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Dame Carol Black has published a review into the challenges posed by drug supply and demand, and what more can be done to tackle the harm that drugs cause. Responding to the report, the National Crime Agency's Director of Threat Leadership, Rob Jones, said: “We are grateful to Dame Carol Black for her comprehensive review, which provides welcome insight into how the entire system to address illegal drug use from source to user is currently working. “Illegal drugs is a corrosive threat that is ruining lives and bringing exploitation and violence to our communities. “The review highlights the destructive impact illegal drugs have on society and offers recognition of …

A career criminal who used a web of more than 40 aliases to stay on the run after absconding from prison in the early 1990s has been jailed for three years and eight months for attempting to smuggle eight illegal migrants into the UK on a yacht. The National Crime Agency began an investigation into 64-year-old Charles Lynch, also known as Wolfram Steidl, after his vessel, the 46 foot chartered motor cruiser Saquerlotte III, was intercepted by the Border Force cutter Seeker and Coastal Patrol Vessel (CPV) Nimrod off the coast of Littlehampton, West Sussex on 6 November 2019. Eight Albanian nationals were found on board, five men, two women and a child, and he was arres…

Homelessness: Councils record 28,000 on the streets over a year By Daniel Wainwright BBC News 26 February 2020 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption'Homelessness could happen to anybody' More than 28,000 people in the UK were recorded sleeping rough in 12 months, research by the BBC has suggested. In E…

A lorry driver has been jailed for 12 years after trying to import cocaine worth almost £1.4 million into the UK. Bulgarian national Yuriy Vasilev, 48, from Pernik, Bulgaria, who hid 17 kilos of cocaine within the frame of the bunk bed in his lorry, was found guilty following a week-long trial at Canterbury Crown Court. The National Crime Agency (NCA) launched an investigation after Vasilev was stopped by Border Force officers at the Channel Tunnel terminal near Calais, shortly before boarding a train to Folkestone in July last year. Vasilev claimed that he did not know the drugs were in the vehicle and hadn’t seen them before. He also alleged that another driver had…

A lorry driver stopped at the Port of Hull with cocaine worth £1.7 million has been jailed for 8 years and 8 months today. Mihai Ciceu, aged 34, a Romanian national with no fixed address, was sentenced at Hull Crown Court, having pleaded guilty to importing Class A drugs at an earlier hearing. The National Crime Agency investigation started on 22 January when Ciceu, a lorry driver of ten years, tried to enter the UK at the Port of Hull on board a ferry from Zeebrugge, Belgium. He was stopped by Border Force officers who found three packages, concealed within the floor of the lorry trailer, which contained approximately 21 kilos of cocaine. When questioned by NCA offi…

A convicted drug smuggler who went on the run after absconding from prison has been arrested in Spain. Daniel Dobbs, 31, from Malton in North Yorkshire was sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison in January 2014, after he was convicted of trafficking heroin and amphetamines following an investigation by National Crime Agency officers. On 2 November 2018 Dobbs, who was given a serious crime prevention order as a result of his conviction, was found to be missing from his cell at HMP Hatfield Lakes, a category D open prison in South Yorkshire. After his disappearance the NCA issued a wanted appeal to the media for information on the whereabouts of Dobbs, also known a…

A number of police officers have been told to stay at home and self-isolate while a woman being held in custody is tested for coronavirus. https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-fears-over-woman-in-custody-as-police-officers-self-isolate-11937967

Shocking footage taken outside an illegal rave in London shows police brutally dragging youths from the scene while others are filmed being held down by officers in riot gear. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8010521/amp/Illegal-ravers-slam-police-dozens-officers-descended-party-north-London-warehouse.html So when these types of events occur and the police get assaulted and these youths run amok, people complain that the police are too soft and London has become lawless, when they do take more of a robust line against these people as shown in this incident they get accused of brutality. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Rikki Neave: Man charged with 1994 schoolboy murder 17 February 2020 Image copyright Cambridgeshire Police Image caption Rikki Neave was found strangled in woodland in Peterborough in 1994 …