Author: Darren Smith

One in three Britons now believe police treat ethnic minorities more favourably than white people — a proportion that has doubled in two years — in the most damning evidence yet of the impact Henry Nowak’s murder has had on public trust in the criminal justice system. A survey of 2,087 people conducted by More In Common, reported by GB News, found that 34 per cent of respondents believed ethnic minorities received preferential treatment from police, compared with just 21 per cent who thought white people were treated more favourably. The doubling of the two-tier policing figure in two years…

A technology chief executive has been found stabbed to death at his £2.5 million gated family home in a quiet Warwickshire village, with a woman arrested on suspicion of his murder in the hours that followed in a case that has left his colleagues, neighbours and elderly father in a state of shock. Neil Muller, 54, who had only recently been appointed chief executive of technology firm Node4, was found with stab wounds to his chest at his five-bedroom property in the village of Claverdon in the early hours of Sunday morning. Paramedics were called at 6.15am but Muller was…

Residents have been evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night and a 100-metre cordon put in place after police searching a property in Chelmsford, Essex, discovered items requiring specialist attention in connection with a suspected explosives offence. Essex Police arrested a 34-year-old man from Chelmsford on suspicion of an offence under Section 4 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 — which covers the making or possession of explosive substances under suspicious circumstances — ahead of executing a warrant at a property on Meadgate Avenue on Tuesday evening. A 33-year-old woman from Ongar was also arrested. Both remain…

The victim of the attempted beheading in north Belfast has been identified as Stephen Ogilvie, believed to be 44, who suffered devastating injuries to his eyes, neck and back in a frenzied knife attack that sparked the worst civil disorder the city has seen in years — with homes, buses, cars and bins set ablaze overnight as masked rioters took to the streets. Ogilvie, who has lived in a first-floor flat in the Kinnaird Avenue area for around a year and a half, was photographed for the first time as harrowing details emerged of the scale of his injuries. Footage…

The man accused of killing 15 people in a shooting attack on a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach has been charged with 19 additional offences, bringing the total number of charges against him to 78 as Australia continues to grapple with one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks in the country’s history. Naveed Akram, 24, was already facing 59 charges including 15 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of committing a terrorist act following the shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025. Court records seen by the BBC reveal that 19 further charges were…

A Massachusetts mayor has been served a harassment prevention order after a mother stormed the stage at a high school graduation ceremony screaming accusations at him in front of the graduating class — in a confrontation that has triggered a state police investigation and a formal restraining order prohibiting him from coming within 100 yards of a student. The dramatic scenes unfolded at Brockton High School on Saturday as Mayor Moises Rodrigues addressed graduates of the city, located around 45 miles south of Boston. Video captured the moment an unidentified woman in a red minidress and large hoop earrings ran…

The United States military has carried out what it is describing as “self-defence strikes” against Iranian air defence and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz, after American forces determined that Iran was responsible for downing a US Army Apache helicopter in the area — with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards responding by launching a drone attack on the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and vowing heavier retaliation if American “aggression” continues. US Central Command confirmed its forces had “completed self-defence strikes against Iran,” saying the attacks were “a proportional response to recent attacks on US forces and international commercial ships transiting…

A judge has publicly condemned Labour’s sentencing reforms after he was forced to spare prison to a woman who stole more than £43,000 from her dementia-stricken mother to fund holidays, luxury cars and an Alsatian puppy — telling the court the suspended sentence was “lenient” and one he would not have imposed were it not for the Government’s new guidelines. Catherine Barningham, 49, an account manager earning £59,000 a year, had been appointed lasting power of attorney over her vulnerable 78-year-old mother Elizabeth Smith’s finances in 2015. She used that position of trust to plunder tens of thousands of pounds…

A courtroom fell silent before erupting in gasps as 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of fellow student Austin Metcalf, stabbed to death at a Texas high school track meet last year in a case that convulsed America with racial tension and bitter debate about self-defence law. Anthony sobbed as the sentence was handed down at Collin County courthouse on Tuesday, with his family bursting into tears beside him. The sentence came hours after the same jury found him guilty of murder following less than three hours of deliberation — and follows an…

France has been convulsed by the murder of an 11-year-old girl whose alleged killer had been reported to police nine months ago as a suspected sex offender — and was never once questioned — sparking mass protests across the country and mounting pressure on the government to explain how the system failed so catastrophically. More than 60,000 people took to the streets across France on Monday following the killing of Lyhanna, whose body was found at a farm approximately ten kilometres from the town of Fleurance in south-west France last Thursday. She had last been seen leaving school six days…