Couple Masterminds Cocaine, Ketamine, And Ecstasy ‘Enterprise’

A drug dealing couple, who built an ‘enterprise’ selling cocaine, ecstasy and other class A drugs, have been spared time behind bars to look after their baby boy. 

Emily Ekin, 30, and Jake Redfern, 32, were taken into custody when police busted their drug operation after searching their home in Fenton in March 2023. 

In total police seized 55 ecstasy tablets, some ketamine, cannabis, electronic scales as well as £310.

Two phones were also recovered from the property, linking Ekin to the sale of ecstasy and ketamine and Redfern to the sale of cocaine.

The couple have since been given a two-year suspended jail sentence after a judge determined they acted out of ‘desperation’ and were at low risk of re-offending whilst also considering they had a young child to care for.

Prosecuting, David Farley, said police executed a search warrant at the duo’s home on Best Street on March 3, 2023, and the couple were both arrested afterwards. 

‘Ekin would sell ecstasy and ketamine and Redfern would sell cocaine. They were both involved in each other’s business,’ Mr Farley told the Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court. 

In addition to the mother’s guilty plea to a separate charge of possessing an offensive weapon, both entered guilty pleas to multiple narcotics crimes with intent to supply.

Ekin pleaded guilty to possession of the class A drug ecstasy to supply; possession of class B drug ketamine with intent to supply; possession of class B drug cannabis; and possession of an offensive weapon, a knuckle duster.

Redfern also pleaded guilty to possession of class A drug ecstasy to supply; possession of class B drug ketamine with intent to supply; being involved in supplying class A drug cocaine to another; and possession of class B drug cannabis.

Gurdit Singh, mitigating for both defendants, said they were fully aware that immediate custody would be at the forefront of the court’s mind.

He told the court that the parents did not feel they had any other ‘alternative other than to embark on this enterprise’, as Redfern was unemployed and Ekin’s wage was minimal.

Singh also argued that Redfern’s father would not live much longer and that the 32-year-old was eager to spend as much time as possible with him. 

He also said the drug dealer’s absence would have a ‘devastating impact’ on the couple’s one-year-old son as well as Redfern’s two other children.

Judge Graeme Smith suspended the two’s prison term. Both offenders were judged capable of rehabilitation, able to care for their child, and with a minimal chance of reoffending.

As part of the suspended sentences, Ekin must complete a rehabilitation activity requirement for 25 days and 120 hours of unpaid work. 

This appears to be far too forgiving, and whereas such activities once called for automatic jail time, they are now thriving because people realise that they will simply get a slap on the wrist if discovered, so making our legal system complicit in criminal activity.

They ought to have been penalised for their past actions rather than their potential for future transgressions.

It appears that we can do anything we want these days without having to worry about going to prison.

The kind of slime that makes money off of this suffering, particularly when it’s being marketed to young children, is what I care about, not the drug users. The absence of consequences only serves to encourage more of the same.

Before dealing, they ought to have considered their child. Many families are impoverished, but they make the best of their situation.

Is There Going To Be A Reduction In The Frequency With Which Your Bin Will Be Emptied?

Within weeks, millions of taxpayers may see their rubbish collections slashed to once a month as a result of numerous councils that are struggling financially.

New data has shown that 42 councils in the UK – more than one in 10 – are considering reducing their waste collection services to save money.

If all recommendations are approved, almost eight million people may see some sort of adjustment to their bin collection schedule, with about five million of them experiencing a reduction.

In addition, over 800,000 more could have their weekly recycling service cut to fortnightly or monthly.

The vast preponderance of local authorities across the UK cutting bin collections are simultaneously hiking council tax by 4.99 percent, the highest figure allowed without a local referendum or special government approval.

Birmingham’s 1.1 million residents are facing a 7.5 percent tax rise – signed off by Angela Rayner on Monday – while seeing their residual waste collected fortnightly, rather than weekly.

It is a similar story for the 500,000 population of Bristol – who are still consulting on whether to collect residual waste monthly, instead of fortnightly.

Cheshire East, which asked for a 10 percent tax rise, intends to save about £1 million yearly from the move to monthly.

