The alt-right poster boy was speaking at a press conference on 14 August, two days after a woman was killed during the Unite the Right marches and subsequent clashes in Charlottesville. Spencer added that he believes U.S. President Donald Trump is the first true authentic nationalist in my lifetime.Aug 15, 2017
20-year-old James Fields was arrested after a car rammed into a crowd of anti-fascism protesters in Charlottesville on 12 August. His former history teacher, Derek Weimer, has now spoken out saying he remembers Field harbouring white supremacist, Nazi views.Aug 14, 2017
One woman was killed when a white supremacist drove his car into a group of protesters. At least 19 others were injured in the incident during a protest against a large white supremacist rally. 20-year-old James Fields was arrested after fleeing the scene. He was charged with second degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at an accident. The crash followed hours of violent clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters. President Donald Trump was criticised for not directly denounce the violent far-right demonstrators. The white supremacists had gathered in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a Confederate generals statue.Aug 13, 2017
Released CCTV footage shows a woman narrowly avoiding the path of an oncoming bus after being pushed by a jogger on Londons Putney Bridge. The bus swerved to avoid impact. A suspect arrested after the incident was later released by police. His lawyers have stated he was wrongly implicated.Aug 13, 2017
The 52-year-old woman was dragged to the floor and robbed in Lewisham on 20 June. The suspects made off her £600 gold necklace and escaped on a moped. Police have now released the footage as part of their appeal for more information.Aug 11, 2017
Estill Police Officer Quincy Smith captured the moment he was shot four times on a pair of $30 camera glasses. Smith was left with two broken arms after he was shot by 29-year-old Malcolm Antwan Orr in the South Carolina town on 1 January 2016. Orr was convicted of attempted murder on 9 August 2017, and has been sentenced to 35-years behind bars. The video was released by the 14th Circuit Solicitors office on 10 August.Aug 11, 2017
11 people have been convicted of murder after 18-year-old Abdul Hafidah was killed in Moss Side, Manchester on 12 May 2016. The gang chased Hafidah until he was exhausted and hit with a car by one of the assailants, knocking him on the ground. Once on the floor, Abdul was viciously attacked by the group with punches, kicks and stamps.Aug 9, 2017
Australian Capital Territory Police appealed for witnesses on 8 August after the heads of three model dinosaurs at the National Dinosaur Museum went missing.Aug 8, 2017
Police have released dramatic CCTV footage of the moment a jogger appeared to push a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in Putney on 5 May. The 33-year-old victim was walking across Putney Bridge on the east side heading towards Putney Bridge Tube Station, when a male jogger knocked her over into the road and into the path of an oncoming bus, which narrowly missed hitting her.Aug 8, 2017
A British model was kidnapped and held captive for six days in Italy. The 20-year-old woman was drugged and put into a suitcase by a Polish national on 11 July. Lukasz Herba is accused of luring the woman to Milan with a fake photoshoot. He threatened to auction her off on the dark web as a sex slave. Italian media reports that Herba has links to the Black Death criminal organisation. He eventually dropped the woman off at the British consulate in Milan. The woman has a two-year-old child and may have been released because gangs rules; prevent them from trafficking mothers.Aug 6, 2017
Acid attacks in England have doubled over the past five years, with 503 attacks recorded so far in 2017. In the last 12 months, police have recorded 446 attacks in London alone.Aug 4, 2017
Michelle Carter, who sent texts urging her then-boyfriend Conrad Roy III to commit suicide, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, with 15 months to be served and the rest suspended, followed by five years of probation.Aug 4, 2017
West Midlands Police has praised two plain clothed police officers who chased down a machete-wielding man in Birmingham on 13 September, 2016. Footage uploaded to West Midlands Police YouTube account on 2 August shows a man brandishing a two-foot long blade and approaching the two police officers. Police state that the man wielding the machete was a 20-year-old who shouted at the pair come on Ill chop you up. In the caption of the video, police confirm that the man was successfully wrestled to the ground and the machete was seized.Both officers received a commendation from West Midlands Polices Chief Constable – and the man was later detained indefinitely in a mental health facility.Aug 2, 2017
Fentanyl is an extremely potent synthetic opioid, typically used as a painkiller. However, in recent years it has been mixed with heroin and other street opioids, leading to an increase in overdoses across the world. Fentanyl is 100 times stronger than street heroin, with some variants such as Carfentanyl thought to be 10,000 times stronger.Aug 2, 2017
