Real World News
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The money laundering was as brazen as it could be: using his freshly minted British passport, Albanian-born crime boss Gjelosh Kolicaj would load suitcases packed with wads of cash onto the airport scales before flying it out to his homeland. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/the-government-loopholes-letting-criminals-avoid-deportation/ar-AA1mrreE?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=WSEDSE&cvid=f7b38618261948f892f9c4b897635bb4&ei=4 Time to close all loopholes for the criminal gangs .
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A new border farce may have mistakenly allowed thousands of foreign nationals to live in Britain, the Mail can reveal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12915067/Mysterious-passport-stamps-accidentally-let-migrants-stay-UK.html
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A pensioner who swindled £750,000 by hiding her father’s death and faking dementia has been released from prison after serving less than half of her sentence. Ethel McGill, 72, was jailed for five years and eight months in July 2019. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1849865/benefits-cheat-faked-dementia-freed
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Former Finsbury Park Mosque preacher Abu Hamza was jailed for two life sentences plus 100 years after being found guilty of 11 charges of terrorism and kidnapping in a Manhattan court in 2015 https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/hook-handed-hate-cleric-abu-28301670 Never in a million years you can come back to London.
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Ministers are facing growing international pressure to accept the return of 'jihadi brides' who fled Britain to join Islamic State. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12872461/Dozens-jihadi-brides-like-Shamima-Begum-return-UK-America-piles-pressure-ministers-accept-Britain.html#comments The us government should keep out of it and the UK do not want them back.
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Fights at a centre for Asylum seekers break out almost every night between migrants of different nationalities, a migrant has told. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12860563/Asylum-seeker-centre-fights-break-night-migrants-different-nationalities-chairs-thrown-minibuses-smashed-in.html
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Britain is facing a 'nightmare before Christmas' as brazen thieves openly target festive tourists and county lines-style shoplifting gangs smuggle women and children into the country to steal everyday items from frozen food to laundry powder. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12853949/Nightmare-Christmas-everyday-items-frozen-food-coffee-laundry-detergent-alcohol-targeted-county-lines-style-shoplifting-gangs-vulnerable-women-children-trafficked-UK-commit-crime.html
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Tommy Robinson has lost a bid to overturn his ban from entering London for protest marches, but he can now enter the capital for police-approved political meetings. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/tommy-robinson-loses-court-bid-to-overturn-ban-from-london-protests/ar-AA1lk6Zw?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=WSEDSE&cvid=a0821899766a494da20092d8d5d02079&ei=9
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A Romanian couple who shoplifted over £30,000 worth of alcohol and perfumes from Tesco supermarkets across the country have each been sentenced in court. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12836603/Couple-went-30-000-Tesco-shoplifting-spree-hit-stores-11-counties-including-three-one-day-steal-cosmetics-alcohol-beauty-products.html No wonder they do it when they only a slap on the wrist when this woman is let off by the judge.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-explains-how-new-powers-31593259 The DWP is currently working on measures to help reduce levels of fraud in the benefits system - one measure would allow the DWP to access information on a claimant's bank account
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A squatter who took over an empty house that belonged to a pensioner and won the right to become its legal owner has sold it for £540,000, MailOnline can reveal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12809015/Squatter-moved-home-won-legal-right-sells.html
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PC Bob Hydes who caught Yorkshire Ripper speaks out for first time He arrested killer Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women, on January 2, 1981 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12763617/Police-PC-account-caught-Peter-Sutcliffe-Yorkshire-Ripper-squad.html
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The Met is concerned about the impact events overseas could have on violent terror attacks in London. https://www.mylondon.news/news/londoners-warned-stay-vigilant-amid-28184136
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The people smuggler has told the Express he can make £50,000 a year helping his fellow Albanians get to Britain. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1836216/people-smuggler-Britain-small-boats-Albania
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The video shows an attractive middle-aged woman wearing a plunging green vest top and designer sunglasses, opening the double-height doors to a white stucco mansion. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12762433/four-million-kardashian-style-surrey-mansion-scotland-yard-notorious-corrupt-commander.html Dizaei was said to be on his uppers — pleading with a judge to allow him to have more of his police pension yet look at him now showing off pity they cant find out if it was money he made from crime being a bent copper.