Dorset Police – World Justice News

Woman, 60, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three people found dead at care home

October 24, 2024 World Justice News 0

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three people were found dead at a care home in Swanage. Dorset Police said it had arrested the 60-year-old woman on Wednesday “to enable us […]

Bournemouth: Girl, 12, and boy, 17, die and eight treated after incident off beach

June 1, 2023 World Justice News 0

A 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy have died after being pulled from the sea off Bournemouth Pier. Eight other people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries after emergency services were called at 16:32 BST on […]

Man accused of raping 15-year-old girl in sea on summer day at Bournemouth beach

May 26, 2023 World Justice News 0

A 19-year-old man has been charged by police with the alleged rape of a schoolgirl in the sea on a busy summer day at a popular beach resort. Dorset Police received a report that a […]

Serving Dorset Police officer charged with rape and other sexual offences

January 30, 2023 World Justice News 0

A serving officer with Dorset Police has been charged with eight sexual offences, including two charges of rape. Constable Ravi Canhye, 46, will appear at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Friday following the charges. The rape […]

Claire Parry death: PC Timothy Brehmer cleared of murder

October 27, 2020 World Justice News 0

A police officer who strangled his long-term lover after she exposed their affair to his wife has been cleared of murder. Timothy Brehmer, a constable with Dorset Police, killed nurse Claire Parry, 41, in a […]

Dozens arrested in ‘courier fraud’ crackdown

February 5, 2020 World Justice News 0

By Danny Shaw – BBC Home affairs correspondent. More than 40 people have been arrested in a crackdown on courier fraud across England and Wales. Police say more than 3,000 people, most of them elderly, have been […]

Bournemouth police officer ‘accidentally shot driver in car stop’

December 20, 2019 World Justice News 0

An armed police officer accidentally shot a driver in the arm while trying stop his car, a police watchdog report has concluded. Officers stopped the Mercedes car in Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, on 7 August […]

Emiliano Sala: Manslaughter arrest over footballer’s death

June 19, 2019 World Justice News 0

A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in relation to the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala who died in a plane crash. The striker, who had signed with Cardiff City, was killed […]

Canada

Canadian ‘online poison seller’ Kenneth Law to have ‘murder charges dropped in plea deal’

April 19, 2026 0

A Canadian chef accused of supplying deadly substances to people around the world who have taken their own lives will have murder charges dropped as part of a plea deal, his lawyer has said. Kenneth […]

Australia

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier charged over alleged war crimes

April 7, 2026 0

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier has been charged over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith – who left the defence force in 2013 – was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and will […]

Human Rights

‘The gravest crime against humanity’: What does the UN vote on slavery mean?

March 28, 2026 0

The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity”. Welcoming the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the wealth of many Western […]