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15/01/26

Two male police officers were unlawfully discriminated against on the grounds of gender after being removed from their roles and replaced by female officers, an employment tribunal has ruled.

Suffolk Constabulary reassigned the two men from its proactive policing team in an effort to improve "gender balance", despite being advised that the move was discriminatory. The force has since accepted that "this was not the right way to go about it" following the tribunal's decision in favour of the officers.

18/12/25

A retired salesman killed his wife before taking his own life on New Year's Eve after her symptoms of Huntington's disease worsened, an inquest has heard.

Michael and Heather Newton were found dead at their home in Poole, Dorset, at 11.35am on December 31 last year. An inquest in Bournemouth was told Mrs Newton, 70, died from head injuries and strangulation, while Mr Newton, 76, died by hanging.

27/11/25

Liverpool was in full celebration mode as hundreds of thousands lined the streets to watch the team parade the Premier League trophy—an opportunity they had missed during the pandemic. Doyle had no real interest in the event but agreed to drop a friend and his family in the city centre, and later return to pick them up—something he would soon regret.

Dashcam and CCTV footage showed Doyle driving aggressively even before reaching the crowds: speeding through traffic, overtaking dangerously and running a red light. Prosecutors said he was already agitated, and grew visibly more enraged as the number of people around him increased.

29/10/25

Four other inmates have been wrongly released from custody in the past week, following the mistaken release of a convicted sex offender from HMP Chelmsford.

Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian national, was freed from the Essex prison on Friday instead of being transferred to an immigration detention centre. The migrant sex offender — who had been living at the Bell Hotel in Epping when he assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman — travelled to London after his release. He was recaptured in Finsbury Park on Sunday morning following a two-day manhunt.

29/09/25

Paul Gallagher, 59, of East Finchley, north London, has denied rape and a series of other violent sexual offences. The charges, brought by Scotland Yard following an investigation that began last year, were first reported by The Telegraph in July.