Robert Mendick

London

Chief Reporter at The Telegraph

Chief reporter on The Telegraph and previously of the Evening Standard.

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The new MI6 chief is no diversity hire

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robert Mendick
The new MI6 chief is no diversity hire

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Robert Mendick

If only I was a gambler, I’d have been down the bookies some years ago and putting a whacking great bet on Blaise Metreweli to become the new – and first female – head of MI6. I interviewed her for The Telegraph back in December 2021 when she was on a secondment to MI5, heading up the department that counters the threat posed to the UK by hostile states. It was clear to me five years ago that Blaise – back then I had no idea of her second name – was going all the way.
Police let neo-Nazi who radicalised teenager leave the country

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Patrick Sawer |Robert Mendick

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Police let neo-Nazi who radicalised teenager leave the country

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Patrick Sawer |Robert Mendick

He was also found by a US Supreme Court ruling to be a member of the neo-Nazi group the Arizona Aryan Brotherhood. Derbyshire County Council social workers, who were already involved with Rhianan's care, became concerned that she was being groomed by Mallaburn after he moved into her home in Bolsover. Rhianan complained to them in 2019 that the American had touched her sexually. She had just turned 14. But when police visited the girl at her home she retracted the allegations.
Koran burner told of imminent terror threat to his life

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Patrick Sawer |Robert Mendick

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Koran burner told of imminent terror threat to his life

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Patrick Sawer |Robert Mendick

An asylum seeker who burnt the Koran has received a police warning of an imminent terror plot to murder him, The Telegraph understands. Hamit Coskun was woken by officers acting on behalf of the Metropolitan Police at 2am on Saturday, who told him of "an imminent threat", his lawyers said. The officers, who were from another force at a location where Coskun is in hiding, are understood to have read out what is known as an Osman warning.
Prosecuting man who burned Koran is attempt to revive blasphemy laws, court hears

1 month ago | msn.com | Will Bolton |Robert Mendick

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Prosecuting man who burned Koran is attempt to revive blasphemy laws, court hears

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Will Bolton |Robert Mendick

Ms Thorne argued that the prosecution criminalised any public burning of a religious book and "undermined the criminal justice system". "It is effectively chilling the right of citizens to criticise religion," she said. Blasphemy laws were abolished in England and Wales in 2008 and in Scotland in 2021.
Starmer dragged into Koran-burning court case

1 month ago | msn.com | Robert Mendick

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Starmer dragged into Koran-burning court case

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robert Mendick

Sitting in his safe house, Mr Coskun, a father-of-three, in some ways makes for an unlikely heroic figure. He is diminutive - just 5ft 5in tall - and courageous to the point of madness. He speaks no English, talking through an interpreter via Zoom. It takes him 10 minutes to answer the question: "How old are you?" because of a mix up over his papers at birth. He says he is officially 50 although he looks older. Mr Coskun came to the UK from Turkey two and half years ago to flee persecution.