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More than 1,600 arrested in ‘county lines’ drugs crackdown across England and Wales

December 6, 2024 World Justice News 0

More than 1,600 people have been arrested in a county lines crackdown. The policing minister joined an early hours raid in southeast London as forces across England and Wales took part in the “intensification week”. […]

More than 1,600 arrested in police blitz on UK county lines drug dealers

October 20, 2023 World Justice News 0

Police have arrested more than 1,600 suspects across the country in a blitz on county lines drug dealers. For a week investigators targeted city gangs who exploit vulnerable youngsters to distribute drugs in towns and villages. Police […]

Police arrest 13 over UK’s ‘biggest drug conspiracy’

October 8, 2019 World Justice News 0

Police investigating what they say is the UK’s biggest ever drugs conspiracy have arrested 13 men in dawn raids. The arrests follow a National Crime Agency investigation tracking drugs allegedly smuggled into the UK in lorry loads […]

Police arrest 586 people in county lines crackdown

May 21, 2019 World Justice News 0

Nearly 600 suspected members of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested across the UK in the past week, the National Crime Agency has said. Police forces led by the National County Lines Coordination Centre […]

Human Rights

Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]

Human Rights

Christa Pike set to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years still alive after two lethal injections

October 1, 2026 0

A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyers have said. […]

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Killer Christa Pike is to be executed within days – but her defence say she’s a victim too

September 27, 2026 0

Ashlee Sellars last heard from her friend Christa Pike earlier this week, when Pike texted her from her cell on death row as she prepares to be killed by lethal injection by the US state […]