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“He also said that police knew the identity of the person who took the phone and that they had talked to him.”
“Police said the searches related to commercial activities in 2006, according to Russian news wires.”
“the 30ft walls of the Huntsville prison in Texas, where Boy George – by far the country’s busiest yet most compassionate executioner – has presided over a record 40 “state-ordered legal homicides”, as the death certificates say, this year.”
“US prosecutors announced a criminal indictment of fraud against Sky Capital’s founder and chief executive Ross Mandell and five others, while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil complaint.”
“The answer is three or more, each better attended than the last.”
“Umm al-Fahm was thrust into the international spotlight in September, when three youngsters were shot dead and scores injured and arrested as they rose against Ariel Sharon’s incursion into the Islamic holy site in Jerusalem, the Haram al-…”
“There will still, apparently, be rules governing how much of Britain’s media can be controlled by any one organisation. These will be weakened, but re-engineered to take account of the blurring boundaries between print, broadcasting and th…”
“Then, one night, he went to the assistance of a young woman in apparent distress; now, he is serving 18 years in prison.”
“On 31 July 1997, he drove to Perranporth; [...] When he reached the main road about an hour later, the police were waiting to arrest him.”
“Gorman, moreover, had no history of violence. When he was 18, he had received a conviction for trespass after a minor fracas outside a Newquay nightclub. That, prior to the trial, was the extent of his criminal history.”
“It was 15 December before Pavlick was arrested”
“And, on 11 December, he drove to the house on North Ocean Boulevard.”
“I believe that, as we enter a new millennium, it is essential that the Holocaust is never forgotten,” the Home Secretary told readers of the Jewish Chronicle. “Recent events in Rwanda, the Balkans and East Timor show that ethnic cleansing …”
“Police were urged to prosecute him under the 639-year-old Justice of the Peace Act”
“The seven were detained on 8 October.”
“Shortly after the murder of Harish Purohit on 20 October, the police revealed that this prominent Hindu priest had enjoyed a secret existence in Leicester’s gay community.”
“The going rate charged by the gangs is DM1,000 per person.”
“Violent crime fell by 4 per cent between 1997 and 1999”
“The claim by Stephen Lawrence’s parents for compensation from the Metropolitan Police has finally been settled, it is reported, for £320,000, rather than the £500,000 originally claimed.”
“In 1987, London police failed to respond to complaints that a deranged teacher had been harassing a former pupil, Ahmet Osman. The teacher then went to the Osmans’ house with a gun, seriously injured the boy and killed his father.”
“After the Macpherson inquiry report was published, commentators urged the incumbent commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul Condon, to resign because of the findings that there was institutional racism in the Met.”
“In 1986, thieves raided Socrates Alexandrou’s shop in Birkenhead after police failed to respond to a burglar alarm.”
“This is because in 1994, their legal team launched a private prosecution.”
“by six MoD police detectives (including a woman to keep an eye on my wife) lasted almost eight hours.”
“For the next 360 days or so, I was on police bail.”
“The second anniversary of its police raids on civilians approaches”
“In 1961, the maximum penalty for breaking the Official Secrets Act was 14 years. But the Lord Chief Justice was so appalled that he twisted the law, added together three offences of defying official secrecy, and gave Blake 42 years.”
“At about six o’clock on Saturday 22 October 1966, George Blake, allegedly the most dangerous double-agent in the history of MI6, made what was undoubtedly the most audacious escape in the history of the British prison system.”
“His colleague calculated that, in the same period, he had been stopped 34 times.”
“One recent study, by Marian FitzGerald for the Metropolitan Police, suggested that an arrest rate of 25 per cent was the best that could ever be hoped for, while in practice such levels are rarely achieved and figures of 15 or even 10 per …”
“among those who are arrested, at least a quarter are held for carrying small amounts of cannabis for personal use”
“the Prime Minister declaring it “a vital weapon in the police armoury””
“It’s about authority,” he says. “If you take away those powers, you take away our authority; and if the police are not the authority on the streets, you have anarchy.”
“She cites the example of Miroslav Filipovic, the Serbian journalist who in July was jailed for seven years for writing about Yugoslav Army atrocities in Kosovo.”
