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Four cleared of assisting Christmas Eve gunman

Four people accused of helping the gunman who shot a beautician outside a pub on Christmas Eve have been cleared. Connor Chapman, 24, was convicted last year of the murder of 26-year-old Elle Edwards, who was killed when he opened fire outside the ...

06 Nov 2024 at 12:37

World

Surge in gang violence sees more than 53,000 flee Haiti’s capital in three weeks

More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in less than three weeks, the vast majority to escape unrelenting gang violence, according to a United Nations report. More than 60% are headed to Haiti’s rural southern region, which worries UN ...

03 Apr 2024 at 08:09

Two teenagers convicted of murder in gang-related park attack

Two teenagers have been convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in the back during a gang-related attack. Darrian Williams was attacked by two 15-year-olds in a Bristol park on February 14 this year. Bristol Crown ...

01 Nov 2024 at 14:35

Teenage boy fatally stabbed at Bristol park in gang-related attack, court told

A 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in the back during a gang-related attack which took place in a park, a court heard. Darrian Williams was in Rawnsley Park play area in the Easton area of Bristol with friends at about 5.30pm on February ...

15 Oct 2024 at 14:49

Teenage girl shot dead in feud sparked by social media humiliation, court told

A 17-year-old girl was shot dead in the street during a gang “ride-out” carried out in retaliation to a social media humiliation, a court has heard. Tanesha Melbourne-Blake was standing with friends on Chalgrove Road in Tottenham, north ...

01 Apr 2025 at 12:24

Scotland

Six arrested as police investigate suspected gang feud

Six people have been arrested as investigations continue into incidents police believe may be linked to a suspected gang feud. Officers from Police Scotland’s Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit executed warrants and searched ...

09 May 2025 at 13:30

Scotland

Police examine CCTV footage as fire attacks in suspected gang war investigated

Detectives investigating a spate of deliberate fires in a suspected gang war have seized almost 700 hours of CCTV footage along with a stolen vehicle. Police are treating the “reckless” blazes as potentially linked, and have ...

11 Apr 2025 at 13:20

Murder trial collapses seven years after teenager’s shooting

The trial of a man for the murder of 17-year-old Tanesha Melbourne-Blake has collapsed almost exactly seven years since she was shot dead in an alleged gang shooting on rival territory. On Thursday, Judge Mark Dennis KC ...

17 Apr 2025 at 11:49

Scotland

John Swinney ‘deeply concerned’ by gang feud reports after Edinburgh shootings

John Swinney has said he is “deeply concerned” by the reports of violent incidents in and around Edinburgh which are thought to be linked to a gang feud. The First Minister was pressed on how his government is ...

27 Mar 2025 at 14:15

Scotland

Further four men arrested in relation to violent gang-war incidents

Police have arrested a further four men in relation to violent incidents in the east and west of Scotland, all of whom were brought in under suspicion of fire-raising at properties in Edinburgh and ...

23 May 2025 at 18:53

Scotland

Man attacked in incident linked to suspected gang feud

Police are treating a “targeted attack” on a 54-year-old man as linked to a suspected gang feud in Scotland’s central belt. The attack on Edinburgh’s Pitcairn Grove on Thursday evening involved ...

23 May 2025 at 15:47

Prisoner told fellow inmate he was involved in killing of teenager, court hears

A prisoner confessed to a fellow inmate about the murder of a teenage girl who was shot dead during a gang “ride-out”, a court has heard. Tanesha Melbourne-Blake was standing with friends on ...

01 Apr 2025 at 18:12

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