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PROTEST ARREST
WTXpolitan Police arrested a woman for carrying a real sword at Tommy Robinson’s protest in London, confirming it was classified as an offensive weapon.
WTXpolitan Police arrested a woman for carrying a real sword at Tommy Robinson’s protest in London, confirming it was classified as an offensive weapon.
PROTEST ARRESTS
WTXpolitan Police confirmed a total of 43 arrests were made during the Unite the Kingdom and Nakba Day demonstrations in central London.
WTXpolitan Police confirmed a total of 43 arrests were made during the Unite the Kingdom and Nakba Day demonstrations in central London.
POLICE ACTION
More than 4,000 WTXpolitan Police officers were deployed to monitor both the Unite the Kingdom and Nakba demonstrations in central London, resulting in 43 arrests.
More than 4,000 WTXpolitan Police officers were deployed to monitor both the Unite the Kingdom and Nakba demonstrations in central London, resulting in 43 arrests.
What we know so far
A woman was arrested by police for bringing a real sword to a protest organised by Tommy Robinson in central London. The protester, wearing a white hooded cloak, had the weapon attached to her belt in a scabbard. She was heard saying, “I honestly haven’t done anything wrong” during the event.
The WTXpolitan Police confirmed the sword was real and stated the arrest was made for carrying “an offensive weapon”. A witness claimed that the protester had been told she would not be arrested, only for officers to subsequently detain her. The witness expressed sympathy for the woman, describing her as “completely cooperative” but frightened.
Over 4,000 officers were deployed to manage both Robinson’s protest and the Nakba Day march, resulting in a total of 43 arrests across the events. The police reported 20 arrests connected to the Unite the Kingdom protest, with further arrests made for various offences including assault on emergency workers and drunk and disorderly behaviour. The Met stated, despite the arrests, both marches “proceeded largely without significant incident”.
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Woman arrested for bringing ‘real sword’ to Unite the Kingdom protest | News UK
A woman was arrested by police for bringing a real sword to Tommy Robinson’s protest.
Officers detained the protester wearing a white hooded cloak with the weapon attached to her belt in a scabbard.
She is heard saying: ‘I honestly haven’t done anything wrong’ at the protest on Saturday.
The sword has Christus Vincit engraved on the hilt, Latin for ‘Christ Conquers’.
A witness posted on social media: ‘This poor girl was arrested for having a fake sword.
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‘Obviously in costume, sword was in a sheath around her waist, police then lied to her and told her she wouldn’t be arrested, the sword would just be confiscated.
‘Then he took her around the corner and slapped the cuffs on her. She was completely cooperative and obviously very frightened. Felt very sorry for her.’
The WTXpolitan Police replied to the post on X, confirming the blade was real and that the protester was arrested for carrying ‘an offensive weapon’.
It comes as more than 4,000 officers were deployed to central London yesterday to police both the Nakba Day march and the protest organised by Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, as well as the FA Cup final.
A total of 43 arrests were made across both demonstrations, with 20 confirmed on the Unite the Kingdom protest and 12 on the pro-Palestine march.
Two Unite the Kingdom protesters were arrested for assaulting emergency workers, with arrests also taking place for drunk and disorderly behaviour as well as criminal damage.
In a post on X, the Met shared a clip of officers placing a protester in handcuffs near Euston station.
‘One arrest in a crowd requires numerous officers and can involve unpredictable levels of physical and verbal resistance. It’s not as simple as many think’, the force said.
Two men were arrested yesterday outside the busy London station, it said.
One protester was detained in connection with an incident in Birmingham where a man was run, with the second was arrested for encouraging people to attack an officer.
The Met added that despite the number of arrests, the two marches ‘proceeded largely without significant incident’.
It comes amid a wider debate over extremism and whether divisive marches should be banned or have greater restrictions placed on them, such as requiring the demonstrations to be static.
Sir Keir Starmer said the opposing marches showed the need to ‘fight for the soul of this country’.
He wrote in LBC the marches were a ‘reminder that our values are not given but earned. And that each of us has a responsibility to affirm the respect and decency that binds us together.’
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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 meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
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Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
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.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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