Tag: officer
Off-duty officer hit by lorry and killed after stopping to help
An off-duty police officer has died after she was struck by a lorry while helping at the scene of an earlier crash. PC Rosie Prior, 45, had stopped to help Ryan Welford, 41, from Knaresborough, and was standing on the verge of the A19 at Bagby in North Yorkshire, when they were hit by a…
Police officer and man shot during physical altercation in Brisbane
Two in hospital after Queensland police were called to reports of a disturbance at a house on Tamar Street in Annerley A police officer and a man are being treated for potentially life-threatening injuries after both were shot in an altercation in Brisbane’s south on Friday morning. Queensland police were called to reports of a…
American Driver Is Fatally Shot by Police Officer in Mexico
The shooting in Ciudad Juárez was being investigated. A prosecutor said the driver, from Texas, had accelerated in the officer’s direction and nearly hit him. By Annie Correal Reporting from Mexico City An American man was killed when a Mexican police officer opened fire on the car he was driving in Ciudad Juárez, across the…
Prison officer jailed for having sex with inmate at HMP Wandsworth
Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, of south-west London was charged after video of activity was shared on social media A prison officer has been sentenced to 15 months after having sex with an inmate at a London jail. Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, of Fulham, south-west London, was charged after a video of the activity…
Ex-prison officer jailed over sex with inmate
A former HMP Wandsworth prison officer who was filmed having sex with an inmate has been jailed for 15 months. Linda De Sousa Abreu was identified by senior prison staff after the clip was shared online and quickly went viral. The governor of Wandsworth Prison said Abreu’s actions had taken “less than a day” to…
Two reporters and a police officer killed in shooting at Haiti hospital reopening
Gunmen target press conference at Haiti’s largest public hospital after street gangs forced its closure earlier this year Two reporters and a police officer were killed and others injured on Tuesday when armed men opened fire on a group of journalists who gathered for a government press conference scheduled to announce the reopening of Haiti’s…