Category: British Police

Activists Lose Legal Challenge Against UK Police Probe Into ‘Partygate’ Scandal

February 22, 2023
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A legal campaign group has lost a bid to bring a High Court challenge against the London Metropolitan Police over the force’s investigation into former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s role in the “Partygate” scandal. Last May, the Met said its investigation into breaches of COVID-19 lockdown rules in Downing Street and Whitehall had resulted in…

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UK Police Arrest Man Over Theft of Mary Queen of Scots’s Rosary Beads

September 21, 2021
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LONDON—British police arrested a man on Tuesday in connection with the theft of gold rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution in 1587, among items worth more than £1 million ($1.37 million) stolen from a castle in the south of England. Mary, a Roman Catholic, was ousted from the Scottish throne…

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