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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has publicly criticised the criminal justice system for putting the rights of dangerous offenders ahead of the safety of children, after a convicted paedophile was bailed to a flat overlooking a playground despite repeated police and CPS objections. Speaking outside Wood Green Crown Court following the sentencing, Rowley said officers feel hamstrung by unfathomable bail decisions driven by pressure to cut the remand population, leaving victims fearful, communities less safe and public confidence undermined. “The children should be put first, not the paedophile,” he stated, adding that such outcomes help explain why increasing numbers of victims abandon cases once they reach court.

Burnham admits he can’t stop Channel migrants and refuses to name a date Prime Minister Andy Burnham has admitted he cannot promise to halt small-boat crossings in the Channel and will not set any deadline for ending them, after 83,000 arrivals since Labour came to power. Pressed on whether the boats can actually be stopped, he told BBC South East that getting crossings to zero is still the aim but he would not give a date, and he would not give a guarantee. Other governments had made those kinds of pledges, he said. He would not. Instead he blamed Brexit. The loss of “collaboration with neighbours,” he argued, had made it harder to work with France and other countries the way Britain used to. That “hasn’t helped.” He added that this was no excuse for giving up, and that he and the Home Secretary would keep going after the gangs and “bear down” on every part of the illegal trade. The concession comes as Reform UK and the Conservatives say the only way to deter crossings and deport illegal arrivals is to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Burnham offered no such commitment only more effort, no timetable, and a claim that Brexit is part of why the boats keep coming. thesun.co.uk/news/40496985/s…

Reform UK would end social housing for foreign nationals. Under Nigel Farage’s policy, nonUK citizens in council or housing association homes would have three months to move into private rented accommodation; those who did not would lose their right to remain and could face deportation. The ban would apply to existing tenants as well as new applicants, including EU citizens, and is tied to Reform’s plan to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain. Future social homes would be reserved for British born people, with priority for workers under 35, married couples with children and veterans. Dual British citizens would not be automatically evicted, but welfare support including housing benefit would be restricted.

A provisional trial date has now been formally listed in the case of the man charged with the murder of former Conservative MP, MEP and Reform UK spokesperson Ann Widdecombe. Joshua Kerry, 28, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey in London. After earlier hearings at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and the Central Criminal Court, a case management hearing is scheduled for 9 October 2026, followed by a plea and trial preparation hearing on 20 November. The provisional trial itself has been set for 8 June 2027. Kerry remains in custody and has not yet entered a plea. Police and prosecutors continue to investigate the circumstances of the 78-year-old’s death at her home in Haytor, Devon, in July 2026.

A Blackpool benefits claimant pocketed almost £71,000 in Universal Credit after years of telling the Department for Work and Pensions he was single until a social media post of a marriage proposal laid bare the lie. Colin Christopher Hegarty, 58, of Springfield Road, received £70,967.89 between February 2020 and September 2025 by failing to declare that he was living with his partner. Investigators later found bank records showing financial ties between the couple and Facebook evidence of their relationship, including an image of Hegarty becoming engaged. The case began after a member of the public raised concerns about his living arrangements in June last year. Interviewed under caution, Hegarty admitted dishonestly claiming as a single person and accepted he had not told the DWP his partner was at his address, even though he knew that could change his entitlement. He said he thought declaring her might affect payments for another person in the household, then added there was “no point in lying.” At Preston Crown Court he received a 10-month custodial sentence, suspended for 12 months, plus 100 hours of unpaid work. The DWP is seeking to recover the overpayment. Minister Lilian Greenwood said benefit fraud is “not a victimless crime,” and that money taken this way should instead go to people who are entitled to help and to public services.​ gbnews.com/news/benefits-fra…

Reform has spent much of the last 18 months at the top of voting intention polling. Despite recent movements, it’s important to remember that short term fluctuations don’t define the long term trajectory. Keep pushing, Reformers. The road to government is inevitable. 🇬🇧

One woman the wife of a convicted terrorist is living in a taxpayer-funded, taxpayer-maintained and now taxpayer-improved five-bedroom Edwardian house in Shepherd’s Bush, valued at around £1.7 million. Not a cramped flat. Not emergency accommodation. A large family home in a conservation area of west London, paid for and kept up by people who go to work, pay their taxes, and in many cases wait years for social housing they will never get. Najat Chaffe is the only person registered at the property. Her husband, Abu Hamza, is serving a life sentence in an American prison. She moved in in 1995 after claiming they had separated. Their eight children were raised there. Three of those sons later went to prison themselves for drugs, money laundering and fraud. The council, Labour-run Hammersmith and Fulham, says it cannot evict her because she has a tenancy for life and that it is therefore legally obliged to maintain the house. That obligation now includes a reported £70,000 facelift: new windows and doors “supplied by craftsmen,” solar panels, loft insulation. So the public is not only housing the family of a man convicted of inciting racial hatred and soliciting murder. It is also paying to upgrade the house while families on waiting lists of thousands sit in overcrowded rooms or temporary lets. On what planet is this fair? On what planet is it justifiable? On what planet is it even vaguely acceptable that ordinary taxpayers fund a lifetime tenancy and a conservation-area renovation for the household of a convicted terrorist, while people who never preached hatred and never produced convicted sons queue for years for something far smaller? If the law requires this, the law is an ass. If “tenancy for life” means a five bedroom house in Shepherd’s Bush cannot be reclaimed for people who actually need it, then the tenancy system is broken. And if a council can shrug and say it has no choice but to spend tens of thousands more of public money on the property, then someone in power should be made to explain why the choice always falls this way and never the other. apple.news/AXR1-owazTMGWhjm_…

