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The Independent Police Complaints Commission has concluded a lengthy and complex managed investigation into complaints about how Humberside Police conducted an investigation into alleged physical and sexual abuse at St Williams Children’s Home, Market Weighton, East Yorkshire between 1965 and 1992.
Humberside Police’s Operation Aldgate began in April 2001 to investigate complaints made by former residents of the home, which was run by the De La Salle teaching order to provide residential care and education for emotionally and behaviourally disturbed males aged 11 to 18.
The operation followed on from the conviction of the former school principal, James Carragher, and chaplain Anthony ...
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Fifteen people, including nine retired and three serving police officers, are to be charged with perverting the course of justice and perjury in connection with the murder of a young woman more than 20 years ago.
Lynette White, 20, a prostitute, was found stabbed to death in a flat in Cardiff on Valentine’s Day, 1988. Three men were sentenced to life for her murder in 1990 but their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1992.
The latest prosecution is believed to involve the biggest number of current and former members of the police force to be summonsed together. A ...
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When Peter Mahon was unlawfully removed from his house by police, he did not expect to spend four years chasing his case through the courts. Asleep on his sofa in November 2004, he was woken at 1.30am by two uniformed police officers who told him to leave or be arrested. His untimely exit from his home happened when officers intervened in a civil dispute between Mahon and his ex-partner over rights to the house they had bought together in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
Mahon, an actor, musician and film-maker in his fifties, said: “The first thing [the police] asked me was, ‘Is ...
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The BBC have reported that a police officer eho was recently cleared of assault was found dying on Snowdon.
A police officer who was cleared of wrongdoing after punching a woman while trying to arrest her has died after being found in north Wales.
Pc Anthony Mulhall, of South Yorkshire, was found on Snowdon on Thursday, but died in hospital on Friday.
He was removed from frontline duties in March 2007 when he was caught on CCTV hitting Toni Comer, 21, as he tried to subdue her outside a Sheffield club.
An investigation later decided that no officers should be charged.
Pc Mulhall was ...
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It has been reported in the Independant newspaper that the Police face a legal challenge over crimninal records checks.
John Pinnington is the kind of public-spirited volunteer on whom many communities depend. After a successful career as a technical illustrator in the aeronautical industry, Mr Pinnington decided he wanted to work in the voluntary sector, helping severely autistic young adults in Oxfordshire, where he successfully applied for the post of disability training manager.
His new job gave him a renewed sense of purpose, while at the same time enabling him to make a valuable contribution to society. But that all changed when ...
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Claims a former chief constable may have been biased in a reported child sex abuse inquiry have been dismissed by the force he worked for.
Terry Grange retired from Dyfed-Powys Police after allegations of computer misuse and financial irregularities.
It has since emerged there had also been a claim of bias against Mr Grange in relation to the child abuse inquiry.
But those claims against Mr Grange have been described by the force as “unfair and misleading”.
The force and the Dyfed-Powys Police Authority issued a joint statement on Monday, saying they felt it necessary to respond to claims in the media that “Mr ...
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A police authority will discuss the sudden departure of their Chief Constable during a meeting later today.High up on the agenda for the members of Dyfed-Powys Police Authority will be the retirement of 58-year-old Terry Grange who left his post on Monday when it was revealed he was under investigation.The sudden departure of the married father-of-three came after the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) revealed he was being investigated for potentially criminal financial irregularities.The retirement meant the IPCC was powerless to continue inquiries into separate allegations that Mr Grange had misused police computers.Yesterday evening Dyfed-Powys Police Authority issued a statement ...
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A chief constable is being investigated over his force’s dismissal of child abuse allegations against a judge.The police watchdog stepped in after claims that the officer allowed his professional relationship with the circuit judge to prejudice the force’s actions. The complainant, the judge’s estranged wife, alleged that he gave a child a sexually transmitted disease, viewed child pornography websites and misused transcripts from child abuse cases that he had presided over. There were also allegations of mortgage fraud and domestic violence.Documents sent to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and seen by The Times said that the force concluded that ...
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A police watchdog is to investigate the case of an innocent man who was jailed for a sex attack which never happened. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to examine conduct of Northamptonshire Police officers after a complaint by Warren Blackwell. Mr Blackwell, 37, was jailed in 1999 for indecently assaulting a woman outside a club at New Year’s Eve party. The Appeal Court cleared him in October last year, after he had served more than three years in prison. New evidence revealed the woman who said she was indecently assaulted had made “strikingly similar allegations” about other sex ...
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Complaints have been upheld against South Wales Police on the handling of the rape of a man after he was wrongly accused of being a paedophile. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) accused the force and some individual officers of failing Geoffrey Cole. South Wales Police have apologised to Mr Cole, 60, and his wife. Lies spread about Mr Cole led to the attack near his Resolven home in October 2005, detectives have said. He was attacked as he walked his dog late at night in a lane very close to his home. Moments before he recalled seeing a man ...
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A prostitute who made a false claim that she had been raped by a police officer in a cell has been jailed for four months.Martina Longbottom made a detailed 10-page statement about the alleged rape in a cell at Bethel Street Police Station.At first her complaint was investigated as a matter of urgency and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was called in.But the police station’s CCTV footage soon revealed that no officer matching Longbottom’s description had been in the station at the relevant time. Longbottom, 45, of Easthills, New Costessey admitted wasting police time by making a false report ...
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Claire Curtis-Thomas asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further steps a complainant can take who is not satisfied by the response of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.Hazel Blears (Minister of State (Policing, Security and Community Safety), Home Office) replied:The IPCC is an independent body. If a complainant is not satisfied with the outcome of the IPCC’s investigation into their complaint, independent legal advice will need to be sought, as its decisions on cases can only be overturned through the CourtsAcknowledgement: Hansard Ref
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This item was first published on the F.A.C.T. website on 1st September 2004FACT A.G.M./Autumn ConferenceTo be held on Saturday 11th September2004 at The Parish Hall, Dinas Powys. CF64 4AFProgramme10-30am Arrival — Tea and Coffee available11:00 am. Chairman will open the conferenceIntroductory Comments. A.G.M. (This will be a brief meeting which will include minutes of previous AGM, reports from Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, and election of 3 Committee members and Secretary.12:30pmConference12-30pm Mark Newby and Mark Barlow,Historical Abuse Appeal Panel – The first 12 months.1-15pm Lunch- Buffet available, all profits to FACT.2-15pm Dr Michael Naughton, Lecturer in Sociology, Bristol University. Report on ...
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