UK News & Investigations

A GUN and explosives workshop was being secretly run on Britain's biggest travelling showmen's site. Blank-firing pistols imported from Turkey were converted into deadly firearms, for sale to organised crime gangs across London and the south east, in a static caravan transformed into a makeshift workshop, Kingston Crown Court heard. The unit was equipped with drills, lathes and welding equipment to carry out the illegal conversions and to transform the ammunition into deadly

A WOMAN was shot through her front door while she was with her one-year-old child on Christmas Eve police have only just revealed. Met police detectives are only now appealing to the public for information following the shooting that has left her in a serious condition in hospital. Police were called at 10:50pm on Tuesday, 24 December 2025 to reports of shots fired at a residential address on Cronin Street, Peckham. Officers attended alongside the London Ambulance Service and

Detectives investigating a fatal shooting in Brent have named the victim as they continue to work at pace to determine the circumstances that led to his death. Officers have named 55-year-old Simon Whyte (above), as the man fatally shot during the incident in Stonebridge on the evening of Friday, 19 December. As their investigation into Simon’s death continues, detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Team are appealing for witnesses, information and anyone with dashcam foo

THE Bondi Beach terror attackers, who shot at Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah, were a father and son, New South Wales Police have said. In a press briefing it was confirmed the 50-year-old father was killed and the 24-year-old son is in hospital in a critical, but stable condition. Sixteen people, including a ten-year-old girl have now died, while 42 other people, including at least three other children, remain in hospital. Those killed range in age from 10 to 87, police s

POLICE have found "no evidence" of a gunman firing at three people after reports a bike-riding attacker blasted shots in the street. Armed Police were sent to Thames Street in Toxteth just before 3.55pm on Friday, December 12 2025, after reports a man on a bike shot at three people. A police cordon, from Kinglsey Road naer its junction with Beaconsfield Street and Thames Street was put in place while officers carried out CCTV, forensic and house-to-house enquiries. But after

TWO brothers alleged to be at the heart of a plot to supply Albanian crime gangs in the UK with deadly firearms brought a deadly "blood feud" with them when they fled to London, a court heard today. Albanians  Alban Gjidaj, 29, and older brother Almir Gjidaj , 34, (above middle) were senior members of an organised crime group involved in smuggling guns hidden in standard deliveries from Albania to the UK, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard. Albania is seeking the extraditio

POLICE are appealing for information after another shooting in Huyton that has left a man with serious injuries last night Friday 28 November 2025. Just before 10.20pm we received a report that a man had been shot twice in his leg on the driveway of an address on Radway Road by two men on a Sur-Ron bike. The offenders made off in an unknown direction on the electric bike. Emergency services attended the scene and the victim was taken to hospital where he remains in a serious

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

POLICE are mobbing two areas of Liverpool after two teenagers were shot and stabbed five hours apart yesterday, Friday, November 7. At around 3.45pm, emergency services were called to Woodfarm Hey, Stockbridge Village to reports of a 15-year-old boy being stabbed. He was taken to hospital for assessment and is described as being in a serious but stable condition. At 8.50pm, police received a report that a 19-year-old man had sustained gunshot injuries to his back and leg outs

A CORONER has called for a proposed law banning information about homemade firearms to be urgently brought into force after a teenager ended his life with one. Owen Donnelly, 19, took his own life with a homemade improvised gun, at his Wigan home, Timothy Brennand, HM Senior Coroner, for Greater Manchester West, concluded after an inquest at Bolton Coroner’s Court this month. Yet, Mr Brennand highlighted that proposed legislation banning the possession and supply of informati