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11 people convicted after the murder of 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah

11 people convicted after the murder of 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah

11 people have been convicted of murder after 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah was killed in Moss Side, Manchester on 12 May 2016. The gang chased Hafidah until he was exhausted and hit with a car by one of the assailants, knocking him on the ground. Once on the floor, Abdul was viciously attacked by the group with punches, kicks and stamps.
Aug 9, 2017
By Staff Reporter
11 people convicted after the murder of 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah

11 people convicted after the murder of 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah

11 people have been convicted of murder after 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah was killed in Moss Side, Manchester on 12 May 2016. The gang chased Hafidah until he was exhausted and hit with a car by one of the assailants, knocking him on the ground. Once on the floor, Abdul was viciously attacked by the group with punches, kicks and stamps.
Aug 9, 2017
By Staff Reporter
11 people convicted after the murder of 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah

11 people convicted after the murder of 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah

11 people have been convicted of murder after 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah was killed in Moss Side, Manchester on 12 May 2016. The gang chased Hafidah until he was exhausted and hit with a car by one of the assailants, knocking him on the ground. Once on the floor, Abdul was viciously attacked by the group with punches, kicks and stamps.
Aug 9, 2017
By Staff Reporter
Police appeal for jogger who pushed woman in front of bus

Police appeal for jogger who pushed woman in front of bus

Police have released dramatic CCTV footage of the moment a jogger appeared to push a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in Putney on 5 May. The 33-year-old victim was walking across Putney Bridge on the east side heading towards Putney Bridge Tube Station, when a male jogger knocked her over into the road and into the path of an oncoming bus, which narrowly missed hitting her.
Aug 8, 2017
By Staff Reporter
Police appeal for jogger who pushed woman in front of bus

Police appeal for jogger who pushed woman in front of bus

Police have released dramatic CCTV footage of the moment a jogger appeared to push a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in Putney on 5 May. The 33-year-old victim was walking across Putney Bridge on the east side heading towards Putney Bridge Tube Station, when a male jogger knocked her over into the road and into the path of an oncoming bus, which narrowly missed hitting her.
Aug 8, 2017
By Staff Reporter
Police appeal for jogger who pushed woman in front of bus

Police appeal for jogger who pushed woman in front of bus

Police have released dramatic CCTV footage of the moment a jogger appeared to push a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in Putney on 5 May. The 33-year-old victim was walking across Putney Bridge on the east side heading towards Putney Bridge Tube Station, when a male jogger knocked her over into the road and into the path of an oncoming bus, which narrowly missed hitting her.
Aug 8, 2017
By Staff Reporter
Kidnapped British model freed from Bitcoin sex slave auction in Milan

Kidnapped British model freed from Bitcoin sex slave auction in Milan

A British model was kidnapped and held captive for six days in Italy. The 20-year-old woman was drugged and put into a suitcase by a Polish national on 11 July. Lukasz Herba is accused of luring the woman to Milan with a fake photoshoot. He threatened to auction her off on the dark web as a sex slave. Italian media reports that Herba has links to the Black Death criminal organisation. He eventually dropped the woman off at the British consulate in Milan. The woman has a two-year-old child and may have been released because gangs rules; prevent them from trafficking mothers.
Aug 6, 2017
By Staff Reporter
Acid attack victim calls for tougher sentences

Acid attack victim calls for tougher sentences

Acid attacks in England have doubled over the past five years, with 503 attacks recorded so far in 2017. In the last 12 months, police have recorded 446 attacks in London alone.
Aug 4, 2017
By Staff Reporter
Brave unarmed police officers chase machete-wielding man

Brave unarmed police officers chase machete-wielding man

West Midlands Police has praised two plain clothed police officers who chased down a machete-wielding man in Birmingham on 13 September, 2016. Footage uploaded to West Midlands Police YouTube account on 2 August shows a man brandishing a two-foot long blade and approaching the two police officers. Police state that the man wielding the machete was a 20-year-old who shouted at the pair come on Ill chop you up. In the caption of the video, police confirm that the man was successfully wrestled to the ground and the machete was seized.Both officers received a commendation from West Midlands Polices Chief Constable – and the man was later detained indefinitely in a mental health facility.
Aug 2, 2017
By Staff Reporter
What is fentanyl, the opioid drug 50 times stronger than heroin?

What is fentanyl, the opioid drug 50 times stronger than heroin?

Fentanyl is an extremely potent synthetic opioid, typically used as a painkiller. However, in recent years it has been mixed with heroin and other street opioids, leading to an increase in overdoses across the world. Fentanyl is 100 times stronger than street heroin, with some variants such as Carfentanyl thought to be 10,000 times stronger.
Aug 2, 2017
By Staff Reporter
CCTV footage shows dramatic armed bank robbery in London

CCTV footage shows dramatic armed bank robbery in London

The robbery in Teddington took place on 10 March. The gun wielding suspect made off with £150 ($198), despite being confronted and tackled by a staff member at the bank. Police are now appealing for more information about the incident, and released this footage on 1 August to try and identify the suspect.
Aug 1, 2017
By Staff Reporter
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