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Thread 'UK - Mid-Wales, White male, Age 30-60, 6ft+, found Oct 2024 in Claerwen Reservoir wearing wetsuit'

Feb 23, 2025

Despite forensic tests, extensive inquiries and searches and appeals for information, detectives still have not solved the mystery of the man in the wetsuit.

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Investigators suspect he might have been in the vast Claerwen Reservoir for up to 12 weeks - so could have been in the water since as far back as July and in the height of summer.

What police say is "highly unusual" about the man in the wetsuit is that no evidence of his personal belongings or an abandoned car or bike were ever discovered.

But with no clothes or vehicle found and the nearest bus stop about four hours' walk...

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Thread 'UK- Van containing fireworks deliberately set alight in the middle of the night, Clydebank, Scotland, 23 Feb., 2025, *Video*'

Feb 24, 2025

'Sheer terror' as van loaded with fireworks set alight in Clydebank

Homes were evacuated when the van parked in a driveway exploded in the middle of the night in Clydebank.

www.bbc.com

''Families in Clydebank faced "sheer terror" when a van containing fireworks was deliberately set alight in the middle of the night.

Homes were evacuated and roads closed when the vehicle, which was parked on a driveway, exploded with a shower of fireworks on Braes Avenue at about 01:00 on Sunday.

There were no reported injuries.''

''Police said the man was described as white, in his 30s, with slim build and a shaved head and wearing a dark hooded jacket and dark bottom.

He was seen making off in the direction of the Forth and Clyde...

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UK Thread 'UK - Remains found near to Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent, 2nd March 2025'

Mar 3, 2025

Human skeletal remains found near retail park in Stoke-on-Trent, police say

Police have cordoned off an area of the park but have not yet formally identified the remains.

news.sky.com

A member of the public has discovered skeletal remains in Stoke-on-Trent, police have said.

Police were called to reports of the discovery on land near to Festival Park, Etruria, on Sunday afternoon.


Staffordshire Police said: "At this time the remains have not been identified.

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UK Thread 'UK - Bristol & Surrounding Areas, multiple missing people reported after a night out, worrying trend.'

Mar 7, 2025

After the recent missing reporting of Sebastian Sailes, who went missing after leaving a pub in Chippenham, which is 30 minutes away from Bristol via car.
Please see below thread of his missing report:


I noticed a few missing reports of similar scenarios of a night out happening in Bristol or around. For Example:

Jack O'Sullivan - UK - UK - Jack O'Sullivan, 22, left friends after night out, last seen Brunel Lock Road/Brunel Way, Bristol at...

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Thread 'UK- Cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the American military off the coast of eastern England,10 March 2025'

Mar 10, 2025

Fuel tanker and cargo ship collide and catch fire in North Sea off Britain, crew rescued

A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the American military off the coast of eastern England Monday, setting both vessels on fire and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea.

www.ctvnews.ca

'LONDON — LONDON -- A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the American military off the coast of eastern England Monday, setting both vessels on fire and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea.

The collision triggered a major rescue operation by lifeboats, coast guard aircraft and commercial vessels. All 37 crew members aboard the two vessels were safe and accounted for, with one hospitalized, local lawmaker Graham...

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Found Deceased Thread 'UK - Lee Horton, 36, missing from Evesham (Worcs.), last seen in central Bristol, 11 Mar 2025'

Mar 13, 2025

Avon and Somerset Police are appealing for the public's help in finding Lee, 36.

He is missing from Evesham, Worcestershire, but the last confirmed sighting of him was in central Bristol at about 10.30am on Tuesday 11 March 2025.

His family haven't heard from him since Tuesday, when he said he’d catch a train home but failed to return.

Lee, has no known links to Bristol and this is out of character.

He's 5ft 11ins tall with short dark brown hair and a beard and a distinguishing birth mark on his right arm. He was wearing a blue jacket, dark-coloured jeans and had a...

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Thread 'UK- Lydia Mugambe, 49, UN judge studying for a PhD in law @ the University of Oxford, convicted of forcing a young woman to work as slave, March '25'

Mar 14, 2025

UN judge studying at Oxford kept young woman as a slave

Lydia Mugambe tricked Ugandan victim into coming to Britain

www.telegraph.co.uk

'Lydia Mugambe was found guilty in a case in which prosecutors said involved a ‘very dishonest’ trade-off with the Ugandan deputy high commissioner Credit: HNP Newsdesk/Hyde News & Pictures Ltd

A United Nations judge studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford has been convicted of forcing a young woman to work as a slave.

