Crime

Almost 1,000 cannabis plants have been found growing in a former shop unit following a raid by Derbyshire police. Officers found the large-scale cannabis operation in what used to be the Marks & Spencer building in Spring Gardens, Buxton, following a tip-off from the public. A 34-year-old man, “believed” to be an Albanian national, has

A teenager who spray painted Nazi symbols on a Windrush memorial has been jailed for a year and a half. Aristedes Haynes, 17, who was kicked out the army cadets for posting pictures of himself with a swastika on his chest, had fantasised about making a gun and killing an Asian schoolboy, admitted a string

To the shock and horror of probably no one, a woman who helped organise the BLM protests to remove the Edward Colston statue in Bristol in 2020 has been found guilty of fraud. Yvonne Maina, who changed her name to Xahra Saleem, will be sentenced at the end of October. She initially denied the accusation

Metropolitan Police firearms officers have been handing in their weapons after a force marksman was charged with the murder of Chris Kaba. The officer accused of his murder, named only as NX121 after a district judge granted an anonymity order, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and the Old Bailey on Thursday. 24-year-old Kaba died in Streatham Hill, southeast