All news by author: Tom Pettifor

In Operation Mille, the largest of its kind, 200,000 cannabis plants were seized - and the raids also recovered guns and other weapons such as crossbows and knives

Suzy, 25, vanished when she went to show a client who had given the name Kipper around a flat in Fulham, south west London, in 1986

Vincent Harvey used the name of a dead child as a cover as he attempted to infiltrate left wing groups. He went on to become director of UK operations at the National Criminal Intelligence Service

The public inquiry, which has been going on for more than eight years, has seen its first report released this morning and found six members of the Metropolitan Police duped women into having sex

Matthew White chillingly told a black man who confronted him, as he attempted to shoplift in Eltham, South East London in 2020, that he would be “Stephen Lawrenced”

Louis De Zoysa was found guilty of murdering Metropolitan Police sergeant Matt Ratana, after smuggling a revolver into a police station and opening fire in a holding cell

After joining the Met Police in 1991, Sergeant Matt Ratana returned to New Zealand working with the British High Commission wing of the New Zealand police in 2003, before returning to the UK in 2008

Sgt Matt Ratana was just weeks from retirement when he was shot by Louis de Zoysa in a custody station in Croydon in September 2020

Scotland Yard revealed it is carrying out a new probe to see if the latest technology can spark a breakthrough in the investigation into Stephen Lawrence's murder

Knight pocketed £1.3million in today’s money for his share in the 1983 Security Express heist, but after 11 years on the run he was living in a rented one-bedroom flat

Louis de Zoysa is accused of aiming concealed antique revolver at Matt Ratana and firing three shots. He denies murder

Met Police officer Matt Ratana was killed by one of four bullets fired by Louis De Zoysa in an incident captured on CCTV at a custody block in Croydon, south London, a court has heard

Cases were closed with no suspect charged in 14,505 of the 30,100 communities analysed – with Lyndhurst and Minstead in Hampshire habing the most unsolved break-ins

The criminals, including prolific paedophiles and rapists, were under the supervision of probation staff when they struck again, and one is thought to be rapist Ashley Shuck

Jack Addis and Jeremy Laxton pleaded guilty to conspiring with serving Chief Inspector Richard Watkinson to distribute or show indecent images of children

A police sergeant closed the case into an allegation of nudity against Couzens without speaking to him, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said

Horrific paedophile Sidney Cooke, 96, has failed in his 11th bid for freedom after the Parole Board decided he still poses a "very high risk of serious harm to children"

Ex-PC Samantha Lee is said to have failed to obtain crucial evidence after the Met policeman targeted staff in Swanley, Kent days before he went on to kill

The dead man still has not been formally identified a month after he plunged from a balcony at his home. Both officers have been warned that they are under investigation

Jermaine’s dad Julius said the family home is now like a 'cemetery' but he gets comfort from lying on his son’s bed next to a life-size picture of his smiling boy

The deadly weapons featured in almost 700 offences a month as the weapon of choice for violent thugs. It comes after a string of teenagers were fatally stabbed with the blades

A 35-year-old from Slough was arrested last week on suspicion of plotting the robbery, and a 36-year-old from Birmingham was arrested on suspicion of robbery a week earlier

The police inspectorate said murderers probably continue to escape justice because their crimes are not spotted by poorly supervised and inexperienced officers

Three men have gone on trial at the Old Bailey accused of conspiring in a fake bomb plot 'in revenge for confiscating £1m' from the wife of a suspected money launderer

Thomas Cashman refused to go into the dock to hear his sentence for shooting nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel as he chased a drug dealer into her home in Liverpool last August