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A detective is
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- an officer of the police who performs criminal or administrative investigations,
- in some police departments, the lowest rank among such investigators (above the lowest rank of officers and below sergeants),
- a civilian licensed to investigate information not readily available in public records (a private investigator, also called "P.I." or, in a pun on "private i.", private eye), or
- informally and primarily in fiction, any unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records.
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16th-century skeleton identified as astronomer Copernicus
The long-lost skeleton of Nicolaus Copernicus ? the 16th-century astronomer who transformed our understanding of the solar system ? has been found, Polish researchers have confirmed.Forensic detective work has successfully matched DNA samples recovered from remains in a cathedral grave with hairs retrieved from a book the scholar priest is known to have owned.The identification is the culmination of four years of investigation and centuries of speculation about the final resting place of the man who challenged the Bible and medieval teachings of the church.Copernicus' planetary observations were the first to place the sun, and not the earth, at the centre of what is now known as the solar system. His heliocentric, cosmological revolution was condemned by Martin Luther.Born in 1473 at Torun on the Vistula, Copernicus studied abroad and was made a Canon at Frombork Cathedral, in Poland. He died in 1543. His grave was unmarked.The hunt for his remains began in 2004. A Polish archaeologist, Jerzy Gassowski, started digging at the request of the regional Catholic bishop, Jacek Jezierski. The following year bones and a skull were located under floor tiles near one of the side altars in the 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral in Frombork. The lower jaw was missing. "In the two years of work, under extremely difficult conditions ? amid thousands of visitors, with earth shifting under the heavy pounding of the organ music ? we managed to locate the grave, which was badly damaged," Gassowski said.This week the archaeologist revealed he is now confident, thanks to forensic facial reconstruction of the skull, that it bears a striking resemblance to existing portraits of the astronomer.The reconstruction shows a broken nose and other features that resemble a self-portrait of Copernicus, and the skull bears a cut mark above the left eye that corresponds with a scar shown in the painting. The skull, furthermore, belonged to a man aged around 70 ? Copernicus's age when he died."In our opinion, our work led us to the discovery of Copernicus's remains but a grain of doubt remained," Gassowski said. Swedish genetics experts were called in to analyse DNA from a vertebrae, a tooth and femur bone. The material was matched and compared to that taken from two hairs retrieved from a book that the 16th-century Polish astronomer once owned. The tome is kept in the library of Sweden's Uppsala University. "We collected four hairs and two of them are from the same individual as the bones," Marie Allen, a geneticist, said. Copernicus, who studied eclipses, came up with his idea that the sun was at the centre of the universe between 1508 and 1514, and during those years wrote a manuscript commonly known as Commentariolus (Little Commentary). His theory prepared the way such scientists such as Galileo, Descartes and Newton.AstronomyForensic scienceArchaeologyPolandSwedenGeneticsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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Police officer tells jury of moment sobbing Shannon Matthews was found under bed in flat
Police who discovered the missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews after a 24-day search told a jury yesterday that she whimpered and burst into tears on her release from inside a bed drawer, while her suspected kidnapper screamed at officers and tried to bite them.Detective Constable Paul Kettlewell said that a child's voice sobbing "stop it, you're frightening me" had alerted a search party to what they found in what was initially thought to be an empty flat just over a mile from the nine-year-old schoolgirl's home."It was quite surreal," PC Ian Mosley told Leeds crown court, where Shannon's mother, Karen Matthews, 33, and 40-year-old Michael Donovan deny kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice by causing a £3.2m police inquiry. "We were not expecting to find Shannon, and then this little girl pulled herself out from the other side of the bed." He said she blinked at the roomful of officers and said: "I'm Shannon."The raid on Donovan's flat in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire, followed a decision by police to check all relatives' homes, still in the belief that they were dealing with a real and potentially fatal child kidnap. Officers had intended only a routine inquiry, but they broke down the door when there was no reply and neighbours assured them that Donovan, whose nephew Craig Meehan had become Matthews' partner, was at home.Kettlewell told the jury that after an initial search, he and four colleagues