Drugs dealers jailed following work by Kent’s County Lines and Gangs Team in September
[block_2] Sentences totalling more than 19 years were handed out to drug dealers investigated by officers from the County Lines and Gangs Team in September.
A 34-year-old man who raped a teenage girl in the back of a car after a night out has been jailed for 21 years
A 34-year-old man who raped a teenage girl in the back of a car after a night out in November 2014 in Calmore, has today (4 October) been jailed for 21 years. [block_2] Marlon Nelson, aged 34, of no fixed abode, after a night-out offered a lift home to a then 17-year-old girl from Calmore […]
A man has been charged with attempted murder following a serious assault in Southwick.
Michael McDonagh, 32, of Henleaze Road, Bristol, has been charged with attempted murder, possession of an offensive weapon, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.He was arrested on Friday (01/10), subsequently charged and will appear at Salisbury Magistrates Court this morning (04/10).The charges relate to a serious assault at Southwick Sports and Social Club on Wednesday […]
Teen due for trial in Laindon murder
A 16-year-old’s due to go on trial today accused of murdering a dad-on-four in Laindon. 34-year-old James Gibbons was attacked near his home in Iris Mews in May
A drama teacher sexually abused girls as young as 15-years-old in his class during a reign of abuse which lasted five years, a court heard
Christopher Lynch, 38, abused his position of power and targeted teens who wanted to become actresses by sexually assaulting them at the theatre group he set up in Kettering, Northamptonshire. [block_2] He was yesterday found guilty of 11 counts of sexual abuse – including one rape, four counts of sexual activity with a child, and […]
The smallest of sparks can result in catastrophe
[block_2] That the message after a firestarter caused an explosion at his family home when he lit a cigarette while producing drugs with butane gas.
Magistrates jailed Havant shoplifter Natalie Murphy
A 40-year-old woman from Rowlands Castle has been sentenced to five months in prison after pleading guilty to shoplifting offences in Havant and Fareham. Natalie Murphy, of Whichers Gate Road, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft from a shop in relation to two separate incidents. The first of these occurred on December 31 2020 […]
Hampshire police have now confirmed the wanted 64-Year-Old has been arrested and is now in custody awaiting his return to prison
Previously Police were hunting for 64-year-old Jack Hall. Hall is a registered sex offender and is wanted for breaching his licence conditions after his release from prison. Police have been carrying out a number of enquiries to locate him and are now asking the public for help in finding him. It is known he caught […]
A man has been jailed for three years for a burglary in Gosport
In the early hours of the morning on 18 June this year, 50-year-old Steven Christopher Sharp gained access to a garden on Row Wood Lane but was disturbed by the occupant as he tried to access the house. The occupant, aged in her 80s, found Sharp at her back door, at which point he turned […]
A serving police officer has been jailed at Southwark Crown Court after being found guilty of multiple fraud offences
PC Murat Isik, attached to the Roads and Transport Policing Command, was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment on Friday, 1 October. He had been found guilty at the same court on Tuesday, 31 August of four counts of fraud by false representation, two counts of using a false instrument with intent contrary to the Forgery […]
A man has been sentenced at Southampton Magistrates’ Court, after he was charged with drink driving of an e-scooter
LPawel Szmydki, 31, of Brunel Road, Southampton, was sentenced in relation to the incident on 5 September in Wimpson Lane, having pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle with alcohol above the limit. The court heard that Szmydki was seen driving erratically on a hired e-scooter at around 9.35pm, causing vehicles to take evasive action […]
The ringleader of a gang of five men who plotted to burgle homes and businesses and blow up cash machines across Hampshire, Dorset and Surrey has today admitted his part in the conspiracy
David Patrick Hughes, 30, of Street End Close, Hook, admitted conspiring to steal, conspiring to burgle and conspiring to cause explosions at Winchester Crown Court today (October 1). Four other men have also earlier entered guilty pleas for their role in the £1.2million conspiracy. – Cameron Chivers, 23, of Lydgate Road, Southampton pleaded guilty to […]
A lorry driver has been jailed for killing a motorcyclist in a collision on the A32
Today (October 1) at Winchester Crown Court, Lucian-Sorin Todor was sentenced to eight years in prison having been found guilty of death by dangerous driving by a jury in August. A judge also banned him from driving for five years from the time of his release and ordered that Todor be subject of an extended […]
Henry Thomas Henderson has been arrested and charged following a 5-year international manhunt
[block_2] The 56-year-old from The Rogers in Shanklin was detained under a European Arrest Warrant after returning to the UK from overseas.
A 54-year-old man has been charged with the murder of his father in Lewisham
[block_2] Frank Samuel, 54 of Beacon Road, Hither Green, SE13 has been charged with the murder of Arthur Samuel, who was aged 81.
