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Brian Field, 87, (left) from Solihull, was jailed for life in 2001 after admitting the 1968 murder of 14-year-old Rory Tutill (right). Field was pronounced dead at HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire in February, the Ministry of Justice confirmed. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will carry out an investigation into Field's death, as is standard procedure for all deaths in custody.

New South Wales police officers have detained a 15-year-old boy after a bishop and a second clergyman were stabbed with a knife during a sermon at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Sydney's Wakeley district. It was the second knife assault to rock Australia's largest city in three days and has sparked riots and unrest. The shocking attack, streamed live on YouTube by church cameras on Monday afternoon, came while Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching. The bishop was speaking from the altar when a teen dressed in a dark hoodie sauntered up and suddenly lunged at him, furiously swinging at the elderly clergyman's head and neck.

The horrifying attack, livestreamed on YouTube by church cameras this afternoon, came as Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Sydney's Wakeley district. The bishop was speaking from the altar when a man dressed in a dark hoodie sauntered up and suddenly lunged at him, furiously swinging at the elderly clergyman's head and neck. Footage shared on social media minutes after the stabbing showed the alleged attacker being pinned down on his front by at least three people, including a police officer. He can be seen grinning at the camera as one of his captors sits beside him in bloodstained jeans. Meanwhile outside the church, dozens of angry Sydneysiders gathered singing chants of 'an eye for an eye' and 'bring him out'. The deplorable attack comes just two days after a knifeman cut down six people in ruthless killing spree just 20 miles away in an eastern Sydney suburb. Joel Cauchi, 40, stabbed five women and one man to death and injured 12 others with a 30cm hunting knife in Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon, before being shot dead by New South Wales Police Inspector Amy Scott.

Offenders received a criminal record after the police and Crown Prosecution Service decided to a "community charter" rather than taking them to court. The orders, which call for criminal charges of responsibility for their offence and/or paying compensation to a victim, are supposed to be used for low-level offences. However, according to Home Office data, they were used to investigate 2,152 sex crimes in the last four years, including sexual assaults, grooming, and flashing offenses. Since being allowed to simply say "sorry" to their victims every week, more than ten sex offenders are escaping any real punishment and side-stepping the court system.

After being released from jail, a number of sex offenders found guilty of a new assault has spiked, fueling fears that probation officers are failing to keep the public safe. Examples include Anthony Roberts (left), a serial sex criminal who carried out a ferocious knife assault, and Jordan McSweeney (right), who murdered Zara Aleena (inset).

Last year, 553 children were arrested for gun offences in England and Wales, according to freedom of information requests.

According to an analysis of inspection reports released by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), 22 out of 43 detectives in England and Wales were classified as either "inadequate" or "requiring improvement" in their detection efforts. MailOnline has published a map (left) showing how constabularies around the country are doing, with those receiving the two lowest grades shading them in both dark and light shades of red, with adequate forces' regions coloured orange. The nine constabularies were rated 'good,' their second highest rating, while outstanding forces would be shaded in gold, though none of them reached the top marks in the last wave of inspections.

Inspectors found 22 of the 43 constabularies in England and Wales to be "inadequate" or "requiring change" in the way they investigate crime. These are the two lowest levels of success. None of the top 'outstanding' categories were considered by nine people, nine were'strong', and 12 were 'adequate.' According to investigators, officers have missed leads that may have solved assaults, robbery, and robbery, and they are arriving late at crime scene.

If finding the perpetrators, police will reopen investigations into four crimes every minute. Officers with no way to identify a perpetrator has raised by nearly two million years since being inactive. Forces have put a halt to 2,306,623 reported crimes in the year to June, including hundreds of thousands of violent criminal offences and burglary. On average, the official Home Office estimates are equal to more than 6,300 per day, or one every 14 seconds. After just two days, police concluded the probe into Greg Szymanski (left)'s stolen car, but it did not stop the missing vehicle from being issued eight parking tickets. The 45-year-old handyman was shocked to learn that his vehicle had not been irretrievably lost, despite a lack of police interest, but rather than being parked illegally around Fulham, west London, the man was dissatisfied.