thought the flat was empty. He said: "I didn't go into the bedroom until I heard a child's voice. A colleague turned towards me and, as I was beginning to think perhaps the voice came from inside the bed, there was a noise as a small girl started to emerge. She was frightened and crying."Julian Goose, QC, prosecuting, asked him: "Did you say to the little girl, whom we now know was Shannon, where Mike was? Did she say 'Mike's where I was, he's under the bed'?" Kettlewell answered: "That's correct."The court heard from a third officer, PC Matthew Troake, who said he spotted Donovan curled up further into the drawer beneath the bed where Shannon had been squashed. He said: "I looked down into the hole where she'd come from and I saw a man, who I now know to be Michael Donovan, looking back at me. He was laid facing me in a foetal position."Donovan was arrested but refused to come out and was eventually dragged from the drawer screaming and trying to bite the police, the court heard. Troake said he continued to struggle as he was handcuffed, and banged his head on the wall as he was hauled down the narrow stairs from the first-floor flat.The court was told that after refusing to walk and being carried to a police van, Donovan subsided and said: "Get Karen down here, we've got a plan. We're sharing the money - £50,000."The officers denied suggestions from Alan Conrad QC, for Donovan, that he had been ill-treated in the excitement of the moment after the unexpected end to a hugely-publicised search. Conrad said to Mosley: "A number of you banged his head against the floor, another officer kneeled on his thigh, all the time shouting at him 'Now we've got you, you bastard'. On the way out, his head was banged against the wall, wasn't it? I suggest he became the focus of hostility by police at that time. The man who was responsible for kidnapping and keeping Shannon in that flat, that's how you perceived it?" Mosley replied "No sir," to each suggestion.The court was told that officers investigated the flat's loft after hearing a thud, and found an elasticated rope with a loop at the end, which is alleged to have been used to restrain Shannon when Donovan was out shopping. The jury has already heard that a list of written rules was found by police, apparently instructing the schoolgirl to keep quiet and obey Donovan at all times. The trial continues today.Shannon Matthews kidnapping trialguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Detective found 'concealed' blade
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Doctor alerted police to 'distressed' mother hours before child killings
The family of a baby and his two-year-old brother who were stabbed to death at home expressed their complete devastation yesterday at the loss of their "beautiful, innocent" children.A senior police officer described the scene inside the home in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, as "something no human being should ever have to see in their life". Police and ambulance crews who attended the house have been offered counselling. The boys, Romario Mullings-Sewell, two, and his three-month-old brother Delayno, were discovered at 6pm on Wednesday, a few hours after a family doctor had called police to express concerns at the erratic behaviour of their mother, Jael Mullings. The brothers had single stab wounds to their abdomens.As Mullings, 21, was arrested on suspicion of murder and sectioned under the Mental Health Act yesterday it emerged the family was known to social services, though the children were not on the at-risk register. The admission that the family was on the radar of social services is likely to once again focus attention on the efficiency of child protection measures in the wake of the death of Baby P in Haringey, north London.The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was assessing whether to launch a full inquiry after it was contacted by Greater Manchester police. The IPCC is already to investigate whether two officers who called at the house following the doctor's telephone call could have done anything to prevent the deaths.Teddy bears and floral tributes were left at the house yesterday as neighbours and friends struggled to understand what had happened. Melissa Bell, a 23-year-old friend of Mullings, said: "They were just gorgeous, beautiful, the three-month-old had just started to get a personality of his own."Details of the hours leading up to the murders emerged yesterday. Greater Manchester police received a phone call at 1.20pm on Wednesday from a GP who had been contacted by Mullings and was concerned for her and her children. Officers arrived at the house 90 minutes later as they had been given four separate addresses for Mullings. Unable to get an answer, they left after checking the back of the house and the surrounding area.A neighbour told police Mullings had been pushing a double buggy at a nearby shopping centre in a distressed state. Mullings then went to her mother's house. A police spokesman said: "While we were making these inquiries, we got a 999 call which suggested that the children were back in the house, dead."At 5.45pm paramedics were called to Mullings' home where they found the bodies of the children. The boys' family described their complete devastation in a statement released through