Researchers examined outcomes across 13 English police forces and more than 62,000 criminal incidents over the past four years. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Researchers examined outcomes across 13 English police forces and more than 62,000 criminal incidents ove…

Researchers examined outcomes across 13 English police forces and more than 62,000 criminal incidents over the past four years. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Researchers examined outcomes across 13 English police forces and more than 62,000 criminal incidents ove…

Researchers examined outcomes across 13 English police forces and more than 62,000 criminal incidents over the past four years. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Researchers examined outcomes across 13 English police forces and more than 62,000 criminal incidents ove…

Palestine Action activists jailed over factory raid 12 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Chloe Harcombe , West of England and Dominic Casciani , Home and Legal Correspondent Palestine Action Four people were convicted for the violent clash which fractured a police officer's spine and…

French town buries murdered child as questions mount over police failings 48 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Hugh Schofield In Paris EPA An 11-year-old girl called Lyhanna, murdered two weeks ago in south-western France, has been buried amid persistent public anger at failings that left her suspected killer at large. Fellow residents joined the girl's family for a funeral ceremony before she was interred in the cemetery of the small town of Fleurance, 50km (30 miles) west of Toulouse. Mayors across the broader Gers region called on people to gather in support of the family outside town halls, where flags were flown at half-mast. Lyhanna's murder provoked a wave of revulsion across France after it emerged prime suspect Jérôme Barella, 41, was denounced nine months ago to police for alleged repeated sexual abuse of a 10-year-old. Murder of Lyhanna, 11, enrages France and turns up heat on government He was not questioned even once by investigators. And, according to newspaper Le Monde, US authorities had alerted French police after Barella's online activity suggested he could be accessing images that showed child sex abuse. French police only discovered this after conducting a trawl for Barella's name following his arrest last week. The French National Office for Minors (OFMIN) said the signal came in 2023 and was judged to be "weak". The office said it received around 300,000 signals every year. New sexual allegations have also emerged, regarding not just Barella, but his father and brother, too. On Wednesday, Barella's brother Yannick was placed under investigation for rape following complaints by two women, one of whom was a minor at the time of the alleged crime. The other woman is his former partner. Yannick was taken into custody this week when he went to police to complain of defamation. He denies the allegations against him. The Barellas' father Joël, 71, is also under investigation after state prosecutors in Béziers this week re-opened a 2019 case in which he is alleged to have sexually abused his partner's granddaughter. A second granddaughter has also made allegations of abuse in French media. He has always denied the allegations. Jérôme Barella's daughter was a friend of Lyhanna, who was seen in his car on the Friday of her disappearance after being let out of school. He was arrested three days later and her body found on a nearby farm eight days ago. A horrific crime turned into a national scandal as France realised the scale of official blunders that had left Barella at liberty. He had already been identified in three separate sex abuse cases when he was denounced in August last year for the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl called Rosa. Medical examination showed the girl's claims to be true. But justice officials and gendarmes acted so slowly that over the next nine months Barella was not even contacted. Reuters French Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin has resisted calls for his resignation The case has emerged at a

A police source said the investigation is looking at whether the shooters are part of a broader, city-wide network of “shooters-for-hire”. Photograph: Toronto Police Service/AP View image in fullscreen A police source said the investigation is looking at whether the shooters are part of a broader, c…

Police officers stand outside the Bell hotel in Epping in July 2025 after protests following the arrest of the asylum seeker Hadush Kebatu. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA View image in fullscreen Police officers stand outside the Bell hotel in Epping in July 2025 after protests following the arrest of the asylum seeker Hadush Kebatu. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Asylum seekers removed from Essex hotel targeted by far right as Home Office ends contract Bell hotel in Epping was scene of violent protests after asylum seeker living there sexually assaulted girl and woman Asylum seekers have been removed from the Epping hotel that became a flashpoint for anti-immigration protests across England last summer as the Home Office terminates its contract with the establishment. The hotel on the outskirts of the Essex town was the scene of increasingly large protests after an asylum seeker who was living there sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman. Those protests were exploited by far-right activists and became a prelude to nights of violent clashes with police. However, local people were taken by surprise on Thursday night when Epping district council released a statement saying it had become aware that the Home Office had removed all residents from the hotel. The council said on Friday morning that the Home Office had confirmed that it was terminating its contract with the Bell Hotel and it would cease being used on 11 July. The Home Office said on Thursday night that staff and asylum seekers had been removed from the hotel due to fire and safety concerns as a precautionary measure but declined to say whether there were plans for them to return after the work was completed. View image in fullscreen People protest outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, on 11 November. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty People who had opposed far-right activity in the area privately expressed concern that the council had released the statement before there was clarity about future plans for the hotel, saying it effectively created a situation where residents could not return even if their removal was originally to be temporary while the work was carried out. The high court ruled in November that asylum seekers can continue to be housed at the Essex hotel. Lawyers for the local district council had sought a permanent injunction against the use of the Bell hotel in Epping, arguing at the high court it was a “feeding ground for unrest and protest”. Hadush Kebatu, the asylum seeker at the hotel who sexually assaulted the woman and the teenager, was deported to Ethiopia in October. Protests have continued intermittently outside the hotel, where two security guards were assaulted in what police described as a “racially motivated attack” during the summer. Police were also attacked and made dozens of arrests as the protests spilled over into violence in July. A Home Office spokesperson said: “The government is removing the incentives drawing illegal migrants to Britain. That is why we wil