In what analysts term a 'public safety time bomb,' less than half of Britain's "hyperprolific offenders' are being put in jail when they commit their next offender's next offence. According to a survey, criminals with more than 45 convictions were jailed in just 53% of cases when they were next brought to court for a serious, either-way or "indictable-only" offence. These offences, financial crimes, robberies, careless or reckless driving convictions, sexual offences, and offences that can or must be tried by a jury include murder. Even more 'prolific offenders' who have 16 or more convictions were sentenced to prison for their next offence - only 24 percent.

Nicholas Rossi, an American, has benefited from £40,600 to pay for his lawyers and counsel when battling extradition. When he was arrested in Scotland as a result of reportedly raping a woman in 2008, Branded is branded as "disgustful and manipulative." Domestic assault charges have also been levied against him. Nicholas Alahverdian, a 36-year-old boy who changed his surname to that of his adoptive stepfather, David Rossi, who died in late 2019 after telling family he was dying.

Bellfield was allowed to marry his besotted mother (right) in jail after receiving up to £30,000 in legal assistance to fund his lawsuit. Bellfield solicitors sent a letter to the Ministry of Justice alerting of a judicial investigation after the killer was given a ban on photography and video calls. According to a source with information about Bellfield, the photo ban must be reversed, so he and his wife will be able to photograph their wedding. The source said, 'It's sick they are using human rights legislation again, but they know that is their route to success.' Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old girl, is the subject of an inset.

Officers have been warned in Surrey and Sussex Police's publications that verbal abuse is sufficient to ask questions about gender identity, and that failure to comply could result in a 'disciplinary offence.' The 'Equality, Divers, and Inclusion Policy' sets out the forces' pledge to satisfy the requirements of the public sector equality legislation. Thousands of police, firefighters, special constables, and volunteers are among the thousands of police, workers, special constables, and volunteers who are seeking their assistance in taking a 'zero tolerance policy' to discrimination. And that bullying can be a'single case,' and the individual does not have to say that the conduct is inappropriate before it amounts to bullying.'

EXCLUSIVE: Emal Kochai, 29, was banned from Britain in 2019 after serving half of a nine-year jail term for raping his victim at a house in Reading, Berks. But he returned to the Channel in March 2022, where he was discovered by a photographer in a tent at the Grande Synthe camp (left), near Dunkirk, claiming he had 'changed his ways'. The convicted paedophil admitted to tying to board a boat to the United Kingdom, but his crossing was delayed after police arrived and punctured the vessel with a knife. According to new Freedom of Information reports, the child sex offender got taxpayer funds to prosecute his guilt before being booted out of the United Kingdom in 2019.

Levi Bellfield, a convicted murderer, will be allowed to marry his spouse while serving in Durham's Frankland Prison, killing Marsha McDonnell, one of his victims. According to reports, 55-year-old Bellfield would marry amid police officers and MPs' assertion that it was 'grotesque' and a 'insult to the victims and their families', and that law to prevent the marriage was delayed. 'It's not something that I can remember nor do I care about nor do I want to', Ute McDonnell, 67, whose daughter Marsha, 19 was killed by the monster in February 2003 after a night out with friends, told MailOnline: 'It's not something that I can bring myself to even discuss or worry about, and certainly not want to'.'

Levi Bellfield (left), a 55-year-old murderer who is serving life in Durham's Frankland Prison, could have been charged with civil rights if he was not allowed to wed and protested discrimination if he was not allowed to wear an engagement ring. When the woman was announced last year, news of her proposed nuptials (right and inset) sparked outrage, but Justice Secretary Dominic Raab promised to take steps to prevent it from happening. Bellfield is currently serving two whole-life orders for Milly Dowler's murder in 2002, Marsha McDonnell's in 2003, and Amelie Delagrange's 2004 murder, as well as Kate Sheedy's attempted murder in the same year. The investigation, according to police officers and MPs, was "grotesque" and a "insult to the victims and their families," and they pleaded for law to prevent the marriage.

