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4 days ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales has contributed to soaring reoffending rates, with staff too overburdened to help offenders prepare for life on the outside. A new inspection report shows the Prison and Probation Service has made “limited progress” on its rehabilitation strategy. Ex-offenders say the system is broken, but there is a way out. Ria Chatterjee has this report, which contains distressing details, including details of child abuse.
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5 days ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
The singer Marlon Williams has been headlining concerts around the world for more than a decade. His new album is just the latest to top the charts in his native New Zealand. But it marks a radical departure: it’s the first sung entirely in his Indigenous tongue, Maori. And it was the culmination of a five year journey to reconnect with his roots – a process charted in a new documentary.
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1 week ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Police have arrested eight men including several Iranian nationals in two separate anti-terrorism operations in England in the last 24 hours. Police say hundreds of officers across the country are investigating what Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called a threat to national security.
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1 week ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
At least 40 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza in the last 24 hours. Israel’s aid blockade has also entered its third month, with the UN’s World Food Programme saying stockpiles have run out, leaving much of the population facing starvation. Warning: there are distressing images in this report.
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3 weeks ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
The Indian government has vowed to bring those behind yesterday’s attack on tourists in Indian administered Kashmir to justice. A little known group claimed responsibility for killing 26 people in the attack. India indicated it holds Pakistan partially responsible – expelling diplomats and closing the main border crossing. Kashmir, which has a muslim majority, is divided into areas administered by India and Pakistan.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
The family of a Brazilian man who was mistakenly shot dead by police in a London tube station say they hope a new television drama about his death will “show the world the truth”. 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes was shot by two police marksmen in Stockwell station in July 2005 – after they mistook him for a terror suspect. The four part docudrama on Disney+ looks at the events surrounding his death.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
The drugging and mass rape of Gisele Pelicot by her husband – inside her own home – shocked not only France, but the entire world. The UK Government said it was ‘highly likely’ that similar crimes were being committed here. Campaigners have told this programme a lack of comprehensive data on spiking means the scale of the problem could be vastly under-estimated, as well as under-reported.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
At a high court hearing in India today, Justice Sachin Datta described the Delhi Police investigation into the murder of Harshita Brella as “showing utter incompetence.”In the heart of New Delhi, a short walk from India Gate, Ms Brella’s sister – Sonia Dabas – and her father, Satbir Brella, find themselves at the Delhi High Court for a second time since January. “I have no option but to be hopeful. There is no power in my hands. I can’t interfere with the judicial system,” said Dabas.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Following our report last night, there have been further developments in the case of Harshita Brella, whose body was found in the boot of a car in London four months ago. The prime suspect, her husband Pankaj Lamba, fled to India. Today, police in Delhi issued a wanted notice for him. Harshita’s family has told Channel 4 News this should have happened much sooner. The police also confirmed they have arrested his parents and said his sister has gone on the run.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Channel 4 News reports exclusively from South Delhi, unveiling new details in the case of Harshita Brella, alleged to have been murdered by her husband Pankaj Lamba in Corby four months ago. The team shed new light on Pankaj Lamba’s movements in the days following Harshita’s death, after Northamptonshire Police named him as the main suspect in the case.
