News 04/06/26

A driver who killed a teenage boy while targeting e-bike riders has been jailed for life with a minimum term of thirty years.

Zulkernain Ahmed was driving on the wrong side of the road in Sheffield when he struck sixteen-year-old pedestrian Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Taleb, throwing him into the air. Ahmed was found guilty of murder, while his brother, Armaan Ahmed, who was a passenger, was jailed for seventeen years for manslaughter.

A man in his fifties is in a serious condition after being shot with a crossbow at the University of Surrey student accommodation site in Guildford.

Officers were called to the Manor Park Student Village at around ten o’clock this morning. A twenty-one-year-old Saudi national, who is a former student, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remains in police custody.

A former police officer wrongly identified as being present at the arrest and subsequent death of Henry Nowak says she is fearing for her safety.

Christi Hill, who left Hampshire Constabulary in April twenty-twenty-four, was incorrectly named by social media users and the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok as an officer involved in the December twenty-twenty-five incident. Hill has since been forced into a safe house after receiving threats of violence, criticising both the technology for the chaos caused and the force for failing to publicly clarify her non-involvement.

A seventeen-year-old has been jailed for at least seventeen years after stabbing a man to death, just months after slashing another victim.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, murdered twenty-two-year-old John McNab outside an Edinburgh block of flats in September twenty-twenty-five. This fatal attack followed a serious assault in March twenty-twenty-five, where the defendant slashed a sixteen-year-old boy in the Portobello area. The youth pleaded guilty to both murder and assault to severe injury at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.

US President Donald Trump has labelled lawmakers who voted to rebuke his Iranian war policy as “unpatriotic”.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a measure attempting to limit the President’s military authority, with four Republicans joining Democrats in the vote. President Trump dismissed the move as a meaningless action, taken during critical negotiations to end the war. The White House has dismissed the resolution’s merits, and it remains unclear how much legal force the measure will ultimately possess.

Thames Valley Police have recovered stolen plant machinery near Slough.

Officers from the Rural Crime Taskforce acted on a report to discover three excavators, two dumper trucks, and various attachments at an undisclosed location. A spokesperson for the force confirmed that an investigation is currently underway into the theft.

Sir Keir Starmer has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of “trying to whip up division” in the UK following the murder of Henry Nowak.

Speaking during a visit to Yorkshire, the Prime Minister insisted that Britain remains a reasonable and tolerant nation, asserting that the country should react calmly to tragedies in the same dignified manner as Henry Nowak’s family. He suggested that Musk has been interfering in British politics by attempting to exacerbate social tensions.

The Trump administration has announced that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to implement a ceasefire.

President Trump has reportedly expressed frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the ongoing hostilities, which have jeopardised potential peace negotiations between the White House and Iran. While Tehran has stated any agreement is contingent upon an end to the fighting between Hezbollah militants and the Israeli military, Hezbollah has publicly rejected the US-backed ceasefire deal.

A former police officer, falsely identified by the Grok AI tool as being involved in the arrest of Henry Nowak, has been forced to move into a safehouse.

Christi Hill, who left Hampshire Constabulary in April twenty-twenty-four, was incorrectly named on the X social media platform as one of the officers featured in bodycam footage of the arrest. She has since been subjected to intense online abuse and was relocated to a safe location by the force for her protection.

The head of England’s exams regulator, Sir Ian Bauckham, has warned that smart technology is making cheating increasingly difficult to detect.

Invigilators are now being trained to identify covert equipment, including smart glasses, hidden earpieces, and pens with built-in screens. Data shows the use of smart devices accounted for forty-four percent of all student malpractice cases last year.

A breakthrough drug for ovarian cancer that is kinder on the body and extends lives is now available on the NHS.

The treatment, mirvetuximab soravtansine, acts like a biological missile, delivering chemotherapy directly to cancerous tissue rather than the whole body, which significantly reduces debilitating side effects. Patient Patricia Hill, aged sixty-four, says the treatment allows her to enjoy activities that were impossible under conventional chemotherapy. Up to four hundred patients in England could benefit annually from this, the first new treatment for hard-to-treat ovarian cancer in twenty years.

NHS staff could be barred from wearing political badges, including pro-Palestinian symbols, as part of new government proposals to tackle antisemitism.

These measures are among several recommendations from an independent review led by Lord Mann, which examined racism within the health service. The findings highlight that some Jewish patients and staff have felt compelled to hide their religious identity. Further recommendations include enhanced accountability for NHS managers, better monitoring of racist incidents, and allowing patients to record their ethnicity as Jewish.

The US House of Representatives has passed a measure seeking to halt President Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran.

The vote passed two-hundred-and-fifteen to two-hundred-and-eight, after four Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the conflict, which began in February. This marks the fourth attempt by the House to restrain the President’s war powers, though the resolution still requires approval from the Republican-controlled Senate. Even if successful there, the measure is unlikely to fully curb ongoing military operations.