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Mum says she drove 3 times past car crash where daughter lay with dead friends

Sophie Russon, 20, was one of five in a car that crashed in South Wales killing three of her friends and now her mum has told how she drove "three times" past the site as she desperately looked for her

Daily Mirror · Mar 6, 2023

Tributes paid to three killed in car crash

Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21 and Rafel Jeanne, 24, died in the accident while Sophie Russon, 20, and Shane Loughlin, 32, were injured.

The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2023

Revealed: How Wayne Couzens joked about rape in horrific WhatsApp messages with colleagues

Messages from two years before murder of Sarah Everard show comments about sexually assaulting women

The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2023

Chris Kaba: Family demand answers six months on from police shooting

‘We have waited for six months already for the decision. We don’t want to wait for another six months’ - Helen Lumuanganu, Chris Kaba’s mother

Evening Standard · Mar 3, 2023

Family of Chris Kaba want action six months on from police shooting

Mr Kaba, 24, was killed on September 5 after a police pursuit of his car which ended in Streatham Hill, London.

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023

Mayor Sadiq Khan backs probe into ‘regretful sex’ rape claim against Sir Stephen House

Former Scotland Yard chief Sir Stephen House said he finds the phrase ‘regretful sex’ abhorrent

Evening Standard · Mar 2, 2023

Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'

The force said the alleged comments are “wholly unacceptable”, and referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).

Daily Record · Mar 1, 2023

Man freed from jail in Kenya after being convicted with Met officer’s ‘hearsay’ evidence

Former senior Met detective also allegedly ommitted forensic evidence from Kenyan court, says police watchdog

Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2023

PC accused of assaulting man who climbed 15-storey tower block to escape police

A Metropolitan Police officer will face assault charges over the arrest of a man who clambered up the side of a 15-storey tower block in a dramatic police chase.

Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2023

Police and paramedics identify 'valuable learnings' after mum was found dead days after they were called to her home

Jane Simeone, 48, was found dead at her home in Tameside following a drug overdose - a coroner has now said he cannot be sure what her intentions were

Manchester Evening News · Feb 24, 2023