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Adam Lusher

Adam Lusher has been a journalist at The Independent since 2015. During this time he has reported on subjects ranging from terror attacks to post-Brexit racism.

A file photo of the BBC presenter Jill Dando. A former police officer has claimed the gun used to kill her was 'used again years later'
Crime

Who killed Jill Dando? The main theories explained

Europe

How two-time French President Emmanuel Macron met his wife Brigitte

Americas

The origins of 'Happy Holidays' - and why it makes people so angry

Arms deals brought Adnan Khasgoggi a personal fortune estimated at £2.4 billion, a superyacht later sold to Donald Trump, and a personal bodyguard nicknamed Mr Kill
Long Reads

Adnan Khashoggi: arms dealer, 'whoremonger' and modern Gatsby

Texas state representative Jessica Farrar
US politics

Texas anti-masturbation bill moves closer to becoming law

Education News

Grammar school plan may force comprehensive to close, campaigners say

British mother Laleh Shahravesh pictured with daughter Paris
Middle East

Woman detained in Dubai for calling love rival a 'horse' is freed

Jean-Claude Juncker nearly set fire to the Rwandan president's wife during a genocide commemoration ceremony
News Videos

Jean-Claude Juncker nearly sets Rwanda's first lady on fire

The London club were relegated from the Premier League earlier this month
Americas

Fulham fan's 'Come on You Whites' number plate banned for racism in US

Theresa May with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November
Home News

UK accused of 'putting profit before lives' in Saudi arms sales case

Redoshi, renamed Sally Smith, in the 1930s US Department of Agriculture public information film
Long Reads

Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa

Bomb damage near the Tavern in the Town in New Street on 21 November 1974
Home News

Birmingham pub bombing victims unlawfully killed by IRA, inquest finds

This was GCHQ’s secret London base for more than 65 years
Home News

The secret GCHQ spy base between the pub and Starbucks

Home News

The secret GCHQ spy base between the pub and Starbucks

This was GCHQ’s secret London base for more than 65 years
Theresa Glover holds up a photograph of her son, Ian, who died at the age 20
Crime

The Hillsborough families’ 30-year fight for justice continues

A crime scene in Edmonton, London – which saw a spate of stabbings this month
Crime

Lone knifeman may have stabbed five people in random London attacks

Katie Barratt has been allowed to return to the police despite referring to takeaway staff as ‘f****** P****’
Home News

PC wins job back after claiming ‘f****** P***’ is ‘not worst racism’

Turkish police secure the area in front of the Kayseri airport entrance in Kayseri, on Tuesday
Europe

Police officer 'shoots self and colleague' inside Turkish airport

Turkish police secure the area in front of the Kayseri airport entrance in Kayseri, on Tuesday
Europe

Police officer 'shoots self and colleague' inside Turkish airport

UK Politics

Brexit has ceased to be 'will of the people', new poll suggests

The former president of Peru after his arrest for public drunkenness
Americas

Peru’s former president arrested for public drunkenness in California

Watching hen harriers ‘sky dancing’ is a natural wonder
News

Is it time to even up the balance of power on England’s grouse moors?

The hen harrier is 'barely hanging on as a breeding bird in England', according to the RSPB
News

Endangered hen harriers 'being wiped out by illegal killing'

Lee Pollard and Sharon Patterson outside the Old Bailey during their trial
Crime

Police officer lovers guilty of sabotaging child abuse investigations

Gavin Williamson leaves following the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on 5 March
UK Politics

Fury at Willamson over 'grossly inappropriate' Bloody Sunday remarks

Soldiers taking cover behind armoured cars during the 1972 march
Home News

One former soldier to be prosecuted over Bloody Sunday

Peter Morrison, who died in 1995, was said to have ‘a penchant for small boys’
UK Politics

Thatcher protected MP suspected of abusing children, MI5 files reveal

Gavin Williamson leaves following the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on 5 March
UK Politics

Fury at Willamson over 'grossly inappropriate' Bloody Sunday remarks

Soldiers taking cover behind armoured cars during the 1972 march
Home News

One former soldier to be prosecuted over Bloody Sunday

Peter Morrison, who died in 1995, was said to have ‘a penchant for small boys’
UK Politics

Thatcher protected MP suspected of abusing children, MI5 files reveal

The Central Criminal Court, commonly referred to as The Old Bailey, in central London.
Crime

First ever person convicted for FGM in UK jailed for 13 years

Crime

First ever person convicted for FGM in UK jailed for 13 years

The Central Criminal Court, commonly referred to as The Old Bailey, in central London.
Pilot Andrew Hill, who is on trial over the Shoreham Airshow crash, arrives at the Old Bailey in London
Crime

