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He traced his life of crime to problems at school.

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Many of them, if you trace them back far enough, began as celebrations of the harvest and the table.

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Witnesses had called 999 after hearing cries for help but when police carried out door-to-door inquiries they were unable to trace where the pleas were coming from.

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The investigation was triggered after a victim traced a stolen phone last year.

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Police traced the threat to Joseph Mayuyo and converged on his Hawthorne home Saturday, but he made more threats online and declared that he would not be taken alive, according to a police news release.

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