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    • Alan P @AlanP4 Upper Tooting - updated 13m

      Sinai yesterday !!

      WHY was Miranda B,Liar, the war criminal at Sinai yesterday???

    • Robert @RobRoy Laindon - updated 24m

      Epping thug in court

      After threatening bomb attacks and screaming at people in the street that ‘he thought’ were immigrants

      https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2025/october/epping-man-sentenced-over-bomb-threats-and-racist-assault/?utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery

    • Alan P @AlanP4 Upper Tooting - updated 50m

      Country gold reserves

      Everybody seems to have forgotten that Liebour, in their wisdom(SIC), last time in power, let Brown the Clown sell the countries gold reserves, more than 35 billion at todays values!!

    • Alan P @AlanP4 Upper Tooting - updated 1h

      KHANT

      Would someone please explain to me what that shitweasel Khant is doing in Brazil??, he cannot even sort out the crime in Londinistan??

    • Robert @RobRoy Laindon - updated 1h
    • Alan P @AlanP4 Upper Tooting - updated 1h

      Mass stabbing on a train!!

      Nine people with life threatening injuries!!, I wonder who the knifemen are??, surely not followers of the religion of peas!!!. Has to be time to bring back the death penalty, and stop sending this type of criminal to a holiday camp!!

    • Robert @RobRoy Laindon - 2h

      The inconvenient truth

      So here’s some inconvenient balance for those screaming “Labour are doing nothing”:

      >> Recent actions from the Labour government - you probably missed them: <<<
      1. £9 billion Defense Housing Strategy to improve 40,000 military homes - actual investment in the people who serve.
      2. 1/3 of UK manufacturing firms say they’ll accelerate investment under Labour’s Industrial Strategy. That’s confidence returning.
      3. 475,000 more people in jobs than a year ago - not bad for a so-called “no-plan” party.
      4. 60,000 knives removed from the streets since July 2024 - and yet we’re told Labour is “soft on crime.”
      5. £17.3 million invested in Aberdeen’s Energy Transition Zone - real money into a real future.
      6. £700 million pump‑priming for “Build it in Britain” clean energy supply chains - creating jobs in coastal and ex‑industrial communities.
      7. £400 million in annual savings for UK industry** through expanded energy cost exemptions - helping businesses and the energy transition.
      8. Net-zero economy expanding three times faster than the overall UK economy generating £83 billion in value and employing nearly 1 million people, at above-average pay.
      9. Secured over £250 billion in investment into key growth sectors supporting 45,000 high‑quality jobs and building long-term resilience.
      10. 10‑year “Modern Industrial Strategy” launched - boost business investment, productivity and resilience across 8 priority sectors, pledging to create 1.1 million jobs over the decade.

      And that’s just a slice. Add in railway renationalisation, renters’ protections, the biggest minimum wage rise in two decades, and a major employment rights overhaul. None of it’s perfect — but it’s real.

      * Copied from Facebook

    • Alan P @AlanP4 Upper Tooting - updated 4h

      GROOMING GANGS

      I just saw on the news one of the grooming gang leaders has done a runner to his £250,000 palace in Pakistan!!. I wonder where that came from???

    • Robert @RobRoy Laindon - updated 6h

      So called patriots patrolling

      Stopping anyone of colour or who appear to look foreign these thugs are on our streets

      https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/04/patriots-on-the-prowl-the-rise-in-anti-migrant-vigilantism/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAN3-HpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeo0nYL8Svr-eFS4rgidYCZoLZOq8UbXxjdy0zgMS0AQE9zuQlcsiwUu1ekgM_aem_8zTz4tyDXzokeV1XnJxaiw

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    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 17h

      Headteacher paedophile

      https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-11-04/over-50-opportunities-to-stop-paedophile-headteacher-were-missed

    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 17h
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    • Robert @RobRoy Laindon - updated 18h

      How will Deform act when they see the hero

      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/huntingdon-train-attack-lner-worker-samir-zitouni-b2858133.html?callback=in&code=ZGEWNWZJMJMTMDI2ZS0ZZTHJLTHKMDCTMWE3ZTBMODEYOTZI&state=ce61c0a5ee39418491cde33010a09401

      So far on Facebook I am told that GB News is the only media that hasn’t mentioned the hero railway worker .

    • Derek R @DerekR Iver Heath - updated 21h

      @PeterAndrews1

      You really need to get your facts right. I have never had contact with Anti racism group . I have no idea who they are nor who you think they are. But you can count me out of this one.
      Your grovelling apology will probably be rejected, but you can try!

