South Wales hate crime officer Paul Evans denies repeatedly hitting schoolboy in head during ‘scary’ attack A police hate crime officer repeatedly punched a 14-year-old boy who called him a “p***y”, before telling the child he was “doing his mother a favour”, a court has heard. PC Paul Evans is accused of hitting the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons,… Read more »
Academic’s wife calls on British government to publicly state his innocence A British university student has been charged with spying “for a foreign state” in the United Arab Emirates. Matthew Hedges has been kept in solitary confinement for the last five months, his wife Daniela Tejada said last week. And now the 31-year-old PhD student at Durham University, who was arrested at Dubai airport on 5 May after… Read more »
Seven men have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of plotting a large-scale extremist attack that Dutch prosecutors think was foiled following a months-long investigation.