Crime

Published: 09 December 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The latest hearing of the long-running spycops inquiry has brought a disturbing account to the forefront, as a woman deceived into a prolonged relationship by an undercover police officer described behaviour she believes revealed deep and troubling “sadistic tendencies.” Her testimony delivered a painful narrative about trust, manipulation and institutional failings that spanned years, leaving lasting damage and...

Published: 08 December 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The United Kingdom will no longer serve as a safe harbour for dirty money laundered by dictators, oligarchs, and corrupt elites. That stark promise will come directly from David Lammy, the justice secretary and deputy prime minister, when he unveils a sweeping new anti-corruption strategy in London on Monday. Speaking with the authority of someone who has seen...

Published: 03 December 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A New Zealand man has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing a diamond-studded locket in an unusual manner—by swallowing it. The Fabergé egg pendant, valued at NZ$33,585 ($19,300; £14,600), has not yet been recovered, according to local police reports. Authorities were called to Partridge Jewellers in central Auckland last Friday afternoon, where the 32-year-old suspect was arrested...

Published: 02 December 2025 Tuesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Justice Secretary David Lammy has revealed that 12 prisoners have been accidentally released over the past three weeks, with two still at large. This follows a previous wave of 91 accidental releases between April and October. Speaking to the BBC, Lammy acknowledged that while prisons continue to operate on a paper-based system, “human error” is inevitable. He...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A woman has died and a man remains in serious condition after a rare double shark attack during an early morning swim at a remote beach on Australia’s east coast, an incident that marine experts have described as “highly unusual” and deeply alarming. Authorities say the two victims, both European tourists in their 20s, were swimming together...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Nigeria is currently grappling with a spate of mass abductions, but the vast country—bigger than France and Germany combined—faces a multitude of security challenges. Recent attempts by US President Donald Trump and his supporters to frame the insecurity purely as persecution of Christians overlook the complexity of Africa’s most-populous nation. Nigeria is home to over 250 ethnic...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Guinea-Bissau's deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has arrived in neighbouring Senegal following his release by military forces that toppled his government this week, Senegal's authorities have announced. His transfer came after negotiations by the regional West African bloc Ecowas, which worked to secure his safety amid rising tensions in Guinea-Bissau. Senegal's foreign ministry confirmed that Embaló landed...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A 31-year-old man has been arrested at Manchester Airport on suspicion of terror offences in connection with the synagogue attack in the city earlier this year, police confirmed. The arrest brings the total number of people detained over the incident to seven. The attack, which occurred on 2 October at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, claimed...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online David Coburn, a former Brexit Party MEP and one-time leader of UKIP Scotland, has strongly denied taking any money linked to a pro-Russian influence effort in the European Parliament. His name appears in WhatsApp exchanges between disgraced ex-MEP Nathan Gill and Oleg Voloshyn, a Ukrainian politician sanctioned by the UK and US for alleged ties to Russian...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Israeli security forces have come under intense scrutiny after video emerged showing troops shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered during a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. The footage, which circulated widely on social media, shows the men exiting a building with their hands raised before kneeling on the ground,...