A burglar has been jailed for one year and ten months for stealing a customised classic car from Deal
The pale blue Ford Anglia – which had been a replica of the Weasleys’ car from the Harry Potter films – was stolen from a Walmer garage by 37-year-old Richard Matthews in October 2019. However a media appeal and investigation using CCTV stills led to his identification and subsequent arrest.
An Essex upholsterer who was caught transporting £1.6m worth of cocaine within two chairs has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
Andrew Duncan Fraser pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine last year, following an investigation by the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) – a joint NCA and Metropolitan Police Service unit. OCP officers tracked down and stopped the 58-year-old from Harlow, Essex, on 17 October 2020 as he drove his van along […]
A man who spat at a bus driver during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic has been jailed
Michael Aidoo, 44 and of no fixed address, appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 25 March, where he pleaded guilty to common assault.
A man and a woman have been charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine, a class A drug, after warrants were carried out in south London and Bedfordshire
Robert Hunt, 34 of Cranborne Close, Bedford, has also been charged with possession with intent to supply cocaine, possession with intent to supply a class B drug (cannabis) and possession of criminal property. Joanne White 54 of Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire, was also charged with possession of a class B drug (cannabis).
A Leeds man has been jailed after his DNA was found on a shotgun recovered following a police search
Levi Paterson from Leeds was sentenced to three years in prison at Leeds Crown Court on April 1, after admitting possessing a firearm at an earlier hearing at Leeds Magistrates Court in October 2020. He was also given two concurrent 12 month jail sentences for two separate robbery offences from 2019, adding to a […]
A twice-convicted murderer who lost an eye in a prison yard attack has been awarded £85,000 in damages
Lee Newell, 52, also suffered a fractured skull and a severe brain injury in the assault by double killer Gary Vinter at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes in November 2014. Newell had claimed the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) did not protect him. High Court Judge Peter Marquand found the MoJ breached “its obligation to keep […]
A man has been charged in connection with a series of high value burglaries in Westminster
Jugoslav Jovanovic, 23 of Milan, Italy was charged on Friday, 2 April with conspiracy to commit burglary, conspiracy to commit money laundering and attempting to convert criminal property.
Seven years’ imprisonment has been imposed upon a man who struck a person in the head with a screwdriver
A drug dealer is starting a prison sentence of more than three years after his DNA was detected on cocaine supplies seized by police from a car in Tunbridge Wells
Jack Davis was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court, after phone evidence also proved he had been orchestrating a supply network to multiple users. Davis was a passenger in a car which was stopped by patrols on 29 September 2018, following reports of suspicious activity. The vehicle was brought to a halt in London Road […]
A man has been jailed after he robbed a number of bookmakers while threatening staff with an imitation firearm and wearing a prosthetic rubber face mask in a bid to conceal his identity
Andrae Moncrieffe, 37 of Bibury Close, Southwark, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court on Friday, 26 March to a total of 10 years’ imprisonment.At the same court on Thursday, 25 March he was found guilty following trial of three counts of robbery and three counts of possession of an imitation firearm whilst committing a […]
A suspected thief from Medway is to appear in court charged in connection with a disturbance in Ashford
The charges follow an incident in which police were called to a report of theft of alcohol and threats to staff at a petrol station in Beaver Lane, Ashford during the evening of Thursday 25 March 2021.
A woman was jailed today at the Old Bailey for her part in the murder of a man who was poisoned and killed
Diana Cristea, 19 of Tottenham, was found guilty at a previous hearing of murder, administering a poison or noxious substance so as to endanger life, two counts of theft, and eight counts of fraud. She previously pleaded guilty to two counts of handling stolen goods and one count of fraud. Today she was ordered […]
A man has been found guilty of the murder of 16-year-old Alex Smith who was stabbed to death Camden in 2019
Abdirahman Ibrahim, 20 of Pratt Street, NW1, was found guilty of murder and assisting an offender at Inner London Crown Court on Monday, 29 March. He is due to be sentenced in the same court on 30 April. The trial heard how Alex was attacked and stabbed just after 11pm on 12 August 2019. Alex […]
A Crawley man has sentenced to 13 years imprisonment after being convicted of multiple sex assaults on two girls
Azam Haleemdeen, 37, a cleaner, of Broadwalk, Crawley, was sentenced to a total of 13 years imprisonment at Hove Crown Court on Friday 26 March on 12 counts, each of multiple sexual assaults on the two young girls. He had been convicted at Brighton Crown Court on Thursday 10 December, after a trial.
