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Saturday, 8 March 2014

Two men and a woman arrested over the death of seven-week-old baby boy from head injuries

Tragic: The baby died after being initially taken to The Royal Oldham HospitalGoogle

Two men and a woman have been arrested after the death of a seven-week-old baby boy from severe head injuries.

The badly injured infant was taken to the Royal Oldham Hospital in the early hours of last Saturday.

The boy, who lived in Oldham, was later transferred to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, where he later died.

A 23-year-old woman and 35-year-old man originally arrested on suspicion of assault have been rearrested on suspicion of murder and conspiring to pervert the course of justice, police said.

A 26-year-old man has also been arrested on suspicion of murder and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Detective Inspector Andy Cunliffe, from GMP's major incident team, said: "This is a tragic case in which a very young baby has lost his life and we are determined to find out exactly what the circumstances were that led to him suffering such injuries.

"News of the death of such a little boy will no doubt come as a great shock to people and I would like to try and reassure the community as much as I can that we have a team of detectives dedicated to working on this investigation, and they will today be interviewing the three people in our custody.

"If anyone has any information at all that they believe may assist us with our inquiries, then please get in touch and tell us what you know."

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Baby Boy Death: Three Arrested Over Murder

Police detain two men and a woman after the seven-week-old child died from serious head injuries in a "tragic case". 10:25pm UK, Friday 31 January 2014

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Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Magistrate's home searched by anti-terrorism police who arrested diplomat's son

By Gordon Rayner, Tom Whitehead and Sam Marsden

7:02PM GMT 28 Jan 2014

A magistrate's home is the latest property to be raided by anti-terrorism police who had earlier arrested the son of a senior diplomat.

Officers specialising in biological and chemical threats are searching the end terrace house where Meena Patel, 54, lives with her two grown-up daughters in Stratford, east London, following the arrest of a 36-year-old woman who remains in custody.

Over the weekend officers also arrested James Sutcliffe, the 19-year-old son of Nicholas Sutcliffe, who works as First Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was later released on bail.

Both arrests were made on suspicion of offences under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act.

Mrs Patel sits on the bench at Thames Magistrates Court and was described by neighbours as a pillar of the community.

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One of her daughters, Kuntal, 36, works in the City and the other, Poonam, 33, is a pharmacist. The family are understood to be Hindus.

Today at least eight police officers wearing masks and protective suits could be seen in and around their home and garden.

The back garden and garage off an alleyway were being searched and officers had erected a tent in the alleyway. Three police vans remained parked in the street.

One neighbour said: "They are a lovely family, the girl who was arrested was definitely well educated. They are just a really quiet family.

"My mum said the family might own a pharmacy nearby. I'm not sure where exactly. I was really shocked when I read the news.

"I believe there is a mum and two daughters who live there. One works in the City and I think she earns quite good money. I think they worship at a temple nearby."

Another resident called Ben added: "I've been watching the vans since the arrests but the police wouldn't say what happened. All the masks and suits were a bit worrying.

"I don't know them - I just go to work and come home. I believe there is a mum and two daughters who live there."

Meanwhile police said they had concluded searches of diplomat Mr Sutcliffe's home and an adjacent property in Streatham Hill, south London.

Mr Sutcliffe, who has worked in Brazil and Cuba with the FCO, lives at the £650,000 four bedroom house in south London with his wife and four sons.

A relative of James Sutcliffe, who was bailed until April within hours of being arrested, said he had been told by police he had "nothing to worry about".

A spokesman for Scotland Yard said residents were at no “immediate risk” and the operation had been pre-planned and led by intelligence.

They said: "The searches are being carried out as a precautionary measure and are ongoing."

Mr Sutcliffe has been a first secretary since 2001.

His brother, Peter Sutcliffe, 49, said: “I find it extraordinary police have made an arrest and I cannot believe James has involvement in terrorism.”

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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Britain's 'most-wanted criminal' Brian Thexton finally arrested in Cumbria "without incident"

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One of Britain’s most wanted criminals has finally been arrested in a Cumbrian farmhouse.

Brian Thexton, 37, was recently named by the National Crime Agency as one of the 13 most wanted men in the country.

It had been believe he was on the run in Spain's Costa Del Sol.

But last week he was seen by a police officer in Lancaster who tried, but failed, to detain him.

Thexton was stopped while driving a Vauxhall Insignia.

But as the officer tried to remove the keys from the ignition, Thexton hit the accelerator.

The policeman was dragged along with him for several yards but eventually let go and suffered minor injuries.

The public had been warned not to approach him.

Cumbria Constabulary said Thexton was arrested in a rural property near Kirkby Stephen tonight.

Detective Superintendent Andrew Slattery stated:

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Slavery case: man arrested on suspicion of holding three women pictured for the first time

By Alice Philipson

5:18PM GMT 26 Nov 2013

The first pictures of a man arrested as part of a slavery investigation in South London have emerged.

