Three police officers in Kenya have been charged with the murder of a 31-year-old blogger who died in police custody earlier this month. Albert Ojwang’s death has sparked outrage in Kenya with protests held to demand justice. Mr Ojwang was arrested after Kenya’s deputy police chief Eliud Lagat filed a complaint, accusing the blogger of...
Boulder Police Department Mr Soliman allegedly told police that he wanted to kill all Zionists and targeted the group Immigration authorities have arrested the wife and children of the man suspected of carrying out Sunday’s attack in Boulder, Colorado, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Tuesday. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, has been charged...
Police Scotland A court heard Lauren Baird panicked before driving off A driver who dragged two police officers along a Highland road with her car after they had pulled her over has been jailed for 18 months. Lauren Baird, 43, of Aberdeen, was being asked why her vehicle was not insured when she had a...
Paul Seddon Political reporter Getty Images Prison officers dealing with violent inmates should be armed, the shadow justice secretary has said. Specialist guards should have Taser stun guns and baton rounds – a less lethal alternative to traditional bullets – to give them “confidence” in handling threats, Robert Jenrick told the BBC. The Conservatives said...
Mark Gordon assaulted two female police officers on a maternity ward after the birth of his first child and had to be detained using leg restraints, a court has heard. Gordon, 50, and Constance Marten, 38, deny the manslaughter by gross negligence of daughter Victoria, their fifth child, whose body was found in a shopping...
Jenny Coleman BBC News, Merseyside PA Media The officers were the first to arrive on Hart Street in Southport on 29 July 2024 Three police officers who were first on the scene to respond to the “unimaginable horror” of the Southport attacks have been nominated for National Police Bravery Awards. Sgt Gregory Gillespie, PC Luke...
Three former officers charged with murder in the fatal beating of a black man that triggered nationwide protests against police brutality have been acquitted by a state jury in Memphis, Tennessee. Tyre Nichols, who was beaten during a traffic stop in 2023, died three days after sustaining numerous blows to the head, according to a...
Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi PTI Himanshi Narwal (left) bid an emotional farewell to her husband, who was killed in the Pahalgam attack Two weeks ago, the photograph of a woman sitting motionless beside her husband’s body went viral across Indian social media. It captured a moment of unspeakable grief – one that came to...
Wedaeli Chibelushi & Pumza Fihlani BBC News, London & Johannesburg South Africa Police Service Constable Boipelo Senoge was among the three officers whose bodies were found in the river Police in South Africa are searching for answers after the bodies of three police officers – who had been missing for six days – were found...
Sanchia Berg and Tara Mewawalla BBC News BBC As they walked through arrivals at Manchester Airport, a couple seemed to be behaving oddly towards their baby. Something did not sit right with Border Force officers. One worried the relationship between the three was “not genuine”. Officers pulled the couple for questioning. The man, Raphael Ossai,...
Six police officers have been killed in Thailand after their plane crashed into the sea during a test flight for parachute training, police have said. The small plane was seen crashing into the water at around 08:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Friday in the Cha-am district, a coastal resort area some 130km (80 miles)...
Guy Lambert Society reporter BBC Police chiefs will be able to automatically sack officers who fail background checks, under new government measures to boost confidence in policing. Calls for a change to police vetting procedures began after an independent report into the murder of Sarah Everard by police officer Wayne Couzens in 2021. The new...
A personal trainer has admitted dangerous driving after seven officers were injured in a crash involving five police vehicles and a car. Mazyar Azarbonyad, of Sylvia Terrace in Stanley, County Durham, admitted a series of driving offences when he appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court. They included failing to stop after the crash on the A1...
Daniel De Simone Investigations correspondent Handout The families of (clockwise from top left) Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Megan Hurley, Eilidh MacLeod and Kelly Brewster say the situation was “beyond comprehension” The families of five people murdered by Hashem Abedi in the Manchester Arena bombing have told the justice secretary of their “absolute disbelief” that he...
The investigation into an attack on three prison officers at a high-security prison on Saturday remains ongoing, counter-terrorism police have said. Three officers were taken to hospital with “life-threatening injuries” after being attacked by Hashem Abedi, one of the men responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing, according to the Prison Officers’ Association (POA). The Prison...