Martin Brunt
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Sky News Crime Correspondent on the hunt for news stories and a little levity on a grim beat. New book available: https://t.co/ImVc4rz19c
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Joined November 2009
#Madeleine Home Office ministers have approved £150,000 continued funding for Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
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Pros: PC Harper left with most awful injuries from which he died. Uniform stripped from his body. He died totally naked apart from socks and boots. A completely senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty.
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#Assange Judge: I reject argument you were living in prison conditions. Difficult to imagine more serious example of this offence. Sentence 50 weeks.
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#Coronation Supporters of anti-monarchy group Republic apparently arrested on their way to designated protest site at Trafalgar Square.
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#Madeleine Home Office approves another six months of funding - around £150,000 - for Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The probe has cost more than £11m so far.
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Pros: Another motorist thought there was a bloodied deer attached to the car. PC Harper was barely alive when he became untangled but died soon after where he lay. Fellow officers tried desperately to save him.
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#Assange Def: His asylum was granted by Ecuador and UN said it was wrong of Sweden and UK not to recognise it.
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#Assange Def: He and his lawyers very much alive to risk of rendition from Sweden to US. Sweden had surrendered two suspects to Egypt, “a country well known to practise torture with the assistance of US.
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#EvertonFC Police have scrapped an investigation into child sex allegations against a former Everton footballer. The player was arrested by Greater Manchester Police two years ago. The club confirmed at the time it had suspended the player pending the outcome.
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Pros: Two officers responded to report of theft of a quad bike from private house. The three defendants admit conspiracy to steal the bike. Two officers had finished shift, but they responded because they thought they could help and were close by.
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#PCYvonneFletcher #Justice 40 years on, supports remember the officer shot dead from within the Libyan embassy as she policed anti-Gaddafi protest. Campaigners say they are close to launching a private prosecution of a suspect, a former Libyan minister.
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#diamondrobbery A sign of the anger among jewellers who were victims of the heist. http://t.co/26NtNSyZFI.
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At Old Bailey for trial in the alleged murder of PC Andrew Harper. Henry Long, 18, and two 17-year-old boys who can’t be named because of their age, deny murder. Long admits manslaughter. All admit stealing a quad bike on the night PC Harper died in Aug.
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RIP Leonard Cohen. We bumped into him in a Manchester street. If I was ever going to lose my wife to a much older man, that was the moment.
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#Assange A few supporters at court for the sentencing of Julian Assange for jumping bail in 2012 during Swedish extradition process.
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How police could have avoided dreadful invasion of Nicola Bulley's privacy
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#CarlBeech Proctor: I have icy contempt for Carl Beech. The allegations he made were the worst that can be made, murder torture and sex abuse of children. I find it extraordinary that an institution I once held in high regard allowed itself to believe such false allegations.
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#Assange Def: He has stayed in Sweden initially to be interviewed by police and left only when he was told he could do so. He offered to return for more questioning.
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#IOPC Home Sec on IOPC resignation: “I took immediate action upon being made aware that Mr Lockwood was the subject of a police investigation into an historic allegation, and instructed my officials to ask him to resign or face immediate suspension from his role.”.
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Pros: Three defendants arrested later that night at a travellers caravan site from where they had set off for their crime and returned to it. Long told police brazen lies. Two teenagers made no comment.
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Nicola Bulley police seal off all roads close to where mum went missing
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#Heathrow 300 staff at airline lounge services company Sodexo have airside security passes suspended over police investigation.
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#Assange Def says he apologises for those who think he has disrespected them in the way he has pursued his case. Letter handed to judge.
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#NicolaBulley A thoughtful touch: everything anyone needs to attach a message of hope for Nicola Bulley
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#YvonneFletcher #NoOrdinaryDay #JohnMurray #MattJohnson #TrueCrime The scandalous story of a police officer’s murder and 40 years of no justice was the big winner at the True Crime awards
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#terror Off-duty Met cop stabbed and seriously wounded as he tackled terrorists in Borough Market. Two more also injured in confrontation.
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Nicola Bulley: Family friend says it 'may be time to start looking down other avenues' as search for missing mum continues
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#Assange Def: He feared being kidnapped wherever he was in the world and taken to US, renditioned. There were calls for his execution and assassination.
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Pros: Driver Long knee full well that PC Harper was entangled in the strap. He drove along narrow country lane at average 42.5 mph speed, leaving behind snaking trail of apparent tyre marks, a radio and scuff marks, blood and body matter on road surface.
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Pros: You will have to hear about his absolutely catastrophic, unsurvivable injuries but you will be relieved to hear there is no need to see photographs.
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#Prince RIP legend, mentor and friend Jimmy Nicholson, aka the Prince of Darkness, doyen of crime reporters.
