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A Metropolitan Police officer who pretended to be on-duty to get backstage access at All Points East festival has been fired from his job, following a Police Misconduct Hearing. According to The Hackney Gazette, former force member Hasnain Awan allegedly told ticketing staff that he was due to perform police duties within the festival and […]
The Metropolitan Police—Britain’s largest police force—is to be placed under special measures following a number of failings, including the murder of Sarah Everard, the Stephen Port inquiry, and the strip search of Child Q. Inspectors have raised “systemic concerns” about the Met, including its substandard response to emergency calls, “barely adequate” crime recording, and a backlog of child […]
Imran Ahmad Khan, the Conservative MP for Wakefield, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy after giving him alcohol at a party in 2008. Khan, whose brother Karim is a prosecutor at the international criminal court in The Hague, was found guilty by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. Although he made […]
Last week, news emerged of the tragic passing of Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, a 20-year-old student otherwise known as Jimi, who lost his life after jumping into the River Thames in an effort to save a woman who’d fallen from London Bridge. Jimi had been on his way home from work late on Saturday night when he and another man jumped […]
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