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Martin Brunt
@skymartinbrunt
Sky News Crime Correspondent on the hunt for news stories and a little levity on a grim beat. New book available: amzn.eu/d/0SwQNXZ. And podcaster:
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Joined November 2009
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    #Coronation One of six Republic supporters arrested by police near Trafalgar Square.
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    #Madeleine Home Office ministers have approved £150,000 continued funding for Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
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    Pros: PC Harper left with most awful injuries from which he died. Uniform stripped from his body. He died totally naked apart from socks and boots. A completely senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty.
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    #Assange Judge: I reject argument you were living in prison conditions. Difficult to imagine more serious example of this offence. Sentence 50 weeks.
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    #Coronation Supporters of anti-monarchy group Republic apparently arrested on their way to designated protest site at Trafalgar Square.
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    #Madeleine Home Office approves another six months of funding - around £150,000 - for Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The probe has cost more than £11m so far.
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    Pros: Another motorist thought there was a bloodied deer attached to the car. PC Harper was barely alive when he became untangled but died soon after where he lay. Fellow officers tried desperately to save him.
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    #Assange Def: His asylum was granted by Ecuador and UN said it was wrong of Sweden and UK not to recognise it.
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    #Assange Def: He and his lawyers very much alive to risk of rendition from Sweden to US. Sweden had surrendered two suspects to Egypt, “a country well known to practise torture with the assistance of US.
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    #EvertonFC Police have scrapped an investigation into child sex allegations against a former Everton footballer. The player was arrested by Greater Manchester Police two years ago. The club confirmed at the time it had suspended the player pending the outcome.
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    Pros: Two officers responded to report of theft of a quad bike from private house. The three defendants admit conspiracy to steal the bike. Two officers had finished shift, but they responded because they thought they could help and were close by.
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    #PCYvonneFletcher #Justice 40 years on, supports remember the officer shot dead from within the Libyan embassy as she policed anti-Gaddafi protest. Campaigners say they are close to launching a private prosecution of a suspect, a former Libyan minister.
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    #diamondrobbery A sign of the anger among jewellers who were victims of the heist.