Betting giant Entain is being taken to court by Australia’s financial crime regulator over allegations it breached anti-money laundering rules in the country, leaving it at “serious risk of criminal exploitation”. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) said it had started civil penalty proceedings in the federal court against the company. The regulator … Read more
The Archbishop of York is facing calls to resign over his handling of a historical sex abuse case just weeks before he is set to take temporary charge of the Church of England. The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell failed to act against priest David Tudor, a serial abuser of children, a BBC investigation has found. … Read more
The first set of new online safety rules legally requiring social media and other sites to take action against illegal content have been published by Ofcom. The regulator said platforms now have three months to assess the risk of their users encountering illegal content and implement safety measures to mitigate those risks, or face enforcement … Read more
A woman who died following a triple shooting has been named as 46-year-old Michelle Sadio. Two men in their 30s were also injured during the incident in Gifford Road, Brent, in north-west London on Saturday. One remains in hospital in a critical condition. There have been no arrests and an investigation into the shooting continues, … Read more
A woman who was killed in a triple shooting in Harlesdon has been named by police as 46-year-old Michelle Sadio. Met Police were called at around 9.15pm on Saturday to Gifford Road, Brent, where a woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Formal identification has not taken place, but police say they are confident the … Read more
Lord Nick Herbert, the chairman of the College of Policing A senior policing figure has called for changes to the recording of non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs), warning it has become a “distraction” for officers. Lord Nick Herbert, the chairman of the College of Policing, said the Government should “potentially” consider scrapping the category altogether. “We … Read more
As Britain is gripped by a prisons crisis, The Telegraph is publishing dispatches from an inmate at a Category B jail – the second highest level of security – to discover what life is really like inside. Recently, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) found the jail to be chronically overcrowded and understaffed, with self-harm and … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that she knows “nothing more” about the police investigation into SNP finances since her arrest more than 18 months ago. The party’s former leader said she was “getting on with my life as best I can at the moment”, with the criminal investigation into her conduct yet to be resolved. Detectives … Read more
Former New South Wales police officer Kristian White has sought to appeal his sacking from the force after he was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home with a Taser. White was sacked in early December just days after a jury in the NSW supreme court found him guilty … Read more
Lawyers are refusing to represent people charged with certain crimes amid a crisis over solicitors’ pay, with one burglary suspect turned away by 12 legal firms, the Law Society president has said. Richard Atkinson, who leads the organisation representing more than 200,000 solicitors in England and Wales, said its members lost money if they took … Read more