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Met chief clashes with senior Tory amid furious scenes in Commons - The Guardian

A senior Conservative attacked the honesty and competence of the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, in furious scenes at a Commons committee, while the police chief denounced the “pillorying” of his force.

Lee Anderson MP, the deputy chair of the Tory party, accused Rowley of not being “very honest” and claimed he was bungling his job. Rowley denounced the “personally offensive” attacks and accused Anderson of not knowing the law.

The clashes came during a session of the home affairs committee and a month after a damning report by Louise Casey that found Britain’s biggest force to be riddled with prejudice and incompetence.

Another Tory MP, James Daly, accused Rowley of previously being part of the senior leadership that had turned a “blind eye” to the “negligence” and “incompetence” that plunged the Met into its current deep crisis and left it a “national disgrace”.

The critical comments are a warning sign that the patience Rowley says he needs to turn the Met around may have run out among some lawmakers.

Rowley became commissioner in September 2022, having retired in 2018 after a career in several forces. He first joined the Met in 2011 as an assistant commissioner.

Anderson, who under Rishi Sunak became deputy chair of the Tory party, asked Rowley whether he had seen instances of racism, homophobia and misogyny during his career.

The commissioner said he “had always been tough” on standards and when pressed for an example, said he could not recall a specific one, leading Anderson to say: “You must have walked around with your eyes closed.” Things deteriorated from there.

“It would appear you are in denial,” Anderson said.

Rowley pleaded for support from politicians for his reform efforts, but Anderson said: “You’ve got to be honest. To sit there and say you can’t remember when you’ve witnessed these incidents, I don’t think that is very honest at all.” Rowley replied: “People don’t misbehave in front of senior officers in that way.”

Pressed more, he did admit to seeing incidents that “weren’t fit for today’s standards”, but declined to give detail.

Worse was to come as Anderson accused the commissioner of being too lax on protesters outside parliament, with each accusing the other of not understanding the law.

Anderson said Britain’s top officer – originally from inner-city Birmingham – should leave his “ivory tower”, and went on to say: “You might want to believe, commissioner, that you’re doing your job correctly, but I don’t think you are. I feel like I’m wasting my time with you.

“Five years out of the force … There’s probably people listening to this today [who] wish it was a lot longer, and I’m one of them.”

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Rowley interrupted: “I’m not going to sit here, if you want to be personally offensive then write it in newspapers … but I’m not going to answer these questions.”

Rowley also said: “We have made much progress over the last few decades … but it is not enough. And we are doubling down on standards, more ferociously than has been done for five decades.

“But the vast majority of our people are good people and the debate which turns this into pillory of the police root and branch is not something I’m going to accept.”

Some will see the clashes as a symptom of a more brutish Conservative party, others as forceful attempts to stop Rowley dodging fair questions.

A series of disastrous scandals becoming public this year have not menaced Rowley’s grip on the commissionership so far, since he argued he was in post to lead the clean-up.

But the personal nature of the criticism suggests some in the Conservative party are not buying it, raising the prospect that the committee’s report may be troubling for Rowley.

These were some of the most bitter scenes a Met chief has faced at the hands of MPs in recent memory. A Met chief’s evidence about phone hacking was derided by MPs in 2011, some of whom laughed openly.

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2023-04-26 16:07:00Z
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Andrew Bridgen kicked out of Conservative party after Holocaust vaccines tweet - Evening Standard

The North West Leicestershire MP lost the Tory whip earlier this year for making the controversial comments.

But he has now been thrown out as an ordinary member of the party.

A Tory spokesman said: “Mr Bridgen was expelled from the Conservative Party on April 12 following the recommendation of a disciplinary panel."

He has until May 12 to appeal the decision.

Mr Bridgen claimed his expulsion was “under false pretences”.

He said he would still be standing as a candidate at the next election, fuelling speculation that he could join Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party.

“Above all else this is an issue of freedom of speech,” Mr Bridgen said.

“No elected Member of Parliament should ever be penalised for speaking on behalf of their constituents and those who have no such voice or platform.

“As a vocal critic of the vaccine rollout amongst other issues such as net zero, illegal immigration, and political corruption the Party has been sure to make an example of me.

“I am grateful for my newfound freedom and will continue to fight for justice, speech, and liberty. I will continue to serve my constituents as I was elected to do and intend to stand again at the next election."

