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Angry dog-walkers are threatening to hang on to the bodies of murder victims unless the police act more quickly to return them. A spokesman for the Ramblers Association said their members were fed up with having to hassle the police to get the corpses back after officers had finished with their forensic inquiries.

‘We found the bodies, and the police are abusing our goodwill by holding on to them for an unacceptable length of time,’ he said. ‘Sometimes we don’t get them back at all, and when we do get them back they are often not in the condition that we found them in.’

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Posted: Jun 17th, 2009
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Police believe they are close to apprehending Britain’s most notorious queue-jumper after a nationwide hunt lasting five years. The infamous criminal, known only as ‘Q Jumper’, has carried out several daring queue jumps, even taunting the force by getting to the front of a queue of police cadets at Hendon Police College. Detective Inspector Bob Watson who leads the hunt for Q Jumper, said that he hoped to make an arrest soon; ‘This individual is a dangerous serial queue jumper who inserts himself into lawful queues ahead of others without any thought as to the consequences. He leaves behind him a trail of angry, frustrated and outraged victims, some of whom will be irritated for hours.’

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Posted: Mar 13th, 2009
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