    • ASP R @ASPR Bexleyheath - updated 1d

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    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 1d
    • Selsey @Selsey Hayes - updated 1d

      Times gone by

      https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1124358813067682&set=a.370429181793986

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    • Alan P @AlanP4 Upper Tooting - updated 1d

      BBC LIARS!!

      Just seen on the news, BBC edited Trumps speech in 2020, to make sure he was accused of encouraging insurrection!!, what an awful bunch these lefties are!!

    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 1d
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    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 1d

      Community cohesion

      What a lovely sight happy people in Dartford

      https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bus4YbY24/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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    • Alan P @AlanP4 Upper Tooting - updated 2d

      Epping sex offender returned to Ethiopia!

      I see this person has gone, they gave him £500 to go with!!, is this so he can arrange a speedy return??

    • Derek R @DerekR Iver Heath - updated 2d

      A STATEMENT FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE (Edited)

      His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew
      Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation. These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.
      Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with. the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.
      ENDS

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    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 4d

      Kent County Council

      Watch just how Fartage talks, the way he slows the journalist down whilst he thinks, concocts his version of events.

      https://youtube.com/shorts/CgikCs6oSFI?si=wB6pRGoWnL9467ch

      Even saying the last members of that council were bad, arguing, fighting. When in fact that was not at all true.

      The new Reform leader at KCC now is a foul mouthed bully but he still covers for her. As none of their promised vetting was done. He just wants bums on seats

    • Robert @RobRoy Laindon - updated 4d
    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 4d

      If you’ve got 15 minutes spare

      I can’t even explain - I can only think this guy phoning in never went to school

      https://youtu.be/nEXDDL0C0qo?si=vvo2QTUVUC9dr4wa

    • Derek R @DerekR Iver Heath - updated 4d

      Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill

      The first thing most people recall about Nathan Gill is his imposing height.

      At 193cm (6ft 4in), the one-time Reform UK leader in Wales towered over colleagues and opponents – and he was taller still in his favourite cowboy boots.

      Other than that, the softly-spoken 52-year-old was a largely unremarkable presence among the more colourful characters in Nigel Farage’s parties.

      Until recently, political profiles have dwelt on Gill’s politically quirky status: the teetotal member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who bore Ukip’s flag in the Senedd, even if opponents charged that he was often absent.

      Yet his legacy is now a very different and disturbing one. This month he will be sentenced at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia during his tenure as a member of the European parliament.

      In modern British politics, it is an almost unique fall from grace – perhaps with parallels to the story of John Stonehouse, the high-flying Labour MP recruited as a spy for Czech intelligence in the early 60s.

      But Gill’s humiliation isn’t just personal. His links to Russia raise awkward questions for Reform UK, and for its leader, Nigel Farage – Gill was a key lieutenant of his when they were both in Brussels. While Farage has been trying to distance himself from Gill, multiple sources who worked with them in Brussels have told the Guardian that the two men used to be close.

      The moment of Gill’s downfall dates back to July 2021 and the arrivals queue at Washington DC’s Dulles international airport.

      FBI agents stopped Oleg Voloshyn, a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician close to Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch sometimes known in his native country as the “dark prince” and a long-term ally and friend of Vladimir Putin.

      It was less than a year before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Medvedchuk had been charged with treason, and his TV channels, conduits for Russian propaganda, had been taken off the air.

      Voloshyn, his envoy to the west, was in the crosshairs of US authorities.

      The FBI extracted WhatsApp messages from Voloshyn’s phone in which he discussed secretly paying Gill. Voloshyn was released after three hours of questioning, but he and Medvedchuk were both named the following year by the US as agents of a Kremlin plot to install a puppet government in Ukraine.

      Now in Moscow, Voloshyn was Gill’s co-accused, albeit beyond the reach of British authorities. Two months later in September 2021, after the stop at Dulles airport, counter-terrorism police arrested Gill at Manchester airport.

      On his phone, police found messages that showed he had reached an agreement with Voloshyn. According to prosecutors, Gill accepted cash on at least eight occasions to make specific statements and opinions benefiting Russia.

      The amount has yet to be disclosed, but various amounts totalling in excess of at least £10,000 were mentioned in WhatApp messages between him and Voloshyn.

      Looking back on them now, the public statements appear subtle, but they provided the mood music in the west for a propaganda war being waged by the Kremlin to paint Ukraine’s pro-western leaders as repressive.

      For his cooperation in this covert PR campaign, Gill received “xmas presents” and “post cards” – coded references to money. They were his reward for making speeches in the European parliament and giving TV interviews scripted by Voloshyn.


      The first thing most people recall about Nathan Gill is his imposing height.