Councillor Mick Warren, chairman of Cheshire East’s environment and communities committee, admitted the change is unpopular but that recent legislation demanding authorities collect food waste weekly requires ‘significant and costly operational changes’.

The study also shows Leicester, Wakefield, Sandwell, Lewisham and Stoke-on-Trent as other local authorities where over 250,000 residents could be affected. All six have proposed to hike council tax by 4.99 percent from April.

Joanna Marchong, investigations campaign manager of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, which uncovered the data, said: ‘Residents will be left wondering what to do when the bin lorries don’t show up and the rubbish piles high.

‘A shocking number of councils are considering cutting collections, which would leave people facing ever-growing mountains of waste.

‘Town halls need to stop making a mess of basic services and focus on delivering what taxpayers pay for.’

Under the previous Tory government, ministers said residual waste must be collected at least fortnightly due to concerns over smells and vermin if it was less regular.

However, guidance from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs issued in November seems to remove that requirement, simply saying that authorities should decide collection frequency ‘in a way that meets local needs and provides value for money for the taxpayer’.

Government at local and national levels is broken. What we need is a total overhaul of everything. Restructure all departments and employ only the finest staff that can be found. The rest can take redundancy or early retirement because people have had enough. Will this be the year that taxpayers turn on the establishment, and if they do, it will serve them right?

This Labour government and local authorities are completely untrustworthy, and they never stop wasting public funds on vanity or diversity schemes that ultimately fail.

Where is our money going if our taxes are rising and our services are being cut back? To accommodate the record-breaking influx of migrants.

To ensure that every penny is tracked, I would like to see the breakdown of council tax spending. Complete openness shouldn’t be a problem because it’s our money, but they won’t let you know what they’re spending it on, so that won’t happen.

The biggest joke is that our government is giving councils billions from the treasury, which is taxpayers money. Government needs to get tough with these councils and make them audit every penny that they spend.

We pay far too much tax in the UK, and it’s getting worse by the day. We are already getting taxed monthly for even earning a wage, paying separate council tax, paying taxes when buying groceries, paying taxes when getting any sort of services done, it’s never-ending, and then there is the migration crisis, and now they want us to live in filth!

In A Speech At Today’s Summit, Keir Starmer Makes A Bid For A ‘Reset’ Of The EU

Keir Starmer will plead for EU leaders to ‘reset’ ties today as he attends a meeting in Brussels. 

The PM will join an ‘informal meeting’ with the bloc’s leaders, and make his case for closer relations over dinner. He is also expected to hold discussions with Nato chief Mark Rutte in the Belgian capital.

However, concerns have been raised over what concessions Sir Keir might make to get his wish – with calls for a youth free movement deal and access to fishing waters.

In an ominous sign, French diplomats have been suggesting that the premier’s request for a better relationship shows Brexit has ‘failed’.

Sir Keir is the first PM to attend an EU summit since the UK formally left the bloc in 2020. 

He hosted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks at Chequers yesterday as he geared up for the visit.

The premier will ‘set out his pitch’ for an ‘ambitious’ new defence and security deal as part of his vow to ‘make Brexit work better for the British people’. 

He has insisted that Brexit is ‘settled’, and he is concentrating on ‘a closer relationship on defence and security, on energy, on trade and our economy.’

‘I’m here to work with our European partners on keeping up the pressure, targeting the energy revenues and the companies supplying his missile factories to crush Putin’s war machine,’ Sir Keir said.

‘Because ultimately, alongside our military support, that is what will bring peace closer.’

Labour has insisted rejoining the customs union and single market are both ‘red lines’.

France is said to view Sir Keir as a ‘demandeur’ – a supplicant driven by the UK’s struggle beyond the EU.

A senior diplomat told The Times: ‘The Brexit project, breaking away from the EU to create a global Britain, didn’t work. 

‘We thought it wouldn’t work because the UK is European, geographically and economically. 

‘Brexit was a project for a stable and prosperous world, but in a complicated world, obviously, the UK will be closer to Europe.’ 

Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith told Sky News that Sir Keir ‘should be rediverting his plane’ to Washington DC, as the UK already had a trade deal with the EU, but not with America.

The Conservatives have set the Prime Minister five ‘tests’ over his approach to Brexit, warning he could attempt to ‘undo’ the settlement.