Greater Manchester police."This family had two beautiful, innocent children called Romario, who was just two years old, and his brother, Delayno, who had only been born in July this year," they said."We ... are struggling to come to terms with the tragic events ... We cannot even begin to understand what happened. We hope that wherever the boys have gone to, they are at peace."Mullings and her children were known to social services but it is understood they were signed off from their care in January Pauline Newman, the director of children's services at Manchester city council, said an urgent review of her team's involvement with the family was under way. "This is an appalling tragedy and we offer our sincere condolences to the family and friends of these two young children," she said."Children's social care were not currently involved with the family, however in recent months the family were in receipt of community support services including nursery and childminding provision, whilst mother was attending higher education classes."Detective Superintendent Shaun Donnellan said his officers had been met by a scene no human should ever witness. The family, he said, were shellshocked."This is a lovely family, a fairly close family with two young children who everybody adored and doted on." He said police were alerted because people were worried by Mullings' demeanour and because an "unpleasant" situation was arising.Neighbours said Mullings had been troubled in recent months. They noticed her shouting in the street and talking to herself on Wednesday morning.Sandra Barnes, 41, said: "She was shouting 'Are you going to bomb me? Are you going to shoot me?' People were bringing their kids inside."Donna Rawson, 31, said: "At around 4pm all the kids were outside as they were getting ready for a school disco. She was on her own shouting at them asking if they were laughing at her. She was not with her kids. It makes me feel sick what has happened."TimelineMorning Neighbours notice that Romario and Delayno Mullings-Sewell's mother, Jael Mullings, shouting in the street and talking to herself.1.20pm A family doctor calls police to express concerns at her erratic behaviour.2.50pm With four separate addresses for Mullings, police officers eventually arrive at the boys' home in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, but leave after getting no answer. They later receive a 999 call to say the children are in the house.5.45pm Police and paramedics reach the house, where they find the children's bodies.Later Mullings is arrested and sectioned under the Mental Health Act.Child protectionMental healthguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Shannon's mother like Jekyll and Hyde, court hears
Karen Matthews switched characters like Jekyll and Hyde as her neighbours and police hunted vainly for the schoolgirl daughter whose kidnap she had organised, a court heard yesterday.The 33-year-old surprised friends by changing within minutes from a tearful mother in public, to privately sniggering about wanting sex with one of the police officers stationed outside her house."When the police and press were present she came over as all upset and withdrawn," said Natalie Brown, a neighbour on the Moorside estate in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, where Shannon - who was nine at the time - went missing in January for 24 days. "Indoors, she acted as if it was a normal day. She helped me clean the house and make cuppas, laughing and joking."Matthews and 40-year-old Michael Donovan of Batley Carr, near Dewsbury, deny the kidnap and false imprisonment of Shannon, as well as perverting the course of justice by triggering a £3.2m police hunt.The schoolgirl was found in Donovan's flat where she had been drugged with travel pills and anti-stress tablets and tethered to a roof beam when Donovan - the uncle of Karen Matthews' partner, Craig Meehan - went out.The prosecution case focused yesterday on the "odd behaviour" of Shannon's mother, who was described by Philip Goose QC, in the opening speech for the Crown, as a "consummate, skilful and convincing liar". Brown told Donovan's counsel, Alan Conrad QC, that Matthews had behaved "like a little child" in making the sex comment about the policeman, whose "cute bum" had been pointed out by another woman in a group of neighbours supporting Matthews.The detective who informed Matthews that Sharon had been found - by officers who broke down Donovan's door and discovered the child with him in a drawer beneath a bed - said he was surprised by her lack of reaction. Det Con Alexander Grummitt told the jury of five women and seven men at Leeds crown court that Matthews had been more interested in the ringtone of his mobile phone, the song Crazy by Gnarls Barclay."Karen said: 'I like that ringtone - you must Bluetooth or text it to me,'" he said. She had then failed to ask any questions about how Shannon was on a 30-minute drive to Dewsbury police station."We've just found your daughter and you ask about the ringtone on the phone. In my opinion it just wasn't right," he said. "The strange thing was she didn't ask me any questions like where did you find her."Det Supt Andy Brennan, who led the search for Shannon, said that detectives busy with murders, rapes and other serious crime had been