Dipesh Gadher
@DipeshGadher
Home Affairs Correspondent at The Sunday Times, specialising in crime and extremism. Contact: [email protected]
EXCLUSIVE: Detectives investigating historical sex offence claims against Russell Brand have passed a file of evidence to prosecutors. The Met has asked the CPS to consider bringing charges against the star after a 13-month inquiry w/ @RosamundUrwin thetimes.com/article/17b146…
🔺EXCLUSIVE: A businessman granted asylum in Britain is at the centre of a billion-dollar oil smuggling operation that is helping to finance Iran’s overseas terrorism and domestic repression, according to US officials thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…
Britain gave Salim Ahmed Said asylum and a passport after he fled Saddam Hussein's regime. Now US officials claim he is at the heart of a billion-dollar oil smuggling operation helping to finance Iran’s overseas terrorism and domestic repression thetimes.com/article/383156…
"We've lost our muscle memory to do some of the basic things," admits Sir Andy Marsh, head of the College of Policing. In an ST i/view, Marsh tells forces to: -"refocus on enforcing the law" -stop policing "online spats" -signals the scrapping of NCHIs thetimes.com/article/b45944…
He gained notoriety for threatening to behead Aled Jones and targeting a Bridgerton star, but today we reveal the full extent of Zacariah Boulares's teen crime spree: 32 offences, including an assault on a cop at 14, Rolex muggings and dangerous driving thetimes.com/article/e234dd…
EXCL 🚨 w/@HarryYorke1 The British Army has launched an inquiry after we found names of SAS soldiers from Grenadier Guards have been published online annually for a decade Sir Roly Walker, head of army, steps in over breach which we warned of months ago thetimes.com/article/00b32b…
Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, says the model of 43 county-based forces has not “been fit for purpose for at least two decades” and suggests they should be replaced by 12 to 15 regional mega-forces. W/ @HarryYorke1 thetimes.com/article/419973…
SUNDAY TIMES EXCLUSIVE🚨 Reform MP James McMurdock suspended after investigation into £70,000 of Covid loans He borrowed money via two companies: one dormant, the other with negligible assets He will not say what legitimate purpose they served (1/) thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
An 83-year-old Anglican vicar is among the first people arrested on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action after it was outlawed as a terrorist organisation at midnight thetimes.com/article/4c81bd…
A British-Azerbaijani man arrested on suspicion of spying on RAF Akrotiri could be part of an Iranian-run espionage ring targeting Nato facilities. It follows the arrest of a 2nd Azerbaijani man at a naval base in Crete used by UK & US aircraft carriers thetimes.com/article/54c548…
Scottish forensic experts have extracted DNA from the suitcase containing the Lockerbie bomb for the first time and will seek to match it against swabs taken from Abu Agila Masud, the Libyan explosives chief accused of Britain’s worst terrorist atrocity thetimes.com/article/f744be…
SUNDAY TIMES: Streeting: NHS has no cash for assisted dying #TomorrowsPapersToday
🇬🇧 Britain On A War Footing ▫Starmer confirms military build up after Iran threat as Netanyahu warns that Israeli jets ‘will be seen over Tehran’ ▫@HarryYorke1 @Smyth_Chris @DipeshGadher #frontpagestoday #UK @thetimes 🇬🇧
The White House has warned Downing Street against allowing a Chinese embassy to be built near sensitive London financial centres thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
"An Iraqi asylum seeker who was granted UK nationality but later stripped of his citizenship over his alleged links to a prolific people-smuggling ring has managed to return to the country using his British passport." You couldn't make it up... thetimes.com/article/f289ee…
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The Sunday Times reveals what was happening inside the BBC as the newsreader was arrested for viewing images of child sexual abuse
Ahmed Ebid was jailed in Italy for drugs offences, entered Britain illegally on a small boat and was put up in a taxpayer-funded London flat - from where he smuggled thousands of other migrants across the Med before the NCA finally caught up with him thetimes.com/article/1a09e6…
Three Iranian migrants have appeared in court charged in connection with a plot to carry out “serious violence” against journalists at a Farsi-language broadcaster in Britain at the behest of Tehran thetimes.com/article/08f2b1…
NEW: A supervisor at a British Airways lounge at Heathrow has been stripped of his security clearance after praising the heroism of “martyred” Hezbollah fighters thetimes.com/article/26f293…
Exclusive from Sunday's paper with @DipeshGadher At least three more women have gone to the police with allegations after Russell Brand was charged earlier this month thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…
Three prison officers have suffered serious injuries after being attacked with a makeshift knife and boiling oil by Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, in the separation unit of HMP Frankland thetimes.com/article/29d55c…