There has been no opportunity for Brexit to succeed. Don’t for a moment assume that Starmer will have our best interests at heart as he smooches up to his European masters. The Conservatives and now this EU-loving Labour party have never supported the concept of the UK becoming independent, and he loves everyone but the British people.

Our government are treating us like we should be punished.

Businesses large and small are already saying that times are hard, but in April when Rachel Reeves budget ultimately hits home they will see their overheads overtake and overwhelm any profits, so how on earth does Starmer think that the EU will be able to save the UK? The damage has already been done!

What is the cunning and feeble Prime Minister up to? I have no faith in him.

‘National Schools Survey’ Asks 14-Year-Old Boy If He’s Comfortable With His Gender

A mother has been left outraged after her 14-year-old son was questioned if he was ‘comfortable in his gender’ in a national schools survey. 

A British parent anonymously posted to Mumsnet that her teenage son had been asked to fill in an online form alongside his fellow students. 

She said the schoolboy had been asked about his sexual orientation and if he was ‘comfortable’ in his gender. 

Other questions included if pupils had any sexual experiences and if they had received or sent inappropriate pictures to others, she said.

It was claimed it came from the My Health, My School Survey, a nationally available questionnaire.

According to its website, these surveys are carried out on students from year three to year 11, with each question tailored to age suitability to ‘generate vital information on the health and well-being’ of students. 

Reflecting on the survey her son had been asked to complete, the mother wrote, ‘I understand some questions are safeguarding views. 

‘But b***** hell the sexual orientation etc why on earth is that relevant to my son’s schooling? 

She alleged that teachers at the school – who had not been identified – discouraged her son from ticking the ‘Prefer not to say’ option on the questionnaire.

‘I just feel his privacy has been really invaded and he doesn’t know himself whether he’s is straight/gay or whatever,’ she added.

The My Health, My School Survey has ten themes, each containing questions about gambling, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and sexual health. 

Other survey topics include an ‘All About Me’ section and questions about diet, play, physical activity, mental health, and school. 

The separate pupil perception survey is also carried out for children over the age of 16 as well as those with special education needs. 

The survey is completely anonymous and it is not mandatory for pupils to fill out if they do not wish to. 

Lucy Marsh, from the Family Education Trust, told MailOnline: ‘Asking questions of a sexual nature to children in Year 9 and signposting them to sexual health providers like Brook is completely unacceptable.

‘This is a gross violation of privacy of both the child and their family.

‘Schools should not require children to complete surveys about their personal life and sexuality as this has no bearing on their education.

‘It is also inappropriate to obtain such information without permission from their parents.

‘Children under the age of 16 should not be exposed to explicit sexual language or encouraged to think that underage sexual activity is normal.’

It is understood that the survey is not a Department for Education survey. 

My Health, My School has been contacted by MailOnline.

This is wrong on every level, and we need to find out who approved this harmful poppycock. Someone must have signed it off – who are they, and what is their background and motivation?

It’s someone who doesn’t know about the basics of data gathering and statistical analysis. It’s not okay to throw an adult-styled questionnaire at a child and assume they’ll respond to the questions objectively and accurately because they won’t, and parents need to wake up fast as to what is happening to their children once they go through the school gate.

And why do these schools have such a fixation on pushing gender issues on young students? To allow youngsters to naturally mature into adults, these oddballs must be stopped.

This enables vulnerable children to believe that they’re not normal. The norms include a broad spectrum of interpretation – we are not all the same, and the vast preponderance of the population doesn’t understand the perfectly normal effects of the change of hormones during puberty, and feeling bewildered by puberty isn’t a definition of gender dysphoria.

Our government have taken a generation of children and both the Tories and now Labour seem to want to teach our children what they want, not what kids need, and children that are broken by this will be easy to manipulate by voting age.

When George Orwell penned ‘1984’ it was just a book – now it’s here and very real!

However, everyone is now so preoccupied with being amused by technology that they have lost sight of their humanity and are allowing their surroundings to burn down around them. To examine what happens when people concentrate on living life rather than existing, perhaps we should turn off the internet for one week each month.

