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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Yahoo
TikTok video shows Tesla car fleeing Orpington car park and crashing into vehicles
A shocking video shared on TikTok appears to show a black Tesla attempting to flee a car park in Orpington. The incident is said to have taken place in the afternoon of Friday, June 13, at The Nugent Shopping Park in St Mary Cray. The footage, posted by TikTok user @Happydays4980, shows the vehicle crashing into several cars before eventually leaving the car park. According to the caption, a man had allegedly attacked a woman with a machete and stolen her handbag before making off in the vehicle. The Metropolitan Police has not yet confirmed any details. Anyone with information is urged to contact police.
BreakingNews.ie
10-06-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Court no show for teen after man's fingers hacked off in machete and ammonia attack
A judge has ordered the arrest of a 17-year-old boy who failed to answer bail over a machete, hammer and ammonia attack on a man who had two fingers "amputated" in Dublin last month. The youth, who cannot be named because he is a minor, is accused of assault causing harm to a man, aged 29, and burglary in Clondalkin, Dublin, on May 9th. He was granted bail with strict conditions on May 12th at the Dublin Children's Court but following four-week adjournment he did not return for his next scheduled hearing. Advertisement The case had been listed directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions to be outlined. Noting the youth had not turned up, Judge Brendan Toale issued a bench warrant for his arrest. At his bail hearing last month, Garda Charles McPartland submitted that this case was on the more serious end of the scale for these offences and undoubtedly would proceed on indictment to the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers. He alleged that on May 9th, the injured party was pursued by multiple armed males through the Bawnogue area of Clondalkin. Advertisement He attempted to flee from them on foot until he ran into an independent third-party member of the public's home at Kilcronan View. The court heard that while running into the house, the injured man told the owner to ring gardaí and an ambulance, before he was followed into the property by three or four males. A 999 call from a witness alerted gardaí, who also received a second call believed to have been from the victim who seemed to be hyperventilating, the court heard. Garda McPartland said the house owner reported hearing the man inside shouting "leave me alone, leave me alone". Advertisement Objecting to bail, the investigating officer cited the seriousness of the case and the strength of evidence, which was said to have included CCTV footage from the area where the teen and others were looking for the man. Members of the group were alleged to have been carrying a machete or a claw hammer. The contested bail hearing was told that when the man fled into the house, he went into a child's upstairs bedroom where he was "violently assaulted, sustaining life-altering injuries". Judge Toale heard the injured party sustained two fingers, with his thumb and index finger on his left being cut off; his left middle finger was cut to the bone and "hanging on by skin only". Advertisement It was alleged he suffered a severe laceration to the back of his head, three more to his left leg and another three cuts to his left arm. The garda revealed that the injured party also had an acidic liquid, suspected to be ammonia, thrown over him during the assault. He was taken to hospital for immediate medical intervention, including surgery to attempt to re-attach his amputated fingers, which was unsuccessful. An examination of the scene showed blood in the child's room where the man had fled. The door handle on the inside had "snapped", and the outside handle was "bent out of shape", which Garda McPartland asserted was due to the force used to open the door. Advertisement An off-duty nurse who tried to assist the injured man afterwards also needed to go to hospital due to inhalation of airborne ammonia, the court was told. Questioned by defence barrister, Doireann McDonagh, instructed by solicitor Simon Fleming, Garda McPartland said three people had weapons, but the machete caused the injuries described. It was not alleged that the teenager had the machete. Judge Toale noted from the barrister's submission that the youth could face a lengthy period in custody and away from his family, awaiting trial. At the bail hearing his father told the judge he wanted his son to get back into education to complete the Leaving Certificate. Ireland Man's fingers hacked off in machete, hammer and am... Read More Counsel submitted that the teen would obey conditions and that there was no evidence he would be involved in witness intimidation. The judge set bail and ordered him to have no contact with witnesses, to obey an 11pm-6am curfew at his home, stay out of the housing estate where the incident occurred, and attend a youth service or education. The youth was warned that breaking the terms would result in custody. Two men have also been charged and face separate proceedings on connected charges.
Daily Mail
08-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Terrifying moment customer is caught up in machete attack at Melbourne shopping centre as stores plunged into lockdown
A woman filmed the moment a Kmart locked customers inside its store to save customers from a machete attack. A group of five to six teenage boys, armed with machetes, were seen fighting in Caroline Springs Shopping Centre, in Melbourne 's west, about 6.40pm on Friday. A Victoria Police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia the boys had fled by the time officers arrived at the scene. CCTV footage showed shoppers and retailers as they scrambled to avoid the armed group. Ari was shopping in Kmart when the attack unfolded. 'We're going into lockdown because someone has a machete,' she told viewers as other customers screamed in the background. Several customers were confused as Kmart locked its doors, fearing one of the machete-wielders was inside the store. An employee explained to Ari the attack had happened '10, 20 minutes ago' and Kmart had been cleared but 'security wants the whole shopping centre shut down'. Kmart workers urged customers to stay inside the locked store but some still chose to duck under the roller shutter. Daily Mail Australia has contacted Kmart for further comment. Several other shoppers affected by the lockdown shared news of the incident as it unfolded. Pictured is an outtake from CCTV footage obtained by Nine News depicting a young male believed to have been involved in the incident on Friday night 'Another machete attack while I was getting my noodle on,' one TikTok user wrote in a video filmed inside the shopping centre as the lockdown announcement played over the loudspeakers. While no injuries were reported, the incident called into question the effectiveness of a ban on the sale of machetes by the Victorian government. The ban followed a clash between suspected rival youth gangs alleged to have been carrying the weapons at Northland shopping centre in Preston on May 25. Footage from inside the popular mall depicted shoppers running for cover as a group of seven males, aged between 15 and 21, squared-off. The following day Premier Jacinta Allan announced her government would bring forward the machete ban until a permanent ban takes effect on September 1. 'In Victoria, community safety comes first. We must never let places we meet become places we fear,' Ms Allan said last Monday. 'I hate these knives, and I will keep introducing as many laws as it takes to get them off our streets, out of our shops and out of our lives.' Investigations into the Caroline Springs incident remain ongoing.