Earlier this year, Mr Bridgen tweeted: “We know the ‘vaccines’ are causing serious harms and now it’s becoming increasingly clear how they are doing it. No wonder so many people are ill since vaccination.

“As one consultant cardiologist said to me this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust."

Sharing a news article about the rise in excess deaths Britain is seeing as the NHS battles staffing shortages and strikes, he wrote: "Is the failure of the NHS also responsible for the current excess deaths in all other countries that administered the gene therapy mRNA ‘vaccines’?"

More than 650,000 deaths were registered in the UK last year- 9 per cent more than 2019.

NHS delays, an increase in flu cases and the aftermaths of the pandemic have been blamed for the rise.

Mr Bridgen's comments were condemned by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and former Health Secretary Matt Hancock

He was also suspended from the House of Commons earlier this year over his “careless and cavalier attitude” to lobbying rules and suggesting the woman investigating him could be bribed with a peerage.

He made multiple approaches to ministers and public officials on behalf of Mere Plantations, a UK-based reforestation company with forests in Ghana, for which he was initially paid £12,000 a year as an adviser, a report by the Standards Committee found.

It stated that Mr Bridgen then attempted to influence Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone during her investigation by claiming he heard a “rumour” she would only receive a peerage if she ruled against him because he was an outspoken critic of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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2023-04-26 13:06:07Z
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Selasa, 25 April 2023

Murdoch firm ‘paid secret phone-hacking settlement to Prince William’ - The Guardian

Rupert Murdoch’s media business secretly paid Prince William a “very large sum of money” to quietly settle a phone-hacking claim, according to new court filings.

The Prince of Wales received the previously undisclosed payment in 2020 after bringing a legal claim against the owner of the Sun and the News of the World.

Details of the settlement were given in legal documents submitted by his brother, Prince Harry, as part of his own legal battle with the publisher, which returns to the high court on Tuesday.

Harry told the court his attempts to seek an apology from Murdoch’s company over phone hacking were carried out with the approval of his grandmother the late Queen Elizabeth II.

The royal claims there was a secret agreement struck between royal family and “senior executives” at Murdoch’s company at some point before 2012. As part of this supposed deal the princes would delay legal proceedings against the newspaper group in return for receiving an apology at a later date.

Harry said the royal family did this after being scarred by the “Tampongate” incident when the Sun obtained a recorded phone call between Prince Charles and Camilla while the couple were having an affair in the 1980s.

Harry said the royal family was desperate to avoid a repeat of this coverage. The filings state: “The reason for this was to avoid the situation where a member of the royal family would have to sit in the witness box and recount the specific details of the private and highly sensitive voicemails that had been intercepted by [the News of the World royal reporter] Clive Goodman.

“The institution was incredibly nervous about this and wanted to avoid at all costs the sort of reputational damage that it had suffered in 1993 when the Sun and another tabloid had unlawfully obtained and published details of an intimate telephone conversation that took place between my father and stepmother in 1989, while he was still married to my mother.”

Harry says News UK failed to uphold its side of the secret agreement when he sought this apology in 2017. He claims meetings were arranged involving Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of Murdoch’s News UK, and Robert Thomson, the global head of Murdoch’s global News Corp business, but they went nowhere.

As a result, Harry decided to launch legal proceedings against the publisher of the Sun and the News of the World. He alleges the company targeted him with widespread illegal activity for much of his life, including hacking his voicemails and illegally obtaining personal information in the name of journalism. Many of Harry’s allegations relate to claims of illegal behaviour at the Sun while Brooks was editor in the 2000s. News Group Newspapers insisted there is no secret agreement.

Although News UK has admitted phone hacking took place at the News of the World, it has always maintained no wrongdoing took place at the Sun. Brooks was found not guilty of phone hacking at a criminal trial in 2014.

A spokesperson for the company said “the Sun does not accept liability or make any admissions to the allegations”, emphasising that many of Harry’s claims dated back 20 years.

Murdoch’s media empire is fighting hard to avoid being dragged into another high-profile court case, just weeks after paying more than $700m (£560m) to settle a US defamation case against Fox News. It is trying to stop Harry’s case from going to trial, arguing that he waited too long to bring the case and should have suspected he was a phone-hacking victim at an earlier date.

