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Former Senior Home Affairs Correspondent @channel4news.
London
Joined October 2009
The boy in the cowboy outfit – my tribute to Erwin James 1957 – 2024 At the age of seven, with the loss of his mother in a car accident and his father turning to drink, put Erwin on a pathway he never thought imaginable. https://t.co/ttB32RLJBR
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Many have seen the small black and white photo of a young boy in his favourite play outfit, an image that was etched in the memories of a once happy young boy. But circumstances and a grief-stricke…
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'Treated like a rag doll'. Inquest jury finds police unlawfully killed vulnerable hospital patient with unauthorised restraint and blames nursing staff for doing nothing to save him https://t.co/7xHTDRAk4v via @Channel4News
channel4.com
A vulnerable patient who died after being restrained by police officers has been declared the victim of unlawful killing.
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Deadliest Channel migrant tragedy was 'preventable'. https://t.co/whMjRvf9gf via @Channel4News
channel4.com
A public inquiry into the deadliest Channel crossing on record has ended with the families saying discrimination was key to the failure to rescue their loved ones.
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Tamil migrant families hellish time on Diego Garcia in probably longest ever unlawful detention under British sovereignty of more than 1000 days in rat infested camp https://t.co/3igCCBx64P via @Channel4News
channel4.com
Along with the top secret base on Diego Garcia - the UK government has also been dealing with a group of Tamil migrants who spent more than 3 years encamped on the island - where a judge ruled they...
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Fiona Holm. Murdered in June 2023. Still missing. Daughter and family still searching. https://t.co/OQj232C2yW
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Merry Griftmas @ByDonkeys calling out the Grifter In Chief...
New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
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Apologies - miscalculation of days in detention on Diego Garcia for the asylum seeking Tamils. It's actually even longer and amounts to 1155 days imprisoned in a camp little bigger than a football pitch for these families which include 16 children. Astonishing
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55 of those Tamil men,women and children have recently been brought to the UK to be resettled here after attempts to send them to other countries failed.
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Simon Robinson, a lawyer for Duncan Lewis said "Questions need to be answered about how, in the 21st century, this was able to happen. Today is a victory..for the rule of law.'
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The judge for the British Indian Overseas Territory said the camp was 'in all but name' a prison after migrants who were rescued when their boat got into trouble close to DG in October 2021.
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The judge accepted the migrants were told if they left the camp they would be shot by US military.
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A High Court judge has ruled that 64 Tamil asylum seekers were 'unlawfully detained' for up to 1099 days in a camp on the secret UK/US military base of Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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A “creepy” undercover police officer in his 30s formed a sexual relationship with a teenage activist without disclosing his true identity to her, #spycops public inquiry has been told.
theguardian.com
Activist tells public inquiry Andy Coles lied about his age and manipulated her into relationship when she was 19
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Medlock walked into the lawyer's offices carrying a combat knife, handcuffs and large Nazi and US Confederate South flags after carrying out research on the law firm and the solicitor. Judge praised staff for their courage in confronting and disarming the attacker
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A judge has issued a hospital order to detain Cavan Medlock for threatening to kill leading immigration lawyer Toufique Hossain in 2020. Medlock was described as 'very dangerous and to have deep seated racist views about anyone who wasn't 'pure' white and British.
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Brilliant work. So all those families can now have a future
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Bob Lambert - the former undercover cop, the women he deceived, and allegations (he denies) of involvement in a plot to set fire to Debenhams stores in 1987. Great piece from my colleague @simonisrael ⬇️ #c4news
https://t.co/uFzC4ZVc2G
channel4.com
Bob Lambert apologised to four women he deceived into sexual relationships while undercover, despite having a wife and children at the time.
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First pix of arrivals of Tamil migrants families in UK after more than 3 years encamped and marooned on secret British/US military base of Diego Garcia in middle of the Indian Ocean. 55 men women and children are to be resettled following lengthy legal battles over their future
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