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#AdamJohnson Footballer runs into court with minders and fails to give our camera the slip. Awaiting jail sentence.
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#southernrail Latest from our guard: “Don’t worry, I don’t want to see your tickets. Not the way this lot have performed tonight.”.
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#adamjohnson 2 things the jury didn't hear: Johnson searched the Internet for teen sex sites - and had extreme porn involving animals.
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Pros: you can see one defendant trying to get into the rear door. He’s wearing a hood or balaclava and then car moves off marooning him. Quadbike is rolling forward behind the car. PC Harper’s widow Lissie and his brother have left court.
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#policing Struggling Met police ask ex-detectives to go back to work, citing "urgent skills in high demand."
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#Assange Def: He was always available to be questioned by Swedish authorities while in the embassy.
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#PistoriusTrial Judge now has to announce if it's second-degree murder, culpable homicide (manslaughter) or acquittal, plus gun charges.
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Nicola Bulley: Divers searching river and helicopter circling near where mum of two went missing
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#CarlBeech Outside court ahead of sentence Daniel Janner QC, son of late Lord Janner who was one of those Beech falsely accused, attacked Labour deputy leader Tom Watson who promoted Beech’s claims: “Watson should hang his head in shame, apologise and resign”.
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#southernrail Guard announcement on my delayed train: “Sorry, very embarrassing, staff get told nothing, plse complain, put it on Twitter”.
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#Assange Def: In Nove 2014 Swedish Court of Appeal said Swedish prosecution was wrong over an impasse in the investigation. Later he was interviewed in Ecuadorian embassy and Swedish case was dropped shortly after that.
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#Assange Def: Sweden had record for extraditing suspects to countries that practised torture.
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#MadeleineMcCann Home Office has approved another year’s funding - £300,000 - for the Scotland Yard investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
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Pros: If Long and his friends had no idea Andrew was entangled in the strap why was there a need to drive so recklessly? It’s ludicrous idea that teenager did not tell the other two that a policeman had got within feet of him before he jumped In the car.
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.@LucyLovesMJ Questioning the McCanns doesn't make you a troll. Being abusive, malicious, threatening etc does #AskBrunt.
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#WayneCouzens #AngioliniReport #SarahEverard Family: “We no longer wait for her call; we no longer expect to see her. We know she won't be there at family gatherings. But the desperate longing to have her with us remains and the loss of Sarah pervades every part of our lives.”.
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#Assange Defence: Threats rained on him from the US and dominated his thoughts, even before he was arrested in UK on Swedish extradition warrant.
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#CarlBeech Daniel Janner’s voice breaks as he reads impact statement: reading Beech’s allegations made me physically sick. They are corrosive and lie on the Internet while ignorant people say there’s no smoke without fire. My father never harmed anyone in his life.
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#NicolaBulley Lancs Police: update: Nicola had suffered significant issues with alcohol brought on by ongoing struggles with menopause and struggles had resurfaced over recent months.
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Pros: Police did huge work on investigation, including tracing witnesses and analysing vast amounts of phone data to see where defendants went. Vast amounts of cctv too. Jurors will see various clips.
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PistoriusTrial Judge says the fact the person behind the door was Reeva and not the intruder OP thought it was is irrelevant.
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#Pistorius Murdered Reeva's dad Barry Steenkamp is about to appear as the first prosecution witness.
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#CarlBeech Pros: Beech had debts, spending beyond his means. He intended to become a speaker around the world on subject of survivors. He began his memoirs. Speaking and writing would give him an audience and probably an income.
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#AbdulEzedi #Clapham #ChemicalAttack It seems the Most Wanted man in Britain has walked undetected past Scotland Yard, MI6 and within sight of MI5.
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#southernrailway The clock at my station is STILL an hour fast, causing brief, but unnecessary panic and angst for commuters. My ticket office pal is not allowed to climb a ladder to fix it because of health and safety rules. The maintenance man is on holiday for a fortnight.
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#Pistorius Delivering some comfort for my colleague Alex Crawford #iknowmyplace. http://t.co/R6fqVTCvr6.
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#ecstasy Suffolk police issue pic of ecstasy-style drug seized in probe into three deaths. http://t.co/W6g6IbLE8s.
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#Askbrunt Put your question on the trial and I'll try to answer. For an hour from 2pm UK time. http://t.co/hnr0UiEn18.
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Jurors watch police camera footage showing alleged meeting with defendants car on dark country lane. Car drives off with tow rope dangling. Driver PC Shaw swears and radios in that he’s lost his colleague.
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#NicolaBulley Peter Faulding and Specialist Group International team joining river search for missing mum Nicola Bulley in Lancashire 11 days after she vanished while walking her dog.