Toledo police investigate a shooting that left 12 people injured at the Old West End festival in Toledo, Ohio, on 6 June. Photograph: Rebecca Benson/The Blade/AP View image in fullscreen Toledo police investigate a shooting that left 12 people injured at the Old West End festival in Toledo, Ohio, on 6 June. Photograph: Rebecca Benson/The Blade/AP Police arrest suspect in shooting at Ohio festival that wounded 12 Eljay Crisp-Carr was arrested on Thursday, and police are still searching for another suspect in Toledo shooting Police in Ohio have arrested a suspect in a recent shooting that wounded 12 people at a crowded weekend neighborhood street festival. Eljay Crisp-Carr, 20, was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with 11 counts of felonious assault. Court documents do not list an attorney for him, and no one answered a call to a phone number associated with him on Friday morning. Authorities had also issued an arrest warrant for the other suspect, Ka Nye Taylor, but he had not been caught as of Friday. Phone numbers for Taylor or his family members were not available or found in online directories. Texas shooting leaves one person dead and nine others in hospital Read more The gunfire in Toledo broke out on 6 June during the Old West End festival at a park filled with tents, music and food trucks in a neighborhood dotted with Victorian homes. Police said a fight between rival groups apparently escalated into two people shooting at each other, although they were not among the wounded. In a criminal complaint filed in Toledo municipal court, a detective described video showing Crisp-Carr participating in the fight. After another man started shooting, Crisp-Carr moved away from the group but then turned and opened fire himself, the detective wrote. He was seen firing indiscriminately into the crowd, the detective wrote. The detective said she used witness statements, social media and law enforcement photos to identify Crisp-Carr. Hundreds of people were attending the annual festival in a historic district of Toledo, a city on the western edge of Lake Erie about 55 miles (90km) south-west of Detroit. Organizers canceled the event’s second day because of the shooting. The violence sent terrified bystanders fleeing while others rushed to help the injured alongside medics and police. The victims ranged from teenagers to one person in their 60s. At a news conference on Tuesday, the police chief and other city officials praised officers and good Samaritans who quickly offered help to the victims. “We saw strangers who were shocked and frightened by the violence they just saw, they jumped into action,” said the local chief of fire and rescue, Allison Armstrong. “They helped others by placing tourniquets, dressing wounds, applying pressure and comforting those victims until additional help could arrive.” According to the non-partisan Gun Violence Archive , as of Friday, the Toledo shooting was among more than 180 mass shootings in the US so far thi

Riot police arrive at the scene of a fire lit by anti-immigration protesters in Belfast. Photograph: Lab Mo/Sopa Images/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Riot police arrive at the scene of a fire lit by anti-immigration protesters in Belfast. Photograph: Lab Mo/Sopa Images/Shutterstock Belfast r…

A police source said the investigation is looking at whether the shooters are part of a broader, city-wide network of “shooters-for-hire”. Photograph: Toronto Police Service/AP View image in fullscreen A police source said the investigation is looking at whether the shooters are part of a broader, c…

French town buries murdered child as questions mount over police failings 36 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Hugh Schofield In Paris EPA An 11-year-old girl called Lyhanna, murdered two weeks ago in south-western France, has been buried amid persistent public anger at failings that left her suspected killer at large. Fellow residents joined the girl's family for a funeral ceremony before she was interred in the cemetery of the small town of Fleurance, 50km (30 miles) west of Toulouse. Mayors across the broader Gers region called on people to gather in support of the family outside town halls, where flags were flown at half-mast. Lyhanna's murder provoked a wave of revulsion across France after it emerged prime suspect Jérôme Barella, 41, was denounced nine months ago to police for alleged repeated sexual abuse of a 10-year-old. Murder of Lyhanna, 11, enrages France and turns up heat on government He was not questioned even once by investigators. And, according to newspaper Le Monde, US authorities had alerted French police after Barella's online activity suggested he could be accessing images that showed child sex abuse. French police only discovered this after conducting a trawl for Barella's name following his arrest last week. The French National Office for Minors (OFMIN) said the signal came in 2023 and was judged to be "weak". The office said it received around 300,000 signals every year. New sexual allegations have also emerged, regarding not just Barella, but his father and brother, too. On Wednesday, Barella's brother Yannick was placed under investigation for rape following complaints by two women, one of whom was a minor at the time of the alleged crime. The other woman is his former partner. Yannick was taken into custody this week when he went to police to complain of defamation. He denies the allegations against him. The Barellas' father Joël, 71, is also under investigation after state prosecutors in Béziers this week re-opened a 2019 case in which he is alleged to have sexually abused his partner's granddaughter. A second granddaughter has also made allegations of abuse in French media. He has always denied the allegations. Jérôme Barella's daughter was a friend of Lyhanna, who was seen in his car on the Friday of her disappearance after being let out of school. He was arrested three days later and her body found on a nearby farm eight days ago. A horrific crime turned into a national scandal as France realised the scale of official blunders that had left Barella at liberty. He had already been identified in three separate sex abuse cases when he was denounced in August last year for the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl called Rosa. Medical examination showed the girl's claims to be true. But justice officials and gendarmes acted so slowly that over the next nine months Barella was not even contacted. Reuters French Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin has resisted calls for his resignation The case has emerged at a

