Fourteen year old Southampton boy found not guilty of attempted murder
A 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing a 56-year-old man on Barnfield Road, Southampton on Tuesday 27 October 2020, was on trial last week for attempted murder at Southampton Crown Court. The jury was unable to reach a verdict, and therefore formally entered a not guilty verdict. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, […]
Blessing Mapfumo-Kadungure 37, and her husband Ernest from Hedge End in Southampton has spoken of the heart-ache and anguish after her 11…
Leona became unwell and deteriorated causing her to loose sight in one eye and also paralysis from her waist down. Doctors have been baffled by the mystery illness and tests conducted by Southampton University hospital have been unable to present a diagnosis. Blessing contacted us in January after a GoFundMe page was set up in […]
Blessing Mapfumo-Kadungure 37, and her husband Ernest from Hedge End in Southampton has spoken of the heart-ache and anguish after her 11 year old daughter
Leona became unwell and deteriorated causing her to loose sight in one eye and also paralysis from her waist down. Doctors have been baffled by the mystery illness and tests conducted by Southampton University hospital have been unable to present a diagnosis. Blessing contacted us in January after a GoFundMe page was set up in […]
A Kirkby man has become the first in Merseyside to be jailed in connection with a huge international operation targeting criminals who us…
James Duckworth, 42 was jailed today for 16-and-a-half years for his part in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin around the UK. He is the first person in Merseyside to be sentenced after the operation involving European law enforcement agencies working with the NCA and supported across the UK by police forces and […]
A Kirkby man has become the first in Merseyside to be jailed in connection with a huge international operation targeting criminals who used a mobile encryption service to try to evade detection
James Duckworth, 42 was jailed today for 16-and-a-half years for his part in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin around the UK. He is the first person in Merseyside to be sentenced after the operation involving European law enforcement agencies working with the NCA and supported across the UK by police forces and […]
A man has been jailed for life after being convicted of the murder of his ‘friend’ William Phelan in Harpurhey
Matthew Jones of no fixed abode, was sentenced today (Monday 1 February 2021) at Manchester Crown Court (Crown Square) to life with a minimum of 20 years in jail after being unanimously convicted by a jury of William’s murder. The court heard how on the morning of Monday 19 March 2018, police forced entry into […]
A man has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for the murder of a frail 55-year-old man
[block_2] Mohammed Assri, 47, of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday, 28 January having been found guilty at an earlier hearing.
Detectives investigating the murder of a man in 1983 have made an arrest and are appealing for assistance to trace any known relatives of the victim
[block_2] In December 1983, police attended Windmill Court in Shoot up Hill, Kilburn after 50-year-old Christopher Ainscough was found deceased inside his address. It is believed he had been attacked sometime between the 2 and 5 December 1983.
Detectives investigating the murder of a man in 1983 have made an arrest and are appealing for assistance to trace any known relatives of…
In December 1983, police attended Windmill Court in Shoot up Hill, Kilburn after 50-year-old Christopher Ainscough was found deceased inside his address. It is believed he had been attacked sometime between the 2 and 5 December 1983. Christopher, who was born in Dublin, had suffered significant head injuries. An investigation was launched but his […]
Eleven people have been arrested during a series of raids targeting drug dealers
Essex Police worked with the Metropolitan Police Service and Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, assisted by Hertfordshire Police, to execute warrants at addresses in Chelmsford, Colchester, and London this morning, Monday 1 February. Crack cocaine and heroin, and cash, with a total value of around £15,000 has been seized. Detective Chief Inspector Lewis Basford, […]
Detectives continuing to investigate a sexual assault at King’s Cross Underground station are releasing images in connection with the attack
At 7.45am on Wednesday 18 November 2020, a young victim was sexually assaulted by a man on-board a Victoria line service at the North London station. The man was captured on CCTV following another young victim at Oxford Circus Underground station later that day. On 6 December 2020, it is reported that the same […]
Detectives investigating an outraging public decency incident which involved an off duty officer being assaulted are today releasing a CCTV image in connection with the incident
On 30 January on the 8.39pm train from Redhill to London Bridge, a man was reported to have sat opposite a woman in an otherwise empty carriage and began touching himself inappropriately while looking at her. He was confronted by an off duty officer as he left the train at Coulsdon South station. He […]
Detectives investigating an outraging public decency incident which involved an off duty officer being assaulted are today releasing a CC…
On 30 January on the 8.39pm train from Redhill to London Bridge, a man was reported to have sat opposite a woman in an otherwise empty carriage and began touching himself inappropriately while looking at her. He was confronted by an off duty officer as he left the train at Coulsdon South station. He […]
A woman from Chandler’s Ford has been jailed for four years, having admitted to a robbery in Chandler’s Ford
Ruby June Ventham 27, of Cox Row, Chandler’s Ford pleaded guilty to one count of robbery at Southampton Crown Court on Monday 1 February. The incident occurred on Saturday 28 November at a property in Chandler’s Ford. Southampton Crown Court heard on the morning of Saturday 28 November how Ventham knocked on the door […]
A poker games night at Hackney property was shut down for breaching the Covid regulations
Officers were called to an address on Foulden Road, following concerns from local residents. In the basement of a flat, a group of men had set up a number of different gambling tables, to play poker and use other gambling machines. Those there claimed this gambling night was a wake, claims which were not […]
A poker games night at Hackney property was shut down for breaching the Covid regulations
Officers were called to an address on Foulden Road, following concerns from local residents. In the basement of a flat, a group of men had set up a number of different gambling tables, to play poker and use other gambling machines. Those there claimed this gambling night was a wake, claims which were not […]
Paedophile Glen Mills, 36, had been accused of subjecting his victim to the sustained abuse
A child rapist is behind bars after being found guilty of abusing a schoolgirl in Newcastle. Paedophile Glen Mills, 36, had been accused of subjecting his victim to the sustained abuse before she bravely reported it to Northumbria Police in 2019 Mills, of no fixed abode, denied the offences and put the schoolgirl through the […]
A man has been jailed for life for murdering a woman while she slept on the steps of a church
Kieran Rifat, 22 of no fixed address, was handed his prison sentence after he cruelly attacked 41-year-old Kelly Stewart, who had been sheltering on the steps outside Memorial Community Church on Barking Road. The Old Bailey heard how Rifat initially observed Kelly in the early hours of 26 March last year as she slept. […]