A man who tried to gouge a police officer’s eyes out while being challenged over burgling a house has been jailed. Shaun Watkins viciously attacked the...
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The crash occurred between J60 and J61 on the A1(M) last September.Katie Webster, 32, got behind the wheel of her car on the night of September 15 and...
Craig Elliott, 32, was found guilty of two counts of sexual assaulting a girl under 13 by touching on the third day of his trial at Durham Crown Court. The...
Last July, Crew Manager Kieran Hughes was off duty, at home and was alerted to a report of a member of the public being ran over by a vehicle on the front...
Christopher John Nash fled the scene leaving the officers with serious injuries during the incident in Murton, in the early hours of June 17, last year. Durham...
Officers were called to Aycliffe Village shortly after 9.30pm on Saturday following concerns for the welfare of a man. While at the scene, one of the attending...
Craig Chittenden, 33, from Willington, County Durham, also persuaded a woman in America to sexually abuse her daughter, as he watched for his pleasure. He was...
Colin Jones, 43, was last week jailed for four and half years after he broke into an Ashington home and stole a car in the early hours of December 15 last year...
Between late 2018 and early 2019, a series of courier fraud crimes were identified in the North East that saw calculated offenders target elderly and...
Hugh Raymond Holmes, of Spennymoor, has been charged with aggravated vehicle taking, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, causing serious injury whilst...
Miriam Sebbagh, who worked at Hunwick Primary School in Crook, County Durham, was found to have given money to people she knew were involved in terrorism. A...
On Sunday November 28 2021, at around 11.40pm, Ian Macneil, 46, was found on Middlesbrough’s Victoria Road near the junction with Errol Street. He had...
Liam Hall, 33, shattered bones in his victims’ faces after knocking them unconscious, and left his 24-year-old girlfriend with serious injuries. Hall...
Firefighters from Seaham and Peterlee, along with HM Coastguard, North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Great North Air Ambulance Service HART Team...
Robert Askew killed the 33-year-old after holding him captive for several hours before fatally assaulting him with weapons. The attack took place at Askew’s...
Tyler Brown raped his teenage victim, having first locked her inside his house and removed her phone to prevent her from contacting her family and friends...
Officers are currently looking for missing 12-year-old John Joseph Connors who is possibly in the Thorntree area of Middlesbrough. He is described as 4’12”...
The 15-year-old has been remanded in police custody to appear before Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning. It follows an incident in which a man...
Police have launched an investigation after a man died following a serious assault in Annfield Plain. Officers were called to a garage on Morrison Road at 2...
Lyndsey Watkins was in a grey BMW when it was involved in a collision on the A688 bypass on Sunday morning (September 5). The 31-year-old was sadly...
The incident happened between 6:15pm and 6:45pm on Wednesday 1st September, on Parkfield Road near to Wynsors World of Shoes. The woman was approached by a...
At 6.20pm on August 28 a silver Ford Fiesta collided with a wall on Potterhouse Lane, in Pity Me, Durham. Despite the best efforts of the emergency...
The incident took place in the Derwent Street area of Darlington yesterday evening whilst she was playing out with friends. Her father described her injuries...
Paul Mullen, of Washington, was driving a Toyota Hilux when he suffered fatal injuries in the incident. The 51-year-old leaves behind his partner and three...
Julie Newton, Joanne Race and Lucy Woods – all in their mid-50s – travelled to Middleton-in-Teesdale this morning (Sunday, May 23) to complete a 19-mile walk...
A paedophile who subjected three young children to years of sexual abuse has today been jailed for 20 years. Robert Foster preyed on the young victims over a...
Kirsty Rank was sentenced to 27 months in prison after appearing at Durham Crown Court. The 29-year-old was sentenced for attempted robbery and two...
Keith Hall denied murdering Rachel Wilson, 19, in 2002 but admitted her manslaughter at Teesside Crown Court. The CPS declined to pursue the murder charge as...
Bought a puppy during lockdown and thinking you might have bitten off more than you can chew? We might be able to help. If you’ve found yourself in the...
After an argument with the occupants in June 2019, Richard Pallister, of Bede Street, Easington Colliery, threatened to set fire to their house. When they...