Police have charged a Southampton man with a number of thefts from shops in Chandlers Ford and Totton

Carl Fowler, aged 34, of Vaudrey Close, Southampton has been charged with the following offences after being arrested by officers in Southampton on Thursday 5 November: • One count of shoplifting from Asda on Bournemouth Road, Chandlers Ford on 5 November. • Four counts of shoplifting from the Co-op in Salisbury Road, Totton, on 30 […]
Detectives investigating the murder of Joseph Marafini have charged a fifth person

A 17-year-old boy, who was arrested on Thursday, 5 November, has been charged with murder. He appeared at Bexley Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 6 November. He is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, 10 November. Police were called at 4.58pm on Thursday, 29 October to reports of a fight outside a supermarket […]
The man suffered a serious but not life-threatening injury after isle of Wight Stabbing in Cowes

Police on the Isle of Wight appealing for witnesses to a serious assault which took place in Cowes last night (Sunday 8 November). At around 9pm, a 19-year-old man suffered a stab wound to his leg when he was assaulted by two males on a footpath linking Newport Road to Frazer Close, near to the […]
The man suffered a serious but not life-threatening injury after isle of Wight Stabbing in Cowes

Police on the Isle of Wight appealing for witnesses to a serious assault which took place in Cowes last night (Sunday 8 November). At around 9pm, a 19-year-old man suffered a stab wound to his leg when he was assaulted by two males on a footpath linking Newport Road to Frazer Close, near to the […]
A man has been attacked on Hastings Seafront leaving him in hospitial with a significant head injury

Police are investigating after a man was assaulted on Hastings seafront. The 24-year-old victim was walking along Pelham Place around 9pm on Saturday (October 31) when he was assaulted near to Hastings Adventure Golf. It is thought he was assaulted by a group of people. He was taken to the Conquest Hospital where he received […]
A man has been attacked on Hastings Seafront leaving him in hospitial with a significant head injury

Police are investigating after a man was assaulted on Hastings seafront. The 24-year-old victim was walking along Pelham Place around 9pm on Saturday (October 31) when he was assaulted near to Hastings Adventure Golf. It is thought he was assaulted by a group of people. He was taken to the Conquest Hospital where he received […]
An electrician has been jailed after he ran a red light and fatally collided with 90-year-old driver

A 25-year-old electrician has been jailed after he ran through a red light in his high-powered BMW and fatally collided with 90-year-old driver John Sassons Taylor in Solihull. Mr Taylor, who was driving his white Peugeot 208, was turning right from Warwick Road onto New Road, when he was struck by Russell Averis on Wednesday, […]
An electrician has been jailed after he ran a red light and fatally collided with 90-year-old driver

A 25-year-old electrician has been jailed after he ran through a red light in his high-powered BMW and fatally collided with 90-year-old driver John Sassons Taylor in Solihull. Mr Taylor, who was driving his white Peugeot 208, was turning right from Warwick Road onto New Road, when he was struck by Russell Averis on Wednesday, […]
A knife-wielding robber who stole from two bookmakers and a friend he was staying with in Wisbech has been jailed

John Penhaligon, 49, travelled from his home in Essex to stay with a friend in Wisbech for five days from 8 September. On 10 September he went to a branch of Betfred, in High Street, Wisbech, armed with a knife. He demanded money from the till and warned staff not to press any panic alarms. […]
Do you know this clown?

South Yorkshire Police off-road bike team is appealing for information about the identity of a clown, after reports of dangerous driving and fleeing the scene of a collision. On Halloween (Saturday 31 October), a man – dressed as a clown – was captured riding as part of a group of illegal off-road bikers across Sheffield […]
The books had been stolen in January 2017, during a highly sophisticated burglary in Feltham, London

Met officers have returned 240 culturally significant specialist books worth in excess of £2.5 million to their rightful owners following a joint operation with Romanian authorities. The books had been stolen in January 2017, during a highly sophisticated burglary in Feltham, London. The books, which include works from the seventeenth century by Italian astronomer Galileo; […]
A Romanian lorry driver has been jailed for 31 months for attempting to smuggle a group of migrants out of the UK in his lorry

Marius Halmaghe35-year-old Marius Halmaghe from Tulcea, in Romania was arrested by National Crime Agency officers in Kent on 1 October. His truck was stopped just outside of Dover port. Four adult migrants, two Bangladeshis, one Indian and one Egyptian, were found in rear of the trailer. The lorry was booked to sail on a ferry […]
A 55-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man’s body was found at a property in Horley.

Officers were called to the address in Upfield Close just after 8am on Monday by the ambulance service following the discovery of the body of a 62-year-old man. A 55-year-old woman from Horley has been arrested in connection with the incident on suspicion of murder and is currently in custody. An investigation is underway to […]
Sainsbury staff held at knifepoint in Brighton Robbery

Police are investigating a knifepoint robbery at the Sainsbury’s in Carden Avenue, Brighton. The offence occurred at 9:30pm on Saturday 7 November, when two men wearing motorcycle helmets entered the store and demanded cash from the tills. One of them was in possession of a knife, and they made off with a small amount of […]
Police are appealing for witnesses following a distraction burglary in East Grinstead

Officers received report of a man visiting an 82-year-old woman in Escots Drive about 2.30pm on 26 October claiming to be from the water board. After being allowed into the property a quantity of cash and cards were stolen from the victim. The suspect is described as a white male with a slight tan, 5’8”, […]
A teenager has been charged following an investigation in Thornton Heath

The 15-year-old boy will appear in custody at Bromley Youth Court on Tuesday, 10 November charged with: – two counts of GBH; – one count of ABH; – two counts of sexual assault; – one count of assault by penetration; – one count of robbery. He was arrested on Sunday, 8 November in connection with […]