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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · George Herd

    Rhyl grooming gang who were 'predators with no remorse' sentenced (opens the original)

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    Four men and a woman who preyed on teenage girls in north Wales have been jailed for their roles in a grooming gang. The victims of the group were aged 14, 15 and 16 at the time of the abuse in the seaside town of Rhyl, Denbighshire. The ringleader of the gang Mustafa Iqbal was jailed for 35 years after being convicted of 21 offences, including four rapes and three of sexual assault involving all three of the girls. Three other men and a woman were also jailed for their roles. It followed one of

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · George Herd

    North Wales Police officer filmed punching man cleared of misconduct (opens the original)

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    A police officer who was filmed repeatedly punching a man during an arrest has been cleared of misconduct. PC Richard Williams held Steven Clark in a headlock before punching him nine times to the head during an incident in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, in May 2023. Following a week-long hearing a misconduct panel found PC Richard Williams acted with reasonable force, and accepted Clark had been potentially violent, resisted arrest, and had been "off his head" on drugs. The North Wales Police officer had

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · George Herd

    PC 'did nothing wrong' after putting Porthmadog suspect in headlock (opens the original)

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    A police officer who repeatedly punched a man he was arresting has told a misconduct hearing he "did nothing wrong". PC Richard Williams denies eight allegations of using unreasonable force during the incident in May 2023. He was one of two North Wales police officers sent to a housing estate in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, following a report of a domestic argument. The misconduct hearing follows a seven-day trial at Caernarfon Crown Court in 2025, where he was cleared of assault and intentional strangu

  4. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · George Herd

    Prince of Wales boat tragedy: Man's entire family never came back (opens the original)

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    "It's something you don't get over - you learn to live with it." Sixty years ago, Peter Watts' entire family was killed in a boating tragedy that shocked the nation. His nine-year-old sister Angela, 10-year-old brother David, mother Doreen and father Frederick George, along with 11 others, died when the Prince of Wales pleasure boat sank on the Mawddach Estuary in Gwynedd on 22 July, 1966. Now, a memorial recalling the names of the 15 people who lost their lives has been unveiled. It was another

  5. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · George Herd

    North Wales Police officer developed PTSD over handling of affair complaint, court told (opens the original)

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    A consultant psychiatrist has told a court that a former North Wales Police officer developed complex post-traumatic stress following what he described as "institutional trauma". Andrew Fearon is suing the force after his fiancée cheated on him with a colleague, and later married a senior officer brought in to investigate the matter. Liverpool Civil Court was told that Fearon was engaged to marry fellow officer Rebecca Hutt, but they split in 2017 after she had an affair. The court heard the com

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