      At 193cm (6ft 4in), the one-time Reform UK leader in Wales towered over colleagues and opponents – and he was taller still in his favourite cowboy boots.

      Other than that, the softly-spoken 52-year-old was a largely unremarkable presence among the more colourful characters in Nigel Farage’s parties.

      Until recently, political profiles have dwelt on Gill’s politically quirky status: the teetotal member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who bore Ukip’s flag in the Senedd, even if opponents charged that he was often absent.

      Yet his legacy is now a very different and disturbing one. This month he will be sentenced at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia during his tenure as a member of the European parliament.

      In modern British politics, it is an almost unique fall from grace – perhaps with parallels to the story of John Stonehouse, the high-flying Labour MP recruited as a spy for Czech intelligence in the early 60s.

      But Gill’s humiliation isn’t just personal. His links to Russia raise awkward questions for Reform UK, and for its leader, Nigel Farage – Gill was a key lieutenant of his when they were both in Brussels. While Farage has been trying to distance himself from Gill, multiple sources who worked with them in Brussels have told the Guardian that the two men used to be close.


      Farage and Gill posing for a photo, with Gill holding a UK flag
      Farage (left), then Ukip leader, and Gill before a plenary session at the EU headquarters in Brussels in June 2016, just after the Brexit vote. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images
      The moment of Gill’s downfall dates back to July 2021 and the arrivals queue at Washington DC’s Dulles international airport.

      FBI agents stopped Oleg Voloshyn, a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician close to Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch sometimes known in his native country as the “dark prince” and a long-term ally and friend of Vladimir Putin.

      It was less than a year before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Medvedchuk had been charged with treason, and his TV channels, conduits for Russian propaganda, had been taken off the air.

      Voloshyn, his envoy to the west, was in the crosshairs of US authorities.

      The FBI extracted WhatsApp messages from Voloshyn’s phone in which he discussed secretly paying Gill. Voloshyn was released after three hours of questioning, but he and Medvedchuk were both named the following year by the US as agents of a Kremlin plot to install a puppet government in Ukraine.

      Nigel Farage meets members of the public during campaigning in Caerphilly, south Wales.
      Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’
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      Now in Moscow, Voloshyn was Gill’s co-accused, albeit beyond the reach of British authorities. Two months later in September 2021, after the stop at Dulles airport, counter-terrorism police arrested Gill at Manchester airport.

      On his phone, police found messages that showed he had reached an agreement with Voloshyn. According to prosecutors, Gill accepted cash on at least eight occasions to make specific statements and opinions benefiting Russia.

      The amount has yet to be disclosed, but various amounts totalling in excess of at least £10,000 were mentioned in WhatApp messages between him and Voloshyn.

      Looking back on them now, the public statements appear subtle, but they provided the mood music in the west for a propaganda war being waged by the Kremlin to paint Ukraine’s pro-western leaders as repressive.

      For his cooperation in this covert PR campaign, Gill received “xmas presents” and “post cards” – coded references to money. They were his reward for making speeches in the European parliament and giving TV interviews scripted by Voloshyn.


      Gill arriving at the Old Bailey in September
      Gill arriving at the Old Bailey in September, charged with bribery and of conspiracy to commit bribery. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
      Speaking to the Guardian via email, Voloshyn denied allegations made by the US and UK that he had acted at the direction of Russia’s FSB spy agency.

      He insisted the payments – typically £4,000 or £5,000 each – were merely media appearance fees, rather than bribes. He described Gill as a “humble” father of five who was “definitely not rich” and was the “victim of a geopolitical conspiracy”.

      The tangled story of Gill and Voloshyn raises questions about how Russia has attempted to cultivate contacts across British political life.

      David Coburn and Jonathan Arnott, two other MEPs who were part of Farage’s Ukip bloc in Brussels, visited Ukraine with Gill on an October 2018 trip. During the visit, Coburn, Gill and Arnott appeared on camera in interviews with 112 Ukraine, a pro-Russian channel affiliated with Medvedchuk.

      Six weeks later, the three would make similar statements during a debate in the European parliament on 11 December that touched on press freedom in Ukraine and the question of whether it should be allowed to join the EU.

      Gill spoke first. While saying he had “every sympathy with Ukraine”, he added: “It is wrong to fight repression with repression.” Prosectors in Britain say he had received a script for the speech from Voloshyn on 7 December 2018.

      Arnott and Coburn followed, with the former calling on the Ukrainian government to ensure freedom of the press “against a backdrop of violence against journalists [and] the proposed closure of TV channels”.

      Coburn then accused Kyiv’s leaders of being “found wanting” on freedom of the press, accusing them of “plotting” to close the channel 112 Ukraine and questioning whether Ukraine was fit for EU membership. Gill and Coburn sat on the channel’s new “international” board, along Voloshyn and others.

