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Three men in court charged with teenagers' murder

Three men will appear in court charged with
the murder of two teenagers shot in an alleyway in Milton Keynes

Guardian.co.uk
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Friday 8 July 2011
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Three men will appear in court charged with the murder of two teenagers shot in an alleyway.

Yahya Harun, 20, Sharmake Abdulkadir, 20 and Fuad Awale, 23, are due at Milton Keynes magistrates court on Friday.

The men, who are all from Milton Keynes, are charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Mohammed Abdi Farah, 19, and Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, on the town's Fishermead council estate on 26 May.

Abdulkadir has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.

A 17-year-old boy has been released without charge.

Both victims were from the Somali community and were known to police for involvement in low-level crime.

Superintendent Rob Mason said: "I still believe there are people who have crucial information, but who have not yet come forward and spoken about it.

"I hope that the fact we have charged three people with this offence will encourage anyone who has been previously too afraid to come forward to find the courage to speak to the police.

"It is still really important that anyone who has any evidence contacts us."

Anyone with information in connection with the incident should contact 0845 8505 505 or Crimestoppers, where information can be given anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

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On This Day - May 21, 1965

From The Times Archive

Teargas, developed at Porton Down,

was already in use by the Army for riot control

when police forces were granted permission

to use it in some circumstances.

THE POLICE are to be supplied with limited amounts of non-toxic tear smoke for use against armed criminals trapped in a building, Sir Frank Soskice, Home Secretary, announced in the Commons yesterday.

There would be no long-term effect on any innocent person caught in the fumes, he said. The Home Secretary was replying to Mr Rankin, Labour member for Glasgow, Govan, who asked if the Metropolitan Police were equipped to use non- lethal gas in an emergency.

“Arrangements are being made,” Sir Frank said, “to supply police forces in case of need with limited amounts of non-toxic tear smoke, which causes temporary incapacity but has no permanent harmful effects, for use in dealing with armed criminals or violently insane persons in buildings from which they cannot be dislodged without danger of loss of life. The tear smoke would not be used in any other circumstances.”

The Home Secretary said he had in mind the case in which a violent lunatic had barricaded himself in a house, possibly with a member of the public as hostage, and where it would be impossible for the police to approach without the lives of the officers or bystanders being endangered.

The statement did not mention the Metropolitan Police in particular, who have their own arrangements with the Army to call for tear gas if necessary.

Our Defence Correspondent writes: The gas which will be used is the same as that available to the Army for riot control operations. It is called “CS” and was developed at the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment at Porton, Wiltshire.

Scientists claim that it is far more effective than the previous range of tear gases which had remained largely unchanged since first being developed in the Great War.

It is a non-lethal, non-toxic gas tear smoke, with an immediate, but very temporary effect. The victim has copious watering eyes and blurring of vision, but not blackout.

From The Times Archives > On This Day - May 21, 1965, The Times, 21.5.2005,
http://www.newsint-archive.co.uk/pages/main.asp

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