Trial of QE2 Just oil protestor set to start next week

The trial of Marcus Decker and Morgan Trowland begins at Basildon Crown Court at 10:30am on Monday 27 March. Both men have so far spent 158 days in prison held on remand, after climbing the QEII bridge in November ’22. The Just Stop Oil Supporters were demanding that the government halt licensing and consents for […]
Trial of QE2 Just oil protestor set to start next week

The trial of Marcus Decker and Morgan Trowland begins at Basildon Crown Court at 10:30am on Monday 27 March. Both men have so far spent 158 days in prison held on remand, after climbing the QEII bridge in November ’22. The Just Stop Oil Supporters were demanding that the government halt licensing and consents for […]
Trial of QE2 Just oil protestor set to start next week

The trial of Marcus Decker and Morgan Trowland begins at Basildon Crown Court at 10:30am on Monday 27 March. Both men have so far spent 158 days in prison held on remand, after climbing the QEII bridge in November ’22. The Just Stop Oil Supporters were demanding that the government halt licensing and consents for […]
Trial of QE2 Just oil protestor set to start next week – (ID 556415)

The trial of Marcus Decker and Morgan Trowland begins at Basildon Crown Court at 10:30am on Monday 27 March. Both men have so far spent 158 days in prison held on remand, after climbing the QEII bridge in November ’22. The Just Stop Oil Supporters were demanding that the government halt licensing and consents for […]
A man has been given an indefinite hospital order for the murder of a ‘loving and devoted father’ in Tilbury.

Thirty-five year-old Craig North was found seriously injured in Feenan Highway shortly before 9.45pm on 2 January last year. He was taken to hospital but, sadly, he died there nine days later.
Basildon Man jailed for multiple sexual offences against a child

Emlyn Hann, 31 of Goldings Crescent, Basildon appeared at Basildon Crown Court on Thursday, 16 March where he was sentenced to four years in prison and issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order after pleading guilty of multiple sexual offences against a child. Essex Police were approached by a brave victim in October 2020, […]
A man was sentenced to prison after luring his ex-girlfriend to an east London high street and stabbing her 18 times in a rage

Robin Ibrahim, 28, of Brock Place, Tower Hamlets, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday, March 10 at Basildon Crown Court. On Thursday, September 22, he pleaded guilty to attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place in the same court.
A survivor of sexual abuse and her mother have described their feelings after a man was jailed for 16 years yesterday.

Ian McCarthy, 42 of Central Avenue, South Ockendon appeared at Basildon Crown Court yesterday (8 March) where he was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for non-recent sexual offences against a child. The victim in this case bravely came to police in 2020, to report that McCarthy had subjected her to multiple sexual assaults between 2015 […]
A pair of Essex drug dealers who used encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to run their criminal enterprise have been jailed for more t…

A pair of Essex drug dealers who used encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to run their criminal enterprise have been jailed for more than 25 years. Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership – a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit – identified supplies of around 80 kilos of cocaine as part of their […]
A pair of Essex drug dealers who used encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to run their criminal enterprise have been jailed for more than 25 years

A pair of Essex drug dealers who used encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to run their criminal enterprise have been jailed for more than 25 years. Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership – a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit – identified supplies of around 80 kilos of cocaine as part of their […]
Fake Police officer from Essex is jailed

A man from Essex who picked up cash and gold from three households in Pembrokeshire that had been conned out of tens of thousands of pounds has been sentenced at Basildon Crown Court. Arnaldo Katalay, aged 24, of Gascoigne Way, Billericay, travelled to West Wales to carrying out a number of pick-ups from people he […]
A 91-year-old man has been sentenced to ten years in jail for his sexual offences against a young girl almost two decades ago

Eric Grant, 91 of Hall Barn Road, Isleham, appeared at Basildon Crown Court on Thursday, 23 February, where he was jailed for his offences which took place between 2004 and 2005. The victim was just 11 years-old at the time she was abused. The abuse took place in Cambridgeshire and in Essex.
A man who denied abusing two girls was sentenced to 13 years in prison and given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for life as a result of t…

Essex Police received a report of child sexual abuse in December 2020, and an investigation was launched by CAIT, officers dedicated to investigating child abuse and safeguarding children.Patrick Wakefield was arrested as part of their investigation that same month.Concerns for another child were raised during the examination of his digital devices.Wakefield was arrested again at […]
A man who denied abusing two girls was sentenced to 13 years in prison and given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for life as a result of the hard work of Child Abuse Investigation Team officers.

Essex Police received a report of child sexual abuse in December 2020, and an investigation was launched by CAIT, officers dedicated to investigating child abuse and safeguarding children.Patrick Wakefield was arrested as part of their investigation that same month.Concerns for another child were raised during the examination of his digital devices.Wakefield was arrested again at […]
Two brothers who robbed an Epping jewellers have been jailed for a combined total of 31 years after their DNA was found in latex face masks which were worn during the robbery

Just before 11.30am on Monday 27 September 2021, two men arrived at the jewellery store in Epping High Street. The pair were wearing extremely life-like, full-face latex masks, giving them the appearance of elderly gentlemen. They gained access to the store after threatening staff to let them in.
Two brothers who robbed an Epping jewellers have been jailed for a combined total of 31 years after their DNA was found in latex face mas…

Just before 11.30am on Monday 27 September 2021, two men arrived at the jewellery store in Epping High Street. The pair were wearing extremely life-like, full-face latex masks, giving them the appearance of elderly gentlemen. They gained access to the store after threatening staff to let them in. Once inside, they ushered a staff […]
Two brothers who robbed an Epping jewellers have been jailed for a combined total of 31 years after their DNA was found in latex face masks which were worn during the robbery

Just before 11.30am on Monday 27 September 2021, two men arrived at the jewellery store in Epping High Street. The pair were wearing extremely life-like, full-face latex masks, giving them the appearance of elderly gentlemen. They gained access to the store after threatening staff to let them in.
Dartford Crossing bridge climbers Morgan Trowland, 39, and Marcus Decker, 33, remanded to prison to await trial

Today, two men accused of scaling a bridge as part of a Just Stop Oil protest that caused widespread disruption to the Dartford Crossing for two days appeared in court. Morgan Trowland, 39, and Marcus Decker, 33, have been remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to committing public nuisance in the alleged stunt at […]