London’s Metropolitan Police is testing a recruitment policy which will make it a requirement for aspiring police constables to speak another language, in addition to English, in order to be eligible to join the police. The UK Guardian reports that police authorities see this test-run which will last for a month as a means to help the police “engage with London’s diverse communities as effectively as possible.” Yoruba is listed as one of the languages which an aspiring candidate should be able to understand. Other languages include Arabic, Bengali, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Sinhala (Sri Lanka), Spanish, or Turkish. “Whilst our police officers are able to effectively carry out their duties without the ability to speak a second language, a police constable with this skill is an asset in helping both themselves and their colleagues to more effectively engage with the community and deal with everyday policing situations,” said a recruitment update on the website of the Metropolitan Police. According to the statement, aspiring candidates who are unable to “meet our eligibility criteria” would be “unable to submit an application to become a police officer at this stage.” Those without a second language can still apply to be a special constable. Scotland Yard said the pilot would be “evaluated and assessed, but there is no information yet as to whether it will be repeated, or whether things will go back to the way they currently operate”. Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Met commissioner, said: “I am committed to providing a police service which looks and feels more like London. “We know that almost 300 languages are spoken in the capital. We need to recruit and deploy officers with second languages in areas where those languages are spoken. “I believe it will help boost confidence, help solve crime more effectively and support victims and witnesses.” - See more at: http://www.thescoopng.com/london-metropolitan-police-to-hire-constables-who-speak-yoruba/#sthash.sJuxM2OU.dpuf
Tuesday, 14 July 2015 00:00 Written by mirror.co.uk
Jim and Vaughn Cavanagh employ three part-time staff in the East Yorkshire village of North Ferriby - and they say they're devastated.
A hard-working American family have been told they have to leave Britain next month - despite building a booming business.
Jim and Vaughn Cavanagh, originally from New Jersey, moved to the UK with their two daughters in 2008 and have since invested nearly £100,000 in their shop in North Ferriby, East Yorkshire.
But the couple have fallen foul of immigration laws - which are facing a tough crackdown under the Tories - and must leave when their visas run out in August.
They employ three part-time staff at their shop The Krafting Bee, a vintage haberdasher and gift shop, and support other local independent businesses.
Mrs Cavanagh, 50, said: "We are absolutely devastated that it has come to this.
"We have had eight incredibly happy, amazing years in the UK and we really don't want to have to leave.
"Our youngest daughter was only five when we arrived and she is so English in many ways.
"It is going to be hard for both of the girls when we go back - it's something we haven't really come to terms with yet."
The family first came to the UK when Mr Cavanagh, 54, was offered a job at consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser in Hull.
He was made redundant three years later, but daughters Michaela, 16, and 13-year-old Madeline were keen to stay in the country that had become their home.
The couple were granted entrepreneurial visas and opened The Krafting Bee - which sells handmade products from local supplies, helping to support nine other independent businesses.
The store also has a workshop that hosts regular classes in sewing and embroidery.
But last month, an immigration lawyer told the couple that despite supporting local jobs, they did not meet the right criteria to remain in the country.
Mrs Cavanagh said: "We have private health care, private dentistry and the girls go to a private school, so we are not a drain on anybody.
"If anything, we are providing work for people so forcing us to leave means British people will lose more money than they will save.
"With everything we have invested in the community, it is very hard for me to understand why we have to leave."
The couple hope to continue to run their business from the US for as long as possible, but accept it may eventually have to close.
Mrs Cavanagh said: "It is very frustrating that we have to leave, just when the business was starting to thrive.
"I do understand there need to be rules but I really think you should be able to assess individuals and their contributions.
"As long as you keep working, and as long as you support and invest in your community, I think you should be allowed to stay.
"It just doesn't seem fair."
A Home Office spokesman said the rules for the Cavanaghs' visa renewals had not changed, and the couple would have been aware of the criteria they had to meet to remain in the UK.
He said: "We have not received an extension application in relation to this case."