Prosecutors said Lydia Mugambe, 49, took “advantage of her status” by preventing the woman from holding down steady employment and forcing...

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Thread 'UK-Hunt for the "Night Watcher'', wanted for a series of brutal attacks & robberies, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, London & Berkshire, since 2006, *New video*'

Mar 18, 2025

Very lengthy.

Hunt for the elusive Night Watcher: Police release chilling new video

The voice of the elusive 'Night Watcher' can be heard in new CCTV video of his latest crime in which he pistol-whipped a 63-year-old woman in a £1.5million jewellery raid near Sevenoaks in Kent.

www.dailymail.co.uk

By MARK DUELL18 March 2025
''Detectives hunting for a violent robber suspected to be the elusive 'Night Watcher' have released a chilling new video with audio in an effort to finally snare him.

The man's voice can be heard in the new CCTV of his latest crime in which he pistol-whipped a 63-year-old woman in a £1.5million jewellery raid near Sevenoaks in Kent.

The armed and masked thief carried out the 'professional' robbery in June last year on the...

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Thread 'UK- Mystery of red paint vandalism (often accompanied w. the word, 'brothel'), across England, 2024-25.'

Mar 20, 2025

Ben Quinn 20 Mar 2025

Mystery of red paint vandalism across England leaves residents puzzled and fearful

Police try to establish if there is a link between incidents in Walthamstow and other areas

www.theguardian.com

''Spattered across a row of homes, the red paint that appeared on the front of houses in north-east London this week was as unwelcome as it was inexplicable.

Yet the vandalism was not confined to this corner of Walthamstow – the second such attack in a fortnight – it mirrors other incidents in communities across the country that have left local residents seeking answers from police and local councils.

Huddersfield, Bradford...

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Thread 'UK- Heathrow Airport shutdown due to electrical substation fire, causes flight chaos, thousands stranded, 21 March '25*Counter-terror investigation*'

Mar 21, 2025

Heathrow Airport latest: Shutdown causes flight chaos and leaves thousands stranded

The fire which knocked out power to Heathrow is still burning, as sources tell the BBC counter-terrorism police are investigating as a "precautionary measure".

www.bbc.com

'Summary​

• Heathrow Airport will be closed all day Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation that supplies it with power
• The fire is still burning, London Fire Brigade says, with no power at Terminal 2 and 4 as well as 5,000 homes nearby
• Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into the fire, but the Met Police says there's currently no indication of foul play
• Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, warns of days of disruption - more than 1,350 flights are thought...

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UK Thread 'London - Christine McGovern, 47, Walthamstow, between June 21 and 22 1995'

Mar 21, 2025

Chilling murder of woman strangled to death in her bath unsolved 27 years later

Christine McGovern was found naked by her friend inside her flat in Walthamstow

www.mylondon.news

Chilling murder of a Walthamstow woman strangled to death in her bath remains unsolved 27 years later​

Christine McGovern was found naked by her friend inside her flat in Walthamstow


Sadly not every murder investigation ends with the killer being found and prosecuted for their crimes, even with modern DNA technology and other policing advances. One such case which has remained unsolved for 26 years now is the killing of Christine McGovern.

The 47-year-old sex-worker was found...

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UK Thread 'Human remains discovered at Tofts Farm Industrial Estate in Hartlepool, 30th March 2025'

Apr 2, 2025

Human remains have been discovered at a recycling centre.
Police were called to the plant at Tofts Farm Industrial Estate in Hartlepool on Sunday after employees located a number of bones.
Following examination by specialists, they were confirmed as human.

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Thread 'Comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape.'

Sep 25, 2023

British police have opened a sex crimes investigation triggered by news reports about comedian Russell Brand.

London's Metropolitan Police force said Monday that it had "received a number of allegations of sexual offenses" after a television documentary and newspaper investigations. It said there have been no arrests.
Russell Brand allegations prompt U.K. police to open sex crimes investigation

Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into a number of sexual offence allegations from across the country after media reporting of claims against Russell Brand.

The 48-year-old...

