12 h. ago Ivan Milat was convicted of murdering seven people. Could he have killed scores more?

Retired UK detective believes family member was serial killer’s first unacknowledged victim, as NSW inquiry into unsolved murders calls for submissionsHugh Hughes, a retired UK detective with the Metropolitan police, has spent three decades travelling back and forth between his home in Wales and Canberra, trying to solve the murder of Keren Rowland, a cousin of his Australian wife, Andrea.Hughes is convinced that Rowland, who went missing from Canberra on 26 February 1971, was the first victim of the notorious serial killer Ivan Milat. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Police detective with 'not enough to do' sacked for writing erotic stories on work laptop

Detective constable admitted writing explicit stories during work hours and was dismissed for gross misconduct after a Metropolitan Police hearing found the content deeply offensive

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41 h. ago ‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary authorAfter the ­phenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017, Margaret Atwood has been regarded as “a combination of figurehead, prophet and saint”, the author writes in her new memoir Book of Lives. Over 600 pages this “memoir of sorts” ranges from her childhood growing up in the Canadian backwoods to her grief at the death of her partner of 48 years, the writer Graeme Gibson, in 2019, with many friendships, the occasional spat and more than 50 books (including Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace and the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin and The Testaments) in between.The author, who turned 86 last week, always likes to take the long view, often from a couple of centuries’ distance. As Rebecca Solnit notes below, she now has a long view of our times. Age and the freedom of being a writer (as she says, she can’t get sacked) make her fearless in...

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3 d. ago A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay audiobook review – a wayward doctor turns detective

Andy Serkis revels in his narration of the first murder mystery from the author of This Is Going to Hurt, which showcases Kay’s signature pitch-black humourDr Eitan Rose is stark naked in a gay sauna when he is called upon to perform CPR on an elderly man and fellow patron who is having a heart attack. When arriving paramedics ask Eitan for his details, he declines to give his real name, instead giving them the name of his work supervisor and nemesis, Douglas Moran. Eitan is a hard-partying consultant rheumatologist who has just returned to work after several months off following a mental health crisis, and who uses liquid cocaine secreted into a nasal inhaler to get through the working day.When Moran dies in unexpected circumstances, Eitan suspects foul play and sets about finding the culprit. Soon he is performing illicit postmortems and impersonating a police detective so he can cross-examine a suspect. But when he tries to blow the whistle, his colleagues and the police decline ...

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3 d. ago The US government ruins Thanksgiving: it’s a South Park holiday special

Idiotic US war secretary Pete Hegseth launches an attack on a turkey-based festivity in frustration at his inability to outsmart a buffoonish police detective. A wild season finale loomsTonight’s South Park is something of a breather in what has been their most story-driven season (or seasons, as it turned out) ever. There is some advancement to the overriding plot of Donald Trump attempting to kill the unborn baby he’s expecting with his lover, Satan, before it can unleash the prophesied apocalypse – a plot that involves master manipulator (and new Trump sex partner) JD Vance and billionaire/self-proclaimed antichrist expert Peter Thiel (recently incarcerated by South Park’s finest for kidnapping Eric Cartman). But tonight’s instalment, Turkey Trot, focuses more on the goings-on in the titular town than in Washington DC.As Thanksgiving approaches, South Park finds its annual holiday marathon in jeopardy. None of its regular sponsors – Stan Marsh’s Tegridy Weed Farms, recently shutt...

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6 d. ago Police officer sacked after writing erotic stories on work laptop

Detective Constable Thomas Sewell used work downtime to write a first-person story containing "misogynistic, aggressive and sexual language”

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7 d. ago Detective left colleagues 'disgusted' with repeated lewd comments

A misconduct panel concluded Thomas Pook, a South Wales Police detective with seven years' experience, was an 'ongoing risk to colleagues and potentially members of the public'

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9 d. ago Police informant was willing to testify that missing teenager Charlene Downes was killed by man with connections to Blackpool's criminal underworld, claims retired detective

The informant was willing to testify that a man linked to a criminal network in Blackpool had killed Charlene after sexually abusing her.

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1 week ago Senior detective 'accessed files' about doorman's harassment case after telling him 'I have my uses', court

Detective Inspector Emma Gardner is accused of illegally accessing police computer records about a nightclub bouncer friend - telling him 'I have my uses'

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2 w. ago Murder of Sarah Everard was ‘monumental moment’ for Met Police, detective says

Detective Katherine Goodwin was decorated with the King’s Police Medal by Charles during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.

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2 w. ago Revealed: Smirking Ukrainian refugee, 33, who sexually assaulted a woman in busy London station after fleeing war claimed he was 'stressed about the conflict'

Andrii Starovoitov, 33, launched his attack after joining the queue for the female toilets at London Bridge station just after 7pm on October 26 last year.

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