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“Rescue teams had to move 436 inmates from a prison in Draguignan after two floors flooded.”
“Police believe up to 20 men were involved in the violence on George Street in the early hours of Wednesday.”
“Four men aged between 22 and 26 have now been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder.”
“Japanese money has already been used to build roads, a new airport terminal in Kabul, and to pay the wages of the Afghan police force.”
“Two days after teenage lovers Asha and Yogesh were brutally killed, Swaroop Nagar colony on the north-western outskirts of the Indian capital, Delhi, is still trying to come to terms with the tragedy.”
“The cries finally stopped at 4am. Ms Devi was sitting outside her front door when the Sainis came out, locked the house and left. ... The bodies were brought out in the morning once the police arrived.”
“They have arrested Asha's father and uncle in connection with the deaths and are looking for others.”
“A majority of the people here are migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states. People here are deeply rooted in their traditional beliefs,”
“Caste considerations hold much sway.”
“Mr Singh says that although the area is part of the capital, the mindset of its people is the same as in the villages. ... Mr Singh says for every case that gets recorded, several others go unreported.”
“The mouths were stuffed with rags, there were signs of beating and small burns on legs suggesting that they were possibly electrocuted”
“How can we marry outside the caste? This cannot be tolerated. Only an impotent man will accept this.”
“Two days after teenage lovers Asha and Yogesh were brutally killed, Swaroop Nagar colony on the north-western outskirts of the Indian capital, Delhi, is still trying to come to terms with the tragedy. ... Police have described the murders …”
“"Their mouths were stuffed with rags, there were signs of beating and small burns on legs suggesting that they were possibly electrocuted," a senior police officer who was the first to reach the crime scene told the BBC.”
“"A majority of the people here are migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states. People here are deeply rooted in their traditional beliefs," Mr Singh says. "Caste considerations hold much sway."”
“There are no statistics on the number of "honour killings" in India, but Mr Singh says for every case that gets recorded, several others go unreported.”
“"He was having dinner, it was 9.30pm on Sunday when Asha's mother came and called him. Yogesh was a driver. She said someone needed the car, and he went."”
“"Four or five policemen came to our house the next morning. They said Yogesh had died," Renu's husband Rakesh Kumar says.”
“"How can we marry outside the caste? This cannot be tolerated. Only an impotent man will accept this. If I was in their place, I would have done the same," he says.”
“"I'm not sorry," a defiant Omprakash Saini told reporters after his arrest. "I would punish them again if given a chance."”
“Nguyen Van Loc was given 10 years imprisonment, plus four years probation.”
“The three were arrested in 1968 and, with others, were brought to court in January 1971.”
“During the 1960s, Vietnam's arts scene was still reeling from a crackdown on the dissident literary movement Nhan Van Giai Pham, under which hundreds of writers, artists and composers were arrested, imprisoned and re-educated. A political…”
“The initiative, financed by Association of Chief Police Officers' (ACPO) Terrorism and Allied Matters (TAM), is a network of 218 cameras east of the city centre.”
“The couple have two other children, Joseph who witnessed the stabbing, and Dominic who was born as she recovered.”
“Surrey Police said evidence pointed to the offender being 23-year-old Richard Cazaly - a garden centre worker who lived in Little Bookham and committed suicide in Scotland a week after the attack.”
“the attack in 2005”
“Three men and a woman were injured early on Sunday at Space 2”
“The dispute sparked the strike on Monday in Cape Town, where more than 1,000 police trainees were sent to Green Point stadium hours before the Italy-Paraguay match.”
“Our priority is the safety of the tournament and the country as a whole. We will perform our responsibilities with diligence," Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele said.”
“In the latest violence, five police officers, one of them retired, were abducted from their homes and murdered in Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest city.”
“Pakistan arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba's senior leaders after the Mumbai attacks. But most of them, including Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, were later freed on appeal.”
“Female genital mutilation is a serious crime attracting a prison sentence of up to fourteen years. If underage children are involved it is also classed as child abuse.”
“Stephen Puttock, 30, and Barry Stretch, 36, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Keith Nicholson, in Guildford in September 2000 at the Old Bailey.”
“Puttock and Stretch were jailed for life in February 2007 for the murder of Mr Nicholson but their convictions were quashed on appeal.”
“The retrial ended in a hung jury and the pair pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Wednesday at the start of a second retrial.”
“Police said they want to talk to two teenagers seen outside the property at about 2045 BST.”
“A police spokesman said five teenagers, aged 17 to 19, had been arrested”
“Five males, three aged 19, one aged 18, and a 17-year-old, have been arrested and remain in custody at a south London police station.”
“A Metropolitan Police spokesman said officers had been called to an altercation involving a group of youths in Belgrave Road at 2320 BST.”
“Seven people have been arrested - two for drugs offences, three for theft and two for public order offences. Five of them were local.”
“There are around 13,000 people at this event, which would roughly equate to a town the size of Carmarthen”
“Assistant attorney general Lanny A. Breuer, for the criminal division at the Department of Justice, said court documents allege that Mr Farkas and others participated in a "massive" fraud, that was "truly stunning in its scale and complexi…”
“The police were called out dozens of times between last November and March after the group caused havoc at Muirhouse library.”
“They have gone from being called out to Muirhouse library a dozen times a month between November and March to no call outs in April or May.”
“We have got a significant number of people who are still blatantly ignoring the existing blood alcohol limits and are driving with far higher levels of alcohol in their blood.”
“She said she went to Debenhams in Hastings to buy the dress with her husband-to-be and his associate. ... Moments before the wedding, in a car outside the Church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards, Mr Ojo gave her £2,000 in cash, juror…”
“When asked if there were any marriage celebrations after the ceremony on 15 July 2006, she said through an interpreter: 'You're joking. There was no celebration.'”