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#timwestwood After women’s claims of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour against ex-Radio One hip hop DJ Tim Westwood, which he strongly denies, Scot Yard says it’s investigating four sex crime allegations against ‘a man’ going back to 1982.
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##NicolaBulley Family statement: our worst fears confirmed. We can’t comprehend what she went through in her last moments.
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Pros: Long has pleaded guilty to the officer’s manslaughter but denies his murder, denies knowing he was dragging PC Harper behind the car. Denies an intention to kill the officer or cause him really serious injury.
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#Madeleine Scot Yard is to continue its investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Police asking Home Office for another six months’ funding to support joint operation with Portuguese police.
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#CarlBeech Lord Bramall: 20 cops raided my home where my wife was bed-ridden and she died before I was cleared. Some of the cops had lunch in the local pub. It was soon known what was happening.
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#CarlBeech Ex-MP Harvey Proctor condemns Beech and Met police for believing stories that should have been “torpedoed by elementary policing.”.
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#NicolaBulley Lancs Police: As result of those issues, a response car staffed by police and health professionals attended a report of concern for welfare at Nicola’s home address on January 10th. No one has been arrested in relation to this incident, but it is being investigated.
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Happy whatever birthday to my colleague @AlexCrawfordSky, cake delivered by camera/editor Garwin McLuckie. http://t.co/gy78dSDWMQ.
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#noelgallagher Noel on his style: I had a stylist once. She was called mum and when I got to about 11 she got the sack. Brilliant.
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#CarlBeech Lady Brittan, widow of Lord Brittan, in statement quotes Rabbi Julia Neuberger on his dying days: he was robbed of a dignified death.
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#missing Police concerned about Amelia Ollis-Olds, 20, missing since last night from Highbury, N London.
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#ConstanceMarten Met police say couple initially arrested for child neglect, now held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. Police still searching for missing baby of Constance Marten and partner Mark Gordon. 200 cops searching near Brighton.
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#paristerror Armed cops block route 400 yards from hostage scene at supermarket. http://t.co/AhKlnbeVKf.
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#Queen Thames Valley Police say 100,000 mourners watched the Queen’s final journey through Windsor today, with 2,000 officers on duty including colleagues from 28 other UK forces. Their operation is still going on.
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#Pistorius Summer in South Africa. The sunny assignment the boss promised me. http://t.co/4H8ijEtY88.
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#IOPC Dir Gen of police watchdog IOPC Michael Lockwood resigns suddenly “for personal and domestic reasons, effective from today.”.
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#paristerror UK Cops concerned how UK would cope with similar attacks, with half police numbers of France and few armed. And more cuts!.
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Pros: PC Harper died on the road after becoming untangled from the strap, surrounded by colleagues who tried in vain to save him.
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#GE2015 Turnout of 75.5% in Paisley and Renfrewshire South where Lab's Douglas Alexander is fighting off SNP challenge.
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#Madeleine Outside the church in Praia da Luz today, 10th anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance.
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Brilliant musician and great story teller. Fab live performer and regular at Kenney Jones’s Rock ‘n’ Horsepower festivals. Rock star Steve Harley dies after short battle with cancer one month after pausing tour - Mirror Online
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Jurors shown second police car footage showing PC Harper’s colleague driving after defendants car. Tyre marks appear to move from side to side on the road. Police car stops at flashing emergency light and police officer standing over a figure lying on the road.
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#NicolaBulley Lancs Police: It is an unusual step for us to take to go into this level of detail about someone’s private life, but we felt it was important to clarify what we meant when we talked about vulnerabilities to avoid any further speculation or misinterpretation.
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#mopedcrime Scot Yard: “Most moped crime done by two-on-a-bike.” So why not ban pillion passengers? Commissioner: “I hadn’t thought of that”.
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Pros: The stolen quad bike was tied behind the car with one of the teenage defendants riding it. It was a carefully planned crime. They wore gloves and masks and had disconnected all their rear and brake lights. So they could disappear into the night.
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#Pistorius Supporters of Oscar Pistorius await his arrival for sentencing for murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
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#southernrail Farewell from our guard: “Have a gd nite. Have a brandy for me. I’m off for 2 days. I’m gonna get some sleep. Pleasant dreams”.
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#PistoriusTrial It looks like we will get final verdict on the shooting today. Judge has ruled out premed murder, and murder.
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#PistoriusTrial Judge to resume shortly and tell us if OP is guilty of culpable homicide or acquitted for shooting dead girlfriend Reeva.
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#woolwich It can be revealed 5 prison officers accused of attack on Adebolajo at Belmarsh prison will not face charges.
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