Police pass burnt-out cars on a street in Belfast on Friday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Police pass burnt-out cars on a street in Belfast on Friday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Number of arrests after riots in Northern Ireland rises to 19 Police call for calm before anti-racist protests in Belfast and Glasgow as MPs warn of failure over online misinformation Police said 19 people, including a 16-year-old boy, had now been arrested after two nights of rioting in Northern Ireland following a knife attack earlier in the week. The violence broke out after far-right activists called for demonstrations in response to the attack, which was captured in a graphic video. Masked men burned vehicles and houses and blocked roads hours after Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson and other agitators encouraged people to take to the streets on Tuesday. On Wednesday, police used plastic bullets and water cannon after crowds attacked police with rocks and petrol bombs. Concerns have been raised about messages encouraging disorder being spread online and forwarded over messaging apps. A committee of MPs on Friday warned that the government had failed to tackle the spread of misinformation online. Chi Onwurah, the chair of the science, innovation and technology committee, said: “Unrest in Belfast shows that the government hasn’t done enough to tackle the scale and speed of the algorithmic amplification of misinformation online.” In a letter to the technology secretary, Liz Kendall, Onwurah accused the government of ignoring the committee’s warning that social media algorithms had driven previous violent unrest in Southport by amplifying harmful and misleading content. Onwurah said: “My committee warned in a report last year that the Online Safety Act was inadequate and riddled with regulatory gaps.” The letter said: “The government and Ofcom should now force social media companies to take steps during crises to tackle the viral algorithmic amplification of not just illegal content, but also content that may help to drive unrest – such as by spreading false information about an incident – without meeting the bar for illegality.” The Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Thursday night was “much calmer” with only “lower-level disturbances” compared with the disorder of the previous two nights, and along with Police Scotland appealed for calm before anti-racist demonstrations planned in Belfast and Glasgow. The PSNI assistant chief constable Ryan Henderson said: “Thankfully, the situation was much calmer than we have seen in recent days. Our policing operation will remain over the weekend to ensure public order is maintained.” The victim of the knife attack, Stephen Ogilvie, who suffered deep cuts and lost an eye, remained in an induced coma on Friday but his condition was said to be improving. A Sudanese national, Hadi Alodid, 30, appeared in court on Wednesday charged with attempted murder over the attack. A number of anti-racism eve

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Jermiah Copeland admitted to strangling Angelina Resendiz (pictured) to death. Photograph: Obtained by The Guardian View image in fullscreen Jermiah Copeland admitted to strangling Angelina Resendiz (pictured) to death. Photograph: Obtained by The Guardian US navy member sentenced to 44 years in pri…