“He points out the protesters’ paradox – if they are against globalisation, how come they are so effectively global in their use of the internet, and how come their message is global? – but he has a more meaty bone to pick. “I spent 15 year…”
“you would be forbidden from drinking more than seven units of alcohol (about three and a half pints of beer) in the 16 hours before you start work. And you would be banned from drinking any alcohol at all in the eight hours before going on…”
“Particularly rigid and demeaning are the controls that the Prison Service plans on the 300 people recruited from drug advice charities to persuade prisoners, with the gentle arts of counselling and therapy, to kick their drugs habit.”
“...culminating in the murder, in February 1998, of Claude Erignac, the resident prefect – the man the government had placed there to restore the rule of law.”
“According to Home Office figures, 120,000 British men over the age of 20 have a conviction for a sexual offence against a child; one in five will be convicted again.”
“In the US in the 1980s, 539 paedophiles were given a certificate of confidentiality ensuring that they would not be prosecuted.”
“In 1997, for instance, there were 582 prosecutions for rape of girls under 16, but these resulted in only 198 convictions.”
“Still, two-thirds of offenders discharged from prison and half of those under supervision in the community (surveillance that, at present, may last for only ten years after release) have not been through one.”
“Haworth gave them five and four years apiece – longer terms than many drug-dealers receive.”
“in 300 hours of undercover surveillance recorded on videotape, the Cambridgeshire constabulary hadn’t captured one shot of the centre staff smiling in complicity as a sliver of heroin was exchanged.”
“John Redwood, now back in favour if not back in the shadow cabinet, has likened this to ruling out murder for five years.”
“Almost exactly a year ago, Operation Stealer, acclaimed as 'the most successful drugs bust in British criminal history', ended in ruin. An enormous sum, £50m, had been wasted. All the suspects were cleared.”
“Customs officers investigating the smuggling of drugs worth £65m had commissioned 'a crime which is as socially corrosive and destructive as the importation of a massive quantity of high-purity cocaine', he declared.”
“Almost exactly a year ago, Operation Stealer, acclaimed as “the most successful drugs bust in British criminal history”, ended in ruin. An enormous sum, £50m, had been wasted. All the suspects were cleared.”
“Customs officers investigating the smuggling of drugs worth £65m had commissioned “a crime which is as socially corrosive and destructive as the importation of a massive quantity of high-purity cocaine”, he declared.”
“Once he reached Tangier with stowaways aboard. The police managed to get five of them out. Then the doors were locked and bolted again. When the truck arrived in Manchester, the driver found that one stowaway had stayed in, undiscovered. H…”
“He has been charged with defrauding his own association and convicted of breaking the law by organising the farm occupations.”
“The new deputy chair of the Environment Agency is a man who until recently had shares in a firm that has been prosecuted by the Agency five times in the past three years. Christopher Hampson was also, to top it all, an executive director o…”
“Sergei Kovalyev, the Soviet-era dissident who is one of the few Russian politicians brave enough to speak out against the fighting in Chechnya, fears that Putin is likely to build an “authoritarian police state”...”
“the terror campaign of 2000 bears all the old hallmarks: the gang-rapes; the systematic beatings; the hut-burning; the terrible re-education sessions with the forced singing of Zanu-PF songs; the torture and the murders; above all, the arr…”
“Twenty-seven councillors and officials have been arrested to date and seven have been found guilty of fraud.”
“There are six judges, a federal prosecutor, each accused has two lawyers.”
“He was arrested in March of last year”
“On the 75th anniversary of the Turkish republic in 1998, Turkey claims to have intercepted a plot by Hilafet Devleti’s followers to launch an attack by plane on Ataturk’s mausoleum; 23 were arrested.”
“There have been more than 600 sectarian murders in north Belfast over the past 30 years.”
“Sir Peter Harding, the former defence chief who resigned in 1994 after one of Clifford’s clients, the notorious Lady Bienvenida Buck, sold the story of their affair to the press for £300,000.”
“Margaret Moore, the woman who claimed that Boycott hit her more than 20 times in the face while she was pinned to the floor of their hotel room in Antibes in October 1996.”
“Only days after this alleged assault, Moore rang up Clifford and arranged to meet him at Claridges in London.”
“Some estimate that 99 per cent of children who go through the hearing system are kept out of the criminal justice system.”
