Scotland Yard will review hundreds of rape, child abuse and sexual assault cases after a second prosecution collapsed because police again sat on texts that proved a suspect's innocence. Isaac Itiary, 24, was remanded in jail for four months after being charged with raping a child under 16 but had insisted that the girl told him repeatedly she was 19. His defence team demanded the police hand over her texts in September but only got them last week and found that the alleged victim, who was 15, had constantly lied about her age and posed as a 19-year-old. Incredibly, his prosecution involved the same officer as the Liam Allan case, which collapsed last Thursday when it emerged he had failed to disclose thousands of damning text messages. Incredibly, his prosecution involved the same officer as the Liam Allan case, which collapsed last Thursday when it emerged he had failed to disclose thousands of damning text messages that showed a woman who said she was raped fantasised about being raped and asked Mr Allan for casual sex after she said she was attacked. The detective constable in question, Mark Azariah, is still working at Scotland Yard’s sexual offences unit and has not been suspended.
Were four jihadi suspects planning a Christmas market attack? Witnesses tell how police 'blasted doors and used stun grenades to raid 'Islamist bomb factory above a fish and chip shop'
A suspected Islamist Christmas bomb plot was foiled yesterday when armed police swooped in co-ordinated pre-dawn raids. Fearing they had found a possible bomb factory in a flat over a fish and chip shop (pictured top right and inset), counter-terrorism officers urgently evacuated dozens of neighbours from their homes. Police dragged a 31-year-old man from his bed and led him away wearing only his underwear. He was named last night as Andy Sami Star, 31, an Iraqi national who is understood to be the owner of the chip shop and to live in a flat above with his brother. At the same time armed officers stormed into three properties 15 miles away in Sheffield by blowing off the front doors (left). Police raided a flat at the back of the Fatima Community Centre (bottom right), a building used as a mosque and for teaching Arabic to children.
- Scotland Yard to review hundreds of sex cases after SECOND rape trial collapses in evidence blunder involving the SAME detective responsible for student's rape trial collapse
- Ryanair agrees to new rights for cabin crew after investigation reveals appalling working conditions endured by staff
- What this toy from a 1958 packet of Sugar Puffs tells us about the catastrophe caused by plastic: Found in the Arctic 60 years on, it had travelled 1,500 miles from a British breakfast table
- Christmas parcel chaos as over half fail to turn up on time: Switch to online shopping has not been matched by recruitment of staff to handle deliveries
- Average council tax bill set to SOAR by £107 after the Government allows town halls to hike charges by 6% and increases police funding
- Were four jihadi suspects planning a Christmas market attack? Witnesses tell how police 'blasted doors and used stun grenades to raid 'Islamist bomb factory above a fish and chip shop'
- The council that ruined Christmas! Residents on Essex estate are billed £2,000 each to fix water pipes under their homes
- Factory mixes up organic and non-organic chicken: Report reveals new failings at firm supplying supermarkets
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- Trump will visit the UK but NOT meet the Queen: President kills off having a full state visit amid fear of protests and will make 'working' trip to London instead
- Prime Minister to face live grilling by voters in Dave-style tour of Britain: Theresa May plans Q&A; sessions in bid to show more of her personality
- What a saintly front for such an outfit: QUENTIN LETTS watches executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter put through a grilling by MPs
- Rumbled! Drink firms' bid to stop bottle deposit plan: Secret notes show they told minister that the public 'just don't care ' about a scheme
- Save Britain's cashpoints, MPs tell watchdog after banks threatened to cuts fees they pay making the machines unprofitable
- Pupils at 5,000 Church of England schools get new tick-box forms to report racist and sexual bullying
- Drivers could be allowed to use their mobile to park their car under new laws being considered by ministers
- Thugs who shine lasers at aircraft, cars and boats could be jailed for up to five years under new laws
- Homelessness crisis as the number on the streets soars: Ministers accused of 'abject failure' after number sleeping rough increases by 134% in six years
- Desperately ill girls whose Christmas wishes came true - and how YOU can help others like them by supporting the Mail's Quids for Kids appeal
- Wife is covered in bruises so husband could degrade her one final time before her death: Russian boasted to friends how he 'controlled' his partner before she died of her injuries
- Indiana pastor remarries after his first wife was tragically murdered during a botched home invasion two years ago
- Parents pull their children out of Connecticut high school in protest at Ivanka Trump's surprise visit
- Queen appoints Prince Harry to take over from his grandfather Philip as the Captain General of the Royal Marines
- EXCLUSIVE: 'We need help, the president is being smuggled out of the White House under a raincoat': How Secret Service busted Bill Clinton on his way to an assignation
- What do gynecologists and pizza delivery guys have in common? Pizza Hut worker fired for writing off-color joke inside a pizza box after kids requested it (but it will make you laugh)
