Janet Eastham

3 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Janet Eastham

Julian Foulkes was detained for eight hours, interrogated and ultimately issued with a caution after officers visited his home In November 2023 - JULIAN SIMMONDSA retired special constable is preparing to sue Kent Police after being arrested over a social media post warning about rising anti-Semitism. Julian Foulkes, from Gillingham in Kent, was handcuffed at his home by six officers from the force he had served for a decade after replying to a pro-Palestinian activist on X.

3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Janet Eastham

In the post, Mr Foulkes wrote: "One step away from storming Heathrow looking for Jewish arrivals..."He later said it would have been better had it begun "What next? You are...", but said his meaning was clear regardless. However, on Nov 1, the Metropolitan Police Intelligence Command flagged the tweet to Kent Police, citing "concerns around online content". The post had just 26 views, and had not been reported by the public.

4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Janet Eastham

Pensioner held after criticising pro-Palestinian march and grilled over 'Brexity' books in his homeA retired special constable was arrested and detained over a social media post warning about the threat of anti-Semitism in Britain, The Telegraph can reveal. Julian Foulkes, from Gillingham in Kent, was handcuffed at his home by six officers from Kent Police - the force he had served for a decade - after challenging a supporter of pro-Palestinian marches on X.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Janet Eastham |Gareth Corfield

Outsourcing train cleaners is racist, the RMT rail union has said. The union said that it wanted to end "exploitative" agency hiring on the railways. It said outsourcing trapped thousands of black and minority ethnic staff in insecure jobs without pensions, training or promotion prospects, creating an "effectively segregated" workforce. Outsourcing also lowered service standards across the rail network, the union said, as it called on the Government to bring the agency workers in-house.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Janet Eastham

A new BBC Gaza documentary is facing an "indefinite" delay until a review into a controversial film with links to Hamas has been completed. The programme, provisionally titled Gaza: Medics Under Fire, follows Palestinian doctors and health-care workers in the war zone, and had been due to air in February. However, it was pulled after a previous film on Gaza was found to have been narrated by the son of a Hamas government minister.