Pilot who crashed plane doing trick while 1,000ft too low acquitted

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
Crime

Louella Michie trial: Ceon Broughton jailed for eight and a half years

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
LiveCrime

Man jailed for eight years over girlfriend’s drug overdose at Bestival

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
Crime

Ceon Broughton guilty of manslaughter of Louella Fletcher-Michie

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
Crime

Ceon Broughton guilty of manslaughter of Louella Fletcher-Michie

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
Crime

Jury considering verdict on man who filmed girlfriend dying from drugs

Ceon Broughton, 29, denies manslaughter and supplying Ms Fletcher-Michie the drug
Crime

Louella Michie boyfriend 'thought she was having bad trip, not dying'

A dearth of earthworms in farmers’ fields may help explain the decline of the song thrush, a new survey suggests
Home News

Dearth of worms blamed for dramatic decline in UK songbird population

Costa Rican Beach:
Americas

Measles returned to Costa Rica by unvaccinated French tourist family

Jeremy Hunt telling Slovenians they were part of Soviet vassal state
UK Politics

Hunt enrages Slovenia by wrongly saying it was 'Soviet vassal state'

A Google Doodle is celebrating Australian conservationist and TV personality Steve Irwin this Friday.
Australasia

Peta condemns Steve Irwin as man ‘killed harassing a ray’

Markus Keaney, local Labour chair, says Shuker would be annihilated in a by-election
Long Reads

Independent Group: heading for greatness or the dustbin of history?

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
Crime

Louella Fletcher-Michie ‘probably dead’ in boyfriend's final video

‘Shiny ornaments in the town centre’: The EU-funded ‘Heart of the Furnace’ sculpture, with the signs for BrightHouse and Poundstretcher behind
Long Reads

Why an area ‘showered with EU cash’ still thinks Brexit is a good idea

Without an advocate to fight their corner young people used by gangs are at an increased risk of criminalisation, campaigners say
Home News

Gangs recruiting children as young as 12 as Class A drug dealers

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
Crime

Boyfriend ‘tried six times to get help’ for Louella Michie

Crime

Boyfriend ‘tried six times to get help’ for Louella Michie

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
LiveCrime

Friend gives evidence over woman who died of drug overdose at Bestival

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
Crime

Man urged to get help for dying girlfriend said, 'I can't get bagged'

Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead after taking party drug 2CP at Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in Dorset
LiveCrime

Friend of woman who overdosed at festival cross-examined at trial

The crash caused a huge explosion and a fireball
Crime

Pilot 'flew too low over M11' year before A27 crash which killed 11

The crash caused a huge explosion and a fireball
Crime

Pilot 'flew too low over M11' year before A27 crash which killed 11

Pilot Andrew Hill is now on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of manslaughter by gross negligence
Crime

Pilot had ‘no rational explanation’ for failed loop, crash trial hears

Home News

Do you need to become a Brexit prepper?

Abu Hamza is currently serving a life sentence in the US for terrorism offences. Firearms charges against his son have been dropped
Crime

Firearms charges against son of radical preacher Abu Hamza dropped

Pilot Andrew Hill is now on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of manslaughter by gross negligence
Crime

Jet was 'flying better than ever' before crash, pilot's trial told

The crash caused a huge explosion and a fireball
Crime

Shoreham crash pilot told paramedic he had mid-air blackout, jury told

The group's leader is said to have posed as a philanthropic doctor to give impoverished black South Africans 'false injections'
Africa

Apartheid-era South African unit 'plotted to give black people Aids'

US politics

Right-wingers label Trump 'wimp' over border wall retreat

Roger Stone after appearing before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing in September 2017
US politics

Even the Nixon Foundation doesn’t want anything to do with Roger Stone

Pilot Andrew Hill is now on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of manslaughter by gross negligence
Crime

Shoreham crash trial told pilot made no obvious attempt to avoid crash

A huge fireball erupted after the jet crashed into the dual carriageway
Crime

video of jet crashing in fireball shown to Shoreham air disaster trial

Pilot Andrew Hill is on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of manslaughter by gross negligence
Crime

Pilot involved in Shoreham Airshow crash which killed 11 goes on trial

Crime

Pilot involved in Shoreham Airshow crash which killed 11 goes on trial

Pilot Andrew Hill is on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of manslaughter by gross negligence
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her daughter Gabriella
Home News

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: jailed mum 'has been asked to spy on UK'

Darren Flood, seen here in 2011 with ex-wife Louise Adams, who had no involvement in and no knowledge of the scam
Crime

Victoria Beckham's ex brother-in-law Darren Flood jailed over £1m scam

Near Waterloo Bridge the strange smell was likened to 'chlorine meets TCP/Dettol meets battery acid'
Home News

Did mysterious smell across London come from Europe?