Seven people convicted over their involvement in the fatal stabbing of a teenager at an industrial container port in Barry in 2019, have today been sentenced to a total of 119 years in prison
Earlier this month, on March 15, a jury found Peter McCarthy, Leon Clifford, Leon Symons and a 17-year-old – who can now be identified as Brandon Liversidge after the judge lifted reporting restrictions protecting his anonymity – guilty of murdering 17-year-old Harry Baker following a dispute over drugs. Lewis Evans, Ryan Palmer and Raymond […]
A child sex offender has been jailed after he admitted attempting to groom a child online
Steven Tonks of Windmill Road, Gillingham, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on 26 March 2021 where he was sentenced to one year in jail.
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Lottery funding bears fruit with historic orchard restoration
An historic orchard is being restored at Russell Gardens in the latest phase of the Lottery funded restoration of Thomas Mawson’s c.1900 design for Kearsney Court gardens. A total of sixty-three fruit trees are being planted by Dover District Council’s Parks & Open Spaces team, including a variety of apple, pear, and cherry trees. Espalier trained fruit […]
Hythe woman due in court to answer baby death charge
A woman charged with the murder of a newborn baby after it’s body was discovered in Hythe last year is due to appear at Southampton Magistrates to answer charges 37-year-old Silipa Keresi from Pylewell Road Hythe was arrested last march but was released under investigation. She has since been charged with offences.
A man has been found guilty of rape, false imprisonment and GBH while on bail for bottling another at a bar
Yonattan Aroldy Gonzalez Pineda, 33, of no fixed abode, was found guilty on Friday, 26 March, following a joint trial for the grievous bodily harm of a woman in Southwark and the false imprisonment, grievous bodily harm and rape of a woman in Haringey. The court heard that on 30, November 2019 Pineda harassed a […]
A disturbance on a boat in Queenborough has led officers to charge a man following reports of a firearm and knife
Police were called to Alsager Avenue on the morning of Thursday 25 March 2021 after a man was found on board a boat for which he did not have permission.
A twenty-five-year-old man who conned strangers, friends and his partner to fund his gambling addiction has been sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court
Scott Newland’s eleven victims gave him a total of £30,467.04 over a six-month period. Some of the lies he told was that his father had died and the money was to help with funeral expenses, also, that he was buying his ex-partner’s share of a house. In addition, he falsely advertised computers for sale, taking […]
A man from Blackbird Leys has been imprisoned for seven years for a grievous bodily harm offence which occurred in Oxford
Rui Silva, aged 33, of Blackbird Leys Road, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court after a jury found him guilty by unanimous verdict of assaulting another man with a knife. Silva pleaded not guilty to a count each of Section 18 GBH and possession of a bladed article, and following a trial lasting four days, […]
Two men who were caught 15 minutes after robbing a petrol station have been jailed
Jamie Wilson and Sam Chambers walked into Toomeys Service Station in Westmayne, Basildon, at about 12.55am on 3 January, and Wilson waved a knife towards two members of staff behind the tills. He grabbed one of them and pulled her to the floor. She was told to open the till and Chambers helped himself to […]
A man has been jailed for racially abusing and spitting toward a family visiting Bridport
Daniel Lavery, aged 39 and of South Walk, Bridport, was sentenced at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court after admitting offences of using racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or […]
Police are appealing for the public’s help to locate a remand prisoner who was mistakenly released from HMP Wormwood Scrubs
William Fernandez, 24, was being held on remand awaiting trial for sexual assault by touching, indecent exposure and possession of a class B drug – offences for which he was arrested and charged in April 2020. On Wednesday, 24 March, the Met was informed by staff at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in west London that Fernandez […]
A drug dealer from Staines-upon-Thames has been jailed for 28 months after pleading guilty to a number of drug offences
Taylor McKee, 19, of Long Lane, Staines-upon-Thames, was sentenced on 24 March at Staines Crown Court, for:
A man from Luton was imprisoned for nine years at Luton Crown Court, after he was found guilty of assaulting a man with a bottle of vodka
Karl Walsh, 45, of Eaton Green Road, was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH), and two counts of theft.
A man who officers found pointing an air rifle at a car with passengers inside has been locked up for more than a year
Blidworth response officers arrived in the Ricket Lane area and found Victor Staples armed with the weapon. They challenged the 62-year-old, of Ricket Lane, to drop the rifle and had to negotiate with him for some time before he did so.
Three teenagers being held by police on suspicion of murdering a man from Leigh have had their time in custody extended
Three males – aged 16, 17, and 18 – were arrested on Friday 26 March and will remain in custody for an additional 36 hours after an application was accepted at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates’ Court earlier today (Saturday 27 March). A murder investigation was launched by detectives from GMP’s Major Incident Team (MIT) after […]