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A 66-year-old woman was violently attacked by two thugs who forced their way into her west London home in the middle of the day.Police have arrested one man following the brutal robbery last month, and on Monday named another they want to speak to.Scotland Yard has also released images of the suspects, one of whom has distinctive star tattoos on his head.

Labour is under pressure to say whether it would scrap the Tories' new anti-protest law accused by other opposition parties of being spineless in the face of the chilling crackdown.The Public Order Act has been thrust into the headlines after the arrest of republican campaigners before King Charles III's coronation sparked widespread outrage.

Rishi Sunak has backed the Metropolitan Police amid accusations that the arrests of protesters were a deliberate attempt to disrupt and diminish dissent during the King's coronation.The Prime Minister insisted on Monday that officers act independently of government based on what they think is best after claims they were cracking down at the behest of politicians.

Serial killers could go undetected because the Metropolitan Police does not always carry out even the most basic enquiries, a watchdog has warned in a damning new report.A report triggered by failings that let Grindr murderer Stephen Port go free found that, eight years on, there is still a risk that police would miss links between deaths.

T he Metropolitan Police said the long time it took for the family of a murdered private investigator to hear about documents relevant to the inquiry into his death is regrettable.Daniel Morgan was killed with an axe in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south-east London, on March 10 1987, and a string of unsuccessful investigations into his death have been mired with claims of corruption.

R iot police were sent to clear a group of people out of a former covent in east London on Thursday.The building, on Hardinge Street, Shadwell had been taken over by a group called Autonomous Winter Shelter who said it had been sheltering about 40 homeless people in the building since November 2022.

A detective inspector has been fired from the Met Police after allegedly buying drugs and attending parties where they were being openly taken.DI Warren Arter appeared at a tribunal hearing this week, accused of misconduct carried out while off-duty between 2016 and October 2018.The panel this week heard evidence he had attended gatherings where drugs were present and were openly being taken, and that he had failed to take action or report a man who he knew was providing a woman with drugs in exchange for sex.

Scotland Yard said the three were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.A photo from the scene, shared on Twitter by the Met, appeared to show orange paint - frequently used in protests by the climate activism group - splashed across a garden at the show.Social media users have slammed the stunt as disgusting, and have questioned the group's motive for targeting an event that celebrates plant life.

P olice appeared to handcuff a furious motorist as Just Stop Oil brought three major London bridges to a standstill on Tuesday morning.The man, in orange overalls, is seen in video postsed by the protest group approaching activists on Blackfriars Bridge.He grabs the first protesters he sees hurling him onto the pavement where the victim rolls into a police officer.

Police are investigating after a video posted on social media showed people entering a private home in east London without permission, Scotland Yard said.The force said officers have identified an 18-year-old man who is the main person featured in the video and are trying to trace him so he can be dealt with for a suspected breach of a community protection notice issued last May.

German police looking for Madeleine McCann will begin a major search of a remote Algarve reservoir suspect Christian Brueckner used to visit.A peninsula just over a mile long jutting into the reservoir was sealed off just after midday on Monday.Several local council lorries were spotted on the piece of land as tents and other structures were erected.

I felt that they knew by the time they had taken us to the station in the van that they had the wrong people, said Lauren, 26, a medical writer in the pharmaceutical industry.The post-coronation wash-up over the last fortnight has been marked by an array of surreal stories of bungled arrests, from the republican activists swept up by police for possession of luggage straps to the pro-monarchy Australian architect who had been simply seeking to enjoy a pleasant day out at Westminster Abbey.

F our people have been arrested on suspicious of corporate manslaughter following the death of a worker who fell through a roof near Wembley Stadium.Reza Alipour, 41, died at the scene despite receiving first aid from the emergency services.He had fallen from height while employed at a building owned by a fine art and antique buyer.

S adiq Khan has said he was left speechless after more files linked to the murder of Private Investigator Daniel Morgan were discovered in a locked cabinet at New Scotland Yard despite full disclosure assurances from former commissioner Dame Cressida Dick.The Mayor of London was quizzed about the discovery by Alastair Morgan, who is still seeking justice for his brother Daniel who was killed with an axe in a pub car park in 1987 in a still unsolved murder.

Following safeguarding practices around child strip-searches is vital, the policing minister said, as a report revealing failures was branded deeply concerning.Of the almost 3,000 strip-searches of children by police in recent years, more than half have taken place without an appropriate adult present, research by the Children's Commissioner's office showed.

It comes after the damning Casey review into the Met, relesed on Tuesday, branded it institutionally homophobic.The report highlighted the cases of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor who were killed by Port between June 2014 and September 2015 in east London.Their families have maintained that errors made by Scotland Yard in the case were driven by homophobia, which is denied by the Met.

Ministers have defended the Metropolitan Police operation at the King's coronation after Scotland Yard expressed regret over the arrests of six anti-monarchy protesters.It comes as Republic chief executive Graham Smith said a chief inspector and two other Met officers personally apologised to him over what he called a disgraceful episode.

A Home Office minister said he would assume police have very good reasons to conduct child strip-searches after a report warned of safeguarding failures.Conservative frontbencher Lord Sharpe of Epsom faced groans from peers for his comments made in the House of Lords as he responded to concerns about the use of such powers.

S cotland Yard has expressed regret over the arrests of six anti-monarchy protesters ahead of the King's coronation after being threatened with legal action when no charges were brought.Republic chief executive Graham Smith said a chief inspector and two other Metropolitan Police officers personally apologised to him over what he called a disgraceful episode after they visited him on Monday evening.

A man arrested outside Buckingham Palace on suspicion of possessing a knife and ammunition had asked to speak to a soldier before warning police to handle his rucksack carefully.The suspect was arrested at around 7.15pm on Tuesday when he allegedly began throwing shotgun cartridges over the palace gates.

T he first glimpses of the Coronation have been revealed as rehearsals took place in central London in the early hours of Wednesday morning.Hundreds of soldiers, many on horseback, marched down from Buckingham Palace past Trafalgar Square and Downing Street to Westminster Abbey.The Diamond Jubilee State Coach and Gold State Coach were marched down the Mall as part of the preparations for the full event on May 6.

Royal fanatics have been treated to a first glimpse of the Coronation as rehearsals take place down the Mall.Soldiers dressed in bright yellow and red military uniforms paraded past Buckingham Palace towards Westminster Abbey just after 12.20am on Wednesday.Crowds ran through St James' Park to find the best spots along the Mall with many trying to spot their relatives in their military outfits.

A man is being questioned by police after suspected shotgun cartridges were thrown into the grounds of Buckingham Palace, days before the King's coronation.The suspect was detained at about 7pm on Tuesday after he approached the palace's gates in central London and threw a number of items, the Metropolitan Police said.

A woman stabbed to death in the street was ambushed at random as she returned home after buying a gift for her mother's birthday.Neighbours said the 31-year-old was on the phone to her grandmother who heard a terrible scream during the brutal daylight attack near Brixton's O2 Academy on Bank Holiday Monday.

The Stone of Destiny will return to England for the first time in more than a quarter of a century to play a key part in the coronation ceremony.On its first outing south of the border since it was officially returned to Scotland after 700 years by then prime minister John Major in 1996, it will be transported under tight security following a previous raid before being placed beneath the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey.

T he Met must reform to root out bigotry and other catastrophic failings that have left it rotten and broken because Londoners deserve better, the author of the most damning report in the force's history said on Tuesday.Baroness Casey said it was rapidly losing the permission of Londoners to police them because of its failure to keep out, or root out wrongdoers, its inability to protect women and children, and its withdrawal from frontline policing.