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...Detective Inspector Nichola Meghji, from the City of London Police, said: “This has been a long-running and complex investigation....
...Testing our wits against the twisted plots of Ann Cleeves’ novels is only one of the pleasures they afford, and The Heron’s Cry (Macmillan, £20) bristles with her customarily keen sense of locale....
...A fan of film noir and detective fiction, Wessel, who died in 2018, produced hundreds of contact sheets over his 50-year career....
...Herons listen to mud-larks with disdain and the Thames is Styx-like and “fog-wound”. Things in Jars luxuriates in this sense of full accounting....
...It barely matters, because the greatest joy is being out in a vast, heavenly arena where herons and pelicans rule and manatees get right of way....
...Detective Chief Inspector Dave Manley, from the City of London Police, said: “My concern now is that the voices of the majority of victims will not be heard in the judicial process if they do not come forward...
...Reports of fraud were getting to the point where we were almost imploding,” said Detective Inspector Teresa Russell, of the City of London police....
...While he is drifting past banks of herons and egrets, Jacobs gets reports of her dementia, imagining him to be her husband....
...Prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron, QC, opening the case against Mr Edmondson, told the Old Bailey that the senior news editor at NotW tasked private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who then hacked the phones of celebrities...
...He told Mr Edmondson that his involvement in phone hacking was “clear” and noted that there were 334 notes for private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who worked for the tabloid, to hack phones, with “Ian” written...
...Mr Bryant-Heron told the jury in his closing speech that Ms Casburn was “no shrinking violet” but her motivation in making the phone call was money as there was “no resource issue”....
...April Casburn, a detective chief inspector who managed the national financial investigations team in the Met’s counter-terrorism unit, is alleged to have asked the News of the World for money in exchange...
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