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Captain Kohli’s mother had demanded a probe independent of the Army or by the CBI, saying she had no faith in the Army that had declared that Sumit had committed suicide.

The Independent Police Complaints Authority report into police handling of the murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope is the first official recognition that mistakes were made, says the father of the man convicted of the murders.

Britain was once a great power. Are we now best known for oil spills, airline strikes and Simon Cowell? The Independent’s foreign correspondents reveal how the rest of the world really sees us

It has been one of America’s most baffling, most haunting cold cases – of five teenagers last seen together on a sweltering summer afternoon almost 32 years ago, playing a game of pick-up basketball in a park. They each went home for supper, before going out again, to earn a few dollars helping a local carpenter with a job. Then they vanished from the face of the earth.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of the chef Claudia Lawrence were last night searching an area close to York University after receiving “new information”. Police said the operation in the Heslington area, close to where Ms Lawrence worked, was the result of information received “in the last few days”. Ms Lawrence, 36, was last seen on the afternoon of 18 March last year.

Sophie Hannah has been trying to invent a new kind of novel. She calls it, with tongue placed firmly in cheek, “non-judgmental” crime fiction. “Everybody, from the hero detective to the worst baddie, is doing their very best given the situation,” she explains. “The crimes in my books are committed by people who can’t keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and …

Sometimes authors fall out of favour simply because they relentlessly pursue a single theme. Pennsylvania-born John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) hit on the ultimate mystery, the murder that takes place in a hermetically sealed room, and wrote variations that increased in ornate complexity, with cliffhanger chapter ends and solutions that still have readers slapping their foreheads.

The Independent Weekly journalists go where few have trodden to profile the Independent and marginal candidates standing for the Upper House.

A critical new witness was being sought in the hunt for Claudia Lawrence today as it emerged that the missing chef had spent the night with a previously unknown boyfriend just two days prior to her disappearance.

A critical new witness was being sought in the hunt for Claudia Lawrence today as it emerged that the missing chef had spent the night with a previously unknown boyfriend just two days prior to her disappearance.