Children don’t fully comprehend the consequences of giving this information, and they have no idea what will happen to the data that is being gathered, therefore isn’t this a safeguarding issue? They also have no idea who will have access to the data, how it will be utilised, or whether it is secure.

These individuals have no business questioning kids about their lives in this manner; they are not medical professionals, and it is a blatant betrayal of school trust.

We are now a grooming state. It doesn’t matter how you look at it. It’s morally wrong and morally incorrect.

Judge Who Gave Sara Sharif’s Father Custody Before He Killed Her

The judge who gave custody of Sara Sharif to her father before he beat the 10-year-old to death can today be named in a landmark victory for open justice.

Last month a High Court judge sparked outrage after ordering that none of the professionals involved in the appalling case of the 10-year-old murdered by her father and stepmother could be named because the media cannot be ‘trusted to report fairly.’

The judge was given anonymity for the first time in British legal history.

The Court of Appeal overturned the gagging order after the Daily Mail and other media organisations argued that judges are the ‘face of justice itself’, they make ‘life-and-death decisions’ and keeping their names secret would have a ‘corrosive impact’ on public confidence in the judicial system.

Now, it can be revealed that the judge at the centre of Sara’s case is a well-known lawyer who has backed the right of judges to work from home, including for court hearings, because she believes commuting is a ‘complete waste of time’.

The first active judge in the United Kingdom to take maternity leave was Judge Alison Raeside.

The 66-year-old is married to a fellow circuit judge and has four children, all of whom have joined the legal profession.

In a revealing ‘Women Who Work’ podcast (in Nov 2023), she talked about the necessity for judges to have the flexibility to work from home and presented tips on how to be a ‘submarine parent’, providing insight into her own parenting style.

Neither the local government nor Judge Raeside applied for the anonymity order.

Despite no requests to the court to consider anonymity, Mr. Justice Williams issued the order.

Called to the Bar in 1982, Judge Raeside has acted as a district judge since 2000 and was appointed as the designated family court judge for Surrey in 2019, serving until 2024 when she was appointed as the Lady Chief Justice’s nominated representative on the HMCTS Board.

Within months of starting her job at Guildford Family Court, the judge was forced to issue a five-year restraining order against a parent who, throughout a nine-month online stalking campaign, called her a “vile monster” in a string of threatening communications.

Nyron Warmington, 42, was jailed for a year in 2019 after he targeted Judge Raeside because she had banned him from contacting his daughters during family court proceedings.

Using the pseudonym ‘Equality for Fathers’, Warmington posted on Instagram and Facebook about ‘monsters working in the UK courts’.

Just three months after the stalking case, Judge Raeside was asked to consider whether to hand custody of Sara Sharif to her father in October 2019.

Urfan Sharif, 42, had earlier been accused of violence against three ex-partners and two children, including his own, who were burned, bitten and bruised in a catalogue of brutality dating back 16 years.

However, the police did not file charges, and after he was able to avoid responsibility, social workers suggested that Sara be placed in his care.

Court records tell how Judge Raeside was deceived by Sharif and his wife Beinash Batool, 30, into blaming Sara’s mother Olga Domin for the abuse.

The judge even praised Batool for taking on Sara and her siblings, saying it was a ‘it is a big ask, it’s amazing to be frank’.

She recommended Ms Domin get help for ‘anger management’, adding: ‘It would be good if you could at least be courteous to her (Batool), be polite to her, be slightly grateful even to her….It’s only thanks to Ms Batool that you’re able to really see them.’

As long as Batool oversaw Sara’s biweekly visits with Ms. Domin, the judge mandated that Sara live with Sharif.

She told the two women to shake hands: ‘Maybe you could see if you could shake hands, say hello and see if things could go forward a bit differently.’

Social workers claimed Sara had ‘a really good relationship’ with her stepmother, which was ‘a point of safety’ for her.

It was an erroneous assumption that would prove catastrophic in the schoolgirl’s case, with her father starting to dole out day-to-day beatings within weeks of acquiring custody.

In addition to hooding her in a plastic bag with parcel tape around her head and binding her arms and legs, Sara endured an unthinkable ordeal at the hands of her father and stepmother, who also beat her with a rolling pin, metal pole, and cricket bat, strangled her until her neck broke, burned her with an iron, and bit her.

