MORE than 230 previously closed grooming gang investigations are being reviewed by the "national police operation" led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) it can be revealed. Dubbed Operation Beaconport, the probe will be one of the biggest ever policing operations the country has ever seen, but the NCA was today unable to confirm its budget. It will review cases where police forces (across England and Wales) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) made the decision to take no

A Bord er Force officer has been charged with conspiring to import class A drugs following an investigation by the National Crime Agency. Syed Shah, 39, of Hodge Hill, Birmingham was arrested by NCA officers on Friday 24 October at Birmingham Airport after the discovery of 25kgs of heroin in the suitcase of Zahida Perveen, aged 67, from Openshaw, Manchester. She was arrested shortly after arriving into Birmingham Airport on a flight from Pakistan. A third individual, Shahid B

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

AN IRAQI migrant, who was responsible for transporting hundreds of illegal migrants to the UK in small boats, HGVs and via yacht, won't be jailed after a judge ruled he was unfit to stand trial due to PTSD and depression. Mohammed Ali Nareman, 37, who was living in London, was found, after a trial of facts with a jury at Maidstone Crown Court, that he had committed people smuggling offences. The trial of facts was ordered by the same judge at the court who previously ruled th

AROUND £12 billion of criminal cash is being generated in the UK every year, the National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates. Much of it is...

Ketamine worth millions has been taken off UK streets after officers stopped a van that was found to be filled with sacks of the drug....

Two men who attempted to smuggle ten Vietnamese migrants into the UK in the back of a lorry, just months after 39 migrants died making a...

A TWISTED British paedophile who paid for indecent videos of a nine-year-old girl from her mother in the Philippines from his Thailand...

A man who groomed and then repeatedly raped a schoolgirl 20 years ago has been jailed for 15 years for five sexual offences, today, 21...

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering offences as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the supply of...