“The Reverend Alex Brown is accused of running a massive immigration scam”
“It is claimed the wedding was one of 383 carried out at the church from 2005 to 2009, most of which were sham marriages conducted as part of a 'massive scam'.”
“She said a man called Kaido Maesalu had suggested she might marry for cash 18 months after she arrived in the UK and she agreed.”
“Matthews, then 33, was convicted in December 2008 and jailed for eight years for her part in the kidnapping.”
“Donovan, who was aged 40 at the time, was given the same prison sentence.”
“When nine-year-old Shannon Matthews vanished after a swimming trip with her school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, her mother pleaded hysterically for her "beautiful, princess" daughter's safe return.”
“A huge police operation was mounted and three weeks after her disappearance in February 2008, the youngster was found hidden in the base of a divan bed in a flat in Batley Carr.”
“She was being held by her stepfather's uncle, Michael Donovan.”
“South Africa is to deport 17 Argentina football supporters arrested on suspicion of being troublemakers, police said.”
“The 17 were picked up in a police raid early on Wednesday on premises in Pretoria where 165 football supporters were staying.”
“During the raid, 17 of the 165 fans present were identified as being persons whom the police consider to be undesirable as spectators at matches, "These people have been observed at two matches trying to enter the stadiums without tickets,”
“Two Darfur rebel leaders have surrendered to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.”
“A £1m burglary at an East Sussex country mansion was a "highly-planned" operation, police have said.”
“Police said the theft last July was not the work of an opportunist burglar.”
“A pair of identical vases made in 1763 and a Hollandaise Nouveau vase were among items stolen.”
“Detectives made a fresh appeal for information about the burglary at Firle Place on the BBC's Crimewatch Roadshow programme on Wednesday.”
“six men were stabbed”
“These attacks are indeed gang-related, it's not a random attack on members of the public.”
“The community of Chinatown has been left understandably shocked by this incident. "The police are highly visible in the area to address peoples' concerns."”
“More than 40 people contacted police after an appeal was broadcast on Crimewatch about a man who raped two women in Manchester.”
“Both 21-year-old women were attacked in Fallowfield - the first in May 2007 and the second in May last year.”
“Crimewatch, which was broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday, showed reconstructions of both rapes, the first of which happened at about 0200 BST, when the victim was walking along Whitby Road.”
“In the second attack, the woman was walking home from work along Egerton Road at about 0310 BST when she was grabbed from behind and dragged down an alley near the junction with Mauldeth Road.”
“Many incidents against disabled people go unreported but in the last 12 months the EHRC has monitored stories in the Welsh media of incidents from name-calling to robbery, intimidation, assault, manslaughter and murder.”
“The EHRC is using its legal powers to hold the inquiry into the ways local authorities, the police, social services, schools, public transport operators and other bodies tackle - or don't tackle - disability harassment.”
“creating a 100m (330ft) exclusion zone around the bag.”
“Police said two weapons, including a suspected homemade firearm, were in the bag.”
“Police left the scene at about 1730 BST.”
“was bailed to report back to Torquay Police Station in August.”
“Barry Rubery, 68, was found dead at his cottage in Latteridge Road, Iron Acton. Police believe he was murdered during a botched burglary but despite a £10,000 reward they still have no firm leads. ... has resulted in about 40 calls.”
“Police believe he was murdered during a botched burglary but despite a £10,000 reward they still have no firm leads.”
“Later that year, Ms Evans' husband, Richard Evans, then 72, was arrested and questioned but released without charge.”
“The inquiry also refers to a memorandum written by Major General Ford in which he suggested shooting selected ringleaders of rioters after warnings.”
“None of the casualties was posing a threat or doing anything that would justify their shooting”
“In a statement, the PPS said its director and Chief Constable Matt Baggott would consider the report to determine the nature and extent of any police investigations.”
“He wants Kenya to follow the lead of Uganda, where an MP has introduced a private member's bill which calls for homosexual acts to be punished by life in prison and the death sentence in some cases.”
“In Malawi, a gay couple was recently sentenced to 14 years in prison after holding an engagement party, although international pressure led to them being pardoned and freed.”
“Six members of a south London neighbourhood police team are under investigation over claims of criminal offences and misconduct.”
“The PCSO, who was arrested last Tuesday, has since been suspended.”
“A woman police constable, a second PCSO and a member of the public were arrested by members of the Directorate of Professional Standards.”
“Three others, a male sergeant, a male police constable and a male PCSO, all in their 30s, have been formally notified they are subject to a misconduct investigation.”
“Three other men, not Met employees, were also arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs. They have all been bailed to return to south London police stations in August.”
“The 25-year-old was arrested in Bath Road, Wells, on 10 June under the Mental Health Act and taken to a cell at Yeovil Police station.”
“The IPPC spokesman said the local man had been arrested just after 1900 BST, after a number of calls to the police about his behaviour at various locations in Wells.”
“He said members of the public helped the police detain him and he arrived at the police station at about 2000 BST.”
“For serious rape cases, 53% of those accused are known to the person making the accusation.”
“I just did not understand why someone would want to kill me. I believe it was racial.”
“Keith Porter, 22, is on trial accused of attempting to murder Mr Kaizer in a racially-aggravated assault on 4 December last year.”
“Three co-accused deny assaulting another Polish inmate, Lukasz Rusek, on the same date at the prison gym by repeatedly punching him on the head to his injury.”
“I was "80% certain" that Mr Porter had carried out the attack.”
“The inspectors' report covered North Yorkshire Police's 24-hour custody suites at York, Harrogate, Scarborough and Northallerton and two part-time suites at Skipton and Selby.”
“Alastair Harvie was struck by a car as he crossed St Vincent Street with friends almost a fortnight ago.”