- Hollywood's first major sex scandal: 'Prince of silent film' Fatty Arbuckle was put on trial 3 times for crushing an actress to death while raping her before jury apologized to HIM for the 'great injustice' in case that caused public outrage
- 'Several Americans among 12 killed' after a bus carrying Royal Caribbean cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flips over on a highway
- First victims of Amtrak tragedy are named as two 'rail aficionados' who were thrilled to be on the inaugural journey of high-speed train before deadly crash - as investigators say driver may have been DISTRACTED by worker in training
- A tent riddled with Nazi bullets, bikinis on parade and a spaniel in a life jacket: Colourized WW2 images reveal what life was like for troops when they weren't fighting on the front line
- Boy, 14, dies from a cobra bite after his pet snake bit him and he posted a photo on social media asking for advice in Indonesia
- T.J. Miller and his wife Kate offer joint statement DENYING college classmate's claim that he beat her during sex and raped her with a beer bottle - claiming she's a jealous ex who wanted to break them up
- Columbia student, 28, and former Army Ranger posts comical flyers around Manhattan seeking a date for his winter formal - and ends up going with a MODEL who couldn't resist
- US Marines protect the Winter Olympics in South Korea from Kim Jong-Un: Elite troops strip off to wrestle in minus 20F temperatures as part of drills to prepare for attack
- Billionaire Canadian couple had been strangled with men's belts and hanged from a railing by their indoor pool after security cameras were shut off, investigation into bizarre deaths reveals
- Heart-stopping moment a woman pushes a toddler into the center of a wild mall brawl in viral video that has seen lieutenant's wife investigated by cops after she made vile racist comments about it
- PIERS MORGAN: She might look better doing it but 'feminist' Emily writhing around naked in spaghetti no more empowers women than if I stripped off for a live-streamed linguine shower
- Kim Jong-un 'executes' ANOTHER official over a launch delay at North Korea’s crumbling missile test site just five days after 'killing his former second-in-command'
- Turkish Islamic preacher says men without beards cause 'indecent thoughts' in other men because they look like women
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Trump will visit the UK but NOT meet the Queen: President kills off having a full state visit amid fear of protests and will make 'working' trip to London instead
Donald Trump has told British prime minister Theresa May (inset, left) he will visit Britain in the new year - but will not meet the Queen, it emerged Tuesday. The president and the prime minister discussed a 'working visit' to London, which is pencilled in for late February. He will use the trip to open the new US embassy in London (bottom right), while he is also expected to hold talks with the Prime Minister in Downing Street.
Ferne McCann's acid attacker ex-lover WINKS as he is jailed for 20 YEARS for 'utterly despicable' nightclub carnage as one victim slams the 'calculating liar's' lack of remorse saying: 'He's left us with scars for the rest of our lives'
Drug dealer Arthur Collins (left, with McCann) squirted an unknown acid across a packed east London nightclub dancefloor, scarring 22 clubbers, during tit-for-tat gang war. Lauren Trent (right, with friend Sophie Hall) was one of those injured and gave an emotional account of how her birthday night out turned to horror in court today. Fellow victims Phoebe Georgiou (inset, top) and Sophie Hall (inset, bottom) also gave emotional victim impact statements. Collins is expected to get a lengthy jail term later today
Pictured: Polish woman, 29, who was killed in a 'multiple hit-and-run' when she was struck by two lorries and two cars while visiting relatives in London
A woman who died in a multiple hit-and-run has been identified as a 29-year-old from Poland. Justyna Kalandyk (shown left) was struck by two lorries and two cars (circled) as she used a pedestrian crossing in south London while the traffic lights were green. The drivers of all four vehicles did not stop. Ms Kalandyk was treated by paramedics at the scene in Tulse Hill (inset) but died of multiple injuries on Monday December 11. She was originally from Poland, but had been staying with family in Wandsworth, south London. The driver of the second car to hit her, a 52-year old man, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving.
Thought you knew the Tube map? Not any more - THIS is how it's going to look when the Elizabeth line is fully open two years from now
A new version of the London Tube map was issued today to mark a year from the opening of the new Elizabeth line. The line will stretch more than 60 miles and stop at 41 stations. There will be 10 new stations built while 31 others will be refurbished. Farringdon (ringed, inset left and right) will be one of the busiest stations in the country when Crossrail opens, connecting with Thameslink and London Underground to provide links with outer London, the home counties, the City, Canary Wharf and three of London’s five airport.
'All I want for Christmas is my dog back. I've been good all year': Little boy writes heartbreaking letter pleading with Father Christmas for his missing pet and best friend's safe return
Two-year-old Edward Latter wrote a heartbreaking letter to Santa pleading for the safe return of his dog which was swiped by thieves after escaping from his home in Kent. The youngster addressed the letter to Lapland in the hope Father Christmas will make sure his beloved nine-month-old border terrier is home in time for Christmas Day.
