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The True Crime Podcast to Get you Through the Horrors of COVID-19: RedHanded

Posted on 25th January 202126th January 2021 by Siobhan Dale

An interview with Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire, the hosts of the spine-tingling podcast RedHanded.

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Students fearful as pre-teen gang rampage local streets

Posted on 27th November 202027th November 2020 by Ada Dajani

The Gryphon spoke to students in Leeds about the events of the last week. Following the recent reports of a machete wielding pre-teen gang in Hyde Park, West Yorkshire Police have confirmed that four arrests […]

Armed Police Arrest Man in Leeds City Centre

Posted on 12th March 202013th March 2020 by Connor Ohalloran

Last Thursday at approximately 6.30am, witnesses report seeing armed police officers entering the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Wellington Street, as part of a siege to arrest a man on suspicion for firearms offences.  In the […]

Don’t Lock Up Terrorists… Deradicalise Them Instead

Posted on 17th February 202017th February 2020 by Natasha Peters

On Monday of last week Sudesh Amman appallingly stabbed two people in Streatham, South London before he was shot dead by the police. It was quickly announced to be a terrorist attack of an Islamic […]

Immune from Justice: Harry Dunn Case

Posted on 21st October 201921st October 2019 by Isabel Ralphs

In the latest challenge to the so-called, ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the US, the wife of a US diplomat has fled the UK after being implicated in the tragic death of 19-year-old Harry […]

Staff at The Skyrack Pub Ambushed by Armed Robbers

Posted on 5th March 201917th March 2019 by Megan Ardis

Three masked robbers ambushed staff at The Skyrack pub in Headingley at around 1.45am on Monday (4th March). The men came armed with an axe, a hammer, and a knife. They first confronted two staff […]

FGM in the UK: A Silent Crime

Posted on 16th February 201926th March 2019 by Michael Keating

In 2003, laws concerning female genital mutilation (FGM) were updated, making it a specific offense in UK law to not only conduct FGM but also to aid or assist in someone else performing it. This […]

Burglaries up by 52% in Hyde Park and Headingley Since 2015

Posted on 3rd November 20187th November 2019 by Megan Ardis

As first year comes to an end in Leeds, and former-freshers are thrust from the comforts of University accommodation, most flock to Hyde Park to seek refuge. Hyde Park has, simultaneously, both a great and […]

In Manchester and Leeds, are austerity measures leading to rising crime rates?

Posted on 10th September 201826th March 2019 by Megan Houston

Police cuts across the UK have been an increasingly discussed issue across the last year. It is one that has also become increasingly politicised with the Labour Party frequently attacking Tory austerity policies that have […]

The Cohen Conundrum: Criminal Conspiracy or Partisan Politics?

Posted on 2nd September 201826th March 2019 by Megan Houston

The President of the United States has been named as a co-conspirator to federal crimes. Not by tabloids or besmirched rivals, but in a court of law, as a plea accepted by prosecutors and delivered […]

The Crime Behind The Bitcoin Craze

Posted on 23rd February 2018 by The Gryphon Web Editor

A common and prolific criticism of cryptocurrencies is their vulnerability and susceptibility to cyber corruption. There is good reason behind this concern, too; just this week, Europol director Rob Wainwright pronounced that there has been […]

Joint Enterprise: Law and Disorder in the UK

Posted on 2nd February 20182nd February 2018 by The Gryphon Web Editor

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 2014, Alex Henry was convicted of murder by a law called ‘Joint Enterprise’. The basic premise of his case is as follows: Alex and his friend Cameron – whom he had befriended not long […]

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