When police discovered her broken little body left under the pink covers of her bunk bed by her fleeing family last August, she had suffered more than 100 injuries before her death.

Leaving aside this particular case just for a moment – it’s about time we had a proper media investigation into how judges get to be judges, and how about publishing statistics on convictions and sentencing by each judge.

Circumstances vary, but trends and sweeping discrepancies could be underlined, and judges should have to declare interests, financial and political. It may we be that judges get criticised for indulgent sentences, not because of their own bias, but because governments, past and present, push for lenient sentences to save money on prisons.

If judges are taking the flack for politicians, this needs to be exposed – let’s shed some light on our judges because I believe an awful lot of us just don’t trust judges to apply justice.

The truth is that our government is the first to let down all British citizens, instead giving billions of pounds to foreign countries for spurious reasons.

Huge Benefits Overhaul

It is reported that the long-term sick will be required to look for employment, and many will see their benefits slashed under a huge welfare overhaul.

Labour says it now must repair “Tory failures on welfare,” which the party says have ballooned the welfare bill. However, this means hundreds of thousands of people could see reductions in sickness benefits payments.

People with mental health conditions will also find it more difficult to claim separate disability benefits under a far-reaching package of reforms, which would represent the most significant changes to the welfare system for more than a decade.

A government source said last night: “The Tories failed on welfare because they failed on work. This Labour government recognises that many sick and disabled people want to work, given the right support, but are unfairly shut out.

“We will bring forward big reforms that help more people into work, protect the most vulnerable, and boost growth – while putting the benefits bill on a more sustainable footing.”

Despite the source’s reassurance the most vulnerable will be protected, it is understand Keir Starmer will be pitched into a bitter row with his party over the changes. However, his work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, insists the current system is “broken” and change is needed to help people get back to work and boost the economy.

Ms Kendall is under extreme pressure from the Treasury to find billions of pounds in savings in the coming weeks. She is poised to deliver the Government’s blueprint for reform ahead of the spring statement, slated for March 26.

And Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is desperate to avoid having to hold an emergency tax-raising budget in March to meet fiscal rules that are under threat from more increased borrowing costs, reports The Times. 

It also says a package is expected to be completed in the next two weeks to persuade the Office for Budget Responsibility that the benefits bill can be brought under control.

Britain spends £65 billion on sickness benefits, more than the £60 billion defence budget and dwarfing the £20 billion spent on the police or less than £6 billion spent on the asylum system.

Under one possibility being considered, the universal credit “limited capability for work or work-related activity” category would be abolished, which would require claimants to make preparations for work and see them lose around £5,000 a year.

It is understood ministers want to ditch the work capability assessment used to approve incapacity benefits and align the system more closely with assessments for personal independence payments (PIP), separate disability benefits that are paid whether or not someone can work.

It is a disgrace. Taking money away from the weakest and poorest people while allowing their wealthy friends to escape paying taxes that they can easily afford. Their excessive salary makes them little more than Tories in sheep’s clothing, and they have no right to lecture the poor and disabled.

Labour will fail and people will never trust them again.

I just don’t understand why the government are hell-bent on spouting such hostility against the disabled and vulnerable – it has to be one of the worst injustices of our time.

If the government ceased handing themselves wage increases whenever they wanted to, using taxpayer funds for their own expenses, and sending money overseas rather than to its own citizens, it would save millions of pounds.

But this is what our government want – a mass cull of the disabled and elderly. Suicide rates are going to soar to astronomical levels, but they will get what they want, to save money and get rid of those who are too sick to pay for the lavish lifestyles of the government elite – it’s nothing more than social cleansing.

What we need to do is socially cleanse our own government – sack them all!

Lord Sugar Says Britain Should ‘Get Down On Bended Knees’ And Beg To Be Allowed Back Into The EU

Lord Sugar has branded Brexit the ‘biggest disaster of my lifetime’ and insisted the UK should beg to be let back into the EU.

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of leaving the bloc, the business magnate and Apprentice celeb condemned the decision for crushing economic growth.

He told BBC Breakfast that if he were PM he would go ‘on bended knees’ to Brussels and ask to rejoin.

