I’ve done story after story (as have my peeps here) on the myriad attempts by Keir Starmer and his Labour toadies to bury the disgusting, enraging, and well-documented actions of predominantly Pakistani ‘rape gangs’ preying on young, working-class British girls. The government was desperate to bury the issue and mollify their Islamic voting base, even...
Rachel Reeves has insisted ministers “never dismissed the concerns of victims” of grooming gangs, as she defended the decision to launch a national inquiry after months of pressure. The chancellor said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was focused on victims “and not grandstanding”. Sir Keir has faced criticism for resisting calls for such an inquiry,...
Seven men have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped and assaulted in Rochdale for five years. The gang was convicted at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court of various sexual offences against the girls between 2001 and 2006. The victims were groomed from the age of 13 and treated...
Europol The EU police agency Europol released footage of suspects being arrested on the Spanish islands A major cocaine smuggling operation that used a network of speedboats to transport drugs from South America to the Canary Islands has been taken down, police have said. Almost four tonnes of cocaine trafficked from Brazil and Colombia were...
Two Scottish men with links to criminal gangs have been shot dead at a bar in Spain. BBC Scotland understands they are Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan, who was previously acquitted of a notorious gangland murder. They both died when a masked gunman opened fired at Monaghans Bar in Fuengirola in Andalusia on Saturday...
AFC Wimbledon travel to Wembley to face Walsall on Monday following a 2-0 aggregate victory over Notts County, reaching the final with a 1-0 victory at their own Cherry Red Records Stadium, just a short distance from the old club’s original Plough Lane home. It is their second trip to the national stadium, nine years...
Eight people have been found guilty after US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint of millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery in Paris nearly a decade ago. The four who took part in the heist were given prison sentences of up to eight years, but most of these terms were suspended. Two...
A masked gang have tried to abduct the daughter and young grandson of a cryptocurrency chief in Paris, but after a violent struggle they drove off empty-handed. The botched kidnap bid was captured on video by an onlooker in Paris’s 11th district, in the east of the French capital. Police sources said the woman was...
Will Grant BBC Mexico correspondent BBC Alberto Salagan “really felt lost” when he was deported from the US to Mexico When Alberto Salagan was deported from the US in January it was the first time he’d stepped foot in Mexico since he was a baby. Born in the coastal resort of Acapulco, his parents took...
Two more members of a drugs supply network known as Scouse Dave have been jailed. The Liverpool-based county lines gang peddled crack cocaine and heroin in Gosport and Plymouth, Portsmouth Crown Court heard. On Friday, Paul Naughton, 30, of no fixed address, was jailed for six years after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy...
Alex Moss BBC News, Yorkshire South Yorkshire Police Valentin Badica (from left), Ionica Badica and Cristian Damaschin were all jailed for their roles in the gang Members of a “dangerous” organised crime group have been sentenced for their part in a prostitution ring trafficking women into the UK from Romania. The “nationwide enterprise” saw 14...
The Maryland cop who first linked Kilmar Abrego Garcia to alleged gang activity in 2019 was placed on a “do not call” list published by Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy in 2021 — meaning he was deemed unfit to testify in state court due to criminal charges filed against him for sharing confidential...
British man’s tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of a notorious Venezuelan gang – despite the man having no connection to the group. Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked...
Hundreds of recently deported immigrants were labeled as gang members despite having no criminal histories. Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s so-called “border czar,” has said that nothing more than the word of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is needed to prove that a noncitizen living in the U.S. is a gang member, and...
Dave Allen RIP We are sorry to hear of the passing of Dave Allen, the bassist with the game-changing band, Gang Of Four. Dave’s bass was the core of the band’s sound, which became influential in the late seventies. His jet propelled funk bass lines straddled the incendiary power of punk and the groove of...