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Paul Peachey

Paul Peachey is Crime Correspondent at the Independent

Police declined to speculate on what had happened, but confirmed that it would take some time for the remains to be identified

Body of missing policeman found after smell alarms neighbours

Researchers say the way crime has been calculated in the UK is wrong

Governments have 'overstated reductions in crime'

Inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp use water from a pond to wash for the first time following their liberation by British troops

Cannibalism 'rampant' at Nazi concentration camp, new documents r

The Great Escape

'Great Escape' team member refused compensation by British government