Category: Crime

A Wales court has held a man guilty of attempt to murder for attacking a Sikh dentist with a machete at North Wales’ Tesco Mold supermarket in January, a media report said ….reports Asian Lite News. Zack Davies, 26, of Chester Street in Mold, told the court that he never intended to kill Sarandev Bhambra,…

Detectives investigating “horrendous” child sex abuse in Rotherham has 300 possible suspects identified. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said most of the potential suspects were Asian men and most of the estimated 1,400 victims in the town were white British girls and young women. The 32 officers working on Rotherham’s child sexual exploitation case –…

An Asian dentist who had gone to Tesco to buy his lunch was attacked by a white supremacist shouted ‘this is for Lee Rigby’ as he brandished a machete and started hacking him, a court has heard. Zack Davies, 26, told police he had singled out Dr Sarandev Bhambra because of his skin colour, yelling ‘white…

The first independent anti-slavery commissioner’s top priority will be to clamp down on the problem of Nigerians being trafficked to the UK. Speaking to BBC,Kevin Hyland said it was “deeply concerning” that hundreds of Nigerians were brought in every year for prostitution or forced labour. Mr Hyland said the problem of such exploitation was “enormous”.…

A young woman has been jailed for three-and-half years for openly advocating violent jihad and instigating people on Twitter to indulge in “terrorist activities”. Alaa Esayed, 22, posted more than 45,000 tweets in Arabic on an open account to her 8,240 followers between June 2013 and May 2014, The Guardian reported. Her Twitter account —…

Police  arrested two men on suspicion of murdering a British Indian businessman, a media report said. Pragaret Singh — known to family and friends as Charlie Singh — was shot dead last year near his office in Manchester city’s Openshaw area. Police  detained two men, aged 22 and 23, after raiding three properties in Moss…

Manchester Police book 285 motorists dueing a week-long Crackdown on Motorists on Phone…reports Asian Lite News Two hundred and eighty five (285) motorists were caught on their mobile phone during a week-long crackdown by traffic police in Manchester. Traffic officers took part in the week of action as part of a national campaign to target driver…

UK school children are being groomed and used to pickpocket, shoplift and beg as part of criminal operations, the anti-slavery commissioner has warned. Home Office minister Karen Bradley said the government had “succeeded” in bringing modern slavery into the open and was “determined to eradicate it”. Mr Hyland – an ex-Met Police detective who was…

The body of British hotelier of Indian origin Ranjit Singh Power, missing since May 8 while on a business trip to India, has been recovered in a Punjab forest, police said. The body was found in a forest near Anandpur Sahib in Ropar district, some 80 km from here, a Punjab Police officer said. He…

Police have launched a manhunt for a violent prisoner following his escape from a high-security jail in Staffordshire county, media reported. Haroon Ahmed, 26, escaped from Dovegate prison, Mirror online reported. Police suspect that Ahmed is in the Derby area where he has numerous connections. Officers on Friday arrested his brother, Majeed Ahmed, 25, and…

Detectives who were searching for Jed Allen say they are satisfied that a body found in Oxford is that of the triple-murder suspect. Members of the public found the body in the woodland,bringing to an end a 30-hour manhunt. No formal identification has yet taken place reports Sky News. Allen, who had a distinctive spider…

Britain was shocked to hear the news of the Oxfordshire family’s brutal murder. The main suspect is victim’s son Jed Jordan, a Wolverine fan.  Thames Valley Police have appealed for help to trace Jed Allen, 21, son of murder victim Janet Jordon, 48 His half-sister Derin, six and his step-dad Philip Howard, 44, were also brutally…

Members of an Asian child sex ring abused two schoolgirls, taking advantage of their vulnerability on a “massive scale”, a court has heard. One girl, who was aged 12 or 13 at the time, alleges that throughout the period she was abused, she was passed between 60 men who had sex with her Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.…

Police are continuing to question nine men arrested in connection with the Hatton Garden safety deposit raid in London. Aged between 43 and 76, were detained after a string of raids in and around the London and Kent area reports BBC. A number of high-value items were recovered as about 200 officers swooped on 12…

High street retailer Next has been hit with a £22.4m tax bill after a court ruled the firm’s complex tax scheme was artificial tax avoidance. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) successfully challenged Next Brand Ltd, which is part of the well-known Next group, over its use of a tax avoidance structure known as a rate-booster.…

Counter-terrorism police have started a probe into the murder of a Syrian cleric who was found with bullet wounds in a car in London, a media report said. According to police reports, Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, was found in a Volkswagen W Passat car on Tuesday with gunshot wounds to his chest. The car was…

Parents should take the opportunity this weekend with schools on a break, to sit down with their families to talk about the difficult issues of radicalisation and extremism, says UK-based organisation Families Against Stress and Trauma (FAST). Media reports yesterday suggested teachers are very concerned that pupils may use the bank holiday break to try…