Met’s Black Police Association chairman could be sacked after ‘racist’ WhatsApp messages

Met’s Black Police Association chairman could be sacked after ‘racist’ WhatsApp messages

The head of the Metropolitan Black Police Association could be sacked after sending and receiving racist, sexist and inappropriate WhatsApp messages. Inspector Charles Ehikioya, the full-time chairman of the MBPA, was in a WhatsApp chat with Carlo Francisco, a former officer, in which the messages were sent and received, a misconduct hearing found on Friday. … Read more

Homecoming for family of Belfast man found dead in Spain

Homecoming for family of Belfast man found dead in Spain

The family of a Belfast man found dead in Spain have had an emotional homecoming. Billy George, whose son John, had been on holiday in Alicante when he went missing last month, said he would have stayed if John’s body had not been found. The 37-year-old father of two from west Belfast was last in … Read more

Head of Met black officers’ group guilty of gross misconduct in WhatsApp chats

Head of Met black officers’ group guilty of gross misconduct in WhatsApp chats

The head of the Metropolitan police’s Black Police Association (MBPA) committed gross misconduct over his participation in a WhatsApp group that shared sexist comments and racist remarks about Asian people, a police tribunal has found. Insp Charles Ehikioya faces potential dismissal after Friday’s tribunal ruling at Palestra House in London. It found he was in … Read more

Trump avoids punishment for hush-money conviction and calls case ‘terrible experience’

Trump avoids punishment for hush-money conviction and calls case ‘terrible experience’

Donald Trump will avoid jail time for his felony conviction in the New York hush-money case, a judge determined on Friday, marking both a dramatic and anti-climactic development in the historic criminal proceedings weeks before he returns to the White House. The judge who presided over Trump’s criminal trial, Juan Merchan, issued a sentence of … Read more

‘Putin is afraid’: Russia won’t drop Navalny ‘terrorist’ status even though he’s dead

‘Putin is afraid’: Russia won’t drop Navalny ‘terrorist’ status even though he’s dead

A request to remove late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from a list of “terrorists and extremists” has been rejected despite his death last year, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has revealed – saying that it shows Vladimir Putin is still afraid of her husband. Russia’s financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, said in a letter published by Ms … Read more

Trump avoids jail in hush money sentence but is set to be first felon president

Trump avoids jail in hush money sentence but is set to be first felon president

Donald Trump will return to the White House as the first-ever criminally convicted president after his sentencing in a Manhattan courtroom, where the judge presiding over his criminal hush money trial declined to send him to jail but preserved the jury’s historic verdict against the president-elect. New York Justice Juan Merchan told the former president … Read more