Daniel Sandford
Home Affairs Correspondent at BBC
I am UK/Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still post about Russia/Ukraine.
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Daniel Sandford
Daniel SandfordBBC home affairs correspondentConstance Marten's newborn baby would have been exposed to "substantial climatic cold stress" in the first few days she spent camping on the South Downs in January 2023, a jury has heard. Professor George Havenith, an expert on clothing and cold exposure, told the jury that baby Victoria would have been at a "substantial risk of hypothermia."Marten and the baby's father Mark Gordon are in the middle of a retrial at the Old Bailey in London.
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3 weeks ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Daniel Sandford
Man tried to kill police officer over grudge with authorityA man has admitted trying to kill a police officer in an attack motivated by anti-government ideology, a court has heard. Alexander Dighton, 28, admitted attempted murder with a knife outside a police station in south Wales.
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Daniel Sandford
Daniel SandfordUK correspondentA man who President Vladimir Putin appointed as the Governor of Sevastopol after Crimea was illegally annexed by Russia has gone on trial accused of breaching UK financial sanctions against him. Dmitrii Ovsiannikov is accused of receiving more than £75,000 from his wife Ekaterina Ovsiannikova and a new Mercedes Benz SUV from his brother Alexei Owsjanikow.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Daniel Sandford
A new offence to cover lone individuals planning non-terrorist mass killings should be considered in the wake of the Southport attacks, the UK's terror watchdog has said. However the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, says the definition of terrorism should not be expanded or changed. Last summer, Axel Rudakubana stabbed six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice Aguiar to death at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday class.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Daniel Sandford |Helena Wilkinson
A young baby girl would still be alive today if it were not for the "reckless and ultimately grossly negligent conduct" of her parents, a jury has heard. Constance Marten, 37, and Mark Gordon, 50, deny manslaughter by gross negligence and causing or allowing the death of a child. They are facing a retrial at the Old Bailey. The couple's baby was found dead in a shopping bag covered in rubbish in 2023.
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Man admits attempting to murder a police officer in "anti-government" attack in South Wales https://t.co/Phc2T4E1iT
As the EU recommends all households having a 3-day emergency survival kit, a reminder that this is also the UK government recommendation (UK suggestion is "several days"). This is for floods/power blackouts etc https://t.co/j2ZpvF2GBQ
Former Putin-appointed Governor of Sevastopol Dmitrii Ovsiannikov (Дмитрий Овсянников) on trial for breaching UK sanctions. The case involves £76,000, a Mercedes Benz SUV, and private UK school fees. https://t.co/SvRXQHKDbj
