ALMOST half the race discrimination cases outstanding against the Metropolitan police for more than two years have been brought by white officers. Some say they were rejected for promotion in favour of black or Asian officers. Ray Powell, president of the National Black Police Association, said the claims were “the whining of a few unsuccessful white officers trying to test the system”.
Pakistan holds suicide-attack suspects
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PAKISTAN has arrested up to 10 people suspected of planning suicide attacks in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A government spokesman said the attacks had been planned for earlier this month and that targets had included the president’s home and the American embassy. Among those arrested were two Egyptians. All the suspects were said to be Al-Qaeda members.
Man charged with Briton’s murder
THAI police have charged a Pakistani man in connection with the murder of a Briton in the south of the country. Mark Lemetti, 25, a backpacker who was born in Inverness and educated in Hong Kong, was found in a rubber plantation in Sungai Kolok near the Malaysian border on Friday. He had been beaten with a snooker cue. Police said Lemetti’s belongings were discovered at the suspect’s house.
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Air crash kills two
TWO men were killed when their light aircraft crashed on top of cliffs in Kent yesterday. Emergency services were called to the Isle of Sheppey after witnesses reported seeing the plane disintegrate in the air.
Toddler drowns
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A BOY aged two drowned when he fell into a duck pond at a caravan park near Black Rock Sands in Porthmadog, north Wales, yesterday. He was named as Matthew Marsden from Buckley, near Mold.
Spanish blasts
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TWO small bombs exploded in resort towns in northwestern Spain yesterday, after phone calls from people claiming to represent the Basque separatist group Eta. One person was slightly injured.
British race victory
A BRITON has won a 3,100-mile race from California to New York. Bob Brown, 35, a primary school teacher from Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, was nearly three days ahead of his nearest rival.