Metropolitan Police chief rejects claims the capital has descended into lawlessness
Jihad Al-Shamie had been investigated in connection with rape allegation before deadly October assault
Reforms aim to ease backlog of nearly 80,000 cases waiting to be heard in England and Wales
Missing items include militaria and jewellery from British Empire and Commonwealth collection
Sam Corner says sledgehammers were intended to damage property, not people, during attack at Israeli defence company site
Justice secretary David Lammy sets out reforms designed to tackle backlog in court cases
Beware of restricting it to tackle England’s huge backlog of criminal cases
The 31-year-old is seventh person to have been detained over the assault in October
Proposed changes unlikely to apply to trials for serious offences such as rape and murder
Sergeant told court she was left in severe pain after alleged incident at Israeli defence company’s UK site last year
The next election may be fought as much on how safe people feel as on the economy
Nathan Gill sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting money to make statements in European parliament
Northamptonshire force has shifted its approach to retail theft
Prosecutors say there was a ‘meticulously organised’ attack on an Israeli defence company’s UK site
British Transport Police say offences involve a series of alleged incidents in run-up to the train attack
Huge improvements in the decades since are a reminder that even really knotty problems can get better
Zhimin Qian sentenced to more than 11 years in jail after defrauding thousands of victims out of £4.6bn in total
Justice secretary blames chaotic paper-based systems as one wrongly freed man hands himself back in
Algerian man convicted of indecent exposure and British man sentenced for fraud were mistakenly freed from Wandsworth prison
Cambridgeshire officers were alerted on three occasions about man with knife in Peterborough before mass stabbing
Voters are particularly disillusioned with what they say is UK’s ‘broken social contract’
Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder is British national born in the UK
Cambridgeshire attack is second mass knife crime incident in less than a week
UK defence secretary says early indication suggests it was ‘an isolated attack’
Home Office said 22-year-old suspect was not living in accommodation for asylum seekers