Was a Christmas Carol inspired by Dickens' trips to Cornwall? Historian claims classic was based on his visits to a real-life doctor who he named character Jacob Marley after
Historian Barry West, 56, says the tormented ghost Jacob Marley - Scrooge's former business partner - was inspired by Dickens' time spent in Cornwall in the 1800s. Physician Dr Miles Marley, who died in 1854, is said to have spent St Patrick's Day with the world-famous author, who promised to make him a household name by the end of the year.
'Beautiful' mother-of-two and her scientist boyfriend who were killed in the back of a taxi on their way home from a night out in horrific head-on multi-car crash with a drug-dealing Audi driver that claimed six lives
Lucy Davis (left) and her partner Lee Jenkins (right) were in the taxi which was involved in a five-car smash in the centre of Birmingham at the weekend, killing six people and seriously injuring one other. Friends of sign language interpreter Ms Davis and her boyfriend, a scientist at University Hospital Birmingham, have expressed their devastation at the couple's death. Ms Davis's heartbroken sister, Alison Worth, paid tribute to her sister online, saying the couple were travelling home from a 'lovely day and evening out with friends'. Ms Worth wrote: 'They were in a taxi as they wouldn't think of driving. They were wearing seatbelts as Lulu wouldn't get in a car if the seatbelts didn't work. They were happy. They were great together and had so many plans. You will always be in my heart and my thoughts. I miss you so much x'
Emmerdale's Leah Bracknell says she refuses to treat this Christmas as her last as she reveals how telling her daughters about terminal cancer fight 'was most difficult thing I've ever done'
Emmerdale's Leah Bracknell has said she refuses to treat this Christmas as her last after she was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The 53-year-old actress is having a low-key festive period with her husband Jez Hughes, pictured left, and two daughters, vowing to keep things 'exactly the same' as they always have been. Leah - who plays Zoe Tate on hit soap Emmerdale - was diagnosed with the illness in October 2016 and feared she would die within a year of receiving news. Then in August this year, she was told the NHS treatment had stopped working leaving her reliant on on alternative treatments such as plant-based healing oils and sessions in an infrared sauna.
Ex-nurse, 27, who pretended to be a man to pursue online relationships with ten women including a model who exposed her lies is jailed for 22 months for cyber-stalking
Adele Rennie (left) posed as a male doctor (inset)and targeted women online, duping them into sending explicit photographs in an attempt to 'harm and humiliate' them. The 27-year-old, who worked as a nurse at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, pursued relationships with ten women over a four-year period. Rennie was jailed for 22 months at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court after admitting using a host of invented aliases to carry out a series of stalking and sexual offences, a breach of the data protection act and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Her web of lies was finally uncovered after she attempted to seduce model Abbie Draper (right), who had visited the hospital where Rennie was working to see her dying grandfather. Ms Draper then sent Rennie furious messages (inset) – but she maintained she was a real 'f****** doctor' despite the hospital and the NHS not recognising her name.
Benefits cheat, 64, is filmed working as a SCAFFOLDER while swindling £50,000 in disability handouts by claiming crippling arthritis stopped him working
William Marshall (left, leaving court), 54, from Blurton in Stoke on Trent, claimed disability living allowance (DLA) and employment support allowance (ESA) on the grounds he had crippling arthritis and was working less than 16 hours-a-week. But Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) investigators caught him on camera (right) carrying heavy poles and wooden planks about on a building site. He had claimed DLA from 1996 and ESA from July 2013 to November 2015, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard.
UPS delivery driver, 37, who hurled rocks at passing family cars from the cab of his van 'for fun' shattering windscreens and leaving children covered in glass is jailed for ten years
UPS driver, Glynn Williams (right), 37, from Dartford in Kent, was nailed after his distinctive brown-coloured van was spotted at the scene by victims and other motorists. Maidstone Crown Court heard today he was the only UPS driver in the Cranbrook area of Kent where the attacks took place - and that his log of deliveries placed him at the scene for the crimes. The court heard how Williams threw rocks (inset) from his works van on numerous occasions, many of them at women drivers with children in the back seat. Two drivers were injured by the rocks thrown at their cars, with one mother called Jennie Ivinson struck in the face by a rock thrown by Williams. Other cars were left with shattered windscreens (left) and windows and dents to the bodywork during the spate of attacks between January and September 2015.
