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By Kristin Roberts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday it dropped charges against a Saudi who U.S. officials say intended to be the "20th hijacker" on September 11 but sent five others to trial for allegedly planning the 2001 attacks. A Pentagon appointee who oversees the U.S. war...
The suspect in the murder of 16-year-old "gentle giant" Jimmy Mizen may have fled to Northern Cyprus, it has been reported. ... Northern Cyprus currently has no extradition treaty with the UK. Jimmy died on Saturday morning, the day after his birthday, following a row as...
A 22-year-old man who died in an attack outside a McDonald's restaurant in London's Oxford Street has been named as Steven Bigby. Mr Bigby, of north London, died during an altercation between two groups of young men on Monday afternoon. Murder squad detectives are working through scores of...
Callous: Fanatic Abu Qatadar's lawyers successfully fought his extradition to Jordan using the humans right act One of the country's top detectives yesterday launched a withering attack on the Human Rights Act and claimed it had helped murderers and rapists to escape justice. Detective Chief...
Police have arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of the murder of 16-year-old "gentle giant" Jimmy Mizen. The suspect, named as Jake Fahri, lives near the area where the incident took place. It is not yet known where he was arrested. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "He is currently in custody...
May 13 2008 by Simon Walton, Evening Gazette A MAN who was stopped at Durham Tees Valley airport taking cheques for £69m out of the country walked free after he admitted they were forgeries. Omar Mohammed, 50, an interpreter from Middlesbrough, was arrested at the airport last October on his way...
By Phil Stewart, MILAN (Reuters) An Italian judge could decide on Wednesday to make Silvio Berlusconi the first head of a government to testify in criminal proceedings over secret CIA transfers of terrorism suspects. Judge Oscar Magi is expected to announce his decision on whether to call...
Murdered: Mother-of-two Jane Lee was stabbed to death by her husband A man who was given bail after nearly strangling his wife stabbed her to death weeks later. Prosecutors wanted Robert Lee, 51, kept in custody while awaiting trial for the alleged attempt to kill his wife Jane, but he was...
RADICAL Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has launched a High Court battle against extradition to the US to face terror charges. He is wanted for allegedly trying to set up an al-Qaida training camp in Oregon. He is also claimed to have helped the gang who kidnapped Western tourists in Yemen in 1998,...
A BUNGLING teenage raider has been jailed for three years after launching a robbery on his local store where staff recognised his voice. The boy, who was 16 at the time of the offence, wore a mask as he threatened staff at the One Stop Shop, Colne Road, Duke Bar, Burnley, with a 12-inch machete....
