17 h. ago Cop who claimed she couldn’t find ‘paedophile hunter’ blackmailer was actually the culprit

A police officer who posed as a 'paedophile hunter' to blackmail an arrested suspect in order to pay off gambling debts, has been jailed for more than three years

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21 h. ago Heartless fraudster posed as a police officer to steal cash and jewellery from pensioner's home in affluent Cheshire village

A man has been jailed for his role in a courier fraud in which an elderly woman was scammed out of thousands of pounds of cash and jewellery.

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26 h. ago Heartless fraudster who posed as a police officer to steal £27,000 of cash and jewellery from pensioner's home in affluent Cheshire village

Sharmarke Ahmed (pictured), 34, from the Wandsworth area of London, pretended to be a cop when he phoned the victim, who is in her nineties, on her landline on March 5.

Economics

36 h. ago 'Despicable' scammer posed as a police detective to steal £27,000 from woman in her 90s

Sharmarke Ahmed took cash and jewellery

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9 d. ago Brit art expert is 'convinced' he has been asked to authenticate Louvre heist jewels

Curtis Dowling said he was called by two separate people on the same day the daring museum heist took place in Paris, and was offered wads of cash to look at "some important French jewellery"

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on the China spy trial: an opportunity for Labour to prove it understands the threat from Beijing | Editorial

Dispelling confusion about the collapsed case would build confidence that the government has a coherent policyNo single word describes the challenge that China poses for UK foreign policy. There is threat and opportunity; a requirement to engage and an imperative to be guarded. The Communist party in Beijing represses dissent and pursues its interests overseas with coercive nationalist determination. It is not a regime with which Britain can build a relationship based on common values.But China is also a superpower with near-monopoly control of some mineral resources and pre-eminence in important manufacturing supply chains. Trusting friendship is not an option; hostile rejection is unrealistic. It is not easy to manage relations through private diplomacy, let alone under public scrutiny. But Sir Keir Starmer’s government has looked especially awkward in its response to the collapse of a high-profile espionage case, involving the alleged transmission of secrets from inside parliamen...

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