A man who pretended to be a police officer before stealing a bank card from an elderly resident and then using it to make numerous purcha…
Detectives looking into a string of distraction burglaries in Bognor Regis were able to connect James Beaney, 45, of Gravits Lane, Bognor Regis, to at least two of them.He called at the home of an 89-year-old man in town around 8 p.m. on May 16. He pretended to be a plainclothes police officer and insisted […]
A £1000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of wanted paedophile Trevor McCurdy
Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to £1000 for anonymous information leading to the arrest and charging of a wanted man from Havant. Police have previously requested assistance in locating 69-year-old Trevor McCurdy, who is wanted on a warrant for failing to appear in Portsmouth Crown Court in connection with sexual activity with a […]
Can you assist police in locating Trevor McCurdy, 69, of Havant, who is dangerous and wanted?
He is currently wanted on a warrant for failing to appear in Portsmouth Crown Court after being convicted of sex offences at trial.
A man from Portsmouth was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison with an additional five year licence period for sexual offences, including rape, committed in 2018
A man from Portsmouth was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison with an additional five year licence period for sexual offences, in…
Stuart Lionel Cosgrave, 48, of Fyning Street in Portsmouth, appeared in Portsmouth Crown Court today (Friday, June 17), having previously pleaded guilty to the following charges: Assaulting a female over the age of 13 by penetrating her with a part of her body/a thing Rape of a woman over the age of 16 […]
A man has been convicted of raping a woman in Portsmouth City Centre
Daniel John Booth, 19, of Beresford Road, was charged last June 29th with raping a 20-year-old woman, now 21, in a car park. The woman told police she had been separated from her friends shortly after 11 p.m. after a night out in Portsmouth. She reported waking up in the early hours of June 30th […]
As part of a National Crime Agency investigation, a 44-year-old Portsmouth dock worker has been charged with drug importation
NCA officers arrested David Stuart Oliver, of Cornwall Road, Fratton, at his workplace yesterday (8 June).
Can you help Police to locate 69-year-old Trevor McCurdy from Havant?
He is currently wanted on warrant for failing to appear at Portsmouth Crown Court. Officers have carried out extensive enquiries to locate him and we are now asking the public for assistance. Trevor has connections to Chichester so we are also asking people in this area to share our appeals to trace him. He […]
Can you help Police to locate 69-year-old Trevor McCurdy from Havant?
He is currently wanted on warrant for failing to appear at Portsmouth Crown Court. Officers have carried out extensive enquiries to locate him and we are now asking the public for assistance. Trevor has connections to Chichester so we are also asking people in this area to share our appeals to trace him. He […]
A man has been jailed for 9 years after raping a woman in Fareham
John Sommerville Taylor Horne, aged 39, was charged with two counts of rape and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he attacked the woman, aged in her 20s, on the footbridge that crossed over Western Way, close to Fareham train station.
A 55 year-old man who raped a woman at a residential property in Gosport has been jailed for seven years
A man who raped a woman in a car park in Gosport has been jailed for eight years
Portsmouth Crown Court heard that police were called to a commercial car park near The Anchorage at around 1.40am on 27 August 2020 after witnesses described hearing a woman crying for help. Officers attended and spoke to the woman, aged in her 20s, who was found by members of the public in a distressed state.
A man has admitted raping a woman in Fareham
John Sommerville Taylor Horne, aged 39, was charged with rape and assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he attacked a woman on the footbridge that crossed over Western Way, close to Fareham train station. The woman had told police that she left Slug and Lettuce in the town at around 1am, before walking along […]
A man has been convicted of raping a woman in a car park in Gosport
Portsmouth Crown Court heard that police were called to the commercial car park near The Anchorage at around 1.40am on 27 August 2020 after witnesses described hearing a woman crying for help. Officers attended and spoke to the woman, aged in her 20s, who was found by members of the public in a distressed state. […]
A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison following a burglary and an assault in Portsmouth
Louis Alan Bibby, of no fixed abode, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday (8 April) where he was sentenced to six years and 11 months in prison. This comes following two separate incidents, a serious assault on Fawcett Road on October 28 2020 and a burglary at an address on Exmouth Road on December […]
A man has been jailed for sexually abusing a child over a number of years on the Isle of Wight
Michael Norman Smith, aged 58, sexually assaulted the boy between 1997 and 2003, beginning when the child was under the age of 10. During a trial at Isle of Wight Crown Court, jurors heard how Smith, who lived at Willow Way in Sandown at the time of the offences, would often have children over […]
Exhibitionist Leslie Croucher, 53, who admitted exposing himself to a shocked woman in Southsea Rock Gardens on Sunday 4th April last year, has been spared jail
Croucher, formerly of Northgate Avenue, Fratton, was subsequently located just one day after the launch of a police appeal, thanks to the victim’s quick wits and bravery in photographing the freaky flasher. At the time of his arrest, kinky Croucher denied any wrongdoing, but later admitted one charge of exposure, on the first day […]
Exhibitionist Leslie Croucher, 53, who admitted exposing himself to a shocked woman in Southsea Rock Gardens on Sunday 4th April last yea…
Croucher, formerly of Northgate Avenue, Fratton, was subsequently located just one day after the launch of a police appeal, thanks to the victim’s quick wits and bravery in photographing the freaky flasher. At the time of his arrest, kinky Croucher denied any wrongdoing, but later admitted one charge of exposure, on the first day […]
