A prolific Brighton and Hove burglar with a taste for Nike Airforce 1 trainers has been jailed after admitting a string of theft offences
Derek Antwi, 29, of Upper Hollingdean Road in Brighton, pleaded guilty to a number of burglaries and robberies across the city, several committed while wearing clothes stolen from previous break-ins.
Detectives in Crawley have charged a man with attempted murder after a woman was found with stab wounds
Officers were alerted to the attack having taken place shortly before 3.30pmon the 1st May 2022 in a property in Midhurst Close and arrived to find a woman with life-threatening injuries. She was taken to the hospital by the ambulance service, where she remains in a serious condition. A man – 39-year-old Abdul-Malik Neal […]
A woman who robbed an elderly man in Crawley has been jailed
The 70-year-old victim had walked to his local shops at Tilgate Parade on 28 August 2020 to purchase cigarettes and started to walk home via a nearby alleyway when he was assaulted from behind. He was repeatedly punched and kicked as he lay helpless on the floor, and heard a woman shout “get his […]
A man violently assaulted another man with a baseball bat before texting his friend to brag that he had “done him right over”
Anthony Lee and George Cranford carried out the pre-planned and prolonged attack at an address in Rowan Close, Storrington, on Sunday 16 February, 2020. The 22-year-old victim, who was known to them, had been playing his friend’s games console when the pair barged in uninvited and beat him without warning. He was struck with […]
Reality TV star and former glamour model Katie Price has appeared before magistrates in Crawley charged with breaching a restraining order
The 43-year-old is accused of breaching a restraining order against ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancee Michelle Penticost on 21 January. Ms Price, from West Sussex, pleaded not guilty and requested a Crown Court trial. She was ordered to appear before Lewes Crown Court on 25 May. She was given bail with the condition that she […]
Reality TV star and former glamour model Katie Price has appeared before magistrates in Crawley charged with breaching a restraining order
The 43-year-old is accused of breaching a restraining order against ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancee Michelle Penticost on 21 January. Ms Price, from West Sussex, pleaded not guilty and requested a Crown Court trial. She was ordered to appear before Lewes Crown Court on 25 May. She was given bail with the condition that she […]
Reality TV star and former glamour model Katie Price has appeared before magistrates in Crawley charged with breaching a restraining orde…
The 43-year-old is accused of breaching a restraining order against ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancee Michelle Penticost on 21 January. Ms Price, from West Sussex, pleaded not guilty and requested a Crown Court trial. She was ordered to appear before Lewes Crown Court on 25 May. She was given bail with the condition that she […]
A man who stabbed his neighbour in an unprovoked attack has been jailed
On the afternoon of 2 November 2021, a 66-year-old man was cleaning some paintbrushes outside his address in Elm Place, Rustington, when he was approached by David Graham.Without warning, he was stabbed in the chest, and as he attempted to run away, he was stabbed again in the back.He collapsed to the floor and was […]
Brighton man Dale Crozier has been jailed after trying to ram his way out of a police traffic stop in a stolen vehicle
Crozier, 31, of no fixed address, was stopped by officers near Brighton Marina on February 1 while driving a Volkswagen Touran that had been stolen from a driveway two days previously. Despite being boxed in by several police vehicles, Crozier refused to stop the car and tried to force his way out, injuring two […]
Amy Winter from Crawley has been jailed for repeatedly calling 999 to report fires in Brighton that she had started herself
Winter, 42, of Trefoil Crescent in Crawley, forced police, firefighters and paramedics to an address in Surrey Street, Brighton, on Christmas Eve in 2020, where they were threatened and assaulted. At 2.45pm on December 24, 2020, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service received a call from Winter claiming there was a fire at a […]
A Sussex drug supplier who was stopped at busy rail station has been jailed
A drug dealer using the railway to supply heroin and cocaine for the ‘Levi’ county line has been jailed for 45 months following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation. He was stopped by officers from BTP’s County Lines Taskforce at London Waterloo station in December 2021. Robert Conna Crozier, 24, and of Aintree Road, Crawley, […]
A Sussex drug supplier who was stopped at busy rail station has been jailed
A drug dealer using the railway to supply heroin and cocaine for the ‘Levi’ county line has been jailed for 45 months following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation. He was stopped by officers from BTP’s County Lines Taskforce at London Waterloo station in December 2021.
An East Sussex man who was intercepted by Police officers while carrying cocaine in his car with a potential value of up to £400,000, is …
Christopher Morris, 42, of Glessing Road, Stone Cross near Pevensey, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Monday 11 April, having previously admitted possession of four kilos of cocaine with intent to supply, and money laundering. Morris had just left his home on 15 December last year when he was stopped by officers from […]
An East Sussex man who was intercepted by Police officers while carrying cocaine in his car with a potential value of up to £400,000, is now starting a six-year prison sentence
Christopher Morris, 42, of Glessing Road, Stone Cross near Pevensey, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Monday 11 April, having previously admitted possession of four kilos of cocaine with intent to supply, and money laundering. Morris had just left his home on 15 December last year when he was stopped by officers from […]
A pair of construction company owners have been convicted of health and safety offences, including one conviction of manslaughter by gros…
Steven Wenham, 48, of Charlotte Street in Brighton, and John Nicholas Spiller, 52, of Fishersgate Close in Portslade, were found guilty of several charges at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday (April 7) following a long and complex investigation led by Sussex Police, with support from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). A prosecution had […]
A pair of construction company owners have been convicted of health and safety offences, including one conviction of manslaughter by gross negligence, after a worker fell to his death on a building site in Hove
Steven Wenham, 48, of Charlotte Street in Brighton, and John Nicholas Spiller, 52, of Fishersgate Close in Portslade, were found guilty of several charges at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday (April 7) following a long and complex investigation led by Sussex Police, with support from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). A prosecution had […]
Twenty-year-old Sophie George, of Highbrook Close in Brighton, was jailed for 13.5 years this week for a disturbing plot to murder a form…
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, October 10, 2020, George – who was then 18 – was picked up by her victim in a van and stopped off briefly to collect two shopping bags. The pair drove through Brighton but George insisted they visit a park, grabbing the steering wheel several times before the vehicle […]
Twenty-year-old Sophie George, of Highbrook Close in Brighton, was jailed for 13.5 years this week for a disturbing plot to murder a former lover, which included this chilling ‘to-do list’
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, October 10, 2020, George – who was then 18 – was picked up by her victim in a van and stopped off briefly to collect two shopping bags. The pair drove through Brighton but George insisted they visit a park, grabbing the steering wheel several times before the vehicle […]