Claims that Murdoch’s company privately reached a settlement with Prince William was included as part of Harry’s legal case that there were secret deals between the royal family. There are no further details about what William alleged took place and whether it related to the Sun or the now defunct News of the World, which was closed down at the height of the phone-hacking scandal in 2011. A A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said it would never comment on an ongoing legal case. Kensington Palace declined to comment.

It had long been known William and Harry had been the victims of phone hacking, after Goodman was found guilty of hacking royal voicemails at a trial in 2007. At that time Murdoch’s business said Goodman was operating alone and the newspaper had been let down by a rogue reporter.

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When the Guardian revealed that in reality hacking was widespread in the News of the World newsroom, the Sunday newspaper was shut down and the scandal threatened to derail the entire company, with hundreds of victims agreeing settlement deals at a total cost of about £1bn.

Harry is now fighting three separate legal battles against three media groups, all alleging illegal activities were used to target him in the name of journalism.

Last month he turned up in person for his case against the publisher of the Daily Mail, with a judge currently considering whether that case should be allowed to go to a full trial.

A separate trial against the publisher of the Mirror and Sunday Mirror is due to start in a fortnight, with Harry set to break with royal protocol by giving evidence in the witness box.

If Harry is successful in this week’s hearing against Murdoch’s company then he is seeking damages in excess of £200,000, with a high-profile trial scheduled for January 2024.

The royal’s lawyers told the court News UK had engaged in “years of deliberate concealment, destruction of evidence, cover-up at the highest level and false denials even given under oath”.

They said: “The invasion of his personal conversations and relationships caused distress, as his privacy was constantly violated and his safety jeopardised. [Prince Harry] is appalled by the tactics used by journalists to interfere with and ruin his relationships, and feels sick knowing that these actions were conducted unlawfully.”

His lawyers said Harry was bringing the case because “crime should not be allowed to pay”.

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2023-04-25 11:13:00Z
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Hosepipe ban extended in Cornwall and Devon and won't be lifted until December 'without drought-breaking rainfall' - Sky News

A hosepipe ban has been extended to include Cornwall and new parts of Devon as the region continues to experience lower than average levels of rainfall.

South West Water (SWW) said it was taking action to "break the cycle of drought" after reservoir levels fell to their lowest recorded level last year with some water storage already lower than this time in 2022.

Around 390,000 homes will be affected by the restrictions. The ban is set to remain in place until 1 December but may be lifted "sooner" if the area receives "drought-breaking rainfall".

Confirmed breaches could result in a £1,000 fine - although the company does assure its customers this will be used as a last resort for people who "persistently ignore the rules".

The ban only applies to households not businesses, with a number of exemptions available for Blue Badge holders and households with pets like fish.

Activities covered by the ban include using hosepipes to water gardens or clean cars.

Last year, Cornwall experienced the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the region. Since then, Cornwall, Devon and the Isles of Scilly have all remained in official drought status, as declared by the Environment Agency.

In a statement on its website, SWW said: "Our water resources across the region remain under pressure and as we go into the summer period we have taken the necessary action to safeguard supplies and break the cycle of drought following lower than average levels of rainfall last year and throughout February."

The company also hopes to protect certain habitats and wildlife that rely heavily on water in the environment.

An existing hosepipe ban was only in place for Cornwall and a small part of North Devon.

Reservoir levels are recovering across the area, but still remain lower than last year.

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A British doctor was shot saving his family in Sudan. Now, he’s trapped and supplies are dwindling - The Independent

A British doctor trapped in Sudan has been shot in the leg as he “risked his life” to rescue his elderly mother, his daughter has revealed.

The doctor, who retired recently after working in the NHS for over 30 years, was visiting his family in Khartoum for Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr when fierce clashes between the country’s two top generals erupted in the city on 15 April.

His daughter and mother, who requires constant care, had been without water and electricity for five days at his brother’s house close to the airport, when he felt he had to move them to a safer place.

Speaking to The Independent, his daughter – a British doctor based in London – told how her father drove to the house at dusk last Thursday through the streets of the capital, past bodies strewn across the roads.

Calling herself Dr A to protect family in Sudan, she said: “They started shooting at the car first. My father kept going, but then he stopped because the shooting was coming from all directions.