“In 1998 alone, 1,613 young people were jailed for defaulting on fines.”
“In January 1995, I appeared at Greenock Sheriff Court and was convinced I was going to prison.”
“The men charged with their deaths are Abedelbaset al-Megrari and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimar, both in their late forties.”
“Talb, a member of a Syrian-based terrorist organisation with links to Iran, was the original suspect in the case. [...] currently serving life imprisonment in Sweden for killing one person and injuring 22 others in a bomb attack on a Copen…”
“Joy Gardner, allegedly an illegal immigrant, died after police used “reasonable force” against her in 1993.”
“The only change to the law came in 1984 and gave the police even greater powers, now frequently used against beggars, when it became possible for them to arrest anyone committing an offence, however trivial, if their name and address could…”
“The primary basis on which the police can arrest without a warrant is if they reasonably suspect someone of having committed a crime for which the maximum penalty is more than five years in prison.”
“In recent dawn raids, more than a hundred people were arrested on suspicion of racially motivated offences.”
“Two days later, only 18 of them had been charged...”
“the two young Leeds United footballers accused of a serious assault that may have been racially motivated.”
“Six days after the assassination, Tsafendas told the police that he had killed Verwoerd because he was “so disgusted with the racial policy”.”
“Three ropes hung over a gate in the floor, and on each rope were tied two nooses to accommodate the regular executions.”
“the 2,000-strong UN police force”
““There was a rape, for instance, three years ago,” he said.”
“In one year alone, of a total of 743 women convicted of offences related to prostitution in Scotland, 642 were in Glasgow. Only five were in Edinburgh.”
“In the past eight years alone, there have been six murder enquiries into the deaths of street prostitutes.”
“According to one officer, Strathclyde Police is faced with a street problem that now tops Edinburgh’s street scene seven times over.”
“in a snapshot survey contained in the “Where is She Tonight?” report, of 99 prostitutes 70 per cent had been fined. And a third were sent to prison for not being able to pay the fines.”
“in a snapshot survey contained in the “Where is She Tonight?” report, of 99 prostitutes 70 per cent had been fined.”
“And a third were sent to prison for not being able to pay the fines.”
“There are saunas in Glasgow. They are considered to be safer for prostitutes than street working, but they are unlicensed. And they only number 16 – nowhere near enough to cater for the city’s explosion in prostitution.”
“After a series of cautions, a Glasgow prostitute can be charged – and then, in court, fined up to £500.”
“But in contrast to Edinburgh, they chose to use the law at their disposal. … Strathclyde Police is faced with a street problem that now tops Edinburgh’s street scene seven times over.”
“A week after the second Moscow attack, residents in an apartment block in the provincial city of Ryazan found a bomb that was apparently primed to go off. Police arrived and evacuated the building; after a 24-hour silence, the FSB announce…”
“10 per cent extra on top of the speed limit”
“has halved in a decade”
“within 24 hours”
“the activists who feel exploited by this world march of business did their best to disrupt the conference, taking to the streets of Davos in a rowdy, 1,000-strong demonstration, which left the local McDonald’s trashed and two policemen bea…”
“The Montreal meeting was an outcome of the failure of trade negotiations held in Seattle last December, where violent clashes between protesters and police brought the World Trade Organisation to the forefront of public consciousness; and …”
“He said he would implement most of the reforms proposed by Chris Patten for the RUC – including changing the name to the Northern Ireland Police Service, a neuralgic issue for unionists.”
“He said it was his response to the murder of Stephen Lawrence – the legislation and other initiatives taken to ensure colour-blind policing and to address the role of racism and racial violence in British society.”
“A document now being considered by interior ministers across Europe shows what obsesses them. It includes action against organised crime, electronic crime and drug trafficking. It also includes the development of the still-embryonic Europo…”
“These eight top judges form Scotland’s civil and criminal appeal courts.”
“Estrada has put 500 marines on the streets alongside police.”
“They presented cases of 120 people who, they said, had been tortured or executed or had died in police custody in Cuba. And they added the names of 18,000 people who, they alleged, had been killed or disappeared since the victorious revolu…”
“Six plainclothes officers arrested my husband under the Official Secrets Act and spent the next seven and a half hours searching the place from top to bottom.”
“Tony Geraghty was at the police station for five hours”