No Sharia law in the UK. The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy whose legal system rests on statute, common law, and the principle that the same rules apply to everyone. Introducing Sharia as a parallel or official source of law would break that principle. It would create two classes of people under two sets of rules, with different outcomes on marriage, divorce, inheritance, evidence, and personal status depending on religious identity rather than citizenship. Sharia, in its classical and many contemporary applications, treats men and women unequally in testimony, inheritance, and family law. It permits practices the UK has already rejected: polygamy, talaq divorce that can leave women without equivalent rights, and rules that treat apostasy or blasphemy as punishable. Those are not compatible with the Equality Act, the Human Rights Act, or the basic expectation that adults have equal standing before the courts. Existing Sharia councils already operate in some communities for voluntary religious arbitration. They have no legal force and should stay that way. Giving them official status, or allowing their rulings to be enforced through the civil courts without full scrutiny, would let religious doctrine override Parliament. That is the opposite of integration. It is the creation of a separate legal enclave. Britain already has a mechanism for religious people to live according to their faith: they can follow it in private life, in contracts they freely enter, and in community institutions that do not claim the power of the state. They cannot demand that the state rewrite family law, criminal procedure, or public order around a particular religious code. That demand is not “diversity.” It is an attempt to replace one legal order with another. Uniform law is not hostility to Muslims. It is the condition that lets people of every background live under the same protections and the same limits. If a practice cannot be applied equally to a non-Muslim, it does not belong in the statute book. No Sharia law in the UK.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has confirmed that the next UK general election will take place in 2029, seeking to end speculation that Labour’s recent recovery in the polls might lead him to call a snap vote. Speaking to ITV Calendar, he said: “Well, yes, that’s when the next election will be. All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead.” Burnham argued that people wanted him, as a new prime minister, to get on with delivering in office rather than “putting self serving politics before that” by calling an early contest, and he also ruled out holding a general election at the same time as next May’s local elections. The last election was on 4 July 2024, and while a prime minister can go to the country sooner, the legal deadline is August 2029.

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has announced an £88 million UK package of humanitarian relief and early recovery support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, intended to fund healthcare, clean water, sanitation, waste management and protection services, including medical consultations for up to 900,000 people, prosthetic treatment for 1,000 children with blast injuries, emergency water supplies for 150,000 people and mental health support for around 21,000 people. Announcing the funding at the UN General Assembly, he said civilians in Gaza must have unhindered access to aid and urged Israel to end what he called “unacceptable restrictions,” with the package forming part of a wider £127 million UK aid allocation for Palestine in 2026/27.

Police have warned that easily accessible violent sexual content online including extreme pornography and misogynistic “manosphere” material is helping to normalise coercion, strangulation and other abuse in teenage relationships and fuelling a sharp rise in domestic abuse among 16 to 19 year-olds, with officers saying young people now routinely encounter imagery that presents choking, control and degradation as ordinary, and urging ministers to tighten the law so platforms can be forced to restrict and remove that content. lbc.co.uk/article/violent-se…

Successive Conservative and Labour governments have broken Britain. For more than a decade they have overseen unmanaged borders, strained public services, record legal and illegal immigration, and a growing sense that the country no longer controls its own destiny. They promised to take back control, then allowed small-boat crossings to become a routine, highly visible failure of the state. They spent billions on hotels, processing backlogs and legal challenges while the numbers kept rising. They talked about toughness and then delivered more of the same. Only Reform UK will put the Royal Navy in the Channel and end the invasion. That means treating the crossing as what it is: an organised, illegal route into the country that must be stopped at source, not managed as a humanitarian queue. It means using naval assets to intercept, return and deter, not to escort people to British ports. It means ending the incentive structure that has turned the Channel into a one way ticket. Anything less is more of the same from the two parties that created the problem.

🚨Total Bullsh*t! Danny Tommo was refused bail. He pleaded not guilty at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court. Father of four. Roofer. They kept him in a cell. Next hearing is September 29. The government will not stop the illegal boats. The man who went out there himself is locked up. Stop the boats. Free the patriot.