Fire breaks out during clashes between Sudan’s military and powerful paramilitary in Khartoum

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“When he got out he started to feel faint. He felt an intense heat on his leg, but because of his intense fear and adrenaline, he didn’t pay attention.”

She said Sudan’s paramilitary, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), thought her father was a member of the Sudanese army because he was driving a Land Rover, a make of car often used by the national force.

He eventually convinced them he was just a medic trying to rescue his family and made it to his brother’s house, said Dr A. His second daughter – also a doctor – opened the door and noticed blood on his clothes.

They took him inside and dressed the wound, before making the dangerous journey back to the home where his mother usually lives.

Sudanese army soldiers, loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, sit atop a tank in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan

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It has been too risky for any of them to get to a pharmacy or hospital, so Dr A’s sister in Khartoum has been forced to treat him at home with some leftover antibiotics.

Dr A, who is a British-Sudanese dual national like her father and sister, said: “He was shot in the thigh, so the wound is quite superficial. But the actual car has gunshots where the headrests and backrests are. If my dad had been in the wrong place at the wrong time, or even a slightly different position, then he would be dead.”

Her biggest concern is her family’s dwindling supply of food and medicines, and intermittent running water and internet connection.

Dr A, who also has extended family living in Sudan, said: “Everything is chaos. The situation in the country is very desperate.”

Smoke fills the sky in Khartoum amid increasing violence and dwindling supplies

But despite the escalating violence and scant supplies, the British government and embassy has done little to help, she said.

She only spoke to someone from the Foreign Office on Saturday, a week after the fighting began, she said. Even then, they merely told her to register her family’s names on the list of people who need to be evacuated.

When Dr A asked about the plight of her grandmother who does not have dual citizenship, she was told to fill out a form but they could not guarantee a temporary visa.

This has made her family’s situation “particularly difficult” because “my dad cannot leave my grandmother”, she said.

People fleeing a street battle between the forces of two rival Sudanese generals are transported on the back of a truck in Khartoum

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Dr A called the Foreign Office again on Monday morning and she said they did not know what was going to happen.

Up to 4,000 UK citizens are believed to be stranded in Sudan amid deadly street fighting and a shortage of food, water and electricity.

Meanwhile, British diplomats and their families were evacuated from the country in a “complex and rapid” operation overnight, said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Warships RFA Cardigan Bay and HMS Lancaster are being prepared for an evacuation from Port Sudan, according to The Times.

Passengers disembark in Madrid after fleeing Sudan on a Spanish Air Force aircraft

At the heart of the conflict are two generals: Sudanese army chief General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan and RSF’s leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo who initially joined forces in a coup in 2021 just two years after the ouster of long-term autocrat Omar al-Bashir.

The pair became heads of the country’s new ruling Sovereign Council. However, tensions spilled into violence as they clashed over details of a transition agreement to civilian rule that was supposed to be signed last month and would have seen RSF forces merged into the military.

More than 400 people have already been killed and thousands injured, according to the latest tally from the World Health Organization, while there are fears the true toll is much higher.

Dr A said: “The British government should’ve had a robust plan from the beginning – don’t remove diplomats and leave everyone else not knowing what happens next.

“We’ve been let down and abandoned by the British government. It’s very frustrating and makes you quite angry. If a country can’t protect its own citizens then who will?

“My father is a hardworking man who earned his citizenship and served in the NHS throughout the dangerous time of the pandemic. It’s a testament to him that he tried to save his mother and risked his life for it.”

A government spokesperson said: “The safety of all British nationals in Sudan continues to be our utmost priority. We recognise that this is an extremely worrying and distressing situation for those trapped by the fighting.

“We are urgently exploring all routes for British nationals to leave Sudan should they wish to.

“Our advice to British nationals continues to be to stay indoors wherever possible and contact the Foreign Office to register your local and contact details.”

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Friends saved woman from drunk who tried to drag her in front of King's Cross Tube train - The Telegraph

A man who tried to throw a complete stranger in front of a Tube train as she travelled to the Notting Hill Carnival has been jailed for 10 years.

‌Arthur Hawrylewicz, 42, who is originally from Poland, was drunk when he grabbed 22-year-old Maria Osifeso in a bear hug as she was standing on the platform at King’s Cross Underground station on August 20 last year.

‌He then attempted to jump in front of an oncoming train while holding her and was only stopped when her friends intervened and managed to wrestle him to the ground.

