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The first Sam Hallam heard of the crime that would cost him seven years of his life was when two girls approached him in the street. They told him that they knew what had happened 鈥?there had been a st
stanley cup becher reet brawl two days earlier in east London involving about 40 people and he had attacked a young man who was now dead. Hallam, then 17 and with no criminal convictions, was bewildered. He hadnt even been there, let alone attacked the victim, a popular 21-year-old trainee chef called Essayas Kassahun. It worried him enough to ask his brother whether he should talk to the police. His brother told him it was just a groundless rumour, and advised him that there was no need to go to the police but he should steer clear of the area.It was a week after the incident in October 2004 when four or five police officers turned up at his mothers flat. He told them that he knew why they were there and that it
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stanley cups taken to Belgravia police station. That was devastating for me, Hallam says. But he wasnt worried about the outcome. He simply wasnt there. He would explain everything, tell them what he was doing and be released in a couple of hours.But that didnt happen. It turned out he was mistaken about his alibi 鈥?he had said he thought hed been playing football with his friend Timothy Harrington, but Harrington told the police hed not seen him that week. The police said he had deliberately provided a fake alibi. He was held at the station for two days, then c Vdjs General election: Johnson insists he opposed early release for terrorists long before London Bridge attack 鈥?live news
A judge who granted bail to a man who went on to murder his former partner had been told the man was violent and likely to harm her, the Crown Prosecution Service CPS said today.Jonathan Vass, 30, stabbed Jane Clough, a 26-year-old nurse, to death in July in a Blackpool hospital car park while on bail on charges of raping her. She had been due to give evidence against him on the rape charges when he attacked her.Clough, mother of an infant daughter she had with Vass, was taken to the accident and emergency department at the Royal Victoria hospital, where she had been about to start her shift. Colleagues did not recognise her because of the severity of her injuries.Judge Simon Newell said in a statement issued by the Judicial Communications Office JCO that he had not been told that Vass, an ambulance technician, was likely to commit further offences against his former partner.The CPS has now said it told the judge there was an extreme likelihood Vass would interfere with witnesses and that Vass, of Preston, Lancashire, had committed violent crimes against his former partner.Last month, Vass pleaded guilty to murdering Clough. The judge presiding over the murder case, Judge Anthony Russell QC, jailed him for life with a minimum tariff of 30 years. The rape charges were ordered to li
stanley thermos e on file.Clough s parents are angry that Vass was granted bail. He had the p
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