Crime

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday The English Chronicle Desk | The English Chronicle Online Criminal networks operating across the United Kingdom are adopting increasingly sophisticated strategies that exploit the country’s vital freight and logistics sector, using deception, counterfeit documents and shell companies to steal goods by the lorryload. Evidence uncovered through a months-long investigation by the BBC has revealed that organised crime groups are now buying up legitimate haulage companies—sometimes...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Two US Marines have been implicated in the killing of an Iraqi family during a notorious Iraq War shooting in Haditha, according to a BBC Eye investigation, nearly 20 years after the incident. The investigation has uncovered evidence, including testimony and statements given in the aftermath, which raises serious questions about how the American military investigated the...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The notorious leader of one of Ecuador’s most powerful criminal organisations, Wilmer “Pipo” Chavarria, has been captured in Spain in a high-profile operation involving Spanish authorities, Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa announced on Sunday. The arrest marks a major victory in Ecuador’s ongoing fight against organized crime and narco-terrorism, a campaign that has intensified under President Noboa’s administration....

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Jurors in a high-profile Australian murder trial have been taken to the remote Queensland beach where the body of Toyah Cordingley, a 24-year-old pharmacy worker, was discovered. The visit is part of ongoing efforts to familiarise the jury with key locations in the case as proceedings continue in the Cairns Supreme Court. Ms Cordingley’s death has captivated...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Authorities in India have arrested a suspect in connection with a deadly car bomb attack in Delhi that claimed eight lives and injured 20 others last week. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), India’s premier counterterrorism unit, confirmed that the car used in the attack was registered in the name of the arrested man. The suspect, reportedly a...

Published: 17 November 2025 Monday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Tensions between Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and former President Donald Trump have intensified in recent weeks, centring on Greene’s insistence that all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein be released to the public. The dispute has made headlines across the United States and has drawn attention to a broader debate over transparency, accountability, and...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. For years, the United Kingdom has championed the F-35B Lightning II as the backbone of its carrier strike capability, a fighter designed to anchor the nation’s maritime air power well into the mid-21st century. Yet the story of Britain’s F-35 programme has increasingly been overshadowed by concerns over delays, rising costs, and diminishing capability. The latest blow came...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Indian anti-terror authorities are investigating a potential Kashmir link to last week’s devastating Red Fort blast in Delhi, even as security forces demolished the home of a prime suspect in the Himalayan territory. Officials in Jammu and Kashmir razed the residence of Umar Nabi, a Kashmiri doctor who worked at Al Falah University in Faridabad, near India’s capital,...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A shocking incident at a Remembrance Sunday commemoration in North Wales has stirred widespread outrage after a man, posing as a high-ranking naval officer, participated in the solemn event. Jonathan David Carley, 64, appeared at the war memorial in Llandudno on Sunday wearing the uniform of a rear admiral, complete with an improbable row of 12 medals. The...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Israel has identified the hostage body returned by Hamas on Thursday as that of Meny Godard, who was 73 when he was killed during the 7 October attacks. Red Cross vehicles collected his body hours after Hamas issued a joint statement with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad saying it had been located in the Khan Younis area of southern...