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Salisbury novichok poisonings timeline: How Russian spy incident unfolded in 2018

Dawn Sturgess was killed by the Russian nerve agent, while a police officer and a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned

The Independent UK

Government will look at ‘full details’ in case of paedophile nursery worker

Minister Josh MacAlister told BBC Breakfast that children are safe at nursery after the conviction of Vincent Chan.

Evening Standard

Facial recognition to be expanded across the country in fresh crime crackdown

Critics called on the government to limit roll-out of facial recognition, but others have urged ministers to accelerate the expansion to ‘boost safety’

The Independent UK

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Paedophile nursery worker admits filming himself abusing children

Vincent Chan, 45, of Stanhope Avenue, Finchley, north London, admitted 26 offences at Wood Green Crown Court including sexual abuse of children.

Evening Standard

Sarah Everard’s mother ‘still tormented’ by murdered daughter’s final hours

Susan Everard says she ‘rages’ against the killing by Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens

The Independent UK

Sarah Everard’s mother ‘still full of rage’ over daughter’s rape and murder

Sue Everard speaks of ‘torment’ as a report finds women and girls are being failed

Evening Standard

‘Lives are at stake’: Predators like Wayne Couzens ‘still being given police jobs’ after murder of Sarah Everard

Elish Angiolini has called for leaders to ‘get a move on’ to protect women in public spaces, as Sarah Everard’s mother Susan, says she is still tormented by the horrors of her daughter’s final hours

The Independent UK

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Urgent police search for man, 79, missing from London hospital

Metropolitan Police said public may notice an increase in officers as they attempt to locate pensioner

Evening Standard

Moment police find trafficked Romanian nationals forced to work in car wash

Metropolitan Police officers discovered eight Romanian nationals who had been forced to work in a car wash.

The Independent UK

Seventh Met Police officer filmed in TV exposé sacked for appalling anti-Muslim slurs

Scotland Yard rebuked BBC Panorama ‘once again’ over the late disclosure of unaired footage

Evening Standard

Met Police chief and London mayor hail ‘enduring’ legacy of Damilola Taylor 25 years on from killing

Family of tragic Damilola, 10, join forces with Sir Mark Rowley and Sir Sadiq Khan to fight knife crime across London

Evening Standard

Man charged with murdering two women and raping another appears in court

Simon Levy is alleged to have killed one of the women during a sexual encounter

The Independent UK

Man charged with murder of two women and rape of a third in spate of London incidents

Police are appealing for information as part of a ‘complex’ investigation

The Independent UK

Palestine Action protest sees at least 90 arrested

Metropolitan Police confirmed at least 90 people were detained while protesting government actions banning activist group Palestine Action, on Saturday (22 November).

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Police believe 'depraved' predator who groomed children on Snapchat has 'many' other victims

Man described by the Metropolitan Police as ‘one of the most prolific and depraved sexual predators seen in recent years’ has been jailed for 18 years

Evening Standard

David Carrick: 'Monster' ex-Met Police officer handed fresh life sentence for rapes and abuse

Ex-Met Police PC David Carrick was found guilty of further rapes and sexual assaults after an Old Bailey trial

Evening Standard

Predator Met Police officer David Carrick guilty of further rapes and sex assaults

David Carrick was found guilty by the Old Bailey jury which deliberated for more than five hours

The Guardian - UK

London businessman jailed for life after filming his sex attacks on women

Chao Xu, 33, may be one of worst sex offenders in British criminal history, police fear

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Evening Standard

Rapist thought to be among ‘most prolific sex offenders of all time’ is jailed

The Metropolitan Police said Chao Xu filmed himself ‘raping and sexually assaulting women who appear to be unconscious or heavily incapacitated’.

The Independent UK

‘Calculated’ predator who spiked and raped students jailed as police fear there could be hundreds more victims

Chao Xu had also filmed and upskirted hundreds of other victims around London

Evening Standard

Serial rapist Chao Xu jailed for life for raping women he drugged with a Chinese potion

Chinese national Chao Xu - dubbed one of London’s worst sex offenders - drugged women with special drink to ‘act out his deviant sexual fantasies’

Evening Standard

London serial rapist who drugged victims and filmed attacks faces jail for catalogue of crimes

Chao Xu was a ‘bold and persistent sexual predator’ who used a special brew of booze and Chinese medicines to drug women so that he could rape them

Evening Standard

Police brace for clashes as protesters and counter-protesters set for Bob Vylan north London gig

The Metropolitan Police has placed restrictions on the planned protests to prevent disorder

Evening Standard

Moment ‘bitcoin queen’ fraud arrested in her bed as she’s jailed over £5bn stash

Zhimin Qian and Seng Hok Ling were sentenced following a multibillion-pound fraudulent Bitcoin scheme

The Independent UK

How Chinese fraudster involved in £5.5 billion Bitcoin scam evaded UK authorities for six years

Zhimin Qian, 47, was arrested in April 2024 in what has been described as the UK’s largest cryptocurrency seizure

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