Tuesday, 14 July 2015 00:00 Written by mirror.co.uk
A man has been arrested after using a plug socket on a London Overground train to charge his smartphone.
45-year-old artist Robin Lee plugged his iPhone into the power socket on a train on Friday, July 10 as he was travelling from Hackney Wick to Camden Road.
He was arrested as he got off the train at Camden Road after a police community support officer said he was taking electricity illegally.
"She said I'm abstracting electricity," Mr Lee told the Evening Standard.
"She kept saying it's a crime,” he added, saying that when he got off the train there were already a number of police officers on the platform.
"She called to them and said 'This guy's been abstracting electricity, he needs to be arrested'."
Mr Lee, originally from Hull, East Yorks, told Mirror
"I said 'if it's a crime you need to arrest me and if it's not you need to let me go'," he said.
"I wasn't struggling, I wasn't raising my voice. I told them to make a decision while four of them were in my face."
Mr Lee said he then tried to push past the officers, but was handcuffed and put into a van and taken to the British Transport Police base in Islington - where he was de-arrested.
Mr Lee described the episode as “ridiculous”, saying “they should never have arrested me”.
"Abstracting electricity is something you charge cannabis growers with when they use electricity from a source other than their own home," Mr Lee told Mirror Online.
"I just plugged my iPhone in for 5 minutes on the train."
The British Transport Police said that they were called to a report of "a man becoming aggressive when challenged by a police community support officer about his use of a plug socket on board an Overground train".
“Shortly after 3.30pm, a 45-year-old man from Islington was arrested on suspicion of abstracting electricity, for which he was de-arrested shortly after.
“He was further arrested for unacceptable behaviour and has been reported for this offence.”
So plugging in an iPhone on the train is an offence?
Yes, technically you could be charged (no pun intended) for ‘abstracting electricity’. This means consuming electricity without proper authorisation.
At the more severe end of the scale it’s about bypassing an electricity meter after being cut off, but it can also apply to using electricity from a battery in a torch or from plugging your phone into a socket without permission.
Of course it depends on what kind of socket you are plugging into - if it’s a socket placed obviously by a table on a train, you are invited to use it by the train company. But if you seek out the plug usually only used by cleaners to plug in vacuum cleaners you could be in trouble.
A TfL spokeswoman said that the plugs in question have signs near them saying they are for “cleaners only” and not for public use - although Lee says that there wasn't one on the socket he used.
Mirror Online asked Lee whether he'd be charging his phone on the train again.
"As much as possible. Every time I get on the train it's the first thing I’ll look at doing now," he said.
But then he’s a vicar with a big heart but absolutely no idea how to pay for or execute such a plan.
And that’s the trouble with some liberals – they talk a good humanitarian game.
Wherever there is hardship in the world they say bring the victims here and we’ll take care of them.
But who is this imaginary “we”, this God-like entity of wealth and goodness that can take care of the world’s poor?
Of course, there is no “we” here. There’s just the British taxpayer.
Yes, watching those terrible scenes in Calais has been distressing, but we have to ask why the thousands of (mostly) economic migrants currently flooding there – the number has gone up 20-fold in the last year – don’t want to stay in France and are willing to hang off the undercarriages of lorries to get here.
Simple – it’s because France is tougher on illegals than we are.
We hand out food, shelter, money and medical care. France doesn’t. Which is why they don’t want to stay there.
And why are we still being sold the lie that everyone arriving here illegally is the direct result of our invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and our interference in the bombing of Libya?
People trying to get into Britain illegally via Calais has been happening since 1999. And most of those people are NOT refugees fleeing persecution.
Yes, it’s upsetting to see people risking life and limb to get here because they want a better life.
But there are millions all over the world who yearn for better lives and this little island cannot accommodate them all.
Not when we’re cutting the benefits of people here. Not when people here don’t have enough money for food.
Not when the NHS is at breaking point and when there is a housing shortage.
Yes, we have a moral duty to protect and shelter victims of persecution. But most of the people coming here from Calais aren’t victims of persecution.