Two migrants jailed under new small boats law Just now Share Save Add as preferred on Google Sean Seddon and Dominic Casciani , Home and Legal Correspondent CPS Mohammad Tajik (L) and Alnour Mohamed Ali (R) were jailed for piloting small boats across the Channel Two men have become the first to be jailed under a new law targeting people who risk the safety of others by piloting small boats across the Channel. Alnour Mohamed Ali, a Sudanese national, was given a 27-month sentence having previously admitted to steering an extremely crowded dinghy carrying 74 people in April. A second man, Afghan national Tajik Mohammed, was given a two-year sentence after pleading guilty to piloting a vessel across the Channel during poor weather conditions in January. Both admitted to endangering lives at sea under the new Border, Security, Asylum and Immigration Act, which came into force earlier this year. It makes causing or risking the death or serious injury of a person at sea in a small boat a crime, a law designed to target people in charge of vessels which have illegally carried more than 200,000 people to the UK since 2018. While the defendants were charged over separate incidents, they were sentenced together on Wednesday at Canterbury Crown Court due to the similarity of their offences. The court was played drone footage of both vessels the defendants admitted steering. In the case of Ali, 26, the boat was so full people could be seen clinging onto the edges, some with their legs dangling in the water. Many of those on board during the 9 April crossing were not wearing life jackets. CPS Ali, circled in the image above, on board a small boat on 9 April French officials previously said two men and two women drowned off the coast of northern France while trying to get into the boat, but British prosecutors now accept he was not responsible for those deaths. At the time, French authorities said more than 40 people were rescued from the water at Equihen-Plage, near Boulogne-sur-Mer. Ali's barrister said there had been "misreporting" around those deaths, which had resulted in "severe repercussions" for his client. He accused the National Crime Agency of "wrongly informing the media" Ali was culpable. The sentencing judge Recorder Simon James agreed that the suggestion from British authorities that Ali was responsible for the deaths amounted to "misinformation". Separately, the court was shown footage of Tajik, 32, with his hand on the tiller of a small boat which embarked on a Channel crossing during foggy conditions on 17 January. CPS Tajik piloted a small boat in the Channel on 17 January Several of those inside the crowded boat were not wearing life jackets despite the wintry conditions. 'At the mercy of the sea' Wednesday's double-hearing also laid bare the circumstances in which some migrants decide to risk the Channel crossing. The court was told Ali fled Sudan in 2019 after his village was targeted by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, an armed gro

U.S. and Iran exchange strikes after Apache helicopter is downed, takeaways from Tuesday's primaries in four states, House Republicans approve a bill to fund ICE for the remainder of Trump's term.

The U.S. and Iran have exchanged strikes after a helicopter was downed Monday near the Strait of Hormuz. And, House Republicans have passed a bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol through Trump's term.

Mohammad Tajik (circled), who pleaded guilty in April, abandoned the dinghy he was piloting in January when a rescue ship arrived. Photograph: CPS/PA View image in fullscreen Mohammad Tajik (circled), who pleaded guilty in April, abandoned the dinghy he was piloting in January when a rescue ship arr…

A police cordon near the scene of Monday night’s knife attack in the Kinnaird Avenue area of north Belfast. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters View image in fullscreen A police cordon near the scene of Monday night’s knife attack in the Kinnaird Avenue area of north Belfast. Photograph: Isabel Infa…

Jermiah Copeland admitted to strangling Angelina Resendiz (pictured) to death. Photograph: Obtained by The Guardian View image in fullscreen Jermiah Copeland admitted to strangling Angelina Resendiz (pictured) to death. Photograph: Obtained by The Guardian US navy member sentenced to 44 years in prison for killing female sailor Jermiah Copeland had admitted killing Angelina Resendiz, attacking another sailor and illegally recording another Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A member of the US navy has been ordered to spend 44 years in federal prison after admitting that he fatally strangled a fellow sailor in his barracks room, violently squeezed the neck of a second woman onboard an aircraft carrier and illegally made secret video recordings of a third, including while they were being intimate. Meanwhile, the family of the petty officer whom Jermiah Copeland acknowledged murdering, Angelina Resendiz, has called for reforms within the armed forces meant to better protect women serving in the military. Aspects of Resendiz’s slaying evoke the case of the US army soldier Vanessa Guillén , whose 2020 murder at a Texas base prompted the military to overhaul its policies against sexual assault and harassment. Serial rapist ex-NFL player transferred from prison to halfway house Read more According to the US Naval Institute (USNI), an independent, non-profit watchdog, Resendiz was last known to be alive in her barracks room at Virginia’s Naval Station Norfolk. Investigators found her body two weeks later in woods about 10 miles (16km) from the base. They came to suspect Copeland – a 21-year-old culinary specialist – had killed Resendiz in his room at the barracks, concealed her corpse in his closet for days and then discarded her body in the woods. During a two-day court proceeding that began on Monday, Copeland admitted to a military judge that he had indeed killed Resendiz, a native of Mexia, Texas, and also a culinary specialist. He said he did that amid a night of imbibing and kissing in his room, as the Virginia news outlet WTKR reported . Copeland wanted his shipmate on the guided-missile destroyer USS James E Williams to be quiet after a notification on his telephone upset her, used his hands to strangle her to death after she fell to the floor and eventually brought her to woods in Norfolk’s Broad Creek area, he said. He acknowledged he later lied to Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents looking into what happened to Resendiz by telling them he had brought her to her room alive, according to WTKR. Furthermore, Copeland conceded that he compressed the neck of another woman in July 2024 onboard the USS Harry S Truman. And he confessed to illicitly, furtively recording a woman in a bathroom stall as well as her and him having sex. Copeland ultimately declared himself guilty in a general court-martial of unpremeditated murder and making a false official statement in connection with Resendiz. He apologized to his and Resendiz’s fa