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A Wiltshire police officer accused of committing numerous child sex offences is believed to have committed suicide in Canada. Thomas Stevens was alleged to have committed the crimes against two youths in East Devon in the 1970s. The 50-year-old was originally from Honiton, Devon, and worked for Wiltshire Police for 13 years, but had been living in Canada up until his death.
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/Verdicts were unanimous and loudly cheered /It's like the Birmingham Six says lawyer /Michaela's family were 'misled by police' /Judge told jury not to be swayed by island politics THE jury in the Michaela Harte trial yesterday took just two hours to free the men accused of her murder - while her widower and grieving family were left facing a lifetime of torment. John McAreavey left court clearly upset as Avinash Treebhoowoon and Sandip Moneea were cleared to the sound of raucous cheers from the gallery. The former hotel workers could have faced up to 60 years in prison if they had been convicted of killing the honeymooner.
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The North's very first Police and Crime Commissioners take up their new positions in just four days time. This radical shake-up in policing replaces Police Authority boards with one person who is responsible for setting police budgets, holding the force to account with the power to hire or fire chief constables. After an election fraught with criticism over low voter turnout - just 14.4% in some areas - Labour took control in Northumbria, Durham and, after a second preference vote, in Cleveland. Conservative candidate Richard Rhodes was elected in Cumbria also with a second preference count. KATE PROCTOR and NEIL MCKAY spoke to the four new commissioners giving you a voice on policing in the North. the public mind and what's not. It's a root and branch look at the whole operation," said...
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by NEIL SHAW Web Editor PLYMOUTH'S most senior police officer, Chief Superintendent Andy Bickley, and the three superintendents in charge of policing the city took your questions live online in an event held on Wednesday. The team spent two hours answering questions from hundreds of people who visited thisisplymouth.co.uk, with topics ranging from speed cameras and cycle lanes to prostitution, racism and littering.
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CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save war memorials from scrap metal thieves say only a handful have ever been brought to justice. Tragically, the War Memorials Trust also revealed that only one in ten of the stolen plaques and statues are ever recovered.
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FURTHER evidence about the conduct of the Wales Audit Office (WAO) while under the leadership of disgraced former Auditor General Jeremy Colman is to be handed over to police for investigation. The evidence was gathered by an influential committee of AMs who held an inquiry into the performance of the office wDON'T MISS THE LATEST BREAKING HEALTH NEWS ATWALESOnline.co.uk legal action against Colman would be unsuccessful. The report is being passed to the police to ascertain whether there is any evidence for a criminal action, but at this stage there is no evidence this is the case. Much criticism has surrounded the case of Anthony Snow, the former chief operating officer at the WAO, who left last year with a redundancy pay and pensions package...
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A TV ACTOR who was beaten to death by a jealous rival over a call girl they both loved was "let down" by a Welsh police force, the independent police watchdog said last night. Barry Bowyer, 38, was starting a life sentence for murder today. He was the violent side of a bitter love triangle which eventually claimed the life of Gary Suller.
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THE policeman sat at the back of the stage in a uniform dripping with clues to his immense seniority. Everyone in attend-ance knew who he was any-way - Stephen House, the man with the most high- powered job in the history of Scottish policing. In a few short weeks, the former Strathclyde Police chief consta-ble will have operational command of the entire country, from John O'Groats to Gretna. No one in the UK controls a bigger patch. So why was the 68- year-old civilian at the microphone sounding as if he was the one in charge? It was the final week of Febru-ary, only five weeks before the nation's single police force was due to take over from the eight existing ones - and it was still impossible to tell who was running the show. Was it Mr House, the 55-year-old Police Scotland chief co...
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WHEN I joined the police force in the 1950s I aspired to the more glamorous side of the job. By this, I mean that of driving one of those big, shiny black police cars, with blue lights flashing and bells ringing or joining the CID, where the mode of dress was usually a gabardine Mackintosh and a trilby hat.
