ears on Friday. Vicious rapist Anthony Plummer, 71, was finally served justice at Portsmouth Crown Court for sexually abusing four girls between 1978 and 2009

A Buckland paedophile who inflicted terror and pain on young girls over three decades will die in prison, after being sentenced to 30 years on Friday. Vicious rapist Anthony Plummer, 71, was finally served justice at Portsmouth Crown Court for sexually abusing four girls between 1978 and 2009. The remorseless sexual predator was handed the […]
A Portsmouth woman – dubbed ‘the female Gary Saunders’ by her neighbours – who found herself behind bars over Christmas after she rocked …

After spending more than a month locked up, menace Donna Urquhart, 43, was sober and contrite on her latest appearance at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday. Urquhart returned for her sentencing hearing for affray where she lashed out with a baseball bat after, she claimed, she was stabbed in the head with a meat cleaver. […]
A Portsmouth woman – dubbed ‘the female Gary Saunders’ by her neighbours – who found herself behind bars over Christmas after she rocked up to court drunk, was back for a courtroom showdown with the same judge

After spending more than a month locked up, menace Donna Urquhart, 43, was sober and contrite on her latest appearance at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday. Urquhart returned for her sentencing hearing for affray where she lashed out with a baseball bat after, she claimed, she was stabbed in the head with a meat cleaver. […]
A man has been jailed for knife and burglary offences in Gosport

Police were called to an incident on Victoria Street involving a man with a knife at around 9.50pm on 7 May 2021, following which 37-year-old Joshua Clark was arrested and charged for possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. Clark, of no fixed abode, was convicted of the offence following a trial […]
This is the face of the man who stole more than £1000 from charity shops and local businesses in a spate of burglaries in Portsmouth, Pet…

Christopher Paul Rees, 43, of no fixed abode, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court yesterday (Monday 20 December) where he pleaded guilty to six counts of burglary. The court heard how the six offences took place at five charity shops and one hairdressing salon between December 11th and December 19th last year: Overnight between December […]
This is the face of the man who stole more than £1000 from charity shops and local businesses in a spate of burglaries in Portsmouth, Petersfield and Sussex has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison

Christopher Paul Rees, 43, of no fixed abode, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court yesterday (Monday 20 December) where he pleaded guilty to six counts of burglary. The court heard how the six offences took place at five charity shops and one hairdressing salon between December 11th and December 19th last year: Overnight between December […]
A Portsmouth man has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison following an assault on Elm Grove in March

Gary Phillip Saunders, 61, of Elm Grove, Southsea, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday (17 December) having pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm without intent.
A 19-year-old man from Portsmouth has been sentenced to eight years in prison following a knife attack in city centre earlier this year

Fabian Silva, of Sedgley Close, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court yesterday (Monday 13 December), having previously been found guilty of Section 18 wounding with intent and possession of a bladed article in a public place following a trial at the same court in October. The court heard how Silva was found guilty […]
A 19-year-old man from Portsmouth has been sentenced to eight years in prison following a knife attack in city centre earlier this year

A Landport woman will be spending Christmas behind bars after facing a judge at Portsmouth Crown Court, on affray charges, steaming drunk

Drunk Donna Urquhart, 43, paid the price for swigging vodka before the hearing when she was locked up for the festive period after His Honour Judge William Ashworth deemed her too drunk to sentence on Friday morning. After making the call to remand the inebriated defendant to prison for over a month – until […]
Liam Ashton, who had been wanted by police in relation to an assault on a woman in Bognor Regis, has now been jailed

Ashton, 29, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm when he appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Wednesday (December 8th). He was sentenced to 15 months in prison for the assault, which took place at an address in Hastings Close in June 2021.
A man has been convicted of murder after a Bognor Regis father died from burn injuries caused during an assault outside his home

Mark Stoakes, 60, had been at home with his family on the evening of Thursday 8 April, 2021 when they noticed their garden gate was on fire. Mark and his wife ran to the front of their house in Oak Grove to see who was responsible for starting the fire. There, they encountered Aaron Wilks. […]
A woman has been charged in connection with a burglary in Gosport

This follows a report that on 1 December, a woman entered a flat in Clarence Road and stole two wallets, before bank cards from the wallets were used at local shops.
A luxury housing developer has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 for destroying land that housed rare Hazel Dormice, in a first of i…

Police were contacted by Fareham Borough Council on 14 March 2019 with reports that the site, which is situated on land south of Rookery Avenue in Swanwick, had been cleared by a large machine. Heavy track marks were evident at the site, and hedgerows and shrubs had been ripped up by the roots and […]
A luxury housing developer has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 for destroying land that housed rare Hazel Dormice, in a first of its kind prosecution for Hampshire

Police were contacted by Fareham Borough Council on 14 March 2019 with reports that the site, which is situated on land south of Rookery Avenue in Swanwick, had been cleared by a large machine. Heavy track marks were evident at the site, and hedgerows and shrubs had been ripped up by the roots and […]
A man has been jailed for 34 months following a burglary and an incident where he crashed into a house whilst drug driving

At around 10.50am on 11 February 2020, 21-year-old Rhys Curtis and his co-defendant, 19-year-old Max Plaister entered a house on Selsey Avenue, before waking the occupants – who were known to them.
A man has been jailed for 34 months following a burglary and an incident where he crashed into a house whilst drug driving.

A man has been jailed for 34 months following a burglary and an incident where he crashed into a house whilst drug driving.At around 10.50am on 11 February 2020, 21-year-old Rhys Curtis and his co-defendant, 19-year-old Max Plaister entered a house on Selsey Avenue, before waking the occupants – who were known to them.The pair […]
A Portsmouth man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison following a number of burglaries across the city in August of this year

Anthony James Storr, 32, of Nutfield Place, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Tuesday (5 October) where he was sentenced to 28 months in prison.