      There is no suggestion that either Coburn or Arnott took bribes in the same way as Gill.

      Contacted by the Guardian, Arnott rejected any suggestion that he had links to Russia or was acting in its interests and pointed to another part of his speech in which he said “the best response to a loss of freedom is increased freedom”.

      He added: “I think that provides a bit of background and context to what I was saying in the speech and explains where I was coming from. Russia’s suppression of free speech should not be countered by Ukraine also suppressing free speech.”

      Attempts have been made to contact Coburn.

      In correspondence with the Guardian, Voloshyn claims the broadcaster 112 Ukraine “should have” covered the MEPs’ travel costs on their 2018 trip. In fact, declarations by the three to the European parliament record their tickets as having been paid for by the European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, a front created by Russian intelligence agents with the same name as a genuine organisation.

      The cutout’s president, Janusz Niedźwiecki, was arrested in 2021 in his home country, Poland, on suspicion of espionage for Russia. Arnott said if he had been aware the money for his trip may have come from Russian assets “obviously I would not have participated in any visit on such a basis”.

      Farage has faced questions about the extent of contact he may have had with Voloshyn. Nadia Sass, Voloshyn’s wife, a 112 Ukraine journalist, last year posted a photo on X of herself with Farage, which appears to have been taken outside the European parliament in about 2018, saying she would “miss Nigel Farage and his team”.

      Another tweet included a picture of Farage holding a T-shirt with the logo “Leave and Let Die #brexit”, apparently taken in Gill’s Strasbourg office in 2018. Voloshyn said Sass had given it to Farage because she wanted to promote her political T-shirt business. He claims he has never spoken to Farage.

      A spokesperson said: “Nigel Farage meets thousands of people every single year. Many hundreds of them will ask to have a photo taken with him. He was deeply shocked and angered by the actions of Mr Gill and condemns them in every possible way.”

      They added that Farage did not have any knowledge of Gill’s “shameful activities”.

      But Niedźwiecki and Voloshyn appear to have also widened their net beyond the various incarnations of parties by Farage. Both were named in warning emails sent to all MPs at Westminster in July 2021 and January 2022 by the speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle.

      A number of MPs are understood to have come forward to the security services after Hoyle warned them that Voloshyn was working to gain the support of a number of politicians in parliament for policies in support of Russian state objectives.

      Sir John Whittingdale, a former minister and chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Ukraine, said he had first come across Voloshyn when he was “the right hand man” to Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, who served as Ukraine’s foreign minister under its Moscow-friendly president Viktor Yanukovych.

      “I went to observe an election around 2012 and I did see him once at his request in Westminster [in 2018] with Nadia Sass [Voloshyn’s wife]. As I recall they were complaining about restrictions and harassment of her TV channel by the government,” Whittingdale told the Guardian.

      “He has now been identified as a Russian asset, though at the time I knew him he was working for the [previous] Ukrainian government, which was quite pro-Russian.”

      There is no indication that Whittingdale or other Tory MPs such as Mark Pritchard, who was due to appear on a panel at an event in London with Sass, were compromised by any association with him.

      Instead, the heaviest price is expected to be paid by Gill, whose guilty plea in September to eight counts of bribery between 6 December 2018 and 18 July 2019 took prosecutors by surprise.

      An ashen-faced Gill had entered the plea after earlier appearances at Westminster magistrates court, where he had been ordered to surrender his passport and register with police at Anglesey, the Welsh island where he lives with his wife and children.

      Before entering politics, he had practised in Anglesey for six years as a Mormon bishop. Anglesey had also been the base for an earlier business running care home services founded by his family and operating mainly in Hull. That business collapsed with debts of £116,000 after the 2008 financial crisis hit.

      Attempts to build a political career followed, with early failures at gaining election at council and devolved level before finally becoming a Ukip MEP in 2014.

      From the misery of a struggling business and electoral failure, Gill found himself at the centre of Brussels politics, rubbing shoulders with the eclectic milieu of international visitors and lobbyists at the European parliament. A hitherto unnoticed interest in international affairs bloomed.

      Farage has been trying to distance himself from Gill, telling the BBC that he was “stunned” when he found out his party’s former leader in Wales took bribes.

      Challenged on whether he questioned Gill over the statements, Farage said: “I didn’t know anything about it; all I knew was that he’d been to Ukraine. I told him not to go, he defied me and went, I was completely unaware of any statements that he made.”

      However, multiple sources who worked with Farage and Gill in Brussels and Strasbourg said the two men had been close.