The Brexit referendum in 2016 was followed by years of wrangling over the terms of the UK’s withdrawal.

Boris Johnson eventually struck a deal that permitted the divorce to go forward in early 2020, just before the COVID pandemic battered the world.

A poll issued this week indicated that just 30 percent now think the UK was right to leave the EU.

Immigration – widely regarded as a fundamental reason for the Leave vote – has since surged to new record highs.

Lord Sugar said: ‘The full ramifications of us not being in the EU are starting to really take its toll.

‘If I were the PM I would be coming along on my bended knees and asking to be allowed back in.

‘It’s all to do with trade, free trade, small people, small traders can’t ship goods abroad now… it’s a terrible situation.

‘How do we get out of it? My honest opinion – get back in the EU.’

Keir Starmer has made a ‘reset’ with the EU a core aim for the Labour government, although he has stressed the UK will not go back into a customs union or the single market. 

According to YouGov research carried out earlier this month, 55 percent of Brits now believe Brexit was the wrong decision. 

That sentiment was shared by 18 percent of those who voted Leave – although 66 percent stand by their original choice.

Some 7 percent of previous Remainers have switched to say it was right for the UK to leave, while 88 percent had not changed position.

Leaving the EU has not helped us in the slightest – we can’t work or travel freely. UK citizens can only spend 90 days in any EU country. UK citizens now have to have visas to travel to the EU. Immigration is at an all-time high. How has this helped the average UK citizen?

Regaining power and doing what was best for the UK was the goal of Brexit, but the Tories and Labour have so far disregarded popular will, lied in their manifestos, and have no intention of prioritising the needs of the UK people.

Lord Sugar is right. Leaving the EU was the stupidest act of national failure in the history of the UK. We were all sold a lie, and more migrants are coming to the UK than ever before. Our manufacturing is in collapse and we are all poorer. Trade is down, and our government sold snake oil to the unsuspecting Joe Public.

Our leaders need to resolve the issue since people voted for it, but they don’t want the people who supported it. They are bone idle, unwilling to work for their nation, and far too content to overpopulate it with foreigners in an attempt to bankrupt it.

Our government have forgotten how to govern a country. The bottom line is, that they want a comfortable life at the expense of the taxpayer but all for minimum effort.

I think many would agree that the political elite no longer work for the people. They only work, if you can call it that, to line their own pockets.

Round Off The Kitchen Knife, Says Idris Elba

Idris Elba has called for kitchen knives to have their ends rounded off in a bid to tackle the UK’s violent gang situation.

Talking ahead of the release of his documentary Idris Elba: A Year Of Knife Crime later this year, the 52-year-old actor made a number of recommendations to help bring an end to knife crime.

The Luther star said that whilst banning the sale of zombie knives was a positive step in tackling the issue, he also believed ninja swords should be outlawed and suggested kitchen blades have their sharp point removed.

He told the BBC: ‘Not all kitchen knives need to have a point on them, that sounds like a crazy thing to say. But you can still cut your food without the point on your knife, which is an innovative way to look at it.’

Mr Elba’s new documentary sees the British actor spend 12 months investigating the reality of the UK’s knife crime situation.

During the programme, the man famed for playing Stringer Bell in The Wire met with victims’ families, police officers and teenage offenders for an in-depth dive into the issue.

Britain’s knife crime emergency has seen a total of 507 children treated in English hospitals for knife injuries in the 12 months to April 2024, according to the latest figures analysed by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF).

To combat the situation, England and Wales banned zombie knives and machetes in September, making it illegal to make, transport, sell, or possess them.

Following the sentencing of the teenager who murdered three young girls in Southport, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the Government would bring in tougher checks for people trying to buy knives online.

Mr Elba described the September ban as a ‘massive step in the right direction’, but believed schools could intervene in young people’s lives earlier to stop them ‘going towards a dark place’.

He emphasised that teachers might focus more on preteen and early teen students by using disciplinary measures like school exclusions.

The award-winning screen star even believes young people in London gangs are ‘not big and scary’, adding it is ‘sad’ that society has ‘turned our back on them’.

Mr Elba said: ”We are still in crisis. Numbers fluctuate and the types of crime vary. But I still think this country is in a crisis point. We need to intervene or it’s going to get worse.

