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Moment police find trafficked Romanian nationals forced to work in car wash

Metropolitan Police officers discovered eight Romanian nationals who had been forced to work in a car wash.

The Independent UK

Seventh Met Police officer filmed in TV exposé sacked for appalling anti-Muslim slurs

Scotland Yard rebuked BBC Panorama ‘once again’ over the late disclosure of unaired footage

Evening Standard

Met Police chief and London mayor hail ‘enduring’ legacy of Damilola Taylor 25 years on from killing

Family of tragic Damilola, 10, join forces with Sir Mark Rowley and Sir Sadiq Khan to fight knife crime across London

Evening Standard

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Man charged with murdering two women and raping another appears in court

Simon Levy is alleged to have killed one of the women during a sexual encounter

The Independent UK

Man charged with murder of two women and rape of a third in spate of London incidents

Police are appealing for information as part of a ‘complex’ investigation

The Independent UK

Palestine Action protest sees at least 90 arrested

Metropolitan Police confirmed at least 90 people were detained while protesting government actions banning activist group Palestine Action, on Saturday (22 November).

The Independent UK

Police believe 'depraved' predator who groomed children on Snapchat has 'many' other victims

Man described by the Metropolitan Police as ‘one of the most prolific and depraved sexual predators seen in recent years’ has been jailed for 18 years

Evening Standard

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David Carrick: 'Monster' ex-Met Police officer handed fresh life sentence for rapes and abuse

Ex-Met Police PC David Carrick was found guilty of further rapes and sexual assaults after an Old Bailey trial

Evening Standard

Predator Met Police officer David Carrick guilty of further rapes and sex assaults

David Carrick was found guilty by the Old Bailey jury which deliberated for more than five hours

Evening Standard

London businessman jailed for life after filming his sex attacks on women

Chao Xu, 33, may be one of worst sex offenders in British criminal history, police fear

The Guardian - UK

Rapist thought to be among ‘most prolific sex offenders of all time’ is jailed

The Metropolitan Police said Chao Xu filmed himself ‘raping and sexually assaulting women who appear to be unconscious or heavily incapacitated’.

Evening Standard

‘Calculated’ predator who spiked and raped students jailed as police fear there could be hundreds more victims

Chao Xu had also filmed and upskirted hundreds of other victims around London

The Independent UK

Serial rapist Chao Xu jailed for life for raping women he drugged with a Chinese potion

Chinese national Chao Xu - dubbed one of London’s worst sex offenders - drugged women with special drink to ‘act out his deviant sexual fantasies’

Evening Standard

London serial rapist who drugged victims and filmed attacks faces jail for catalogue of crimes

Chao Xu was a ‘bold and persistent sexual predator’ who used a special brew of booze and Chinese medicines to drug women so that he could rape them

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Police brace for clashes as protesters and counter-protesters set for Bob Vylan north London gig

The Metropolitan Police has placed restrictions on the planned protests to prevent disorder

Evening Standard

Moment ‘bitcoin queen’ fraud arrested in her bed as she’s jailed over £5bn stash

Zhimin Qian and Seng Hok Ling were sentenced following a multibillion-pound fraudulent Bitcoin scheme

The Independent UK

How Chinese fraudster involved in £5.5 billion Bitcoin scam evaded UK authorities for six years

Zhimin Qian, 47, was arrested in April 2024 in what has been described as the UK’s largest cryptocurrency seizure

Evening Standard

Video Caroline Flack filmed days after her arrest shown in new documentary

The TV presenter took her life at the age of 40 in February 2020 after learning that prosecutors were going to press ahead with an assault charge.

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Met Police chief accused of making ‘thinly veiled threat’ to senior officers over job cuts

Sir Mark Rowley faces backlash over a proposed pay-off scheme for senior ranks, with union leaders accusing him of pressuring loyal officers to leave

The Independent UK

Met Police sergeant filmed saying detainee ‘deserves to be beaten up’ sacked

Police Sergeant Lawrence Hume, based within the Metropolitan Police detention unit, was filmed as part of a BBC Panorama programme.

Evening Standard

Met Police sergeant who said detainee ‘deserves to be beaten up’ in BBC Panorama footage sacked

Police Sergeant Lawrence Hume, based within the Metropolitan Police detention unit, was filmed as part of a BBC Panorama programme

Evening Standard

Dramatic moment casino worker caught on CCTV stealing £10,000 arrested by police

Juliana Quintero Velasco, 24, ‘thought cameras weren’t watching’ at venue in Westfield Stratford City

The Independent UK

Met Police vows ‘anti-racist’ transformation after damning report

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The Independent UK

Anti-black discrimination ‘baked’ into Metropolitan Police, damning review warns

The report draws on more than 40 years of evidence showing how racism has affected black officers and staff

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Tottenham ‘Providing Support’ for Player Allegedly Threatened With Gun by Agent

Metropolitan Police attended an incident in early September.

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