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“A man has offered a £10,000 reward to help catch arsonists who destroyed a North Yorkshire house he was restoring.”
“Dale Head House in Ryedale was 10 months into an extensive programme of renovation when it caught fire overnight between 23 and 24 May.”
“Jonathan Reed has owned the derelict house for two-and-a-half years and intended to live in it once the renovation work was finished.”
“This incident has cost the victim an awful lot of money and has more or less destroyed a project which he had spent a lot of time and effort on.”
“It has destroyed a fantastic house in a beautiful area and has probably cost me £500,000.”
“the authority's appointment of two staff prior to criminal record checks.”
“A model railway in Leicestershire suffered £6,000 damage when vandals attacked the site.”
“The North West Leicestershire Society of Model Engineers on Hermitage Road, Whitwick, was targeted sometime between 17 and 20 June.”
“A building at the centre of the outdoor replica railway had been broken into and CCTV monitors smashed.”
“The woman was attacked by the man after she disturbed him in the garden of her home on Revesby Avenue at 0700 BST on Monday, Humberside Police said.”
“A 47-year-old man has been arrested and is in custody.”
“Mr Scott, 53, from Wingate, County Durham, denies taking the folio from Durham University in 1998, and waiting 10 years to sell it.”
“the artefact, which had pages missing and its bindings and cover removed, was a unique 1623 first printing of the bard's collected works stolen in a raid at Durham University in December 1998.”
“The library called in the British Embassy, Durham Police and the FBI after being given the badly damaged book in 2008.”
“The folio has been 'mutilated' since its theft 12 years ago”
“He and his girlfriend Tracey Peers-Holland and a 16-year-old boy went to the house of a murder investigation witness on 14 October 2008, police said.”
“On Friday she was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work.”
“Thames Valley now has to cut £8.2m this year, £18.1m next and £11.9m in 2012.”
“Thames Valley Police says it may have to merge services with surrounding forces to meet an extra £3.7m cut imposed by the government.”
“Last year there were concerns that Thames Valley would have to cut up to 166 posts as it tried to save £11m from its annual budget.”
“However, only 50 redundancies were agreed, and the force managed to find funds to recruit an extra 27 police officers.”
“IT specialist Clinton Bailey, 36, of Malpas Road, Brockley, south-east London, denies murdering 37-year-old Leah Questin in September last year.”
“The remains of Ms Questin were discovered "squeezed" into a bulging suitcase on 24 September.”
“Ms Questin later withdrew £900 from her bank account and sent Mr Bailey a text saying she loved him.”
“On 12 September, Oyster card records showed Ms Questin travelling towards Mr Bailey's flat, and later that evening her card was used to make a cash withdrawal of £180 in south London, by which time, according to prosecutors, she was dead.”
“Jurors were told that over the next nine days the account was "systematically drained" of more than £2,000 in a series of withdrawals on an almost daily basis.”
“CCTV captured Mr Bailey using her Oyster card to go shopping to buy a large suitcase at the Elephant and Castle shopping centre.”
“A small amount of blood with DNA matching hers was found on a pillow in Mr Bailey's flat.”
“Meanwhile, police in the northern town of Bannu say they have arrested a German man leaving North Waziristan.”
“Despite not owning the central London hotel, Conn Farrell, 57, Patrick Dolan, 68, and Anthony Lee, 49, tried to sell it, Southwark Crown Court has heard.”
“Graham Fisher, 36, now in Broadmoor, Berkshire, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Reading Crown Court.”
“Sussex Police's major crime branch announced in April last year that they were re-investigating the women's deaths.”
“A force spokesman said he had previously pleaded guilty to the attempted murder and attempted rape of a Czech student, now aged 30, in the same month of the killings.”
“He also admitted two counts of rape of a woman in her 40s at a property in Bromley, south-east London, in 1991.”
“Venables, now 27, was recalled to prison in February after allegedly breaching the terms of his licence.”
“Venables and his friend Robert Thompson were jailed for life when, as 10-year-olds, they took two-year-old James from a shopping centre in Bootle.”
“In March, the then Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced that Venables had been returned to prison but said that it was not in the interests of a fair trial to publicise what had allegedly happened.”
“In April, five Haryana men were sentenced to death and one jailed for life over the 2007 murder of a young couple, Manoj and Babli.”
“In Delhi's Ashok Vihar area, Kuldeep (26) and his wife Monica (23) were found murdered. Police said the couple married four years ago despite objections from their families.”
“In the village of Nimiliwali in Haryana, two teenage lovers were found dead in the house of the girl's uncle. Police said Monika (18) and Rinku (19) were tortured before they were killed.”
“Last week, a teenage girl and her boyfriend were murdered in Delhi's Swaroop Nagar area. Asha Saini and Yogesh Kumar, both 19, were beaten with metal rods and then electrocuted, police said.”
“The girl's parents, uncle, aunt and a cousin have been arrested in connection with the murders.”
“Police said the couple married four years ago despite objections from their families.”
“The group has been researching cases of 'honour killings' in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh for the past year.”
“The trial of a teenager accused of the murder of a retired psychiatric nurse has been aborted for legal reasons, just two days before it was due to end.”
“The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, will face a new trial for the April 2009 murder of 78-year-old Francis O'Neill.”
“A Greater Manchester man, who sexually assaulted a young mother as she slept alongside her baby, has been jailed for two years.”
“Krysiak must sign the Sex Offenders register for 10 years.”
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“The Pakistani-born US citizen admitted all 10 charges so there will be no trial.”
“He will be sentenced in October.”
“The petrol and propane bomb was left in a sports utility vehicle near Broadway theatres on 1 May but failed to ignite.”
