HeyJaredTotalcrime Substack
I cover crime (as in true crime), cover court cases, the underworld and bring to bear 30 years of experience, which can sometimes be very helpful.
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The bogus red mercury terror plot and its part in the fall of the News of the World’s ‘fake sheikh’ (opens the original)
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For 20 years – until the News of the World closed in disgrace in 2011 - Mazher Mahmood (pictured below) was its star reporter, an investigative journalist whose favourite trick was to pose as a “fake sheikh” to carry out undercover stings on bad guys, errant royals and misbehaving celebrities.But his methods were gradually exposed when a series of trials collapsed, including the “red mercury” case at the Old Bailey in 2006, which I covered.In today’s Substack I focus on the red mercury trial but
Mad art: The crimes and sketches of misogynist killer John Sweeney (opens the original)
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John Sweeney recently died in prison, 15 years after he was given a whole life sentence for the murdering two girlfriends and dumping their dismembered bodies in canals in different countries.I was there when a judge effectively “threw away the key” and I remember the fight I had with the Metropolitan Police over whether we could publish Sweeney’s sick and misogynistic drawings.In today’s Substack I will tell the whole story – with the help of my old trial notebooks - and offer some insight into
How an attack on a gender reveal party and a ‘call to arms’ on a Snapchat group called Hoodshit led to a brutal killing (opens the original)
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Yesterday (22 September) six people were convicted of killing 21-year-old Dale “DJ” Martin (pictured), who was stabbed to death by a gang in Derby.A trial at a “supercourt” in the Midlands heard he was killed by a gang on mopeds and e-bikes after he and three others in a Renault Megane (pictured top right) went out to avenge an attack on a couple’s gender reveal party in a pub in the city.In today’s Substack I tell the full shocking story, which follows a mammoth 18-week trial which has gone und
What do Lil Durk, Lindsay Clancy and Lucy Letby have in common? (opens the original)
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This week a report was published into how Lucy Letby, the serial killer nurse, was allowed to murder seven babies in a British hospital.It came just days after Chicago rapper Lil Durk was acquitted of hiring a man to kill the cousin of rival rapper Quando Rondo in Chicago, and a mistrial was declared in the case of Massachusetts housewife Lindsay Clancy, who killed her three children while apparently suffering from post-partum psychosis.In today’s Substack I explain what all three cases have in
The farcical story behind ‘Chaos at Heathrow’ headlines on our rolling news channels, and what it says about UK’s criminal justice system (opens the original)
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“Major incident at Heathrow Airport as armed police rush to scene and public transport locked down” screamed the Daily Mail on the morning of 7 December 2025.It was a big story and for a few hours it dominated the rolling news channels – BBC, Sky News and GB News.Today four men have been jailed for affray after a sentencing hearing which got a fraction of the coverage of the original story – so in today’s Substack I will explain what emerged, nine months after the lurid headlines.<div cla
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