Symeon Brown

4 days ago | channel4.com | Symeon Brown

The Government has decided to proscribe the group Palestine Action – saying the UK would not tolerate those who put national security at risk. The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper cited a “long history of unacceptable criminal damage” with members showing “willingness to use violence”. The group say they will seek a legal challenge – describing the move as “unhinged” – while police made 13 arrests during clashes at a protest supporting Palestine Action in central London.

1 week ago | channel4.com | Symeon Brown

A man who attacked officers outside a south Wales police station – while armed with Molotov cocktails, has been jailed for life. Alexander Dighton stabbed one officer and knocked another unconscious, after trying to set fire to a police van during the attack in Rhondda Cynon Taf. The court heard that his sister had reported him to the counter-extremism Prevent programme a year earlier – but he was not considered to be a threat.

1 month ago | channel4.com | Symeon Brown

Two police officers have gone on trial after they used pepper spray and a Taser on a 92-year-old care home resident who had one leg. The officers were responding to a call from the care home in St-Leonards on Sea in East Sussex, after Donald Burgess threatened staff with a knife. Prosecutors claim the officers used “unjustified and unlawful” force against the pensioner. Warning: this report contains distressing images.

1 month ago | channel4.com | Symeon Brown

The TV personality Jackie Adedeji spoke exclusively about the “traumatising” investigation into a police officer she accused of initiating sexual acts on duty. The same officer had also been found guilty of gross misconduct in 2024 for attempting to initiate a romantic relationship with a teenager he had been deployed to assist.

1 month ago | channel4.com | Symeon Brown

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli defence forces will stay on captured land until the hostages are freed and Hamas is defeated. Tens of thousands of army reservists have already been called-up, despite opposition MPs warning that occupying Gaza would “cost us in blood” all while putting the lives of the remaining hostages at even greater risk.