      Gill was described variously as Farage’s “enforcer” and “right-hand man” by some who recalled they had adjoining offices. One former Ukip MEP from that time told the Guardian: “Gill was in the thick of organising. He was the right-hand version of Farage. His office was right beside Farage’s.”

      “Nathan had a unique place in the party,” another source said. “He was the centre of gravity in Wales, and David [Coburn] was at the centre in Scotland. I found David quite difficult – he could be very outspoken. He was very loyal to Nigel.”

      Gill also had personal vulnerabilities of the sort foreign intelligence agencies look to seize upon.

      Alex Phillips, formerly a media adviser to Gill and someone who also served alongside him as a Brexit party MEP, said: “There is a tragic backdrop to this. They clearly targeted someone who was financially vulnerable.”

      Phillips told the Guardian she was “as shocked as everyone” when Gill was arrested, adding that she voluntarily went to speak to the Metropolitan police and let them know that she had known nothing about his secret activities.

      “I don’t believe he was cunning enough to really believe in what he became involved in. It’s quite sad really.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/01/reform-a-russian-spy-and-the-bribes-the-inside-story-of-nathan-gill

    • Diana @Diana3 The Hyde - updated 4d

      A new law

      This morning I was feeling fed up about all the things going wrong with my house until I read this. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/29/no-more-children-are-going-to-die-like-you-how-sheffield-mother-kept-her-promise-to-boys-killed-by-father-11-years-ago That poor woman - I hope she manages to find some happiness in the rest of her life.

    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 4d

      Soldier found guilty

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly2w8e7gngt

      Follow the link right down as it’s updated throughout the day

    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 5d
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    • Robert @RobRoy Laindon - updated 5d

      Women angry at Farage

      Hope this link works

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/29/female-survivors-of-grooming-gangs-demand-apology-from-nigel-farage?fbclid=IwVERDUANvMN5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHoZQNRpHAGet5UpukhH8UuyMx1LOLHaVyy9AF_20YeV7QHzpIKm0tCGZTnyt_aem_GptIhu7clhE8vq-q_9vhEw

    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 5d
    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 5d

      Let’s all think like Sonny

      https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17LCCfHRLa/?mibextid=wwXIfr

      He should be a national treasure

    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 5d
    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 5d

      White boy finally found guilty of murder.

      Says he didn’t mean to kill the other boy - so why carry a knife then

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdeg30dgy1go.amp

    • Ryan T @RyanT St Albans - updated 5d

      Winter Fuel Payment

      I have received my letter confirming £300 will be paid into my account in the next few weeks.

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    • Robert @RobRoy Laindon - updated 6d

      Sign the petition to suspend racist MP

      https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/suspend-MP-Sarah-Pochin?bucket=copy-native-2025-10-27_&utm_campaign=2025-10-27_Far+right&utm_medium=native&utm_source=copy

      I hope I have copied the link correctly, if not I would appreciate a more knowledgeable members help

    • Selsey @Selsey Hayes - updated 7d

      Blocking?

      Never thought I'd be doing this but now taking great pleasure in blocking the clowns that are making a mockery of this site. Probably playing into their hands but who cares, can but pity them though not even sure what they are trying to achieve, maybe someone can enlighten me in time.

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    • Derek R @DerekR Iver Heath - 7d

      Man charged with racially aggravated rape of woman

      A man has been charged with the racially aggravated rape of a woman in Walsall.

      John Ashby, 32, of no fixed address, is accused of one count of rape and sexual assault in relation to the attack, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

      It comes after a woman, aged in her 20s, was targeted in the Park Hall area of Walsall on Saturday night.

      Mr Ashby has also been charged with intentional strangulation, racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and robbery in relation to the same victim.

      The CPS said the victim was not known to the attacker.

      Mr Ashby, who West Midlands Police described as white and British, is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

      'Speaking to community'
      "We know the fear and concern this attack has caused in our communities," said Ch Supt Phil Dolby.

      "We continue to speak to people in the community to listen to and understand their concerns.

      "Officers have visited faith establishments in Walsall and spoken with local leaders about women's safety and what measures men can take to make women feel more comfortable.

      "We need to continue to maintain those conversations and how we build on women's safety in the community."

      Det Supt Ronan Tyrer added: "The woman who was the subject of the attack has been informed of the charging decision this evening.

      "She is continuing to be supported by our specially trained officers."

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg636kdrgo

    • CharlotteB @CharlotteB Crayford - updated 8d

      Ray’s link

      For those who may not have seen our friends post on the Carers group about the passing of his dear wife, please follow the link and consider donating if you can.

      https://www.scooploop.com/thread/goodnight-sweetheart

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