Flora Thompson

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Attacks on prison staff have soared to their highest level for more than two decades, with some 10,000 assaults recorded in a year

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#BreakingNews Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is accused of the knife-attack murder of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, has been charged with a terror offence and producing the deadly poison ricin which was found in his home, Merseyside Police said

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#Breaking Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Criminal Cases Review Commission chairwoman Helen Pitcher is “unfit to fulfil her duties” and she is seeking her “removal from that position” after failings in the Andrew Malkinson case

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#Breaking Andrew Malkinson, who was wrongly convicted of rape and jailed for 17 years, was “failed” by the Criminal Cases Review Commission and could have been exonerated almost a decade earlier, a review has found

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Abdul Ezedi was granted asylum by a judge who accepted he was a Christian convert despite concerns the sex offender was a liar, court records show

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Government plans for asylum accommodation will cost tens of millions of pounds more than using hotels, with flagship sites housing hundreds fewer migrants than planned, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found

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Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens should never have been given a job as a police officer and chances to stop the sexual predator were repeatedly ignored and missed, an inquiry has found

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#Breaking The Home Office has been reprimanded by watchdog the UK Statistics Authority after the Government was accused of lying about clearing part of the asylum backlog, with chairman Sir Robert Chote warning that the “episode may affect public trust”

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#Breaking Child killer Jon Venables has lost a Parole Board bid to be freed from jail, with the panel ruling that it was “not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public”

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The Home Secretary said he “cannot see any credible reason” to question the nation’s track record now after he signed the new deal in Kigali

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#Breaking Home Secretary James Cleverly has signed a fresh treaty in Kigali with the Rwandan government’s foreign affairs minister Vincent Biruta over the UK’s stalled asylum plan

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#Breaking Home Secretary James Cleverly is travelling to Kigali and will sign a new treaty  with Rwanda on Tuesday over the Government’s stalled asylum plan

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Negotiations on a new treaty with Rwanda over the UK’s stalled deportation policy are in their final stages, according to the Home Office’s top civil servant

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Necrophiliac killer David Fuller was able to offend for 15 years without being suspected or caught due to “serious failings” at the hospitals where he worked, an inquiry has found.

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The Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism commander has said it is “testament to the ingenuity” of former soldier Daniel Khalife that there have been no confirmed sightings since he escaped prison

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Probation worker subjected to monkey chants wins payout | The Independent https://t.co/vYxBcwD1lA

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#Breaking Nurse Lucy Letby, 33, has been found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital

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#Breaking Campaigners and asylum seekers have won a Court of Appeal challenge over the Government’s planned Rwanda deportation scheme

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#Breaking Thomas Cashman, 34, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years at Manchester Crown Court for the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel who was shot in her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, last August