The Duchess of Argyll, who in the 1950s was photographed with a ‘headless‘ lover, in 1987
Long Reads

How Profumo, the headless man and a duchess haunted John Major

The Duchess of Argyll, who in the 1950s was photographed with a ‘headless‘ lover, in 1987
Long Reads

How Profumo, the headless man and a duchess haunted John Major

John Major was prepared to consider an opt-out of the European Convention on Human Rights over Visions of Ecstasy, the only film ever banned in the UK on blasphemy grounds,
Home News

John Major considered ECHR opt-out to block 'erotic blasphemy' film

PM John Major wanted ministers to stay away from Rupert Murdoch's September 1993 event, but home secretary Michael Howard still went
Home News

John Major told ministers to avoid 'Rupert Murdoch jamboree'

When Maggie met Gazza: the former PM with Paul Gascoigne in 1990
International

Thatcher praised England for not cheating – ‘unlike other teams’

Margaret Thatcher meeting Nelson Mandela in Downing Street in July 1990. The previous month, she had secretly described him as a bit disappointing, with 'a closed mind'
Home News

Thatcher found Nelson Mandela ‘disappointing’ with ‘a closed mind’

Home News

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spends 40th birthday in jail

US President Donald Trump takes phone calls from children in the East Room of the White House December 24, 2018 in Washington, DC
US politics

Little girl still believes in Santa despite what Donald Trump told her

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and other religious leaders called for call for an end to hatred, tribalism and division
Home News

Religious leaders send Christmas call for end to hatred and tribalism

The student was on his first flying lesson when the Cessna developed engine problems
Americas

Student pilot survives crash landing on highway, urinates by roadside

Police are investigating claims of assault relating to the circumcision of boys in Bristol and Banbury
Europe

Boy dies after circumcision, prompting police charges

Home News

Lockerbie bombing 30 years on: What is the truth behind the atrocity

John Leech's illustration of Scrooge being visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present – from the original 1843 edition
Long Reads

Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas? Bah, humbug, no he didn’t

Editors' letters

What it’s like to cover a murder trial as a reporter

Crime

Paedophile Russell Bishop jailed for life for Babes in Wood murders

Karen Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows were found dead in a Brighton park in October 1986
Crime

Paedophile killed two girls, then joined search for them, court hears

Karen Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows were found dead in a Brighton park in October 1986
Crime

Girls' killer gave details only murderer could have known, court hears

Brighton schoolgirls Karen Hadaway
Crime

Forensic 'time capsule' proves paedophile killed girls, court told

Karen Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows were found dead in a Brighton park in October 1986
Crime

Paedophile killed two girls, then joined search for them, court hears

Karen Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows were found dead in a Brighton park in October 1986
Crime

Girls' killer gave details only murderer could have known, court hears

Brighton schoolgirls Karen Hadaway
Crime

Forensic 'time capsule' proves paedophile killed girls, court told

Russell Bishop, now a convicted sex offender, is being retried in connection with the murder of Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows in 1986
Crime

'Paedophile killer trapped by DNA three decades later', court hears

Russell Bishop in the dock at the Old Bailey in 2018
Long Reads

How DNA finally caught Babes in the Wood killer Russell Bishop

In 1987 Russell Bishop was acquitted of murdering 'Babes in the Wood' Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows. He went on to commit another paedophile sex attack
Crime

Did timings blunder let killer Russell Bishop go free to strike again?

Russell Bishop has been convicted of the murders of Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway but in 1987 a jury took just two hours to clear him of the killings
Long Reads

How Babes in the Wood killer Russell Bishop got away with murder

Russell Bishop was alleged by his ex-girlfriend to have said that murder victims Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows had 'deserved it'
Crime

Russell Bishop found guilty of Babes in the Wood murders

Russell Bishop denies murdering Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway in a Brighton park in 1986
Crime

‘Paedophile Russell Bishop accusing girls’ father to escape justice’

Gun No 6 is thought to be a CZ 75 semi-automatic or a very similar 9mm handgun
Home News

Gun No 6: The trail of misery left by 'Britain's deadliest firearm'

Marion Stevenson said police asked her to sleep with 'first love' Russell Bishop to get him to confess to the murders of Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows
Crime

'Cops asked murder suspect's girlfriend to get post-sex confession'

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