Telegraph
06-06-2025
- Telegraph
Migrant machete attacker allowed to stay in Britain
A machete attacker jailed for four years has avoided deportation because of European Union rules. Daniel Koopmann, 24, a German citizen, claimed to have arrived in the UK in 2014 and was granted indefinite leave to remain in 2020 before Brexit. However, in July 2020 he slashed his victim across the forearms in a machete attack. Then, after his arrest, he intimidated his victim over Snapchat and Facebook in an attempt to get the case dropped. The Home Office sought to deport him once he was jailed but he successfully appealed to an upper tribunal which ruled his case should be re-heard because a lower court had failed to take sufficient account of immigration rules for EU citizens. Another, lower court will now have to reconsider his case. The case, disclosed in court papers, is the latest example uncovered by The Telegraph in which illegal migrants or convicted foreign criminals have been able to remain in the UK or halt their deportations. Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has announced plans to curb judges' powers to block deportations with new legally-enforced 'common sense' rules to clarify how judges interpret human rights laws and strengthen the public interest test. Koopmann was 19 at the time of the attack when he and another unidentified attacker ambushed their victim as he walked outside a primary school in Northampton at night. While the other attacker held the victim from behind, Koopman swung a machete at him once and cut him across both forearms. In the days that followed, Koopman began a campaign of threatening social media posts in a bid to scare his victim into keeping quiet. They included videos of driving past his address with the caption 'talk get stitches'. Another read: 'Cool your snitching I'm back out now – you better drop the case you silly boy.' In sentencing, His Honour Judge Rupert Mayo told Koopman: 'These threats posted on social media get around instantly. These threats are even more sinister when they are shared and seen by hundreds of your contacts. A custodial sentence is inevitable.' 'Genuine, present' threat Koopmann initially appealed his deportation to a lower immigration tribunal which rejected his claim, saying his conduct represented 'a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat affecting one of the fundamental interests of society.' The judge had stated: 'He has shown a disregard for the law and he still fails to acknowledge his own criminality.' However, an upper tribunal has found the judge erred in law and ordered a fresh hearing. It was claimed the previous judge had failed to conduct an assessment of the proportionality of his expulsion as required by European citizen immigration regulations. Gang member not deported over EU rules It follows a similar case where a migrant gang member convicted of manslaughter after the murder of an 18-year-old could not be deported because of EU rules. William George, 28, a semi-professional footballer, was a member of a gang of 10 men convicted of killing Abdul Hafidah, 18, in front of rush hour commuters in Manchester in May 2016. George, a Belgian who moved to Britain with his parents at the age of eight, was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter for his part in the assault. In 2018 he was served with deportation papers, which said he had a 'real risk' of reoffending. Home Office officials lost a six-year legal battle to remove George from the UK, despite him being associated with Manchester's notorious AO gang. Under Brussels directives, which applied until Brexit, EU nationals who lived in Britain for an extended time could only be deported 'on imperative grounds of public security'.
ABC News
05-06-2025
- ABC News
Canberra man accused of attempted murder with machete denied bail
A man accused of using a 25-inch machete to sever three fingers from an associate's hand has had his bid for freedom refused by the ACT Supreme Court. Zachery Norton, 30, is facing a charge of attempted murder over a violent altercation in September last year at a Wanniassa home, where police allege he had been a squatter. It is alleged Mr Norton used a machete from beside his bed to attack the man, who he had discovered going to the toilet in a cardboard box in the kitchen of the property. Court documents show the alleged victim was first struck in the back of the head, causing a 15-centimetre cut and a fracture. He was then struck on the hand twice, severing three fingers on his left hand and severely injuring his wrist, the documents show. The man underwent a 14-hour surgery and was in a coma for four days. On Thursday, the ACT Supreme Court heard the man's fingers have now been reattached but have limited function. Mr Norton has been in custody since he was arrested by police while trying to board a bus headed from Canberra to Yass in November last year. At the time, he told police he did not have the option of calling police about the alleged victim, because he feared the man. Chief Justice Lucy McCallum said she was aware of a moral code among a certain social milieu that applied the principle of "we don't call the police" and a fear of being labelled "a dog". Mr Norton applied for bail arguing that three special circumstances applied to his case, including that he should be freed to care for his mother, who the court heard was of poor health. He also argued there would be an unreasonable delay before his future trial and that his actions could in part be explained by self-defence. Chief Justice McCallum said that despite court restraints, effort was made to prioritise matters involving young Aboriginal men and that any delay would not be significant. She said Mr Norton's arguments did not amount to special circumstances and refused his application for bail. He will remain in custody until his next court appearance in July.