Tracey Connolly (left), Baby P's mother, has reportedly become best friends Helen Caudwell, 54, who throttled her three-year-old daughter Bethany with a pyjama lawsuit in October 2009. Caudwell (pictured right), a woman who attempted suicide after her murder, is now living in Connolly at an unidentified hostel in the north of England. According to a source, the two are'mates,' and they're always talking to each other.' Connolly deserved a nation's loathing after details of the murder she submitted her toddler son Peter (inset) to before his death in 2007.

Thanks to Dominic Raab's latest Victim's Bill, Britain's worst criminals facing whole life sentences, including Milly Dowler's (inset) murder Levi Bellfield (pictured left) will be barred from marrying. Last year, Bellfield's announcement that it would marry a regular female tourist (pictured right) at HMP Frankfield in Durham sparked outrage. However, such unions will be barred under new Justice Secretary policies, which is expected to be unveiled in the next two weeks. Last year, 60 prisoners, many of whom were serving lengthy prison sentences, applied to marry.

The report, which was funded by former home secretary Priti Patel, warns about the growth of often-shadowy staff 'networks,' which include everything from pagans to vegans. 200 internal groups were operating within constabularies, according to the Policy Exchange, and some, despite impartiality laws, were dabbling in politics. There was no information regarding their membership and activities, according to the company, with some committees releasing only the initials of their representatives.

The number of foreign criminals released from jail to walk on Britain's streets has risen to a record high of almost 18,000. According to Home Office results, there were 11,769 international national offenders out of jail but not deported at the end of September. The number, which was deemed as "completely unacceptable," had risen by more than 800 in a year. On average, two international criminals were released to live in the UK for the first ten months. The number has risen by 198 percent since 2012. More than 3,000 international criminals have been in the United Kingdom for more than five years after being banned from entering the country for more than five years.

According to crime statistics, two one-year-old infants were investigated by police for assault charges in the year that ended in April 2022. In the former county of Cleveland, North East England, one child was accused of assaulting another minor. In Norfolk, another individual was reportedly committing 'violence against the individual.' According to the year's statistics, there were young people investigated from 2021 to 2022, but not prosecuted due to being underage increased to 8,061 in the year ending March 2022.

El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, (left) or 'Ringo' will not be jailed in solitary confinement at ADX Florence in Colorado (right), but instead he'll spend his time in a less restrictive jail on the same site as USP Florence High. Elsheikh, a West London journalist, received eight life sentences for committing'some of the most barbaric terrorist acts ever seen' as part of the twisted 'ISIS Beatles' party, which captured, tortured, and killed a group of journalists and humanitarian workers in Syria in 2014.

Lord Stevens, the British army's top gunman, has called for low-level violence and disorder that blights lives, telling police not to avoid prolific shoplifters, anti-social neighbors, and aggressive beggars. Lord Stevens, a former chief of both the New York and Los Angeles police departments, recommends a 'urgent and dramatic revival' of the Met', according to incoming Chief Mark Rowley, who writes in a foreword.

The Policy Exchange think tank's research has urged Britain's next Prime Minister to introduce a series of radical measures to shield citizens from a surge of violent crime and chaos and restore public confidence in policing. According to the paper, 'What do we want from the next Prime Minister? includes a'return to basics' and'more focusing on combating crime,''no more taking the knee, and other actions that may include a crackdown on road-blocking eco-zealots and left-wing statue vandals, as well as a call to recruit 'hacker cops' to combat a surge in fraud and online sexual harassment. David Spencer, a former Metropolitan Police officer and the head of the Policy Exchange's Crime and Justice Department, also recommends that the College of Policing be deregistered so that local people can report a variety of crimes from violent assault to street-drinking and aggressive begging. Critics have accused many of Britain's police forces of "going forward," whether by officers 'taking the knee' as they did during the Extinction Rebellion and one of its offshoot groups, Just Stop Oil, or adopting the Pride colors. Lincolnshire Police came under fire for dancing the Macarena at a Pride event in Lincoln and then posting footage of officers doing the routine from the force's official Twitter account just earlier this month.