The Metro – ‘Doubly jabbly’
Summary of Today's Paper
The Metro – ‘Doubly jabbly’
“Doubly jabbly” is the Metro’s headline as the paper considers two benefits of being fully vaccinated. As well as travellers from the EU and US being able to avoid quarantine in Britain, the paper says workers who have had both jabs will soon be exempt from isolation or testing requirements if they come into contact with a confirmed Covid-19 case.
Today's Headlines
Fed up Londoners threaten ‘pickpocketer’ after he is caught in busy Tube station
This is the moment fed-up commuters helped undercover police officers catch an alleged pick-pocketer on the London Underground. Footage shows a man being arrested on suspicion of pickpocketing as angry Londoners shout on the Northern Line platform at Leicester Square station. A plain-clothed police officers can be soon pushing the suspect against a wall. One woman in a white coat shouts: ‘I want to punch you. No one cares.’ She can be heard shouting to
Met Police officer admits killing moped rider after driving through red light
A Metropolitan Police officer has admitted causing death by careless driving after knocking a rider off his moped. Constable Ian Brotherton was driving at 47mph in a 30mph zone in Enfield, north London, in October 2023 as he responded to an emergency call with the car’s lights and sirens on. He drove through a red light in Southbury Road and collided with 26-year-old moped rider Cristopher De Carvalho Guedes, who was turning right into Baird
Sara Sharif’s killer dad ‘sliced with tuna can lid by Sarah Mayhew’s murderer’
One of the prisoners behind the savage attack with a tuna can lid on Sara Sharif’s father has been unmasked as the killer of Sarah Mayhew, it has been alleged. Urfan Sharif, who is serving a life sentence in the high-security prison HMP Belmarsh for the murder of the little girl, was battered and sliced by fellow inmates in a cell on New Year’s Day. Sharif reportedly suffered cuts to his face, and it is
Man charged with helping Iran spy Daniel Khalife escape from prison
A man has been charged with helping Daniel Khalife, the former British army soldier who passed secrets to Iran, after his escape from prison. Imran Chowdury 25, allegedly assisted the inmate after he broke out from HMP Wandsworth in south London. Khalife bolted for freedom by strapping himself to the underside of a food delivery truck in September 2023. At the time, he had been placed in the jail on remand after being arrested for spending
Prison officer who had sex with inmate in cell sentenced to 15 months
A prison officer who was filmed having sex with an inmate in his cell has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. Footage of Linda De Sousa Abreu and prisoner Linton Weirich at HMP Wandsworth in south London was widely shared on social media last summer. The video shows the pair having sex while De Sousa Abreu’s radio crackles with messages in the background. Weirich’s cellmate filmed the liaison on his phone, and can be
Shoppers flee in panic as youths raid busy Apple Store
A group of youths caused chaos as they raided a busy Apple store in the middle of the day on Sunday. Video footage shows a security guard shove one person away from the shop door as at least seven others, dressed in black, storm in. Panic then spread through shopped already inside the tech store in Brent Cross shopping centre, north London. As the robbers plucked electronic devices off tables, parents with children fled outside.
