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Nearly 2,000 arrests as police target 'county lines' drug gangs over one week - what are they doing the rest of the year?
Criminal gangs who exploit children and vulnerable adults to supply drugs across the country were targeted last week in a national police...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 3, 2025


Two arrested over statue thefts from stately home used as backdrop for David Attenborough's Wild Isles series
Two people have been arrested after several statues were stolen from a stately home that has been used as a location for David...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 29, 2025


EXCLUSIVE: The key players in John Palmer case Essex Police 'has never spoken to' ten years after his unsolved murder a decade ago today
A "police informant" who worked for murdered John "Goldfinger" Palmer's former head of security claims police investigating the cold case have never spoken to him, despite being alerted to his claims of "knowing the identity of his possible killers" more than three years ago. Paul Blanchard, 80, spoke as Essex Police today launched a fresh appeal for information to mark the tenth anniversary of the brutal unsolved assassination. The force was alerted to Mr Blanchard's claims
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 23, 2025


END OF THE HUYTON FIRM? Francis Coggins - detailed as on the run during EncroChat trial - arrested in Dutch coastal town
Francis Coggins, the suspected joint head of the Liverpool 'Huyton Firm' has been arrested in a Dutch coastal town. Coggins, age 60, was...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 4, 2025


Drugs gang saw eastern Europeans work with British criminals to supply class As
A criminal gang made up of eastern Europeans and Brits, who conspired to supply drugs across the region from a Newcastle flat, have been...
By JON AUSTIN
May 30, 2025


John 'Goldfinger' Palmer's former head of security Mohamed Jamil Derbah is arrested in corruption probe on Tenerife
The former head of security for one of Britain's most notorious gangsters has been arrested as part of a major corruption investigation on holiday mecca Tenerife. Mohamed Jamil Derbah, 61, (above in 2001) was one of nine people arrested by the Spanish National Police as part of a complex investigation into suspected corruption and drug trafficking involving police officers. Spanish National Police spokesperson said: "Nine people were arrested on Wednesday (May 2 2025) in an
By JON AUSTIN
May 10, 2025


Three Uzbekistan men in court over 'cash smuggling out of UK' including 'notes found in washing powder'
Three men have been charged as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into attempts to smuggle millions of pounds out of the...
By JON AUSTIN
May 9, 2025


EXCLUSIVE: Petition calls for inquiry into why MI5 'did not act on 7/7 Bomber intel it was handed a year before terror strike killed 52 people'
A FORMER accountant who passed intelligence on the 7/7 Bombers to MI5 before they carried out the terror atrocities has launched a...
By JON AUSTIN
May 1, 2025


WHO WAS HE SMUGGLING FOR? Supermarket worker who tried to fly £1m in suitcases to Beirut convicted but no sign of his boss
A man who was stopped at Heathrow Airport with £1m in two suitcases has admitted money laundering following a National Crime Agency...
By JON AUSTIN
Apr 17, 2025


CORRUPTION AT THE DOCKS: Port worker helped crime gang smuggle in 1.2 tonnes of cocaine worth £90m hidden in bananas
A corrupt port worker helped an organised crime group try to smuggle more than 1.2 tonnes of cocaine into the UK. But, officers from the...
By JON AUSTIN
Nov 30, 2024



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