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UK Thread 'London - Christine McGovern, 47, Walthamstow, between June 21 and 22 1995'

Mar 21, 2025

Chilling murder of woman strangled to death in her bath unsolved 27 years later

Christine McGovern was found naked by her friend inside her flat in Walthamstow

www.mylondon.news

Chilling murder of a Walthamstow woman strangled to death in her bath remains unsolved 27 years later​

Christine McGovern was found naked by her friend inside her flat in Walthamstow


Sadly not every murder investigation ends with the killer being found and prosecuted for their crimes, even with modern DNA technology and other policing advances. One such case which has remained unsolved for 26 years now is the killing of Christine McGovern.

The 47-year-old sex-worker was found...

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UK Thread 'Patricia 'Patsy' Joyce Morris, 14, strangled with a ligature made from a pair of tights, on Hounslow Heath, London, 16 June 1980'

Apr 1, 2025

Brutal murder of Hounslow girl Patsy Morris remains a mystery almost 40 years on

9 May 2019

Patsy Morris was just 14-years-old when her body was discovered on Hounslow Heath in 1980.

Her mysterious death has been the subject of speculation since the teenager first vanished from Feltham Comprehensive School during a lunch break nearly four decades ago.

Feltham officers spent two days searching alongside her family and volunteers from the community before a police dog handler uncovered her fully-clothed corpse, on June 18, on the Heath.

A post-mortem revealed...

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UK Thread 'UK- Janet Brown, 51, research nurse, found nude, gagged, handcuffed & bludgeoned to death, @ home, Buckinghamshire,10 April '95, *DNA, new initiative*'

Apr 10, 2025

Buckinghamshire: 'Mum was handcuffed and bludgeoned to death'

A family and Thames Valley Police appeal for information on the 30th anniversary of a cold case murder.

www.bbc.com

April 10 2025
''The violent murder of mother-of-three Janet Brown "totally shattered" her family and has baffled police for three decades.
Janet, a 51-year-old research nurse in Oxford, was home alone in the Chiltern Hills, near Radnage in Buckinghamshire, when someone broke in, handcuffed her and hit her on the head repeatedly with a heavy object.''
"It's not too late. The police have DNA from the scene so they just need a name to be able to find a match."...

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UK Thread 'UK- Carolanne Jackson, 50, jewellery & antiques dealer, bound, bludgeoned & asphyxiated, @ home, Buckinghamshire, 11 April 1997, *New initiative*'

Apr 11, 2025

Both bound & murdered 18 miles apart...were these women targeted by same killer?

HANDCUFFED, gagged then bludgeoned to death in her own home, the gruesome details of Janet Brown’s murder were enough to strike fear into anyone. The mum-of-three was alone in her Radnage, Bu…

www.thesun.co.uk

1997 Jason Bennetto rbbm.

Murdered jewellery dealer lived in fear of stalker

A jewellery dealer murdered in her home by an intruder had complained to police at least twice about a stalker, it was disclosed yesterday.

www.independent.co.uk

'A jewellery dealer murdered in her home by an intruder had complained to police at least twice about a stalker, it was disclosed yesterday.

Carolanne Jackson, 50, who ran an antiques business from her home, was found tied up in the kitchen of her cottage in Wooburn Green, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on Sunday morning. She died from asphyxiation...

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UK Thread 'UK- Ashford, Kent, Singleton Lake, ‘Baby April’, approx. week old, 7lb., strangled w. tights, wrapped in a toilet roll & Motaworld bag, 3 April 1995.'

Apr 11, 2025

April 3 2025

Wrapped in bag & thrown in lake...could murder of Baby April be solved 30yrs on?

POLICE are finally hoping to solve the chilling murder of a newborn baby found wrapped in a Kleenex toilet roll bag 30 years ago. Baby April was discovered at a beauty spot in Ashford, Kent, on Apr…

www.thesun.ie

'Baby April was discovered at a beauty spot in Ashford, Kent, on April 3, 1995.'

''She had been strangled with a pair of tights then wrapped up in the toilet roll bag before being placed inside a Motaworld bag.

The tot was then thrown into the water in Singleton Lake where she was discovered by a teen couple on a walk.

Police estimated Baby April was born between March 25 and April 3, 1995 - the week before she was found dead.

They said the 7lb baby was not born with medical...

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UK citizen missing in Thailand.

https://websleuths.com/threads/thai...-of-koh-phi-phi-13-3-25.741126/#post-19343146