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Jean Charles de Menezes' family settles for £100,000 Met payout

Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police officers in a tube carriage on 22 July 2005. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The four-year battle for justice by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes finally ended today after they reached a legal ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jean Charles de Menezes,  Ian Blair,  Independent Police Complaints Commission

On the Pashtun wild west

'It does not romanticise radicalism' … Son of a Lion If one of the plethora of film award ceremonies had a category for the most insane attempt to make a movie, then those behind Son of a Lion would be the hot favourite to win. The subject matter is ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC,  Taliban

Stop and search of ethnic minority 10-year-olds doubles in London

Stop and search during a police operation in London to tackle knife crime. Photograph: Martin Godwin Police have doubled the number of Afro-Caribbean and Asian primary school children they stop and search in London in the last year, figures released ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Boris Johnson,  Jenny Jones (politician)

Three Britons die in Dutch car crash after cash machine raid

Three suspected robbers from Britain were killed in a car crash after they fled following a raid on a cash machine in a small Dutch village. Police in the Netherlands denied the crash was a result of their officers pursuing the car, which contained a ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009

'I don't want to say nasty men have killed Daddy' – wife of Afghanistan soldier wonders how to tell children

Repatriation ceremony of Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, of the Royal Logistic Corps, who was killed in Afghanistan. Photograph: Sgt Ian Forsyth RLC/PA The wife of one of the British soldiers killed by an Afghan policeman has said she does not know how to ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

British soldiers in Afghanistan helping to curb UK asylum seekers, claims minister

Immigration minister Phil Woolas: 'the benefit of of the presence of our armed forces and other countries' [in Afghanistan] is to help us control immigration.' Photograph: David Levene A government minister was today accused of being "crass" after he ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Phil Woolas,  Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  Damian Green,  Home Office

Simon Mann may face Scotland Yard questioning

Scotland Yard is considering whether to interview Simon Mann when he arrives back in Britain as part of its investigation into the attempted coup for which he was jailed in Equatorial Guinea. Scotland Yard said it had been liaising with the Crown ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Simon Mann,  Mark Thatcher

Menezes police officer gets top IPCC role

A top Scotland Yard officer who was personally criticised for failings in the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting has been appointed to the leadership of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Commander Moir Stewart will be the IPCC's new director ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ian Blair,  Jean Charles de Menezes,  Independent Police Complaints Commission,  G-20

Iran jails British diplomat over uprising

Britain's relations with Iran worsened last night after a senior UK diplomat in Tehran was reportedly sentenced to four years' imprisonment for orchestrating the mass protests that followed June's bitterly disputed presidential election that returned ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Miliband,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Police review Lockerbie evidence

Police today said they had begun a review of the Lockerbie bombing case focusing solely on searching for any new evidence pointing to the accomplices of the only man convicted of the atrocity. The British families of the bereaved reacted to the news ...

From VIKRAM DODD, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Miliband

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