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Get you up to speed: CCTV released as cops launch manhunt after year-long sexual assault spree | News UK
Police are investigating a series of alleged sexual assaults in Nottingham city centre, believed to involve the same suspect responsible for multiple attacks between 2025 and 2026. Detectives have released CCTV footage of a man they wish to speak to, while no further incidents have been reported since September.
Detectives are pursuing leads following multiple reported assaults in Nottingham’s Arboretum area from 2025 to 2026. Nottinghamshire Police have intensified their search efforts, including plain-clothed patrols and further community inquiries, but no new incidents have been reported since September.
Nottinghamshire Police have launched a manhunt for a suspect linked to a series of alleged sexual assaults in the Arboretum area, and Detective Chief Inspector Ruby Burrow has emphasised their ongoing commitment to catch the individual responsible. Authorities are encouraging the public to view the released CCTV footage, urging anyone with information to come forward as the investigation continues.
What remains unclear — The exact number of assaults attributed to the suspect has not been confirmed by the police.
CCTV released as police search for man linked to sexual assaults in Nottingham
Police have released CCTV as they hunt for a man following a series of alleged sexual assaults in Nottingham city centre.
Detectives believe the same suspect may be responsible for a number of attacks in the Arboretum area between 2025 and 2026.
Two women have reported being assaulted, while two members of the public have also contacted police with information about alleged incidents.
Investigators have since identified a further five potential assaults.
Nottinghamshire Police has now released CCTV footage of a man officers want to speak to as part of their investigation.
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Detective Chief Inspector Ruby Burrow said: ‘These were frightening attacks on women and whilst we are keeping an open mind, we currently believe the same man is responsible.
‘We have carried out extensive lines of inquiry, including comprehensive CCTV trawls to locate the individual and house-to-house inquiries.
‘We have also had plain-clothed patrols in the area at key times so that we can catch him when he least expects it.’
Police said no further incidents have been reported since September, but officers remain determined to identify the person responsible.
DCI Burrow added: ‘Thankfully no other incidents have been reported to us since September.
‘However, our determination remains the same as the first day we received these reports and we won’t stop until the person responsible is in our custody.
‘We would urge the public to please view this footage. Do you know the man in the footage? Are you the man in the footage? Please get in touch with us as soon as possible.’
She added: ‘We know incidents like this can be alarming to the public, but rest assured we are doing everything we can to ensure the person responsible is caught.’
Anyone with information is being urged to contact Nottinghamshire Police.
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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.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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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