They’re young men who just want a better life – a fact confirmed this week by European Council President, Donald Tusk.
The stark and upsetting reality is that while Britain does have a responsibility to help political refugees it’s not our responsibility to give people all over the world better lives at the expense of those who already live here.
We simply cannot afford it.
Trouble is, for many people in poor countries Britain looks like the land of milk and honey.
And currently it is. We turn no-one away once they get here and last year only 750 illegals were deported.
It is the people facilitating this trade in human horror who must be stopped. People trafficking is now a multi-million pound industry and it’s these criminals Europe needs to target.
Because they aren’t just stealing the life savings of desperate people, they are paying motorists and lorry drivers thousands of pounds to bring migrants across the channel.
Andy Burnham: He wants to see border controls in place
It must be made clear to these people that neither Britain nor Europe is a place they can do business. Australia managed to stop them – why can’t we?
It’s also become clear that a Europe without borders isn’t working.
Andy Burnham is right when he says they should be reinstated because the uncontrolled movement of great masses of people is cruel, chaotic and is helping no-one.
So Europe needs to bring back its borders, it needs to get all member states to apply the same rules to migrants so no one country bears the biggest burden, and it needs to use some of the £12billion it allocates for foreign aid to deal with problems of these wretched people.
Last year more than 100 Britons were jailed in France for people smuggling, which is why the numbers entering Britain illegally are now the highest since records began.
And they will continue to grow as long as the criminals exploit the chaos in North Africa.
I’m proud of this country’s humanitarian record but it is being abused by traffickers who don’t differentiate between political refugees and economic ones.
Sunday, 28 June 2015 00:00 Written by mirror.co.uk
The 23-year-old student was described by friends as 'like any other young man' before he started praising jihad and posting extremist messages.
Tunisia beach gunman Seifeddine Rezgui was a break dancing enthusiast who lived his life 'like any other young man' - according to shocked friends and neighbours.
The killer was described as a football-loving young man who started to raise concern as he posted extremist messages on social media and praised jihad.
Rezgui came from the town of Gaafour in the Siliana region, the country's prime minister Habib Essid said yesterday.
In the months before the atrocity, he was based in the Islamic town of Kairouan, 30 miles from Sousse. He had never travelled abroad.
He lived with four other young men also thought to be students, and was studying aviation at the local university – just as Mohammad Atta, the 9/11 leader, did before the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
When they moved into the house in the R'bib Sidi Belgacem district a year ago, neighbours were alarmed by their attitude.
"They didn't even say hello to us," said Salah Korbia, who lives opposite the tiny mosque where they spent much of their time.
"Everyone in the neighbourhood was against them being there," he said.
A Facebook page believed to have belonged to him shows him posting about Real Madrid and the Tunisian national football team.
Rezgui's uncle said he was "just like the other young men" who liked to play football or go to a cafe after praying in the local mosque.
He loved break dancing and entered several competitions in the capital city Tunis and a video has emerged appearing to show him dancing around five years ago.
Just hours before the attack, Rezgui was at home talking with his uncle about his life and studies.
"Everything was perfectly normal," his uncle Ali Bin Muhammad Rezgui said. The distraught 70-year-old said: "He was with me on Thursday. We sat in the garden and he was perfectly normal.
Dancer: Rezgui was said to be a competitive break dancer
"We had no idea what he was planning. We talked about his life and studies. That was the last time I saw him.
"He was a sweet boy when he was younger. He was a breakdancer and loved football. He should have had a long, happy life."
Neighbours suggested the gunman may have been brainwashed.
Monia Riahi, 50, who is a neighbour and family friend, described him as "good, good, good!".
She told the Observer: "I've known him since he was small. He was never in trouble with anyone ever. Maybe he was brainwashed or something."
Rezgui's father, who is a day labourer working on farms or the nearby railway line was taken to the Tunisian capital for police questioning.
Neighbour Ammar Fazai, 64, told the Observer: "I think maybe, just maybe, it was poverty that did it."