Aravindan Balakrishnan in 1997 (ITV NEWS)

Comrade Bala, whose real name is Aravindan Balakrishnan, can be seen wearing a brown jacket and blue trousers as he attends the inquest into the death of commune member Sian Davies in 1997.

It comes as a Malaysian family came forward to claim that a woman allegedly held as a slave for 30 years is a relation who disappeared virtually without trace after joining a Maoist sect.

Kamar Mautum, a retired teacher, said she believed her 69-year-old sister, Aishah, was one of the women who had allegedly been held captive by the leaders of a 1970s Communist collective for 30 years.

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She said her disappearance had caused extreme heartache for her family.

Aishah had studied at one of Malaysia’s most elite schools, eventually winning a Commonwealth scholarship to study surveying in London.

A still from the ITV video shows Aravindan Balakrishnan being followed by two women (ITV NEWS)

She moved to Britain in 1968 with her fiancé and dreamed of balancing an exciting career with a family, but was soon involved in extremist politics, eventually giving up everything to follow a Maoist doctrine.

She allegedly fell under the spell of Balakrishnan and his partner Chanda, who were last week arrested on suspicion of holding three women against their will for more than three decades in south London.

Speaking from her home near Kuala Lumpur, Kamar said their mother’s dying wish had been to know what had happened to her daughter, who never returned.

Kamar told The Daily Telegraph: “I have felt so choked without her for years and years. She was so talented, she was the apple of my mother’s eye. She asked for her on her death bed.” She added: “When my mother died she

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Friday, 6 December 2013

Motorcycle champion arrested after wife's honeymoon death in Dubai

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11:05AM GMT 05 Dec 2013

A motorcycle champion has been arrested at Heathrow airport over the death of his wife on their honeymoon in Dubai.

Father-of-three Sean Emmett, 43, was held by officers as he stepped off a plane as police probed the circumstances surrounding how Abbie Emmettt plunged to her death from their hotel room in Dubai.

She was killed just days after the newly-weds had arrived in the United Arab Emirates following their wedding in Cape Town, South Africa, in February.

Dubai authorities had investigated the 27-year-old's death, but found no suspicious circumstances and believed it to be a suicide leap from a window.

Mr Emmett, now a retired professional MotoGP rider, was quoted in the media at the time as saying: "I did not kill my wife – it was an accident."

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Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Man Arrested After Police Officer Shot In Leeds

Police reveal the officer is in hospital with "serious" injuries to her face, neck and right hand, as a firearm is recovered. 2:15pm UK, Wednesday 04 December 2013

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Man arrested after police woman shot

By Alice Philipson

11:07AM GMT 04 Dec 2013

A 37-year-old man has been arrested following a manhunt after a policewoman was shot in a popular student area of Leeds.

West Yorkshire Police launched a manhunt for James Leslie after the female officer was shot and injured shortly after 4am today while attending a routine call to a disturbance on Cardigan Lane in the Hyde Park district of Leeds.

A force spokesman said: "Police in Leeds have arrested a 37-year-old man in connection with the shooting of an officer earlier this morning. The man was arrested at 10.10am on Wood Lane in the Headingley area of the city."

James Leslie (PA)

Kieran Williams, 17, described how he had an altercation with Leslie yesterday and a women police officer called round to take information from his housemates during the night after a bottle was thrown through their window.

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Monday, 25 November 2013

Three women slaves: two suspected of slavery were previously arrested in 1970s

Police say they are seeking to understand the "invisible handcuffs" that kept three women bound in slavery and domestic servitude for three decades in a house in Lambeth By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

6:58PM GMT 22 Nov 2013

Two people suspected of enslaving three women for more than 30-years have been on the radar of the authorities since the 1970s, it was revealed on Friday.

The man and woman, who are understood to be illegal immigrants, were first arrested by the Metropolitan Police almost 40-years ago.

They were detained on Thursday morning as part of an investigation into slavery but were bailed to a date in January after several hours of questioning.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister, David Cameron, said he regarded the case as “utterly appalling”.

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Police revealed further details on Friday of the shocking conditions in which their three alleged victims were kept.

The women, a 69-year-old from Malaysia, a 57-year-old from Ireland and 30-year-old Briton, were allegedly subjected to decades of physical abuse and beatings after being brainwashed by their captors.

Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland of the Metropolitan Police’s human trafficking unit said: “Whilst we do not believe that they have been subjected to sexual abuse, we know that there has been physical abuse, described as beatings - however there is nothing to suggest that the suspects were violent towards others outside of the address.”

The youngest of the women has spent her entire life in the house, but is understood to have had some form of basic education.

The three women were only allowed to leave their house under carefully controlled circumstances and were said to be terrified of their captors.

But detectives explained that far from living in isolation, the group were probably known to the authorities including social services.

It has also been reported that one of the women was denied medical attention after suffering a stroke while inside the house.

Commander Steve Rodhouse from the Metropolitan Police said: “We believe at this stage to the outside world this may have appeared to be a 'normal' family.