diverted to join the hunt. He said that until the child was found he had never doubted police were working on a genuine missing child inquiry. Julie Bushby, chairwoman of the Moorside Tenants and Residents Association, said that huge efforts had been made by local volunteers to help the search. Neighbours had gone out looking at night, companies had donated T-shirts and leaflets, and Karen Matthews had joined a candlelit vigil and was helping plans to plant commemorative shrubs and trees in her garden, an event due to take place on the day Shannon was found.On Wednesday the court heard that West Yorkshire police mobilised 200 officers during the search for Shannon. Officers searched 1,800 properties, checked every park in Dewsbury, stopped up to 1,760 cars and passersby a night, and drafted in three-quarters of the UK's police dogs.The trial continues.Shannon Matthews kidnapping trialguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
50 injuries, 60 visits - failures that led to the death of Baby P
Ministers last night ordered an urgent nationwide review of child protection procedures in the wake of the death of a 17-month-old boy at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and another man. The three were convicted at the Old Bailey in a case that has many echoes of the terrible death of Victoria Climbié, whose murder eight years ago, in the same north London borough, Haringey, led to widespread changes in child protection.The woman, 27, and her boyfriend, 32, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and another man, Jason Owen, 36, were convicted of causing or allowing the death of Baby P, whose identity is also protected by a court order. All three were cleared of murder. The trial heard that the boy, who was on the child protection register, suffered more than 50 injuries during an eight-month period in which he was seen 60 times by social and health workers, but according to lawyers still did not pass the threshold to be taken into care.Lord Laming, the child protection expert who led the inquiry into the Climbié case, spoke last night of his distress that another child known to welfare and health services should suffer such a violent death in the same borough. "What I had hoped was that Haringey would develop services that would make it an examplar of good practice," Lord Laming told the Guardian. "Although our recommendations were not directed only at Haringey, I had hoped that they would be a sufficient stimulus for Haringey to say 'never again'."The children's minister, Beverley Hughes, has now asked Lord Laming to prepare an independent report on how his recommendations are being addressed nationally. She added: "This is a very tragic case that makes all of us question how someone could do such a terrible thing to a child and set out to deceive the very people trying to help."The paediatric pathologist who examined Baby P after his death said that he never seen such damage done to a child. The court heard that a tooth must have been swallowed after a violent blow to the head, fingernails were missing, eight ribs had been fractured and chocolate was smeared over him to cover his bruises when social workers visited.Two days before the boy died, in August last year, a paediatrician, Dr Sabah al-Zayatt, allegedly failed to spot that he had a broken back. A full examination was not carried out because the child seemed "cranky", the doctor noted. Her contract has not been renewed by Great Ormond Street hospital, said the hospital's chief executive, Dr Jane Collins, who added that al-Zayatt was appealing against the decision. "Clearly we didn't get things right - a child died," said Dr Collins."More should have been done when the child was seen by a paediatrician two days before he died." Two social workers and a lawyer have been given written warnings but there have been no sackings or resignations over the case, said Sharon Shoesmith, chair of the Haringey local safeguarding children board. "I can only begin to tell you the shock and horror there is across Haringey over this," she said. "The very sad fact is that you cannot stop people who are determined to kill children." She added that "lessons will be learned" and that, with hindsight, different actions could have been taken. Police investigating the case said that the mother had persistently covered up the abuse. Detective Superintendent Caroline Bates, of Scotland Yard's child abuse investigation command, said: "She repeatedly chose to mislead professionals in order to enable the continued abuse of her son. We cannot guarantee a child will not be the victim of abuse by his carers, but we continue to investigate allegations of child abuse and to assess the risks to children based on information available." The three defendants will be sentenced on December 15, and face maximum sentences of up to 14 years in prison.Care professionals denied yesterday that the case showed the system established after the Climbié inquiry did not work. Maggie Atkinson, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, said: "While this case is clearly an individual tragedy, it is not a symptom of a broken child-protection system ... This work is complex and difficult and sadly we cannot eliminate risk or the miscalculation of risk. Not every tragedy can be prevented but we must