Essex News & Investigations

A POLICE officer who made homophobic and racist remarks and "liked" online comments linked to far-right group Britain First has been dismissed from the force.

PC Gus Mirams has been dismissed without notice from the Met Police following a misconduct hearing.

Mr Mirams, w...

MURDERS across Britain are being reported more frequently with London seeing around one every other day in recent weeks. 

Some criminologists fear the public is becoming immune or desentisised to reports of extreme levels of violence on our streets. Here, leading crimin...

ESSEX Police has closed the case of the death of a man found dead between the drum and chasis of a cement mixer in the middle of the night more than 18 years ago, despite a top pathologost concluding last year it looked like a murder staged as an accident.

The fami...

ONE of two men convicted over the notorious Essex Boys triple gangland murders has had his bid for freedom delayed a second time due to coronavirus.
Jack whomes, 57, (above left) was due to go before the Parole Board on Friday, July 31, to argue he should be released,...

A TOP Met Police officer has kept his job despite being found guilty of misconduct after failing to declare he was in a relationship with a WPC who he was mentoring while she was promoted within the force.

Chief Superintendent Robert Atkin MBE (pictured above) has been...

A FORMER KGB "double agent" who publicly linked Russia to the deaths of Alexander Litvinenko and "Spy in the Bag" Gareth Williams and the Skripal Novichok attack will likely meet a "violent death" if he is extradited to the former Soviet country, a court was warned.
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RUSSIAN oligarchs are too rich and powerful to be hit with a so-called McMafia orders to explain the source of their wealth, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has admitted.

After the Novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March 2018, then Prime Minister Theresa...

A TRANSGENDER former beautician has admitted assaulting a woman and a police officer after being arested on Oxfrod Street on Thursday.

Paris Bregazzi, 32, (pictured above: PA) who was born male, but identifies as female, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today...

A COURT case concerning the extradition of a billionaire oligarch wanted in Russia over one of the country's biggest ever bank collapses was shrouded in secrecy.
Georgy Bedzhamov, 57, the former head of the Russian bobsleigh team, is fighting extradition to Russia to f...

ONE of Albania's most wanted convicted killers has finally been extradited back to his native country after nearly 23 years on the run in the UK.

Hektor Mahmutaj, 44, (pictured above) who was living at Twickenham Drive, Wirral, was one of Albania's top-ten most wanted f...