Ex-Army paratrooper, 23, denies murdering a pensioner as he walked his dogs after the grandfather's body was found so badly mutilated it was thought he'd been attacked by an animal
Alexander Palmer, 23, appeared via video link at Norwich Crown Court today, charged with the murder of 83-year-old Peter Wrighton. The pensioner was found dead near the village of East Harling, Norfolk, on August 5, and was so badly injured police initially feared he had been attacked by an animal. A Home Office post mortem found the grandfather, from Banham, Norfolk, had been repeatedly stabbed in the neck and head. Palmer, who was dressed in a blue, short sleeved T shirt, spoke only to state his plea and thank Judge Stephen Holt during the short six-minute hearing. He was remanded in custody at HMP Belmarsh in south-east London and faces a trial on February 12 next year at Norwich Crown Court where he will appear in person.
Grade I-listed Bath Abbey ditches its pews in favour of stackable wooden chairs so it can attract more visitors by hosting concerts and bake sales
Bath Abbey will undergo a multi-million pound make over now that it has replaced its pews for stackable chairs. Rev Edward Mason said the church was facing a crisis and installing these chairs would free up floor space to host popular events, making it fit for the 21st century. In 2018 the work at Bath Abbey will repair the collapsing floor and install underfloor heating.
Bird-lovers slam BMW and Audi drivers in exclusive neighbourhood who have fitted SPIKES to trees to stop pigeons from relieving themselves on their expensive cars
Expensive car owners in Bristol have been slammed by environmentalists for fitting trees at a Bristol car park with 'anti-bird spikes' to stop pigeons defecating on their beloved vehicles. The spikes, installed to protect the pricey BMWs and Audis parked up under the trees, have been criticised for being unsightly and stopping birds nestling down in the branches.
Pictured: The watery graves of 42 British servicemen are revealed 35 years after their three Royal Navy ships were sunk by Argentina in the Falklands War
These are the amazing images of three Royal Navy vessels which were destroyed during the 1982 Falklands conflict. HMS Ardent, pictured, was destroyed alongside HMS Antelope, bottom left, and HMS Coventry, top left. All three frigates were involved in air defence duty when they were attacked at low-level by the Argentine air force. In total 42 British servicemen were killed including a bomb disposal expert on board HMS Antelope.
A sproutrageous effort! Photos show the scale of the job needed to put thousands of tons of veg on Britain’s Christmas dinner tables
Asda customers are expected to eat 105 million Brussels sprouts on Christmas day in the UK this year. The supermarket have started their 24-hour harvest where they pick 150 tonnes each day. The £650 million Brussels sprout industry is aided by the festive season as Brits usually eat around one-third of all annually consumed sprouts at Christmas time. The tireless effort to harvest enough sprouts for the entire country is necessary however as the UK is the biggest consumer of the small green vegetable in Europe.
THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Moment Yemen rebels launch ballistic missile intercepted 'just SECONDS from King Salman's palace' - as UN ambassador says the weapon 'bears hallmarks to one supplied by Iran'
This is the moment Yemen rebels filmed themselves launching a ballistic missile that was intercepted by Saudi Arabia just seconds before hitting King Salman's palace. Eyewitnesses said they saw a plume of smoke over the nation's capital Riyadh after hearing a blast at about 10.50am yesterday - shortly before the scheduled unveiling of the Saudi budget. The Houthis' Al Masirah TV reported that a Burkan H2 ballistic missile had been targeted at the royal residence. However it was shot down by Saudi Arabia's military south of the capital with no reports of any damage. It has led to escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with the US ambassador to the UN saying the missile bears the hallmarks of a weapon provided by Tehran.
The picture that has shamed Argentina: Tiny girl goes on hands and knees to lick water from a dirty puddle during 100F heatwave in poverty-stricken region
The little girl, from the indigenous Mbya Guarani community is said to beg for money with other youngsters during the day in the city of Posadas in the Argentina's north-east. She is shown quenching her thirst in the midday sun in a picture that has sparked outrage across South America and Spain. The image was taken by a local journalist and posted online by voluntary worker Migue Ríos.
German president tells families of Berlin Christmas market terror attack they were 'abandoned by the state' as Merkel is condemned for not offering condolences to relatives before unveiling memorial
It is a year to the day since rejected Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri rammed a truck into the crowded market at Breitscheidplatz, killing 12 and wounding 70 others. Chancellor Angela Merkel (top right), who unveiled a memorial (left) honouring the victims today, has come under fire over security failings and the government's clumsy handling of the aftermath of the assault. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (bottom right) told survivors and families that the government had not provided adequate support and comfort.
Palestinian dressed as Father Christmas throws rocks at Israeli soldiers as protests over Trump’s Jerusalem embassy move continue
A Palestinian demonstrator dressed as Santa Claus was seen throwing rocks at Israeli troops when a protest near the West Bank city of Ramallah turned violent today. Clashes near between Israeli military and Palestinian protesters have been virtually non-stop since U.S. President Donald Trump decided to publicly recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel earlier this month.