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Death: Rezgui was shot dead by security forces following th rampage
A Tunisian Interior Ministry source said that while Rezgui did not have a criminal record, he was known to authorities for ‘low level radicalism’ and was once stopped by police for smoking cannabis.
The source confirmed that Rezgui was an active member of a radical group called Islamic Youth and would go to mosques controlled by radical preachers.
Images have emerged of the the gunman standing barefoot on the beach dressed in a black T-shirt and shorts, with a gun in his hand
Photographs taken after the attack appeared to show Rezgui's body after he was shot by police.
A picture released by Islamic State showed clean-cut Seifedine Rezgui dressed in a crisp white T-shirt wearing an easy smile as he carried off a relaxed pose for the camera.
IS posted on the internet: “Soldier of the Khalifat, Abu Yahya AlQuirawani, may God accept him, a night of the Sousse invasion in the Muslim Tunisia.”
The only clues as to the 23-year-old aviation student’s deadly mission were two Kalashnikovs in the otherwise nondescript background.
Tragic Anaid Tutghushyan leapt to her death after she met up with a man who she had been talking to on social networks.
The 14-year-old, met the man on a dating website where she claimed to be 25.
After the pair began talking through Facebook, Anaid then said she was 17 - but this did not seem to deter the 40-year-old man, identified only as Krystian W.
They allegedly met up a short while later but after doing so, Anaid came home in tears and killed herself the next day.
Shocked passengers waiting at the Gdansk Orunia train station noticed the schoolgirl had been sitting down and crying for around 20 minutes, and then suddenly stood up and after taking off her jacket, jumped in front of an express train heading to Vienna in Austria.
Distraught mum Joanna said: "I thought she had had an argument with her boyfriend.
"I saw that she had tears in her eyes.
"I asked what happened but she had nothing to say, she just started to cry and hugged me.
"I wanted to talk to her, but she wanted to go out.
"She said she would talk when she got back.
"But she never returned.”
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Social networking: Anaid Tutghushyan had been talking to the man through Facebook
Determined to find out why her daughter had taken her own life, Joanna went onto the girl’s Facebook where she discovered the correspondence with Krystian.
She then found he had been chatting up other young girls.
And then during Anaid’s funeral, she heard from a friend that Anaid had been raped.
The friend said that Anaid had phoned her on the day before her suicide saying she had been raped.
She then hung up and didn’t answer when the friend tried calling back.
After finding this out, Anaid’s mum contacted other girls Krystian had been in contact with.
Among the 14 she spoke to, three said he had raped them , four that he had tried to rape them and the rest that he had tried to blackmail them.
The girls all said he operated in the same way by seducing the girls into meeting him with offers of exclusive clubs, expensive cars and yachts.
Police have now confirmed that he is known to them after having twice been accused of raping two 16-year-old girls.
The first accusation was dismissed over the reliability of the victim, the second is under investigation.
They also confirmed that they were looking into the details of the other young women that were provided by the dead girl’s mother.
Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:00 Written by mirror.co.uk
Peek Gaddis is accused of breaking her two-month-old baby son's skull and punching him 'a number of times'
A young mother has been accused of punching her two-month-old baby son in the head, breaking his tiny skull after his crying made it difficult for her to sleep.
Police said Peek Gaddis, 22, from Colerain Township in Ohio, USA, had indicated that she punched the tot a number of times on Wednesday.
In a statement read out in court, police said Gaddis "admitted to becoming frustrated with her son because he was crying and making it difficult for her to sleep."
They added: "Ms. Gaddis admitted to striking her son several times with her fist."
The baby suffered several fractures to his skull, one of which caused bleeding on the brain, which can be fatal, reports Fox19.com.
Gaddis, a nurse's aide, has been charged with second-degree felonious assault and is being held on a $15,000 (£9,600) bond at the Hamilton County Jail.
Hamilton County Judge Ted Barry ordered her to have no contact with the baby and two other children.
Gaddis' case will go before a grand jury for possible indictment on June 22.
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