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A WATCH store manager who hanged himself after he was tied up during a £1.1million robbery was working in a business that was "run by Maurice Sines as a front for organised crime", a court was told. The three men accused of being involved in the audacious heist from the luxury watch store 247 Kettles, in south west London, were also warned by police their lives were in danger after a "£100,000 bounty" was placed on each of them, Woolwich Crown Court heard. The court heard the

DOORBELL camera footage shows the shocking moment a teenager was shot in a Liverpool street just five hours after a boy was stabbed. The video, which has been shared on social media, appears to have been filmed from a house in Manley Road, Huyton, where the attack happened on Friday evening. In the footage, a male is seen standing in the street, when a dark-coloured car pulls up from his right. The male appears to be pointing towards the car before a hooded male is then seen

BLACK cab serial rapist John Worboys could be considered for release again by the end of the year despite being subject to a new police investigation into an alleged sex attack in the 1990s. A minimum six year jail term he received for sex attacks on four of his victims is due to end next month<December>and the Parole Board confirmed that an initial assessment into whether Worboys can have a fresh parole hearing to assess if he can be released is underway. But, it comes as La

WEST Midlands Police have tonight (Saturday November 8 2025) charged a man with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in Birmingham. Djeison Rafael, 21, was charged following an incident in Smallbrook Queensway last night (7 November). He has also been charged with two further assaults and possession of a blade. Rafael was arrested following the incident, which saw a woman in her 30s taken to hospital with a serious neck injury. Rafael, who is a Black British national, h

THOUSANDS of suspects and criminals who would have been remanded or jailed will instead be "free in the community" after a new "Sentencing Bill" comes into effect next year, a police chief said. More prisoners will also be released early under the changes to free up prison spaces due to our bursting prison population. There will be an expected rise in reoffending rates by four to six percent, police chiefs estimate, that is around 360,000 more crimes a year on top of the 6.6 

THE manager of a luxury watch shop killed himself the day after it was robbed of over £1m worth of stock a court heard today. Oliver White, 27, (above) was tied up and robbed at the 247 Kettles store in Kew Road, Richmond on May 25 2024, Woolwich Crown Court heard. Prosecuting, Edward Brown KC, said: "247 Kettles was a premises from which very high value watched were sold. The robbery was successful and a large number of very high value watches were taken. "The total value of

THE train employee left fighting for his life after tackling a knifeman accused of stabbing eleven people has today been named as Samir Zitouni. Mr Zitouni is "critically unwell" but stable in hospital, after being injured in the neck and face, British Transport Police has said. The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening, November 1 2025, were described as "nothing short of heroic", by the force. It is understood he has worke

A HERO rail worker continues to fight for his life after trying to stop the knife man who stabbed eleven people on a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train from Doncaster to King’s Cross yesterday. The man who works for LNER and was on the train at the time was stabbed as he tried to stop the attacker. Five other injured people have now been discharged from hospital with four others thought to be stable. This casualty is a member of LNER rail staff who was on the train at

​ A man who removed his court-issued tag to avoid being caught after burgling Damien Hirst's art studio in Hammersmith has been jailed. On Monday, 30 June 2025 Liam Middleton-Gomm (top right) broke into the premises on Rainville Road, Hammersmith and stole a number of high-value artworks including customised jackets designed by the renowned British artist, 60 (above left). After leaving the premises Middleton-Gomm travelled to and stayed at the home of his father, Leslie Gomm

A MAN is fighting extradition to Armenia after he was accused of having non consensual sex with a woman there. Armenia has failed in a number of previous attempts to extradite citizens from the UK, but Aleksandr Sahakyan, 37, is the latest person to face extradition there from this country after being accused of the offence in an international arrest warrant. There is no implication of guilt from such an arrest and it is understood that Mr Sahakyan is confident of clearing hi