Jason Farrell

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Jason Farrell

At a midnight briefing in Kentish Town police station in north London, officers are shown a photograph of Danny Downes, a large white man with a wispy beard, who has been linked to a shooting in the area. Swabs on a bullet casing found at the scene have come back with a match to his DNA. Intelligence suggests he keeps the gun at home. In the room are MO19 officers, colleagues of Martyn Blake, the firearms officer who was charged with murder after opening fire on the job.

2 months ago | news.sky.com | Jason Farrell

A new report has found more children than ever are not in school, with the number of lost days of learning up nearly 70% in five years. It is the most vulnerable children who skip school, are excluded, or simply disappear from education. The analysis found that children lost 6.8 million days of learning in the autumn term before the COVID pandemic (2019/20) due to suspensions and absences, but the figure was 11.5 million days in the same period in 2023/24.

2 months ago | news.sky.com | Jason Farrell

This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of their sentences, there is a cohort of the prison population who have served extended sentences, years beyond their minimum term. IPP sentences (imprisonment for public protection) were introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012.

2 months ago | msn.com | Jason Farrell

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Mar 7, 2025 | msn.com | Jason Farrell

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