Knife crime is a serious problem, not only in London, but in outer counties as well. The police could use the stop-and-search approach, and there needs to be more rigid penalties in court, but we simply don’t have the room in prisons anymore.

Anyone caught on the street with a knife ought to be taken into custody right away. The problem is that they play the racial card when it’s a person of colour, but we must be able to stop and search these guys wearing gloves, balaclavas, and hoodies.

The problem is that our government has permitted it to happen. Kids are allowed to do as they please because parents have no control over them anymore. Parents are not allowed to discipline their children anymore; that was taken away from them a long time ago.

These kids are allowed to roam the streets in groups, and they are bored, there is nothing for them to do, and many turn to alcohol or drugs. We need to channel their inner creative minds, but there are no youth clubs anymore, they have almost all been taken away.

There’s nothing out there to suppress their boredom, and more needs to be done for these youths. I am not saying it would take away all criminality, but at least some of it. What we do need to do is reach out to these kids and be a positive role model for them.

Police Leave Father Of Four Without Money Or Phone

The family of a man who died after police dropped him off at a tram stop miles from home has said he was failed “massively” by authorities.

Benjamin Connor, 30, from Warrington, Cheshire, was left at a Metrolink stop near Old Trafford, Manchester, where he was “unsafely” de-arrested by police in the early hours without his phone, money or bank cards, his family said.

Hours later, the father of four was struck by a taxi almost two miles away on the M602 in Salford and died in hospital. Eyewitnesses conveyed seeing him walk into oncoming traffic, according to the Manchester Evening News.

An inquest jury ruled he died as a consequence of a road traffic collision contributed to by negligence on the part of police.

Billie-Jo Connor, Mr Connor’s sister, said Greater Manchester Police (GMP) had a duty of care towards her brother that night but “unfortunately failed to care”.

She said: “Ben was such a character. He was the biggest wind-up on the Earth, with the funniest and most bubbliest personality. Anyone that had the pleasure of knowing him will know that.

“He was such a laugh to be around and if he wasn’t annoying you, there was definitely something wrong. But he also would have done absolutely anything for anyone and had a heart of pure gold.”

Ms Connor added that her sibling’s four children meant the world to him and he was always talking about them. She continued: “They were always on his mind. They were the light of his life and are definitely what kept him going. Not only was Ben a daddy, but he was also the most amazing brother, uncle, son and friend to many.”

Police had been summoned to a flat in the Rusholme region of the city on December 27, 2021, where the owner told officers Mr Connor needed mental health support.

The property owner told the inquest Mr Connor had threatened him with a knife and smashed a plate. Jurors at the inquest heard Mr Connor gave police an address north of the city, but officers released him at Cornbrook Metrolink stop at approximately 1 am on December 28.

Ms Connor explained her brother was meant to have been removed from the flat for breach of the peace and he had been told he would be taken to the address he had given police.

She said Mr Connor was under the impression he was going to the address he’d given the police officers, but instead was “unsafely de-arrested” at the tram station at gone 1 am in the morning with no phone, no money, no bank cards and no way of getting anywhere.

These police should be penalised for treating him so poorly. Their job is to keep us safe. This should be a wake-up call and they should start caring about the citizens they’re employed to protect.

To be sure he was safe, they might have at least called a family member to come get him and stayed with him until they got there.

They arrested him from a residence with no money or phone and dropped him off miles from where he lived.

Dropping someone off miles from where they live with no money or phone is disgusting, and this should have been a fireable crime for these policemen – just criminal negligence.

They might not be a taxi service, but they do have a duty of care.

Jack The Ripper Descendants Seek New Inquest

It is a mystery which has lasted for more than 130 years.

Now the descendants of Jack the Ripper’s victims hope to ultimately confirm the validity of one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of all time.

Following the discovery of information that pointed to Aaron Kosminski as the murderer, they are supporting a court motion for a new inquest into Catherine Eddowes’ death.

The Polish barber, who emigrated to the UK in the 1880s, was a suspect at the time of the five murders in Whitechapel, east London, in 1888.

But he was never arrested because police had no evidence of his involvement – until now.

