A prolific Brighton and Hove burglar found with dozens of stolen items in his flat has been jailed
Terry Hughes, 46, of York Road in Hove, was sentenced to 66 months in prison at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday (March 31) after facing five charges of burglary and one of fraud by false representation. Hughes was arrested on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, after being identified as a suspect in a burglary in Brunswick […]
Brighton man found in woman’s wardrobe jailed for breaching restraining order
A Brighton man who breached a restraining order against a woman multiple times, including being found hiding in her wardrobe, has been jailed. Leon Chart, 42, of no fixed address, was ordered not to contact or enter the home of his victim after being convicted of actual bodily harm and criminal damage in 2020.
A Hove man who drove thousands of pounds-worth of stolen vehicles under false registration plates has been jailed
Robert Thompson, 35, of Church Road in Hove, was sentenced to 30 months in prison at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday (March 17) after pleading guilty to five offences. Half will be served on licence. Thompson was found behind the wheel of a £50,000 stolen Range Rover Velar on January 6, 2021, which was driving […]
Sixty-one-year-old Anthony Bert has been jailed for 64 months after violently assaulting his female neighbour over a dispute about parking
Bert, of Namrik Mews in Hove, was charged with two counts of GBH with intent after attacking a neighbour at his former home address in St Aubyn’s, Hove, on March 23, 2021. His neighbour – a 50-year-old woman – had temporarily parked in a private car park while she collected some items from her garden. […]
Officers in Brighton have seized £10,000s of drugs and cash after sensing there was something fishy about what seemed like a routine inci…
Response officers were called to reports of an assault in Ditchling Rise last Friday (March 11) and found the people involved in a property in nearby Beaconsfield Road. But something about the situation didn’t add up. They elected to search the address and found a room containing over 11kg of cannabis – worth up to […]
Officers in Brighton have seized £10,000s of drugs and cash after sensing there was something fishy about what seemed like a routine incident
Response officers were called to reports of an assault in Ditchling Rise last Friday (March 11) and found the people involved in a property in nearby Beaconsfield Road. But something about the situation didn’t add up. They elected to search the address and found a room containing over 11kg of cannabis – worth up to […]
A Croydon man linked to the supply of Class A drugs in Hove has been jailed for four years
Twenty-three-year-old Sammy Mosuambe, of Houlder Crescent in Croydon, appeared at Lewes Crown Court on Tuesday (March 8) charged with two counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs and one count of possessing a Class B drug (cannabis). Mosuambe was stopped and searched by officers around Selborne Road on Sunday, February 6, after […]
A prolific bicycle thief has been jailed after he was caught taking property at Gatwick Airport
Max Huggett, 30, was captured on CCTV cameras looking at bicycles locked in a shed near the South Terminal on January 23 this year. The owner of the bicycle had left it there and returned to find it had been taken. But security workers at Gatwick Airport were able to find footage of Huggett on […]
Police have praised the heroics of two employees who wrestled a gunman to the ground following a shooting at Crawley College
Sandijs Dreimanis has today (Friday 11 March) been jailed for the incident which sparked a significant police response on 26 April last year. Around 3.12pm that day, police received multiple reports of a man armed with a gun, firing at people at the campus in College Road, Crawley. A spontaneous firearms incident (SFI) was declared […]
A Brighton shoplifter who was caught on CCTV brazenly stealing dozens of items and abusing shopworkers when challenged has been jailed an…
Michael Murray, 33, of Percival Terrace in Brighton, had previously pleaded guilty to 33 counts of theft and one count of failing to comply with a community protection notice. Thirty-one of the theft offences took place at a Co-op store in Whitehawk Road during May, June, November and December of last year, while the other […]
A Brighton shoplifter who was caught on CCTV brazenly stealing dozens of items and abusing shopworkers when challenged has been jailed and banned from a significant number of stores in the city
Michael Murray, 33, of Percival Terrace in Brighton, had previously pleaded guilty to 33 counts of theft and one count of failing to comply with a community protection notice. Thirty-one of the theft offences took place at a Co-op store in Whitehawk Road during May, June, November and December of last year, while the other […]
Hove man wanted as part of a long-running investigation into vehicle thefts has pleaded guilty to multiple offences
Robert Thompson, 35, of Church Road in Hove, admitted to receiving stolen goods, fraudulently using registration marks and possession of a Class A drug (cocaine) after being arrested by officers from the Specialist Enforcement Unit (SEU) on January 13. On January 6, 2021, Thompson was found behind the wheel of a black Range Rover […]
Hove man wanted as part of a long-running investigation into vehicle thefts has pleaded guilty to multiple offences
Robert Thompson, 35, of Church Road in Hove, admitted to receiving stolen goods, fraudulently using registration marks and possession of a Class A drug (cocaine) after being arrested by officers from the Specialist Enforcement Unit (SEU) on January 13.
A man has appeared in court charged with the murders of two women from Kent and Sussex.
A masked man who threatened two shop workers with a gun during a robbery has been jailed for five years
Shortly after midnight on 14 December, staff had just locked up at the Tesco petrol station in New Road, Durrington, and had set the alarm as per the daily routine. They made their way across the main car park to their vehicle and got in. At this point, they were approached by an unknown man […]
An Eastbourne man who sexually abused and neglected five young children over several years has now been given prison sentences totalling …
Kevin Long, now 65 and of Binsted Close, Eastbourne, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday 13 January, having been found guilty after an eight-day trial on 22 counts, including rape, sexual assault and child neglect. The court heard that between 15 and 20 years ago Long took advantage of his access to the […]
An Eastbourne man who sexually abused and neglected five young children over several years has now been given prison sentences totalling 27 years
Kevin Long, now 65 and of Binsted Close, Eastbourne, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday 13 January, having been found guilty after an eight-day trial on 22 counts, including rape, sexual assault and child neglect. The court heard that between 15 and 20 years ago Long took advantage of his access to the […]
A motorist who lied about two speeding offences in Brighton has been jailed for perverting the course of justice
Shah Osmani, 27, was detected driving over the 30mph speed limit in Marine Parade, Brighton, twice in the early hours of August 7, 2020. He was driving an Audi, which was his company car given to him by the company he worked for at the time.
