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Thousands of passports and visas stolen from van
Thieves who escaped with 3,000 blank passports and visas worth £2.5m were helped by the fact that the Foreign Office, who had taken charge of the documents, has no armoured vehicles.
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Businessman who gave £2m to Lib Dems goes on the run
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
A businessman whose company gave the Liberal Democrats more than £2m has gone on the run weeks before going on trial for fraud. Michael Brown, 42, was due to stand trial in September accused of fraud and money-laundering, but a judge at Southwark Crown Court issued an arrest warrant yesterday after he breached his bail. The Glasgow-born businessman, who lives in Hampstead, north-west London, formally denied all the charges at a hearing in June. The theft charges are believed to relate to his trading company 5th Avenue Partners. Brown was at the centre of controversy after it emerged he bankrolled the Liberal Democrats' last general election campaign despite not being registered to vote.
Arrest warrant issued for fraud trial donor
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
An international businessman whose company gave the Liberal Democrats more than £2 million is being sought just weeks before his trial for fraud.
Moors murder puzzle as remains found
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Remains have been found on Saddleworth Moor, but there is confusion over whether they are related to the "moors murders".
Stolen passports 'worth £2.5m on black market'
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Passports stolen in a raid on a delivery van are worth £2.5m on the black market, police said today.
Tetra Pak heir escapes drugs charges
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Prosecutors will drop drugs charges against the heir to a multi-billion-pound business fortune, a court was told today.
'Garage raiders' killed in getaway crash
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Two suspected burglars died when their getaway car crashed into railings today.
Death row man beaten after 'suicide bid'
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Kenny Richey, who spent 21 years on death row in the US, was beaten up by a man who said he was a boxer hours after he was arrested over an alleged suicide attempt.
David Walliams' stalker sectioned
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
An obsessed stalker who threatened to kill Little Britain star David Walliams during a four-year campaign of harassment was sectioned yesterday under the Mental Health Act.
7 July plot: Jury given majority direction
Monday, 28 July 2008
The jury in the trial of three men accused of helping the 7 July suicide bombers plan their attack by carrying out a two-day reconnaissance mission in London was today told majority verdicts could be returned.
Father of murdered Billie-Jo has 'discovered new suspect'
Monday, 28 July 2008
Sion Jenkins, the former teacher whose teenage foster daughter, Billie-Jo, was found bludgeoned to death, has claimed to have found a new suspect in the case.
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