An asylum seeker accused of murdering hotel worker Rhiannon Skye Whyte has told a court he fled his homeland because it was “dangerous” for him. Deng Chol Majek, who denies the charge of murder, gave evidence at Wolverhampton Crown Court, saying he left Sudan aged 16 due to threats from an Army officer and the […]
A former teacher from the Midlands has been sentenced for indecently assaulting a young pupil during the 1990s. Mark Baker, now 53, was in his 20s when he worked at The River School in Worcester. During that time, he formed an inappropriate relationship with a 12-year-old girl, grooming and sexually abusing her, according to West
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A former Royal Marine commando has been jailed for helping to mastermind a £20 million tax fraud, one of HM Revenue and Customs’ largest ever investigations. Almost all of HMRC’s investigators were involved in coordinated raids across the UK on 12 March 2003, targeting dozens of individuals and 30 companies. The operation centred on Winnington
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Police were left stunned when ten men leapt from a single vehicle during a chase through the Cambridgeshire countryside in an operation targeting suspected hare coursers. Rural crime officers on patrol in Balsham, around ten miles southeast of Cambridge, spotted a suspicious SUV packed with men and dogs. When they tried to stop the vehicle,
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An asylum seeker allegedly stabbed a hotel worker 23 times with a screwdriver after following her home from work, a murder trial has heard. Deng Chol Majek, a Sudanese national who claims to be 19, is accused of murdering 27-year-old Rhiannon Skye Whyte near Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall on 20 October last year.
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An artist has been jailed for six months after admitting she tried to defraud the NHS of £3 million by faking a severe disability. Kae Burnell-Chambers, 44, wept as she was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison at the High Court in London for contempt of court. She admitted misleading medical experts and lying in
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More than £130 million worth of London property has been seized as part of an international crackdown on a criminal network accused of running brutal scam compounds in Cambodia and Myanmar. Two men Chen Zhi and Qiu Wei Ren were added to the UK sanctions list on Tuesday, alongside several companies connected to them, in
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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two young children were found dead at a house in Stafford. Staffordshire Police said officers were called to a property on Corporation Street at about 7.30am on Sunday following reports from the West Midlands Ambulance Service. Two children were pronounced dead at the scene and
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A fly-tipper has been fined after leaving piles of cardboard at communal bins following a house move. Multiple boxes were dumped in Sleaford Green, Norwich, last week. They had been left at a set of bins belonging to a block of flats at a different address from the one the perpetrator was moving to. The
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A woman has been arrested after £850 worth of stock was stolen from a lifestyle shop in north Norfolk. Make Holt, based in Shirehall Plain, was targeted repeatedly, with hundreds of pounds worth of items taken over three days in September. Police said a woman allegedly entered the shop on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, between
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