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Tory ‘attack dog’ reheats failed ploy used against Starmer to go for Rayner

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 April - 19:00

MP Richard Holden, who is behind re-opening of inquiry into Labour deputy leader, also sparked Covid-era beer and curry furore involving the leader

One of the most senior politicians in the Labour party is facing persistent questions about her personal affairs. The police are investigating after pressure from a Tory MP, despite initially saying there was no case to answer. The story has been relentlessly pursued by the rightwing press.

If the playbook sounds familiar, that’s because the Conservative MP pulling the strings behind the Angela Rayner living arrangements saga is the same one who consistently led the charge over the “beergate” controversy involving Keir Starmer.

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Andrew Malkinson says improved DNA tests could have spared him years in jail

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 16 April - 05:00

Exclusive: rollout of fresh testing for contested rape and murder convictions ‘should have happened a decade ago’, Malkinson says

Andrew Malkinson has said that an announced rollout of fresh DNA testing for contested rape and murder convictions should have happened a decade ago when the science first became available, a move that would have spared him years in jail.

Malkinson was cleared by the appeal court last year after spending 17 years in prison for a 2003 rape he did not commit. His exoneration came after new DNA testing linked another man to the crime.

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‘We won’t let this derail us’: Angela Rayner to continue campaigning despite police inquiry

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 13 April - 18:00

Supporters dismiss investigation into allegations of breaching electoral law and avoiding capital gains tax as a ‘storm in a teacup’

A defiant Angela Rayner will continue campaigning ahead of next month’s local elections, despite a police decision to open an investigation amid allegations of breaching electoral law and avoiding capital gains tax.

The deputy Labour leader vowed on Friday she would stand down if inquiries by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) led to a criminal conviction. It comes after a Tory MP asked the force to examine whether she gave incorrect information for the electoral register about where she lived in Stockport prior to becoming an MP.

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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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Only 3.8% of complaints ‘authentic’ so far under Scotland’s new hate crime law

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 15:27

Police Scotland data for first week showed 7,152 reports received but only tiny number judged to be legitimate

Police Scotland has said only a tiny number of the thousands of reports lodged so far under Scotland’s controversial hate crime act were authentic.

The force released data showing 3.8% of the 7,152 complaints it received in the first week the hate crime act was in force were judged to be legitimate. Only 240 complaints were logged as hate crimes, and 30 as non-hate incidents.

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CPS says it was wrong to pursue case against press photographer

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 9 April - 11:42

Prosecution dropped day before trial of Dimitris Legakis, who was arrested working at a crime scene in Swansea

The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted it was wrong to press on with a case against a news photographer arrested as he tried to lawfully take pictures at a crime scene.

Judge Walters at Swansea crown court described the case against Dimitris Legakis , which was dropped on the eve of his trial, as “disturbing” and said it seemed “the high point” of the prosecution was that a police officer “took offence” against someone whose job was to take photographs.

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Met accused of giving up search for 1981 Walthamstow arson attacker

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 9 April - 10:53

Force facing calls to apologise and restart inquiry into attack that killed Asian woman and her three children

The Metropolitan police have been accused of “surrendering” to the killer behind an unsolved arson attack that took the lives of an Asian woman and her three children.

One former Met officer who reinvestigated the 1981 fire in east London said he feared prejudice and incompetence plagued the original murder investigation and that Britain’s biggest force had given up the hunt for the person responsible.

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Family criticise police over possible discovery of body of sex offender linked to their mother’s death

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 5 April - 18:26

Relatives of Kelly Faiers say police failed to properly inform them that a body had been found

The family of a woman found dead at a sex offender’s home have criticised the police’s “bodged” investigation after his body is believed to have been found in a caravan close to where he vanished six months ago.

Relatives of Kelly Faiers said they were upset at how the news about the possible discovery of Richard Scatchard’s body was broken, claiming they did not have time to alert others close to Faiers before the police went public.

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Police launch inquiry after MPs targeted in apparent ‘spear-phishing’ attack

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 4 April - 17:26

At least a dozen people sent suspicious messages, with senior figures suggesting foreign state could be culprit

A police investigation has been launched after MPs were apparently targeted in a “spear-phishing” attack, in what security experts believe could be an attempt to compromise parliament.

A police force said it had started an inquiry after receiving a complaint from an MP who was sent a number of unsolicited messages last month.