‌Sentencing him at Inner London Crown Court, Judge Benedict Kelleher said: "You had approached your victim while she was standing with friends on the platform at King's Cross Underground station.

‌"She was a complete stranger to you. You tried briefly to speak to her but she ignored you.

‌"It is clear from the available evidence you intended to kill yourself that day but there is nothing to explain why you chose to try to kill an innocent bystander."

‌In a victim impact statement Ms Osifeso, a pharmacist, described how she had been left suffering from “overwhelming anxiety”.

‌She said: "What if my friends hadn't been there? What if my male friend hadn't jumped in to grab him? What if I had been standing closer to the tracks?

‌"It is incredibly traumatic to think how close I came to dying."

King's Cross Underground station Credit: iStock Editorial

‌Father-of-two Hawrylewicz, from Cardiff, had lived in the UK for 15 years, but the court heard his family had left him and returned to Poland in August 202.

‌As a result he had been suffering from depression, the court heard.

‌Hawrylewicz told police he had drunk up to four beers and a third of a litre of vodka before the attack, and had thought about killing himself.

‌Alexia Nicol, defending, said he had been in a "confused and desperate state" and wanted to "apologise to her".

‌He admitted attempted murder and was jailed for 10 years.

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2023-04-25 06:00:00Z
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The sick text messages which brought down GMP officer who used cadet scheme as his 'grooming playground' - Manchester Evening News

A former Greater Manchester Police constable who sexually assaulted teenagers he was training was brought down by a series of sick text messages he sent to his victims.

Adnan Ali was convicted of sexually assaulting two girls and a 17-year-old boy during his time as the leader of a large cadet unit for the force, at Liverpool Crown Court today (April 24).

The court previously heard the 36-year-old father, from Old Trafford, used the training scheme as a 'grooming playground' and 'exploited the freedom he was given.'

He also found guilty of misconduct in public office after a lengthy GMP investigation uncovered streams of inappropriate sexualised messages and images sent to young people in his care.

On some days, hundreds of messages would be sent from Ali's phone in the early hours of the morning until late at night, a spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said.

He also sent 'highly inappropriate photographs' of himself and would encourage other young people to send images to him in return.

Adnan Ali was convicted of five counts of sexual assault and 15 counts of misconduct in a public office (Image: GMP)

One sickening text message included: "Just lay in bed... wish u were here xx" and another said: "Wish you were in the bath with me."

Ali, known as Adz, became police leader of Trafford cadets in 2013 after suffering post traumatic stress disorder after a serious knife injury while on duty.

He was based in Stretford and the cadet unit rapidly grew to about 130 cadets, the largest group in Greater Manchester. While he was head of the unit they won local and national awards which enhanced his reputation.

Prosecuting counsel, Anne Whyte, KC, has claimed that he 'threw out the rule book' and engaged in conduct and communications with cadets and apprentices which breached the boundaries he was supposed to enforce.

Ali was arrested in October 2018 after the force received a complaint that he had been 'behaving inappropriately' towards a 16-year-old boy.

His devices were seized and analysed and officers found thousands of messages and identified more victims. He was charged and following a five-week trial, was convicted of five counts of sexual assault and 15 counts of misconduct in a public office between 2015 and 2018.

PC Mohammed Ali leaving Liverpool Magistrates Court (Image: Lynda Roughley)

In April 2022, Ali was dismissed from GMP and barred from policing at a gross misconduct hearing. The force will now make representations to that Deputy Mayor that he should have to forfeit his pension.

Karen Tonge, Specialist Prosecutor for CPS North West’s Complex Casework Unit said: "As a police officer Ali was expected to adhere to the strictest standards of behaviour and professional conduct. This was particularly so as he was working directly with young and vulnerable people in his care.

"Ali grossly abused his authority and exploited his position over a sustained period. He abused his position of trust to deliberately instigate inappropriate relationships with these young people for sexual gratification. Many were vulnerable and many looked up to him.

"The Crown Prosecution Service has worked hard with Greater Manchester Police to build a strong case to put before the jury including lengthy phone evidence and eye witness testimony. I would like to thank the victims for bravely reporting the matters and helping us to bring him to justice."

Ali, of Leighton Road, Old Trafford will be sentenced on 23 June 2023.

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