A man who attacked and raped a woman in Blackpool has been jailed
David Dara, 29, of Saxby Street, Leicester, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with a further six years on licence, at Burnley Crown Court. Dara had…
Humber Coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public who was concerned after seeing a tent dangerously close to a cliff edge, along the Cleveland Way, North Yorkshire
Coastguard teams at Staithes Coastguard and Whitby Coastguard found thr family, of two adults and a child, who unaware of the dangers, pitched their ten…
Police in Sri Lanka said they have arrested two people in connection with the death of a nine-year-old girl who was repeatedly beaten during a ritual they believed would drive away an evil spirit
The two suspects — the woman performing the exorcism and the girl’s mother — appeared in court on Monday to hear charges over the girl’s death, which oc…
A man arrested by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command has been charged
Connor Burke, 18 from South east London, was arrested on Wednesday, 24 February. On Monday, 1 March, he was charged with dissemination of terrorist p…
A man has been jailed for a number of offences following his arrest in connection with an assault on a woman on Park Lane last summer
Soofuue Yakr 27 of no fixed address, appeared at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday, 1 March where he was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for posses…
Officers have urged all victims of such abuse to come forward, saying all incidents will be investigated thoroughly and sensitively
Police say they are again stressing their commitment to tackling domestic abuse – after a man was jailed for five years following attacks on a woman. Ca…
A violent burglar who assaulted a police officer has been jailed
Officers were attending an unrelated incident in Burns Street, Mansfield, shortly after 9.20pm on Thursday 10 September when they noticed Grzegorz Wus…
Man jailed for murdering Sheffield woman
A 60-year-old Sheffield man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the murder of Maria Howarth. David Bestwick was found gui…
Man jailed after assaulting pensioner in an unprovoked attack in Warrington
Jack Brooke punched the 81-year-old man several times at around 1.30pm on Thursday 22 October.Both men were walking alone near Bridge Foot until they ca…
Man and woman charged with murder following death of baby In Warrinngton
A man and woman have been charged with murder following the death of a baby. At 1.05pm on Thursday 18 February police were notified that a six month old…
A teenage girl will have to wear a leg splint for the rest of her life after a callous driver travelling at twice the speed limit knocked her down and left her for dead
Kwame McKenzie was driving at more than twice the speed limit in the moments leading up to the crash – hitting speeds of more than 70mph after he fail…
A man has been jailed for more than four years after admitting to causing the death of a woman in a collision in Colchester.
Linda Franklin, 39, was a passenger in a silver Audi A3 being driven by David Jankovic on Avon Way at around 6pm on Thursday 27 August last year. As…
Man jailed for manslaughter following a serious assault in Bournemouth
A man has been jailed for six years following a serious assault in Bournemouth where a man sadly died.Carl Stuart Woolley, 33 and of no fixed abode, was…
A fraudster who groomed women on dating sites to scam thousands of pounds from them has been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court
Sebastian Timmis, of Hill View in Marksbury, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of fraud by false representation in relation to offences committed between Ja…
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a woman in Peckham
Taofiq Laguda, 46 of Dagenham was sentenced on Thursday, 25 February at Woolwich Crown Court. He must serve a minimum of seven years. Laguda was convic…
A man who callously attacked and murdered Lee Casey in a Brixton park in August 2019 will serve a minimum of 20 years in prison
Levi Paschal, 34 of Clarence Avenue, SW4 was found guilty of murdering 38-year-old Lee following the conclusion of a trial at the Old Bailey on Thursda…
A 60-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of Maria Howarth in Sheffield last September
David Bestwick, of Chesterfield Road, Sheffield, has been on trial at Sheffield Crown Court since Monday 22 February, charged with murdering Maria.The c…
Polish lorry driver has been jailed for five years after attempting to smuggle two kilos of cocaine into the UK
The National Crime Agency investigated when Grzegorz Waclaw Lasota, 47, from Poland, was stopped at Dover’s Eastern Docks in January this year. Border…
Philip Peace has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his baby daughter
Five-month-old Summer Peace died in September 2017 from non-accidental injuries. She had been in the sole care of her father at their home, when she b…
The Supreme Court is to rule later whether the runaway schoolgirl Shamima Begum should be allowed back into the UK from Syria
The ruling comes six years after the then 15-year-old left with friends to join the Islamic State group. The government stripped her of British nation…
Officers have charged a man with conspiracy to supply class A drugs
Gary Green, 37, of Crown Road, Sutton was charged on Thursday, 25 February after he was arrested earlier the same day. He was remanded to appear at Wi…
A man has been jailed for a violent commercial robbery in Southwark
Edward Woodbridge 43 of Ardgowan Road, SE6, appeared at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday, 25 February where he was sentenced to 16 years and three m…
A man has been convicted of murder after beating his wife to death at the home they shared in Edmonton
Hussein Yusuf Egal, 66 of South Mall, N9 was convicted of the murder of his wife, 57-year-old Maryan Ismail, on Wednesday, 24 February after a trial a…
Families who have lost loved ones, some in tragic circumstances, will have to wait even longer for closure as there is no set date for inquests to resume on the Isle of Wight
Coroner Caroline Sumeray has said that risking lives to investigate a death is not justifiable after being probed on why inquests are not going ahead….
Five Scarborough men given life sentences for murder The gang must serve a minimum of almost 100 years in total before they can be considered for release
At around 2am, on Sunday 20 October 2019, Stefan Selvage 19, Dawid Goral, 21, Callon Brass, 22, Kieran Watkinson, 19, and Stevie Low, 23, stabbed Solomo…
Two men from the Great Yarmouth area have been sentenced following an investigation into the supply of cocaine
Charlton Glover, aged 26, of Mill Road, Cobholm, and Tobias Coker, aged 23 of Main Road, Rollesby appeared at Norwich Crown Court to be sentenced, afte…
A Kurdish asylum seeker faces deportation back to northern Iraq after being convicted of the violent rape of a teenage student
Durham Crown Court heard that Swara Jubrahil Mohammad carried out the attack on a teenage student in a “dirty” bedsit above a Bishop Auckland pizza sh…
A man has been jailed for 25 years after he was convicted of the murder of Jacqueline Hoadley in Eastbourne
Raymond Hoadley, 62, of Willowfield Road, Eastbourne, was unanimously found guilty of the murder of his estranged wife Jacqueline at Hove Crown Court on…
Drug dealing trio sentenced to over 8 years for county lines drug supply
Three people have been sentenced for county lines drug dealing offences following an operation and investigation by Cumbria Police’s North Area Drugs Sq…
An attacker who left a man with serious brain injuries after flooring him with a punch has been jailed
Thomas Matthews landed the blow outside the Phoenix pub in Oldbury on 24 October last year. The victim, aged in his 40s, fell to the ground after b…