19 h. ago Family of British teen killed in crash involving US driver receive police apology after review

A British police force has apologized to the family of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn who was killed by a U.S. government employee driving on the wrong side of the road

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25 h. ago Harry Dunn’s mother ‘bewildered’ over failures in policing following review into teen’s death

The mother of Harry Dunn, a teenage motorcyclist who died in a car crash in 2019 has said that she is “bewildered” that the “most fundamental of policing was not carried out” following a review into Northamptonshire Police’s response to the incident.

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25 h. ago Harry Dunn ‘was left to die on the roadside’: Family’s heartbreak as police failings over crash laid bare

Northamptonshire Police have apologised for failings in their response to the fatal crash that sparked a diplomatic row – including the actions of their disgraced chief constable

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36 h. ago Police prioritised welfare of 'American spy' suspected of killing Harry Dunn in collision outside US airbase rather than carrying out a prompt investigation, damning report finds

Police failed to arrest an American spy after she killed motorcyclist Harry Dunn, 19, in a head-on collision because they prioritised her welfare over a 'prompt' investigation', a review has found.

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36 h. ago Suspect in Harry Dunn crash was prioritised over prompt investigation, report finds

Harry Dunn, 19, was killed in a road crash outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire

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36 h. ago Harry Dunn’s family will ‘never forgive’ disgraced police chief as report lays bare failings over teen’s death

Northamptonshire Police have apologised for failings in their response to the fatal crash that sparked a diplomatic row – including the actions of their disgraced chief constable

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36 h. ago Cops failed to arrest US spy who killed Harry Dunn after 'prioritising her welfare'

Anne Sacoolas, who was able to leave the UK under diplomatic immunity laws 19 days after the crash that left 19-year-old Harry Dunn fatally injured, was not arrested at the scene after police believed the "necessity test" had not been met

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65 h. ago The Guardian view on violence against women and girls: the grooming gangs inquiry should be part of a wider strategy | Editorial

It is right to confront child sexual exploitation, but this week’s announcement comes against a backdrop of failureThe government’s renewed focus on child sexual exploitation (CSE) gangs is overdue, and the new national inquiry recommended by Louise Casey must deliver justice, not just headlines. All child sexual abuse is horrifying. But the extreme sexual violence and financial incentives involved in gang-based offending demand special scrutiny. So do the institutional failures by police and councils, particularly in northern England, where numerous gangs operated.Past inquiries have exposed these institutional breakdowns. They have also shown that a reluctance to inflame racial tensions played a role in the way that some complaints were mishandled. That doesn’t excuse the inaction – nor justify turning a public safety issue into a culture war. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Revealed: How Rochdale social services workers failed two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped by Asian men

The case, which concluded on Friday with all seven gang members being convicted of rape, has laid bare the shocking failure of police and social workers to protect their vulnerable young victims.

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6 d. ago Jan 6 cops file lawsuit to force Congress to install honorary plaque at Capitol

Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges say the agency that operates and maintains the Capitol is violating a law that required a plaque to be erected

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1 week ago Trump uses LA protests to redirect dissent from policy failures to the ‘enemy within’

Critics see deployment of national guard as an authoritarian flex by a strongman who has relentlessly trampled normsDonald Trump walked out to a thunderous standing ovation as Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass” boomed from the sound system. He watched martial artists slug it out behind a chain-link fence. A female champion let the US president try on her gold belt. It was a night of machismo, spectacle and violence.Shortly before he joined an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday night, Trump had signed an order deploying 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, where protests sparked by sweeping immigration raids led to clashes between authorities and demonstrators. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man arrested after police officer injured as ‘car reversed into him’

A 41-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault, dangerous driving and failure to stop, Greater Manchester Police said.

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on sentencing reform: a landmark chance for change | Editorial

David Gauke’s review gives penal policy in England and Wales a once-in-a-generation opportunity to move in more constructive directionThe independent sentencing review for England and Wales under David Gauke is a landmark response to both an immediate crisis in the prisons and to an endemic criminal justice policy failure going back decades. It creates the platform for penal policy to take a much-needed new direction. As Mr Gauke says, this will take bravery from government. Encouragingly, the lord chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, has accepted most recommendations in principle, though with some exceptions. The need now, though, is for sustained action, investment and results.When the review was established in 2024, prisons for men had been at 99% of capacity for 18 months and a surge of further prison sentences was developing after the summer riots. Managed early-release measures eased some pressures, but demand for places is still projected to exceed supply by 9,500 in 2028. The inesca...

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3 w. ago 'I warned authorities about him but nothing happened. Then he went on a rampage'

Exclusive: A family member of Alexander Dighton believes his near-fatal attack on Talbot Green police was not prevented because of a 'systematic failure'

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3 w. ago Fear Street: Prom Queen review – disappointing Netflix teen slasher

After a surprisingly effective trilogy of horrors based on the RL Stine novels, a return to the throwback franchise is a frustratingly inert letdownThe Fear Street trilogy was one of the many casualties of the cinema-shuttering Covid pandemic, originally scheduled for an ambitious one-film-a-month summer release by Fox before being offloaded to Netflix. But while it was a little disappointing to see horror films made with such unusual cinematic flair released straight-to-smartphone, it was also a wise business decision, the unorthodox original strategy unlikely to have paid off.Based on the series of books by teen favourite RL Stine, the three films set up an exciting, expansive world, shifting between the 1660s to the 1970s to the 1990s, gliding from teen slasher to queer romance to supernatural fantasy and within a genre that typically fails to win critics over, they were surprise successes (each boasts a Rotten Tomatoes rating over 80%). It was a rousing win for writer-director L...

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4 w. ago Motorheads review – Amazon’s teen racing soap goes nowhere slowly

High schoolers in Pennsylvania build and race cars in a lackluster drama series that crawls toward the finish lineLike the quickly forgotten Panic before it, Motorheads, Amazon’s latest 10-episode attempt at a teen soap, takes as a given an improbable premise – in this case, that a group of American teens in Ironwood, Pennsylvania, a fictional town an hour’s drive from Pittsburgh, are primarily preoccupied not with the internet or football or parties, but with building and racing cars.Cars are, of course, a pivotal part of many an American coming of age; routine drag-racing, not so much. The idea of Fast & Furious as odd local tradition, instead of a bunch of teens raised on the Fast & Furious movies, is the most charming, if far-fetched and unexplained, aspect of Motorheads, which you can easily imagine being pitched as Dom Toretto & Co but make it gen Z kids in a dead-end Rust belt town. Created by John A Norris, Motorheads has the clear imprimatur of the mega-corporat...

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