All news on the topic: Police

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Gang leader fatally shot in courtroom by hitman dressed as lawyer
A gunman disguised as a lawyer entered a courtroom and shot dead a notorious gang leader.
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Amazon delivery driver hits woman, gets out to look at her, and then flees the scene
An Amazon delivery truck driver was caught on camera running over a woman twice, getting out to check on her and then fleeing the scene.
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Angry easyJet passenger who directed racist abuse at the police claims in court that he hadn’t eaten all day
An easyJet passenger said he was ’frothing at the mouth’ and shouting racist abuse at police forced to drag him off the plane because he ’hadn’t eaten all day’.
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Huyton incident: Armed police and multiple ambulances rush to the scene as police face hoax
Police blocked several roads in Merseyside as eyewitnesses reported spotting a helicopter hovering above and numerous emergency service vehicles stationed in a row.
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Trespasser on the London rail network caused disruptions to nearly 1,000 trains, incurring a cost of £1,200,000
A man has been jailed after he wreaked havoc on one of the UK’s busiest railway lines in southwest London.
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British journalist Charlotte Peet missing in Brazil
The freelance correspondent was last reported to be in Sao Paulo before losing communication with her family.
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Two arrested for ’murder’ after a 20-year-old man is stabbed to death in east London
A 20-year-old man has been stabbed to death in east London.
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UK is experiencing rise in luxury watch thefts, with stolen timepieces exceeding £1.6 billion, and £60 million worth taken in Britain alone last year
The UK has experienced a significant increase in luxury watch theft, with the total value of lost and stolen timepieces now totaling £1.6 billion, according to new figures.
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14-year-old boy dies after injecting himself with a dead butterfly for an ’online challenge’
Teenager Davi Nunes Moreira was taken to a hospital in Planalto in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia after he began vomiting and limping, informing doctors he had injected a butterfly.
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Shooting suspect called a friend and said ’she’s dead’
The man suspected of fatally shooting his wife, Lisa Smith, outside a pub in Kent called friends after it happened and revealed what he had done, the BBC has been told.
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New sighting of New Zealand ’bushman’ on the run with his children
A fugitive father has been spotted with his children for the second time in the three years since he went on the run.
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90-year-old British woman found ’starved to death’ at her home in Spain
A 90-year-old British woman and her son have been found dead at their home in Spain.
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Life inside the UK’s most dangerous town where wild kids on quad bikes rule the area – and it’s too terrifying for buses to stop
A boy of eight leans against a wall and takes furtive drags from a vape as he chats to an older mate.
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Moment when a woman screams ’he’s killed her’ after a mother was shot dead outside a pub
Gut-wrenching footage has emerged of the moment multiple gunshots were fired, ultimately killing a mum of two on Valentine’s Day.
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Hospital placed on lockdown after 16-year-old boy stabbed in the street
Police are investigating after a Birmingham hospital was forced into lockdown when a group ‘ambushed’ the emergency department.
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Woman who was shot dead at a Kent pub on Valentine’s Day identified
Police continue to search the River Thames for the suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough, on Friday.
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Massive snowstorm results in major ’dystopian’ pile-up involving 95 vehicles in Sweden
This was the devastating aftermath of a pile-up caused by intense snowstorms in Sweden in what has been described as a like a ‘dystopian film scene’.
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Moment police arrest a masked man who raped two women at gunpoint in a horrific attack
This is the moment police arrested a masked man who had raped two women he met on an escort website at gunpoint.
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Knifeman ‘laughed’ during a rampage that killed a 14-year-old boy and wounded five others
A knifeman killed a boy, 14, and wounded at least five others in Villach, a city in southern Austria.
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Mother and her two-year-old daughter die following Munich attack where man drove car into crowd
A mother and her two-year-old daughter have died following the Munich car attack, according to police.
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Austria mass stabbing: A 14-year-old boy killed and four injured in a ’random attack’
A 23-year-old man has been arrested in the Austrian city of Villach after a horrific mass stabbing in which one person was killed and four others injured.
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Cardiff city center ’stay away’ warning after bus attack and street mobs
A large mob was captured on video clashing with police on foot and on horseback around Cardiff city centre - following reports of missiles being thrown at the pub and a bus being attacked.
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19-year-old teenager appears in court charged with murdering his own dad in a Scottish town
A teenager has appeared in court charged with murdering his dad in a Scots town.
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Norwegian royal ’assaulted TV presenter at a party in the basement of the family castle, and cops now have a video of the attack’
The son of Norway’s Crown Princess is alleged to have abused a TV presenter at a party in a castle basement, and it’s believed the police possess a video of the reported incident.