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Guidance on police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity should change, Cooper says

Home secretary says Law Commission is looking into change amid row over case of alleged rape in Warwickshire

The Guardian - UK · Aug 5, 2025

Ex-Arsenal star Thomas Partey accused of eight rapes at £6m mansion and Spanish hotel, court hears

The Ghana international faces four rape charges involving a single alleged attack, and one ‘multiple incident’ charge involving ‘at least four occasions’, the court heard

Evening Standard · Aug 4, 2025

Man, 76, to appear in court over summer camp ‘poisoning’

Leicestershire Police said it received a report on Sunday that children at a summer camp at Stathern Lodge had become unwell.

Evening Standard · Aug 1, 2025

Celebrity osteopath unmasked as serial voyeur jailed after spying on 2,000 women

Torben Stig Hersborg, 64, was caught with a telescope and video camera parked outside student accommodation in north London in December.

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025

Husband who stabbed wife to death as she pushed their baby in pram jailed for 28 years

The family of murder victim Kulsuma Akter have said in a statement “we will never forgive the monster who took Kulsuma from us.”

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025

The Guardian view on private prosecutions: access to justice should not depend on people’s ability to pay

Editorial: An option that should provide a safety valve when the state falls short appears to be increasingly a tool for businesses – sometimes to draconian effect

The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2025

Grenfell Tower campaigners hit out at delay to possible banning of firms criticised in inquiry

Ministers have confirmed a pause in possible public contract bans for seven firms ‘to prevent any impact on criminal investigations’

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2025

Ministers accused of betrayal after pausing Grenfell contract investigations

Government has paused possible public contract bans for seven firms to avoid prejudicing criminal inquiries

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2025

Grenfell United accuses Government of ‘shameless betrayal’ over bans probe pause

The group said the Government ‘failed to do its basic due diligence’ in engaging with police and prosecutors before announcing its own investigation.

Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2025

Police officer denies he ‘lost control’ in aftermath of alleged airport assault

Pc Zachary Marsden was being cross-examined about an incident at Manchester Airport in July last year.

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2025