callous indifference’ to baby Ollie’s suffering, as mother Kayleigh Driver jailed for seven years

A man has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 22 years for murdering his four-week-old son, who was left to die from a broken neck in 2017.

Michael Davis, 29, was found guilty last month of murdering his newborn son Ollie Davis, after a six-year investigation into the case.

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Shoplifting crackdown to include £55m for facial recognition tools in England and Wales

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 06:00

Mobile units will be deployed on high streets to identify wanted people – including repeat offenders

The government is investing more than £55m in expanding facial recognition systems – including vans that will scan crowded high streets – as part of a renewed crackdown on shoplifting.

The scheme was announced alongside plans for tougher punishments for serial or abusive shoplifters in England and Wales, including being forced to wear a tag to ensure they do not revisit the scene of their crime, under a new standalone criminal offence of assaulting a retail worker.

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Woman jailed after harming child with laxatives in Aberdeen

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 9 April - 10:06

Tracy Menhinick, 52, ‘wilfully’ ill-treated the boy with medication that affected his development

A woman convicted of harming a child with laxatives, which affected his development, has been jailed for seven years.

Tracy Menhinick, 52, was found guilty of “wilfully” ill-treating the child in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health on various occasions over the course of three years from 2014.

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Gun crime survivors create scheme to stop violent partners owning firearms

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 9 April - 07:30

Some police in England and Wales now ask spouses to flag dangerous traits or mental health problems

Survivors of gun crime committed by violent and coercive partners have worked with police to create a groundbreaking scheme designed to stop more dangerous offenders being allowed licensed firearms.

The women have helped police frame a questionnaire that firearms officers put to the partners of people wanting a licence that will flag up issues such as a propensity to violence or mental health problems.

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Two men jailed for life for murdering footballer Cody Fisher

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 8 April - 15:08

Remy Gordon and Kami Carpenter given minimum terms of 26 and 25 years at Birmingham crown court for nightclub attack

Two men have been jailed for life for the murder of footballer Cody Fisher in a nightclub attack in Birmingham on Boxing Day 2022.

Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, had blamed each other for stabbing the 23-year-old former Birmingham City academy player, who died at the scene from a chest wound.

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Man jailed for life for murdering wife and dismembering body in Lincoln

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 8 April - 14:35

Nicholas Metson, who paid a friend £50 to help dump Holly Bramley’s remains, to serve at least 19 years

A man who cut his wife’s body into more than 200 pieces and then paid a friend £50 to help him dump her remains in a river has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 19 years.

Nicholas Metson stabbed Holly Bramley, 26, at least four times in March 2023 before dismembering her body and storing her remains for a week in the kitchen larder at the flat they shared in Stamp End, Lincoln.

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Once a relic of the cold war, political assassins are back with a licence to kill | Simon Tisdall

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 6 April - 15:00

Last week, a group of Iranian military leaders in Damascus became the trend’s latest victims

In today’s lawless world, political assassination is the new growth industry – and anyone, famous or not, is a potential victim. Government-sanctioned killings are proliferating, with Russia , Israel, Iran and India leading the pack. While lone gunmen and crazed zealots still pose random threats, state-organised, premeditated assassination plots are being normalised and popularised. Murder Inc is going global with a licence to kill.

The assassination business was mostly a superpower monopoly during the cold war. US- and Soviet-directed operations targeted high-profile figures such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro , Chile’s Salvador Allende and Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito. Some “hits” were more notorious than others. In 1940, a member of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, assassinated the dissident Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky in Mexico City with an ice-pick. Who shot Sweden’s prime minister Olaf Palme in 1986 is still disputed.