uk cases

A serving police officer in the diplomatic branch has been arrested and charged with the suspected kidnap and murder of a missing woman, Sarah Everard. Ms Everard, 33, was last seen a week ago in Clapham, south London, on her way home from a friend's house. Remains hae now been found in...

I would like to start a discussion of at least four related cases: Birmingham Six, Guildford Four, Maguire Seven, and Judith Ward. There may be others that I missed. My main focus will be on the problems in the forensics, including issues of recording and disclosing data. I will add comments...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-42399802 Do the UK police ever apologize after screwing someone over like that or does that just lead to more problems for them if their victim sues?

News that Levi Bellfield, already convicted murderer, has made a confession to killing Lin and Megan Russell in Kent in 1996. The admission, to another prisoner, allegedly contains details only the killer would know. Then there is also a witness who says she reported seeing a man, who she now...

Trevor Gray was a police detective convicted of rape, his wife launched her own investigation, got him a retrial, and he was exonerated. A police board recommended his reinstatement. So all good in the end? Not exactly: Oh and: Full story here...

I'd forgotten about this case until Ricky Tomlinson was on the radio today talking about his campaign to have his and the rest of the Shrewsbury 24s' convictions overturned. For the uninitiated, the Shrewsbury 24 were flying pickets that were jailed for allegedly committing all manner of...

In 1993 Susan May, then aged 48, was convicted of the murder of her aunt, Hilda Marchbank, at the latter's home in Royton. Ms. May was her aunt's principal carer and visited her several times a day; it was she who discovered the body and called the police. Initially the murder was thought to...