Since Labour took office after the July 2024 general election, 83,279 people have reached Britain on small boats a figure now larger than the regular British Army as cited in that comparison, and arrived at an average of about 100 people a day across more than 800 days. The comparison being drawn is this: more people have crossed the Channel illegally under this government than there are full-time soldiers said to be serving in the Army. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp used that contrast after Wednesday’s 781 arrivals, the highest single day total of 2026 so far, arguing that Labour has lost control of the border and allowed “an army sized population” to enter. The crossings have not stopped. Early this week alone more than a thousand people arrived, some boats landing without immediate interception. Government spokespeople point to a drop in crossings this year against 2025 and say disruption of boats and engines is working. Critics reply that the cumulative total since July 2024 has still overtaken the Army number they are using, and that hotels, processing delays and limited returns remain the visible result. That is the longer version of the original line: not just that arrivals have passed a military headline figure, but that they have done so steadily, daily, and now stand as a running political charge that the Channel route is still delivering more people than Britain fields as regular soldiers.

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An inquest opened at Suffolk Coroner’s Court in Ipswich into the death of three year old Noah Woods has heard that the toddler left an under-fives play area in Merriam Close, Brantham, through a gap in the fence on the afternoon of 15 September while with a relative as part of a regular outing, then passed through a memorial garden via an open gate and ran towards Decoy Pond; CCTV last showed him playing at 2.37pm, the relative followed and shouted after him but lost sight of him after about 200 metres, and the next day Metropolitan Police divers found his body in the pond about five metres from the bank among submerged tree roots at a depth of around 1.8 metres after a search involving some 1,300 volunteers, with police saying the death is not being treated as suspicious and assistant coroner Jyoti Gill adjourning the inquest pending further investigation.

So they have remanded Danny Tommo in prison until the 29th which is outrageous. Outrageous, because of who we see walk time and time again, rapists, Manchester airport attackers, i could go on Having said that, next week will come round soon enough and it will hopefully be a different outcome! For those STILL not realising what is happening before our eyes, wake the fck up and wake the fck up fast!!

The prosecutor is arguing that Danny has to stay locked up because he’s supposedly a threat and a danger to the public, with a real risk of violence if he’s released. That’s a heavy claim. What’s strange about it is that, from what’s been said so far, he doesn’t actually have a history of being violent. No assaults, no fights that stand out, no pattern of physical harm. So the case for keeping him inside seems to rest more on what they think he might do than on what he has already done. That gap is what makes the argument feel off. Courts and prosecutors talk a lot about “risk,” but risk assessments can be broad and cautious by design. They often lean on the nature of the original offence, expert reports, or how someone presents in interviews rather than a clear record of violence. If the concern is public safety, that’s fair enough to raise. But when the person in question hasn’t been violent, it starts to look like the label is doing more work than the facts. It leaves you wondering what the actual evidence of future violence is supposed to be. Is it something in his behaviour inside, something he said, or just the seriousness of the charge itself being treated as proof that he’s dangerous going forward? Without that spelled out clearly, then “he must remain in prison because he’s a threat” line feels more like a stock position than a tightly reasoned one. That’s why it comes across as strange.

Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas, known to supporters as Danny Tommo, has pleaded not guilty to criminal damage after being filmed appearing to slash an empty inflatable dinghy in the English Channel while a French emergency responder was still on board. The 37-year-old founder of Patriot Platform was charged by Hampshire Police with criminal damage and with failing to disclose the PIN to his phone. He was remanded in custody and appeared at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court by video link. Prosecutors say the case follows an incident on 22 September in which livestreamed footage showed Thomas approaching the dinghy from a yellow speedboat after about 50 migrants who had set out from Normandy had already been transferred to RNLI lifeboats and then a UK Border Force vessel. In the footage he can be heard shouting “Let’s get rid of that boat” and later telling the rescuer to get off, while making slashing and stabbing motions at the inflatable hull. He had initially been arrested on suspicion of more serious offences, including criminal damage with intent to endanger life and maritime offences under the Aviation and Maritime Security Act and the Merchant Shipping Act, before the Crown Prosecution Service authorised the two charges now before the court. Thomas filmed much of the Channel episode for a live audience and later streamed part of his own arrest. Hundreds of supporters gathered outside a police investigation centre in Basingstoke the night he was charged, chanting for his release. The case remains before the courts and he has the right to a fair trial.

Masked men shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “f**k the UK” as they ripped down and burned Union Jacks outside The Fox pub in Twickenham, a court has heard. Zaid Sami, 21, Nour Sami, 20, and Omar Sukkar, 21, deny racially aggravated criminal damage at Kingston Crown Court. Prosecutors say that on 23 October 2023, about two weeks after the Hamas attacks in Israel, four young men tore two flags from the pub, damaged the fittings, and set them alight in a nearby alley while also shouting “Free Palestine” and “Stop bombing children.” The Crown described it as an attack on the British people and their way of life. CCTV allegedly showed Sukkar climbing a noticeboard and Zaid Sami removing a flag; a witness said he smelled burning nylon and heard several voices chanting “Allahu Akbar.” A pub regular chased one of the group at the time, and three teenagers were arrested. The trial continues. gbnews.com/news/london-news-…