continue to strive to do so - we owe this child and those who loved him that much."The foundation set up in the wake of the Climbié case called for a full inquiry. Mor Dioum, director of the Victoria Climbié Foundation, said: "This case is worse than Climbié. The signs were there but were not followed." There had been lapses in information sharing between the agencies and the child had not been put first, he suggested. "I do not think they can scapegoat an individual in this case. We must look at the system as a whole." Wes Cuell, acting chief executive of the NSPCC, said last night: "Even with substantial child-protection reforms, spotting the danger to an individual child remains fraught with difficulty - especially when the child is too young to speak out."On average, 47 preschool children are killed every year, mostly by parents or carers. Some of them not known to local agencies before they are killed.Child protectionCrimeLondonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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Kristallnacht remnants unearthed near Berlin
A huge dumping ground for the destroyed remains of Jewish property plundered during Kristallnacht has been found north of Berlin by an investigative journalist.The site, which is the size of four football pitches, in Brandenburg, contains an extensive array of personal and ceremonial items looted during orchestrated nationwide riots against Jewish property and places of worship on the night of November 9 1938. It is believed the goods were brought by rail to the outskirts of the village and dumped on designated land.Yaron Svoray, the Israeli journalist who made the discovery, said it was a happy coincidence that he had stumbled across the artefacts so close to the 70th anniversary of the pogrom, also known as the Night of Broken Glass."I wasn't fully aware of the historical significance of the find until it was pointed out to me by a historian," Svoray told the Guardian. "We were looking for something completely different when we came across all these items and trinkets."Svoray, a private detective turned journalist who has a list of wartime-related investigations to his name, was researching a story on the nearby hunting lodge of the Nazi Luftwaffe commander, Hermann Göring, when the local forester, who had been a young boy at the time of the Kristallnacht, pointed out the rubbish dump. Under mounds of earth Svoray uncovered the first items within two hours. "The locals of this site have basically been living with this dark hidden secret for 70 years," he said.Among the items he found were glass bottles engraved with the Star of David, Mezuzahs, painted window sills, and the armrests of chairs found in synagogues. He also found an ornamental swastika. His search continues, under the protection of bodyguards after threats to his life.Svoray has been wary of making his find public because the site might attract far-right treasure hunters. "There's no treasure as such here, but there's still the danger of it turning into some skinhead circus eBay special," he said, urging the government to secure the site. The British historian Martin Gilbert, author of Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction, which illustrates how the event paved the way for the Holocaust, marking the moment when race hate became sanctioned by the German state, said the size of the rubbish dump was not a surprise considering the scale of the destruction that took place- about 1,400 synagogues, other Jewish religious establishments as well as people's homes were completely, or partially, destroyed."Most of the interiors of the synagogues - seats, cupboards, pulpits etc - were taken away as loot. Most of the interiors of ransacked Jewish shops were likewise taken away as booty by neighbours and looters. Other interiors were set on fire. It will be interesting to see precisely what the items are."Tanja Ronen-Löhnberg, an educational historian at Ghetto Fighters' House, a Holocaust research centre in Galilee, Israel, said the items' authenticity had been verified. "We don't want to falsify history, so we sent historians who confirmed these items belonged to the time."The centre plans to organise a project for German and Israeli children to search together through the remains.Yaron SvorayThe son of Holocaust survivors, Yaron Svoray is a detective, Nazi hunter, FBI operative and journalist best known for his undercover six-month investigation of German neo-Nazis in the 1990s. In Hitler's Shadow, the book based on that investigation, was turned into a 1995 film. In 2005, he found the hidden possessions of Jewish prisoners of a concentration camp in Poland; his hunt for Nazi-era diamonds earned him recognition and led to the film Blood from a Stone (History Channel), as did his dive in Lake Toplitz, Austria, to recover forged Nazi money. He has also carried out an investigation into snuff filmsPrior to stumbling across the Kristallnacht rubbish tip, he was working on a film about Göring's hunting lodge, Karinhall, near Berlin, as well as a film on the Odessa organisation, which helped Nazi war criminals escape to South America at the end of the second world war.Second world warGermanyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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