“He told the court he waited between two and a half minutes and five minutes for the bombs to erupt.”
“Shahzad was arrested two days later as he tried to take a flight to Dubai from New York's John F Kennedy airport.”
“He co-operated with investigators for two weeks, waiving his rights that protect arrested suspects from incriminating themselves, before requesting a lawyer, justice officials say.”
“The most serious charges against Shahzad, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, carry mandatory life sentences.”
“He is also alleged to have received about $5,000 in cash from an identified co-conspirator in Pakistan... It said the same co-conspirator directed a second payment to Shahzad, of $7,000 in April...”
“While being interrogated, Shahzad revealed he had gone to Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region in December 2009 for bomb training with militants affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban, according to the indictment.”
“New fingerprint technology has enabled police to identify a woman killed on the M25 in Hertfordshire 20 years ago.”
“agreed to buy for 104,000 euros: 100kgs of plastic explosives, 20 AK47 assault rifles, 10 sniper rifles, 20 handguns and 20 rocket propelled grenade launchers and that they agreed a price of 104,000 euros.”
“Ali alleged that Mr McCaugherty, who claimed to be second in command, agreed to buy for 104,000 euros: 100kgs of plastic explosives, 20 AK47 assault rifles, 10 sniper rifles, 20 handguns and 20 rocket propelled grenade launchers and that t…”
“In one video-taped interview, recorded in Istanbul in Turkey, Mr McCaugherty calling himself 'Tim' is seen telling the agent that his organisation was responsible for building the Omagh bomb...”
“The case against Mr Gregory, who is also known as Michael Dermot, is that...”
“Paul McCaugherty, 43, from Beech Court in Lurgan faces six charges...”
“Declan Gregory, 41, of Concession Road, Crossmaglen, denies two charges...”
“Paul McCaugherty, 43, from Beech Court in Lurgan faces six charges including conspiring to obtain arms and explosives, IRA membership and using money for the purposes of terrorism.”
“Declan Gregory, 41, of Concession Road, Crossmaglen, denies two charges making property available to terrorists.”
“The 15-year-old brother denies two charges of rape and four of sexual assault with a child”
“The 13-year-old denies to counts of rape and two of sexual assault”
“Leslie Mitchell, from Carron, Falkirk, approached the girls, aged 10 and 11, as they were returning home from school. ... He approached the two girls in Falkirk on 13 January.”
“He added: "His risk assessment came out with a balance in favour of continuing this behaviour even against the risk of detection."”
“Mitchell was also placed on the sex offenders' register.”
“He also disclosed he accessed images of child sexual abuse on the internet and used chatrooms to contact youngsters with a view to grooming them.”
“The judge said Mitchell's behaviour seemed to have escalated "quite significantly" after he got an internet connection in 2000, with him using chatrooms to groom children.”
“The first offender later admitted to a social worker that he had a long term sexual interest in young girls and revealed previous offending against victims of a similar age in England.”
“At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Hardie called for a full risk assessment report, which can lead to an Order for Lifelong Restriction. The sentence is reserved for the most serious sex offences and crimes of violence other than m…”
“holding almost 20 high-level hostages they want to exchange for associates held in prison.”
“The tool the guerrillas used to pressure President Uribe was the issue of a prisoner swap, holding almost 20 high-level hostages they want to exchange for associates held in prison.”
“A court in Ecuador wants to charge Mr Santos in connection with the deaths of the 27 people killed in the bombardment.”
“Evidence of illegal wiretaps by the secret police of the DAS and the scandal of the "false positives" - which have seen more than 1,000 cases of civilians murdered by soldiers then presented as rebels killed in combat”
“Colombia is still one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a trade unionist, with as many as 40 killed last year.”
“However, the guerrillas showed on election day, when 10 members of the security forces were killed, that they still have a great capacity for destruction.”
“More than 400 tons of cocaine leave Colombian shores every year, earning the illegal armies billions of dollars.”
“El Salvador is plagued by violent street gangs, known as "maras", who are believed to be behind many of the average 13 daily murders.”
“Three people have been detained, with one smelling of petrol, police said.”
“He said there were "no clear motives" for the attacks.”
“The Sunday evening attacks have been blamed by police commissioner Roberto Villalobos on Mara 18 gang members.”
“Seven people died on 10 May 2002 when a train hit faulty points south of Potters Bar station in Hertfordshire.”
“More than 70 people were injured in the fatal rail crash in May 2002”
“The inquest, due to end later this summer, will examine the deaths of Austen Kark, Emma Knights, Jonael Schickler, Alexander Ogunwusi, Chia Hsin Lin, Chia Chin Wu and Agnes Quinlivan.”
“During the rush-hour up to 30 drivers go through red lights at the crossing in Waterloo Road, Wokingham, Berkshire, British Transport Police figures show.”
“The team will begin its work next month.”
“A review of the regime at Maghaberry Prison was announced by Mr Ford in April.”
“Police said more than 20,000 mourners paid their respects to Saramago's body after it was flown to Lisbon on Saturday.”
“CNIL has the power to hand down a warning, levy a fine or pass the case to a prosecutor to see if a criminal charge is warranted.”
“Six people have been arrested in South Africa over the shooting of a Rwandan dissident, police say.”
“Brig Mariemuthoo said the six would be charged with attempted murder”
“Police and fire officers will be touring schools this week before they break up for the holidays”
“There are gangs of people bringing container loads through airports and ports.”
“Napo assistant general secretary Harry Fletcher said currently 55,000 people have prison sentences of six months or less, but rehabilitation was not possible and reoffending rates were "extremely high".”
