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Manhunt for Imran Safi after 'three sons abducted' 27 August 2020 Image copyright Met Police Image caption Bilal, Mohammed Ebrar and Mohammed Yaseen Safi are said to have been taken from their fos…

Fifty nine properties worth an estimated £17 million have been recovered following National Crime Agency investigations into a prolific organised crime group carried out over almost a decade. In addition to a successful criminal investigation, the NCA conducted four linked civil recovery investigations over an eight-and-a-half year period into dozens of individuals who were suspected of financial links to drug dealers in East Birmingham. NCA officers established that the properties were acquired using the proceeds of crime including heroin importation and distribution, fraud and money laundering. Alam and Ameran Zeb Khan have both been convicted of drug trafficking o…

National Crime Agency officers have begun investigations after three separate seizures of cocaine were made in freight at Gatwick Airport. The first haul was discovered on Tuesday 11 August, as Border Force officers carried out checks on incoming freight from Jamaica. Around 22 kilos of the drug, with a potential street value of approximately £1.8 million, was found in a consignment of vegetables that had come off a flight from Kingston. The second seizure was made from the same flight a week later on 18 August, this time 30 kilos with an estimated street value of £2.4 million. And a third seizure was made by Border Force today, 25 August, again on a flight from Kin…

A man has been remanded to custody after appearing in court charged in a National Crime Agency investigation. David Nicholas Wilson, 36, of Kirstead, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, appeared at Ipswich Magistrates’ Court accused of causing or inciting young boys to send him indecent images of themselves or of them and other children. Wilson faces a 94 count indictment which covers 49 victims whose ages range from four to 14. The alleged offences were committed between 1 May 2016 and 31 May 2018. The charges include: intentionally causing or inciting children to engage in sexual activity and making unwanted demands for indecent images of a child with menaces. Wilson was reman…

A senior black police inspector has complained of racial harassment to the Met Police after being stopped in his car by two white officers. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-53811375

NCA officers have made more arrests as part of an investigation into the abuse of four girls in Rotherham, alleged to have taken place around 20 years ago. The officers, working as part of Operation Stovewood, made the series of arrests in Rotherham this week. Two men, aged 35 and 40, were arrested, and a man aged 35 was interviewed under caution, for offences relating to the abuse of girls in Rotherham who would have been between aged between 13 and 15 at the time. All were questioned and released while investigations continue. This follows the arrest of 14 men in Rotherham and two in West Yorkshire during July and August as part of the same investigation. The ar…

NCA officers have made more arrests as part of an investigation into the abuse of four girls in Rotherham, alleged to have taken place around 20 years ago. The officers, working as part of Operation Stovewood, made the series of arrests in Rotherham this week. Two men, aged 35 and 40, were arrested, and a man aged 35 was interviewed under caution, for offences relating to the abuse of girls in Rotherham who would have been between aged between 13 and 15 at the time. All were questioned and released while investigations continue. This follows the arrest of 14 men in Rotherham and two in West Yorkshire during July and August as part of the same investigation. The ar…

Manchester Arena attack: Hashem Abedi jailed for minimum 55 years 20 August 2020 Related TopicsManchester Arena attack Image copyright GMP Image caption Hashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day…

24 July 2020 Image copyright Thames Valley Police Image caption PC Andrew Harper died after his ankles became entangled in a tow strap attached to the car the youths were in Three teenagers have been found guilty of the manslaughter of PC Andr…