“This does mean that over the course of many decades the people at the heart of this investigation and their victims will probably have come into contact with public services, including our own, that is something we must examine fully, and it is too early to provide details.”

He added: “What I can say with some certainty is that the two suspects in the case were arrested by the Metropolitan Police in the 1970s , some considerable time ago.”

A spokesman for Lambeth Council refused to discuss whether social services had any contact with the group.

Police were tipped off about the case by the Freedom charity when the 57-year-old women plucked up the courage to report her ordeal after watching a news report about modern slavery.

Specially trained charity workers spent several days winning her trust before she and the younger woman escaped on October 25 to a pre-arranged location where they were met by waiting police officers.

Detectives then returned to the house and removed the eldest woman to safety.

Almost a month went by before the two alleged captors were arrested by officers from the Met’s Human Trafficking Unit.

On Friday officers who have spent years investigating the growing scandal of slavery and domestic servitude admitted that this case was completely “unique” in their experience.

Mr Rodhouse said what his officers had uncovered was a “complicated and disturbing picture of emotional control over many years”.

He said to many in the outside world the group may have appeared to be an ordinary family in an ordinary house which might explain why it went under the radar for so long.

Describing the circumstances in which the three alleged victims were held, Mr Rodhouse said: “It is not as brutally obvious as women being physically restrained inside an address and not being allowed to leave.”

DI Hyland said 37 officers were working on the case and had removed 55 bags of evidence and 12,500 exhibits from the “ordinary” looking house.

Police also confirmed that they had been in contact with officials in Malaysia and Ireland.

DI Hyland said: “We are unpicking a story that spans at least 30 years of these women's lives, and all of this requires police activity to turn that into evidence.”

The two people arrested are understood to be of Asian origin and have also been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences.

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Slavery Case: Two arrested ran a revolutionary Communist collective

Police in Peckford Place, Stockwell, where the women were held captive Photo: JANE MINGAY FOR THE TELEGRAPH By Martin Evans, and Sam Marsden

10:00PM GMT 24 Nov 2013

The two suspects in the south London slavery case ran a Communist collective in the 1970s that worshipped the Chinese leader Chairman Mao, the Daily Telegraph has learned.

The husband and wife, who are from India and Tanzania originally, were arrested last week on suspicion of holding three women against their will for more than 30-years.

It is alleged they subjected them to beatings and emotional abuse and were only allowed to leave their Brixton flat in controlled circumstances.

The pair, who are both aged 69, arrived in Britain in the 1960s and were associated with a number of extreme left political groups known to the police and security services.

Last month a 57-year-old Irish woman contacted the Freedom Charity to report that she and two other women were being held as slaves.

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Working with the police, the charity was able to remove her, a 69-year-old from Malaysia and a 30-year-old British woman, to a place of safety.

Last week detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s human trafficking unit moved in and arrested the couple who had remained at the address.

Police who investigate allegations of slavery and domestic servitude have described the situation as unique and accept the women were not physically restrained by their alleged captors.

They have said as part of the “extremely complex” investigation they are seeking to understand the “invisible handcuffs” that prevented the women from leaving the group.

The Daily Telegraph has learned that the couple arrested last week were well known to the police having set up a notorious Communist squat in 1974 and have both served prison sentences associated with their political activities.

Based in Brixton, south London, the couple set about recruiting women from other far left groups, encouraging them to engage in “revolutionary work”.

The organisation published political pamphlets calling for the downfall of Western Capitalism and also ran lectures, study groups and held film screenings.

In 1978 police raided their premises, arresting 14 members of the organisation, including the two leaders, who were later jailed after being convicted of assaulting a police officer.

After the headquarters were closed, the organisation is understood to have broken up with the two heads of the group moving into a squat in Brixton with a number of their followers.

The collective were later given social housing by Lambeth Council and moved into a large house in the Herne Hill area.

A neighbour who remembered them said they lived at the property for about six years until around 2003.

She said they were very private and would always leave the house in groups.

The woman, who did not want to be named, said: “I remember three or four of them living there for about five or six years. I remember an Indian man who used to take the women shopping. He always wore a necktie. There was no other man.

“There was also a tall, slim white woman and another little Asian woman. They would never speak. We always saw them coming in and out with shopping but they never spoke.

"One day the police came and told me an older woman living in that house had died falling out of a window at the back. They asked if I had seen anything. I said no and they never got back to me.”

Commander Steve Rodhouse from the Metropolitan Police, who is leading the investigation into allegations of slavery, confirmed that the two older women had first met their alleged captors through a political group.

He said: “We believe that two of the victims met the male suspect in London through a shared political ideology, and that they lived together at an address that you could effectively call a 'collective'.”

He added: “Somehow that collective came to an end and how the women ended up continuing to live with the suspects. How this resulted in the women living in this way for over 30 years is what are seeking to establish, but we believe emotional and physical abuse has been a feature of all the victims' lives.”

The couple have been bailed until a date in January and are not allowed to return to the three bedroom housing association flat, where the alleged abuse took place.

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