A bloody shawl said to have been discovered on Ms Eddowes’ body, which was bought at auction in 2007 by author and Ripper investigator Russell Edwards, was subsequently seen to have the DNA of both the victim and Kosminski.

In October, the Mail revealed that Mr Edwards had found new proof of Kosminski’s ties to the highly secret Freemasons which may have encouraged his barbaric slayings and protected him from law enforcement, ensuring he was locked away in an asylum, where he died.

Since there is more information for a coroner to review regarding the circumstances of the death and, most importantly, who was responsible, Mr Edwards has now engaged a legal team to argue for an inquest.

The campaign has been supported by the descendants of both Ms Eddowes and Kosminski, who say it is time to unmask the true killer and get justice for the women involved.

Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, and Mary Jane Kelly were the other four victims.

Karen Miller, 53, who is Ms Eddowes’s three-time great-granddaughter, supplied her DNA, which matched her ancestor’s blood on the shawl.

She said: ‘The name Jack the Ripper has become sensationalised, it has gone down in history as this famous character.

‘It has all been about him, this iconic name, but people have forgotten about the victims who did not have justice at the time.

‘What about the real name of the person who did this? Having the real person legally named in a court which can consider all the evidence would be a form of justice for the victims. 

‘We have got the proof, now we need this inquest to legally name the killer.

‘It would mean a lot to me, to my family, to a lot of people to finally have this crime solved.’

Calls for a new inquest have also been supported by the descendants of the other victims of the Ripper.

Sue Parlour, whose husband Andy is distantly related to Mary Ann Nichols, known as Polly, said: ‘There was no justice for these victims at the time. It was all such a long time ago. 

‘But it would mean a lot to finally be able to name the killer, to get some closure on this.

‘These women have been dismissed as just prostitutes like they did not matter, but they did.’

The action has also received support from Kosminski’s descendants.

His three-times great-niece Amanda Poulos said: ‘I’m more than happy to finally establish what really happened.’ 

When the original inquest was held on October 4, 1888, a verdict of ‘wilful murder’ was returned. But police were still hunting for the serial killer at the time.

According to the legislation, every application for a further inquest to the High Court must be approved by the Attorney General.

Two years ago, Sir Michael Ellis, then the Attorney General, refused permission, saying there was not sufficient new evidence.

But barrister Dr Tim Sampson said that this set ‘a terrible precedent in relation to requests to reopen inquests involving the violent deaths of women and gives the impression that such matters are better brushed under the carpet or simply left to sensationalist reporting, rather than being exposed to dispassionate judicial scrutiny’.

He has written to Attorney General Richard Hermer claiming there is new proof to consider which if it had been available at the time ‘would have been justifiable for the coroner to charge and then seek to have Aaron Kosminski prosecuted for both the murder of Ms Eddowes and the other four victims’.

A judge of the High Court would hear the matter if permission was given.

Nadia Persaud, the coroner for East London, has indicated that she would be willing to preside over any inquest if asked to.

She has previously written to Mr Edwards’ solicitor, saying: ‘I would not oppose your application… it appears to me that a fresh inquest would be unlikely to reach any different outcome, the only new factor being the suggestion that the perpetrator might now be identified.’

Mr Edwards said: ‘A second inquest is the only way of confirming what happened. As we now have identified the true murderer with a wealth of evidence putting the man we named as the Ripper in the frame, we want justice to be served.’

Though I’m sure a lot of individuals will profit greatly from this mystery, justice is justice, and identifying a killer regardless of how old the case is—cold cases are just as essential as new ones.

Murder is not something to be disregarded, although it did happen an extremely long time ago and the perpetrator has long since died, and some people might not see the point of squandering money on this topic. However, the families of the victims out there want to know, and I’m sure a lot of Jack the Ripper aficionados out there want to know as well – I sure do!

More than a century after the incident, a portion of the shawl was purchased for auction. All that time, where had the shawl been? How many hands had touched it during that period, and how do they know it was the victim’s shawl? How can we determine whether the barber they are accusing had sex with the poor woman before the Ripper got hold of her and his DNA was on the shawl?

This just indicates that the shawl was in contact with both the victim and the suspect at some point. It might have happened months before. This doesn’t prove anything because he might have been a former client.

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