A Metropolitan Police Service officer was sentenced to a whole-life prison term today for the murder of Sarah Everard.
[block_2] Wayne Couzens, 48 appeared at the Old Bailey on the 29 and 30 September where the court heard how he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah.
Nothing can make things better, nothing can bring Sarah back, but knowing he will be imprisoned forever brings some relief
[block_2] “We are very pleased that Wayne Couzens has received a full life sentence and will spend the rest of his life in jail. Nothing can make things better, nothing can bring Sarah back, but knowing he will be imprisoned forever brings some relief.
A man has been jailed for 25 years for non-recent sex offences involving young boys whom he encountered through his work as a caretaker and Scout leader
Victor Jacob, 76of Balmoral Crescent, Macclesfield, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday, 24 September after being found guilty following a five-week trial of 36 offences in total. These included multiple counts of Indecent assault on boys under 16 years, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, engaging in sexual activity with […]
A Havant pervert has walked free from court after sexually assaulting a sleeping teenage girl – despite the Judge labelling his actions “appalling and shocking”
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sexually assaulted following a house party by Havant man Daniel Martin Cake, after he went into a bedroom where she was asleep next to her boyfriend. Portsmouth Crown Court heard how intoxicated opportunist Cake, an electrician of Blendworth Crescent, Havant, was then kicked off […]
A man has been charged with being involved in a conspiracy to smuggle 17 men, women and children into the UK in the back of a van
Romanian national Vasile Costache, aged 53, previously of Hounslow in London, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers at Luton airport on Monday 27 September. He was about to board a flight to Bucharest. [block_2] His arrest was linked to an operation in June 2019 which saw a British-registered Mercedes van intercepted by Dutch police, […]
Katie Price has pleaded guilty to drink-driving, driving while disqualified, and driving without insurance after a crash near her home in Sussex
Katie Price has pleaded guilty to drink-driving, driving while disqualified, and driving without insurance after a crash near her home in Sussex. The former glamour model has appeared at Crawley Magistrates’ Court today following Tuesday morning’s collision on the B2135 near Partridge Green. Price, 43, had been charged with driving while unfit to drive through […]
A couple who made around £70,000 trafficking sex workers around the UK have been jailed
The conviction of Cristian Simion and Mihaela Borcos under the Modern Slavery Act was the first case of its kind for Wiltshire Police. The pair had previously stood trial back in July and today (29/09) appeared at Salisbury Crown Court for sentencing. Simion, 29, now living in Grays, in Essex, who was found guilty of […]
Katie Price has been charged and remanded after disqualified driving in West Sussex
Katie Price has been charged with driving without insurance and while disqualified following a car crash on Tuesday, say police. The reality TV star was arrested after crashing her car on Tuesday. Ms Price is not believed to have been seriously injured in the crash in West Sussex. She has been remanded in custody and […]
Officers investigating a series of fires in Gillingham have charged a man in connection with the incidents
In the early hours of Saturday 25 September 2021, patrols were alerted to a number of bin and rubbish fires in Grange Road, King Edward Road, Forge Lane, High Street, Canterbury Street and Copenhagen Road. At one of the incidents, a gas main caught fire causing damage to the front window of a house in […]
A man has been charged with the murder of 28-year-old Sabina Nessa in Kidbrooke, south-east London on Friday, 17 September.
[block_2] Koci Selamaj, 36 of Terminus Road, Eastbourne was charged on Monday, 27 September. He will appear at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, 28 September.
Gold medal paralympic winner, James Brown, was sentenced to a 12 month prison sentence by a judge at Southwark Crown Court
James is registered blind and will serve at least 6 months. He was found guilty of public nuisance for climbing on top of a plane at London City Airport during Extinction Rebellion’s October 2019 Rebellion to raise the alarm about the climate and ecological emergency. Raj Chada of Hodge, Jones and Allen Solicitors, who acts […]
Detectives investigating the death of a man in Haringey have charged a man with murder
[block_2] Briken Quni, 42, of no fixed address, was charged on Friday, 24 September. He appeared at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, 25 September, where he was remanded to appear at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, 28 September.
A 18-year jail term has been imposed on a man who raped a young girl in Dover
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A drunk van driver who ploughed into a car and killed a schoolgirl in Bobbing has been jailed for seven years
Benjamin Henley was more than two and a half times over the drink drive limit when he collided with a black Audi which had broken down on a slip road on the A249 on 24 October 2018. Henley, 45, of Illustrious Close, Chatham, failed to spot the Audi before he collided with it at around […]
Powdered cocaine concealed in paintings and books has led to two drug dealers being jailed for a total of 19 years between them
[block_2] Gavin Calloway and Charles Hodges worked together to import the class A drug into the UK before they then converted it back into solid form and sold it across Kent.