The Met – a rotten and corrupt institution

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A trainee detective attached to the Camden and Islington section of the Metropolitan Police was dismissed in April after a conviction for sexual assault. He groped a female colleague in December 2021 when off duty in a bar.

Earlier a woman came forward to say that she had been raped by a serving police officer in the Central North unit which covers Camden and Islington. The officer, Ireland Murdock, later looked up her details on a restricted police computer system. He was sacked in July 2022 and found guilty of rape in early April.

These cases follow the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard  by serving police officer Wayne Couzens and the revelation that serving firearms officer David Carrick had committed a huge number of sexual offences, 49 offences including 24 rapes, making him one of the UK’s most prolific sexual predators.

Another officer, Adam Provan, faces charges of 8 counts of rapes against two women, one of them a police officer herself, and the other a 16-year old.

Another former Met officer, Giles Kitchener, told a deliberate lie, a High Court judge concluded, after he gave evidence on racist assaults by the Territorial Support Group. He then joined the City of London police. He was sacked for a “joke” about the murder of Sarah Everard and other counts of gross misconduct including homophobic and misogynistic comments. He circulated an image of a cop killing a woman on WhatsApp. He was also seen drinking beer at a police station before taking charge of a domestic violence case.

Another former Met cop, Sgt. Luke Thomas posted foul messages on a WhatsApp account, abusing Chinese people and travellers, Arabs and disabled people. He spoke sympathetically about Nazis and child killers, and stated that another cop who had got away with rape was “a legend in my eyes”. Seven other cops in a safer neighbourhoods team in Bexleyheath were involved in these abusive comments, including posting offensive videos of disabled people.

In January Chief Inspector Richard Watkinson killed himself after being charged with conspiracy to distribute or show indecent images of children, three counts of making indecent photos of a child, voyeurism and two counts of  misconduct in public office. Two other former cops were also charged with similar offences related to the Watkinson case.

Hussain Chehab, a Safer Schools officer, was jailed for five years in March  over a series of child sex offences. He committed these offences before he joined the Met.

The Met was forced to announce  that a total of 1,633 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving 1,071 officers and other staff are also being assessed from the last ten years to ensure suitable judgements were made.

Another serving Met officer was convicted of being a member of a neo-Nazi group.

Met Means Murder! Met Means Rape!

A trainee detective attached to the Camden and Islington section of the Metropolitan Police was dismissed in April after a conviction for sexual assault. He groped a female colleague in December 2021 when off duty in a bar.

Earlier a woman came forward to say that she had been raped by a serving police officer in the Central North unit which covers Camden and Islington. The officer, Ireland Murdock, later looked up her details on a restricted police computer system. He was sacked in July 2022 and found guilty of rape in early April.

These cases follow the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard  by serving police officer Wayne Couzens and the revelation that serving firearms officer David Carrick had committed a huge number of sexual offences, 49 offences including 24 rapes, making him one of the UK’s most prolific sexual predators.

Another officer, Adam Provan, faces charges of 8 counts of rapes against two women, one of them a police officer herself, and the other a 16-year old.

Another former Met officer, Giles Kitchener, told a deliberate lie, a High Court judge concluded, after he gave evidence on racist assaults by the Territorial Support Group. He then joined the City of London police. He was sacked for a “joke” about the murder of Sarah Everard and other counts of gross misconduct including homophobic and misogynistic comments. He circulated an image of a cop killing a woman on WhatsApp. He was also seen drinking beer at a police station before taking charge of a domestic violence case.

Another former Met cop, Sgt. Luke Thomas posted foul messages on a WhatsApp account, abusing Chinese people and travellers, Arabs and disabled people. He spoke sympathetically about Nazis and child killers, and stated that another cop who had got away with rape was “a legend in my eyes”. Seven other cops in a safer neighbourhoods team in Bexleyheath were involved in these abusive comments, including posting offensive videos of disabled people.

In January Chief Inspector Richard Watkinson killed himself after being charged with conspiracy to distribute or show indecent images of children, three counts of making indecent photos of a child, voyeurism and two counts of  misconduct in public office. Two other former cops were also charged with similar offences related to the Watkinson case.

Hussain Chehab, aSafer Schools officer, was jailed for five years in March  over a series of child sex offences. He committed these offences before he joined the Met.

The Met was forced to announce  that a total of 1,633 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving 1,071 officers and other staff are also being assessed from the last ten years to ensure suitable judgements were made.

Another serving Met officer was convicted of being a member of a neo-Nazi group.

Met Means Murder! Met Means Rape!

‘Floating Prisons’: The 200-year-old family business behind the Bibby Stockholm

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Bibby Line Group Limited is a UK company offering financial, marine and construction services to clients in at least 16 countries around the world. It recently made headlines after the government announced one of the firm’s vessels, Bibby Stockholm, would be used to accommodate asylum seekers on the Dorset coast.

In tandem with plans to house migrants at surplus military sites, the move was heralded by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman as a way of mitigating the £6m-a-day cost of hotel accommodation amid the massive ongoing backlog of asylum claims, as well as deterring refugees from making the dangerous channel crossing to the UK. Several protests have been organised against the project already, while over ninety migrants’ rights groups and hundreds of individual campaigners have signed an open letter to the Home Secretary calling for the plans to be scrapped, describing the barge as a “floating prison.”

Corporate Watch has researched into the Bibby Line Group’s operations and financial interests. We found that:

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Africans Rise Up Against IMF-Imposed Neocolonial Debt

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As anger over incoming tax hikes boils over in Kenya, African Stream takes a deep dive into the role the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played in ramming austerity down Africans’ throats. It boils down to neocolonial debt slavery, a system designed to oppress Africans, while oiling the wheels of otherwise faltering Western economies. African Stream’s Kenneth Kaigua breaks down this complex issue.

Amazon workers strike

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Amazon workers at the Coventry warehouse strike voted for a further 6 months of strike action recently. This came on the 19th day of strike action already taken. 99% of workers taking part in the ballot favoured strike action. However, strike ballots at two other Amazon warehouses at Mansfield and Rugeley failed to meet the required threshold, thwarting the chances of united strike action.

The GMB union of which the Amazon workers are members, withdrew an application for trade union recognition after Amazon bosses took on an extra 1,000 workers in a dirty tricks ploy. This was to sabotage the GMB’s efforts to show it had majority support among Amazon workers at Coventry, with 800 members. The Central Arbitration Committee(CAC) which grants union recognition, accepted Amazon’s claims that 2,700 workers were employed at Coventry.

Despite this, the strike is having an effect on Amazon. It was…

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Pictures: Campaigners gather outside Supreme Court for landmark legal challenge

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Campaigners against oil extraction at Horse Hill outside the Supreme Court, 21 June 2022. Photo: DrillOrDrop

Opponents of oil production at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey gathered outside the Supreme Court this morning for the start of a legal challenge that will have major implications for new fossil fuel projects.

The case, brought by campaigner, Sarah Finch, seeks to overturn a ruling at the Court of Appeal that Surrey County Council acted lawfully when it granted planning permission for oil production at Horse Hill.

Ms Finch argues that the council should have taken account of the climate impact of burning the oil. The council has argued that it needed to consider only the greenhouse gas emissions from the production process.

If the case succeeds, it could challenge whether the government was right to approve the new Cumbrian coal mine, which did not assess the emissions from burning coal.

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