Crime

Published: 09 September 2025. The English Chronicle Desk Fresh controversy has engulfed former UK prime minister Boris Johnson after revelations suggested he may have used his taxpayer-funded private office to profit from contacts made while in government. Senior politicians from across the political spectrum are now calling for his £115,000 annual public duty allowance to be suspended pending a full investigation. The disclosures, uncovered through a major leak of documents...

Published: 09 September 2025. The English Chronicle Desk Newly released documents reveal that UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, described the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as “my best pal” in a handwritten letter included in a birthday book for Epstein’s 50th birthday. The documents were made public by the US House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which is investigating Epstein’s activities and associated correspondence. The...

Published: 08 September '2025. The English Chronicle Online A fugitive father who vanished into the New Zealand wilderness with his three young children nearly four years ago has been killed in a shootout with police, ending a long-standing nationwide search that has captivated the country. Tom Phillips, 48, had been evading capture since December 2021 after fleeing into remote Waikato following a custody dispute with his former partner. He was...

Published: 08 September '2025. The English Chronicle Online In a case that has riveted Australia and the world, Erin Patterson, 50, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years for the deliberate poisoning of three elderly relatives with a beef Wellington laced with deadly mushrooms. Patterson was convicted in July of murdering her husband’s parents, Gail and Don Patterson, and aunt Heather Wilkinson in 2023,...

Published: 08 September '2025. The English Chronicle Desk A German woman at the centre of a long-discussed hit-and-run theory in the Madeleine McCann investigation has broken her silence, denying any involvement in the disappearance of the three-year-old British girl in Praia da Luz in 2007. Seven years ago, Portuguese and German authorities briefly investigated the woman after a theory emerged suggesting that Madeleine may have woken up, left her family’s...

Published: 06 September 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A resident in Hove has paid for the removal of graffiti outside the flat of former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, which appeared earlier this week branding her a “tax evader” and using offensive language. The graffiti emerged on a white wall outside Ms Rayner’s £800,000 seaside property following revelations that she had not paid the correct amount...

Published: 06 September 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Metropolitan Police have stated they have “no choice” but to arrest supporters of the banned group Palestine Action during an upcoming weekend of protests in London, with policing costs expected to exceed £10 million this month. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan emphasized that the force is fully resourced and prepared to process mass arrests if necessary, following...

Published: 06 September 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Mobile phone retailers across the UK are increasingly locking their doors during trading hours and exploring technological solutions, such as “kill switches,” to combat a sharp rise in thefts driven by organised criminal gangs. VodafoneThree, which operates 650 stores nationwide, reported a 967% increase in theft incidents in the first half of 2025 compared with the same period...

Published: 05 September. the English Chronicle Desk. English Chronicle Online Marianne “Mair” Smyth, infamously known as the “Queen of the Con,” has been convicted of multiple fraud charges in Northern Ireland, thanks in large part to the investigative work of US podcaster and author Johnathan Walton. Smyth, who previously defrauded Walton himself of nearly $100,000 in Los Angeles by posing as an Irish heiress, was found guilty by a Downpatrick...

Published: 05 September. the English Chronicle Desk. English Chronicle Online Calls for immediate reform of the Windrush compensation scheme have intensified as survivors continue to report severe delays and inadequate support, with some saying they feel the Home Office is “waiting for us to die.” Rev Clive Foster, the Windrush commissioner, has written to the migration and equalities minister, Seema Malhotra, and shared his concerns with Home Secretary Yvette Cooper,...