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A guy named Alexander Lewis- Ranwell said that "He was right behind me and grabbed a knife. He was 28 years old man where he killed three elderly men.Due to that he believes that they were paedophiles has been cleared of murder.Alexander Lewis-Ranwell wasn't found not guilty  after being mentally ill after the court decided that he didn't know it was illegal. Hotel manager Stasys Belevicius had an encounter with Alexander Lewis-Ranwell after the killings. He said to the BBC that Alexander Lewis-Ranwell chased and attacked him before the police arrived. 

A HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle)driver has been arrested after a teenager who was in a people carrier was killed in a crash on the M1. The victim was described by the  police as a man in his late teens, died at the scene of the two-vehicle crash at about 15:15pm near junction 11a near Luton. Five other people were hurt this is including  two people who have life-threatening injuries. A 64-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing  the death by driving  dangerously and was being questioned.

A teenager has been charged with drug and weapons offences after being stopped and searched by Beds Police officers.Morgan Draper, 19, of Osier Walk, Silsoe, was Tuesday charged with possession of a knife, possession with intent to supply cannabis and possession of criminal property. Draper was stopped and arrested by roads policing officers in Houghton Regis on Monday night. He has been remanded into custody pending a future court date.

Officers investigated a robbery at a convenience store in Luton they are appealing for witnesses. At around 5.15pm Monday two men entered the shop in Dudley Street, one of the men was armed with a weapon, believed to be a hammer. One of the suspects guarded the door while the other one threatened staff behind the till.Two men stole cash, phones, cards and cigarettes. Detective Constable Tracey Joyce, investigating, said: “This sort of brazen criminality will not be tolerated and we are following a number of lines of enquiry.

Six teenage boys have been arrested after a robbery in Luton town centre  on Thursday.

The six boys two of them is aged 15 and four aged 14  they were all arrested on suspicion of robbery and affray following the incident in St George’s Square last night. All of the six boys have been released on bail. The arrests were made by response officers, assisted by officers on patrol as part of Operation Sparkler, a regular proactive operation aimed at tackling serious youth violence.Detective Sergeant Ryan Barnes who was investigating, said: “We will not stand for violence or exploitation in our county. “We are running proactive operations to target those suspected of being involved in this type of offending, as well as to keep potential victims and the wider community safe.

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Two 14 year old boys charged with murder plot after counter-terrisom arrest. The 14-year-old boys who were arrested by counter-terror police have been charged with conspiracy to murder, detectives said. The teenagers, from Northallerton in north Yorkshire, were arrested over the weekend by Counter Terrorism Policing North East. They are due to appear in custody at Leeds Magistrates' Court later this week.  The boys were arrested on suspicion of preparing for an act of terrorism as part of an intelligence-led investigation.

Police also carried out searches at a number of addresses in the Northallerton area, including three houses.Assistant Chief Constable Phil Cain, North Yorkshire Police, said: "Officers believe that this is an isolated incident and the wider community are not at risk. 

"We appreciate the cooperation of local residents whilst the investigation continues."

Half of all knife crime offenders in London are teenagers or even younger children.

The police statistics show that 41 per cent of those being caught for knife crimes across London’s boroughs are now aged between 15 and 19 year  olds but the other 8 per cent are younger in age range from 10 to 14, in a sign of how carrying and using blades has become part of life for a minority of troubled young people.The new figures came as a Scotland Yard chief warned that attacks in the capital were also becoming “more ferocious” as offenders who were “more and more young” tried to kill or injure by “getting up close and stabbing someone several times”. Chief Superintendent Ade Adelekan, the head of the Met’s Violent Crime Task Force, added that police were striving hard to tackle the problem and “making some progress” by upping stop and search and using other tactics, including the deployment of “embedded” plain clothes officers to work with uniformed counterparts in the worst hit communities to help police intervene before stabbings occurred. 

But he admitted that officers were having to “re-educate” themselves on how to conduct stop and search after losing “the art and skill” during recent years when  they are  under pressure from the government  their use of the tactic had declined to “negligible” levels.

Mr Adelekan’s comments follow the fatal stabbing of two London teenagers - Jaden Moodie. 14, and 17-year-old Nedim Bilgin  last month and a succession of other young knife fatalities in 2018. Both killings have already prompted intense concern about the way in which young Londoners are being caught up in knife crime

The new statistics disclosed by Mr Adelekan provides the most comprehensive illustration so far of the strikingly young age profile and background of London’s knife offenders.

He said that the perpetrators of knife crime which the Office for National Statistics last week showed at a near record level of just under 15,000 offences in a year  were overwhelmingly young males with almost half aged between 10 and 19.17 per cent were aged between 20 and 24, meaning that the under-25s account for two thirds of all knife crime in the capital.

On ethnicity, Mr Adelekan said that 73 per cent of knife offenders and 53 per cent of victims were from a black or ethnic minority background.Many were from more impoverished communities and possessed similarities with each other that needed to be understood if sustained falls in knife crime were to be achieved.“Violence is top of the agenda for the Met and knife crime injury victims under 25 are 15 per cent down,” he said during an address to the policy debating organisation Westminster Insight. “There’s still plenty of work to be done, but we are heading in the right direction.“Part of our success around this has been down to increasing our use of stop and search. There were 15,000 done in November, compared to July when there were roughly around 9,000. So there’s been a significant increase.“We are also making sure all our recruits go through stop and search training and frontline officers are re-educated around stop and search… because what our officers were finding on the streets, we haven’t done stop and search in quite a while, there were people walking round carrying a knife, there was lots of confrontation because we hadn’t done it in quite a while and probably lost the art and skill of having the conversation without it descending into confrontation. So we are sort of learning as we go along.”

Mr Adelekan said the Violence Crime Task Force, which was set up last April and now has 300 officers, was also using 24 hour intelligence gathering, combined with a high profile overt presence, covert operations, and other confidential tactics to target offenders

He warned, however, that “we cannot enforce our way out of this - prevention and intervention is the key” and added: “Attacks are more ferocious. We had 135 homicides in 2018 and 79 of those were knife homicides.