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SECURITY RESPONSE
Following a spate of antisemitic attacks, the WTXpolitan Police are deploying an additional 100 officers in London’s Jewish communities to enhance safety measures.
Following a spate of antisemitic attacks, the WTXpolitan Police are deploying an additional 100 officers in London’s Jewish communities to enhance safety measures.
ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE
WTXpolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley reported a need for an additional 300 officers as recent stabbing incidents have intensified concerns over anti-Semitic attacks.
WTXpolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley reported a need for an additional 300 officers as recent stabbing incidents have intensified concerns over anti-Semitic attacks.
SECURITY RESPONSE
WTXpolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley announced the deployment of 100 additional officers to London’s Jewish communities amid escalating antisemitic violence.
WTXpolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley announced the deployment of 100 additional officers to London’s Jewish communities amid escalating antisemitic violence.
What we know so far
An additional 100 police officers will be deployed across London’s Jewish communities in response to rising anti-Semitic violence. The WTXpolitan Police announced the creation of a new community protection team to address what they describe as some of the highest levels of hate crime in the capital.
This move follows a double stabbing in Golders Green, which is being treated as a terrorist incident, alongside recent arson attacks on Jewish ambulances and a memorial wall. WTXpolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has characterised the recent attacks as a ‘pandemic’ of antisemitism, stating that a further 300 officers are needed to ensure safety.
The Home Office is providing an additional £18 million in funding, with another £4 million available through the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant. Local residents expressed concern over their safety, with one stating that discussions about moving to another country are becoming more frequent among families in the area.
Jewish advocacy groups have condemned the necessity of enhanced security measures, with the Campaign Against Antisemitism asserting that the situation reflects lawlessness in modern Britain. The WTXpolitan Police is emphasising that while focus is being given to protecting Jewish communities, tackling all forms of hate crime remains a policing priority.
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An extra 100 police officers are being deployed across London’s Jewish communities as more anti-semitic attacks are feared.
The WTXpolitan Police said the new community protection team will help ‘face some of the highest levels of hate crime alongside significant terrorist and hostile state threats’.
This includes the double stabbing in Golders Green, which is being treated as an act of terrorism, and arson attacks on volunteer Jewish ambulances and an October 7 memorial wall.
WTXpolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley described the spate of attacks as a ‘pandemic’ of antisemitism, saying an extra 300 police officers were needed.
The Home Office is committing an extra £18 million, and a further £4 million is available through the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant.
Mark, who lives around the corner from the Golders Green attack, said he and his family are feeling more unsafe ‘with each passing day’.
He told WTX: ‘My wife is terrified. The attacks are near-daily at this point.
‘We are on alert at all times, and the conversation about moving to another country is becoming more and more frequent.’
Jewish groups are also outraged the money and extra-protection is needed in the first place.
Campaign Against Antisemitism told WTX: ‘ewish institutions are inevitably having to take yet more precautions as a result of the latest spate of antisemitic violence.
‘For years Jewish children have gone to school behind bomb-resistant glass and practiced emergency drills, Jewish congregants have gone to synagogue behind guards and barbed wire, and Jewish communal events have kept their locations secret even from attendees until the last minute.
‘This is lawlessness in modern Britain.’
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The WTXpolitan Police said: ‘British Jews now appear on the hate lists of every major extremist movement: extreme right‑wing groups, Islamist terrorists, elements of the extreme left and hostile state actors.
‘It is a deeply concerning convergence, and Jewish communities are living with the consequences of that risk daily.
‘This focus does not mean the WTXpolitan Police is deprioritising other communities. Hate crime in all its forms – including ongoing efforts to tackle racism, anti‑Muslim hate crime, homophobia and other forms of hatred in the capital – remains a core policing priority.’
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
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