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More than 100 convicted as part of Met crackdown on abuse of women

A new points-based system has been used to track down the worst suspected abusers of women in the capital.

Evening Standard

Murders of Playboy bunny and girl, 16, in London marked 50 years on as police continue hunt for double killer

DNA links killings of Eve Stratford, 22, and 16-year-old Lynne Weedon in 1975

Evening Standard

Metropolitan Police officer charged with rape and sexual assaults

PC Nick Whitcombe, a police constable in south London, allegedly attacked two women while off duty

Evening Standard

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Plea for billionaire’s son suspected of murdering woman in central London in 2008 to return to UK

Martine Vik Magnussen, 23, was raped and murdered after a night out with friends at the Maddox nightclub in Mayfair on March 14 2008

Evening Standard

Police issue message to billionaire’s murder-accused son: ‘Time to grow up’

Farouk Abdulhak fled the country before he was identified as the main suspect in the rape and murder of Martine Vik Magnussen in 2008

The Independent UK

Schoolgirl Elianne Andam's killer jailed for life for 'evil, monstrous' murder in teddy bear row

Hassan Sentamu murdered Elianne Andam outside the Whitgift Shopping Centre in Croydon

Evening Standard

Family of father-of-two battered to death with crutch in mass Tottenham brawl speak of their ‘heartbreak’

Police believe witnesses saw Gregory Castillo Volquez being attacked outside a block of flats in Tiverton Road but haven’t spoken to them

Evening Standard

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Fury erupts over Met Police review into its funding of black, disabled and female staff unions

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley wants to know if it efficient to divert full-time resources

Evening Standard

Whole life orders: The prisoners who will die in jail

More than 60 criminals are serving a whole-life order, four of whom are being held in secure hospitals.

The Independent UK

‘They wanted to kill me’, says lawyer targeted by Russian spy ring

Kirill Kachur, 33, was being hunted by the team who had been tasked with kidnapping him and sending him back to Moscow, either dead or alive.

Evening Standard

‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Bulgarian spies reveal changing nature of Russia terror threat

‘Extremely sophisticated operation’ uncovered on UK soil forms part of an emerging trend across Europe

The Independent UK

Spy ties and Coke bottle cameras: Inside the Bulgarian gang’s James Bond-style spyware

INSIDE STORY: Over the course of three years, five Bulgarian individuals, assisted by a host of others, carried out sophisticated surveillance on British soil and fed secrets back to their Russian handler, writes Holly Evans

The Independent UK

Stockwell shooting: Man, 32, arrested on suspicion of murdering Lathaniel Burrell, 16, in south London

Lathaniel Burrell, 16, was fatally shot in broad daylight close to Stockwell Tube station on Tuesday afternoon

Evening Standard

UK-based Bulgarian spy ring tracked Russian dissidents and passed secrets to Putin’s regime

Bulgarian nationals Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, 39, formed part of a group that carried out surveillance on Russian dissidents

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Evening Standard

Appeal for information about time spent by convicted student rapist in Belfast

Zhenhao Zou, 28, has been convicted of rape in London.

The Independent UK

How police came to rescue of woman assaulted by partner on holiday abroad using Instagram

A Metropolitan Police contact handler used Instagram to safeguard a victim of domestic abuse who made a report while she was on holiday.

The Independent UK

Zhenhao Zou: Serial rapist may have attacked dozens more women, police say, as international appeal launched

Police conclude a large number of victims remain unidentified as they say they are still trawling through 6.5 terabytes of data on rapist’s devices

The Independent UK

International appeal to trace further potential victims of rapist PhD student

Detectives fear Zhenhao Zou may have targeted more than 50 other women.

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Actor and Holocaust survivor ordered to attend police station over Gaza march

The Crown star Khalid Abdalla has been summoned to attend a formal interview by the Metropolitan Police in relation to a pro-Palestinian protest, he…

The Independent UK

First came the £3m museum heist, then the murder plot, court hears

They carried out a brazen museum heist before career criminal’s shooting, jurors told

Evening Standard

Increased police presence arranged for Crystal Palace vs Millwall FA Cup derby

South London rivals have not met each other since January 2022

Evening Standard

Met Police special constable spared jail after groping schoolgirl in Tesco queue

Hassnain Shahzad has an ‘unhealthy’ interest in following women in the street

The Independent UK

Met Deputy Commissioner Dame Lynne Owens to retire

The 56-year-old was brought in to help clean up the London force at arguably one of the most troubled times in its history.

Evening Standard

Emily Mortimer to play Cressida Dick in show about Jean Charles de Menezes death

The Disney+ drama focuses on the police shooting of the Brazilian man wrongly suspected of being a terrorist after the 7/7 London bombings.

Evening Standard

Gang violence behind one in three London killings, new report finds

Researchers studied 147 murder and manslaughter convictions over a two-year period

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