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Northamptonshire chief constable fined £50,000 for contempt of court

Judges spare Ivan Balhatchet a prison sentence, after an earlier ruling that the force had ignored repeated orders to turn over video footage of an arrestThe chief constable of Northamptonshire police has been fined £50,000 for contempt of court, with his force condemned by three senior judges.The court of appeal ruled last week that Northamptonshire police were in contempt and had been “wilfully disobedient” for repeatedly failing to obey rulings to hand over video to a woman who complained she had been wrongly arrested by three officers. Continue reading...

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Meta To Pay $550 Million To Spanish Media Outlets For 'Unfair Competition'

A court in Spain said Thursday it has ordered Facebook owner Meta to pay local media outlets 479 million euros ($552 million) in compensation for "unfair competition" plus 60 million euros in interest.

Man walks into police station days after five held on suspicion of his murder

Ismail Ali, who went missing in Bradford in 2020, is ‘safe and well’ after police said this week they thought he was deadA shop worker who went missing five years ago has walked into a police station days after officers said they believed he was dead and arrested five people on suspicion of his murder.West Yorkshire police said Ismail Ali turned up on Wednesday reporting to be “safe and well”. Continue reading...

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Doreen Lawrence says it was ‘deeply painful’ to learn undercover police spied on her family

Stephen Lawrence’s mother tells spycops inquiry Met police’s priorities after her son’s murder were ‘completely misplaced’The mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has told a public inquiry that she found it “deeply painful” to discover that police had deployed undercover officers to spy on her family and their campaign to get his killers prosecuted.Doreen Lawrence said the police’s priorities were “completely misplaced” and they should have been concentrating on bringing the racist murderers of her son to justice. Continue reading...

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy receives ‘draft plan’ from US and expects to talk with Trump in coming days – Europe live

Statement from Ukrainian president’s office says country supports all ‘meaningful proposals capable of bringing true peace closer’In the last hour, Ukraine said it had received from Russia the remains of 1,000 people that Moscow said were killed Ukrainian soldiers, in the latest repatriation – a rare area of cooperation between the warring sides, AFP reported.“Today, repatriation measures took place. 1000 bodies, claimed by the Russian side to belong to Ukrainian servicemen, were returned to Ukraine,” Kyiv’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on social media. Continue reading...