A Southampton man was caught driving under the influence of drugs while driving without a licence
Aaron Cosgrove was arrested for drug driving in an Audi A4 in Lords Hill last November 25. The 31-year-old man, who does not have a driver’s licence, had cocaine and Benzoylecgonine – a breakdown product of cocaine – in his blood. He admitted two counts of drug driving, one count of driving without a licence, […]
A pervert who sexually abused a young girl has been jailed 13 years
George Smith, 65, was handed the term with a four-year extended licence after he was found guilty of four sex offences. Smith, of Salmons Road, Odiham, Hampshire took advantage of the victim, a girl under the age of 13, last year. The family of Smith’s victim were at Winchester Crown Court to watch the […]
William Dempster was convicted in May 2014 and fled the UK before he could be sentenced and was believed to have travelled to Thailand
Police have confirmed that a 46-year-old man convicted of being found in possession of indecent images of children, in 2014 has been arrested in Thailand on an international warrant today, Monday, 30 May 2022. William Dempster was convicted in May 2014 and fled the UK before he could be sentenced and was believed to have […]
A couple have been jailed for a total of 38 years for the brutal murder of a vulnerable man with severe learning difficulties in his Wembury home
Lee Chugg and Jodie Swannick stamped on and kicked frail 60-year-old Stephen Fogg to death – then blamed each other for the killing. Both denied murder but were convicted by a jury at Exeter Crown Court on 19 May following a four-week trial. They were sentenced today, 27 May, to life imprisonment. Chugg must […]
Police charged teenage boy with murder as his victim has been named today as 15-year-old Zane Smart
Zane died on Friday afternoon (27 May) from a stab wound to his chest in Pendeford. His family has been left heartbroken and devastated with grief at the loss of Zane who was “much loved by us all”. They said: “Words cannot describe the unbearable loss we feel as Zane’s family. He […]
A burglar has appeared in court charged with multiple offences after break-ins at businesses in Canterbury
Kent Police’s Victim Based Crime Team investigated reports of burglaries at shops in the city centre between January and May 2022. Following enquiries, Stephen Field was arrested and charged with 10 offences: • Seven counts of burglary, relating to offences at shops in Canterbury between Wednesday 5 January and Wednesday 18 May. • Two offences […]
A man has been charged with the murder of Nicholas Sutin in Finchley
Police were called to Ballards Lane, N12 at 4.05am on Friday, 27 May. Officers attended with the London Ambulance Service and found a critically injured man. Despite the efforts of emergency services, he died at the scene. The man has been identified as 55-year-old Nicholas Sutin. A post-mortem examination carried out at Northwick Park […]
Third teenager charged with murder following death of Frantisek Olah in Basingstoke
A 17-year-old boy has today been charged with murder, as part of the investigation into the death of Frantisek Olah in Basingstoke The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is due to appear at Basingstoke Magistrates Court on Tuesday 31 May. The charge relates to the death of Frantisek, 31, who […]
A dad of two jailed for killing a young woman and seriously injuring a man in a hit and run in 2012 died after crashing into the same bus stop in South London on his motorbike eight years later
The Inner South London Coroner’s court has heard today. Nathan Davis, then 28, was jailed for five years and four months in April 2013 after he mowed down hotel receptionist Veronica Chango-Alvarez, 31, as she waited for a bus on Streatham High Road in Norbury on her way to work at 5:30am on December 22 […]
A joint initiative to tackle hare coursing across the East of England has led to the first person to be fined for breaching a Community Protection Notice (CPN) served under the scheme
Sydney Samuels, 33, of Oxford Gardens, Maidstone, was handed a £400 fine when he appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court on 19 May 2022. Mr Samuels is the first person to have been taken to court for breaching his CPN which was served to him as part of Op Galileo, the national initiative, […]
A suspect has been charged following a serious assault in Hythe
At around 11.20pm on Friday 27 May 2022, an altercation took place in the garden of a pub in Seabrook Road. During the incident, a man was reportedly struck to the face and sustained a head injury. Emergency services attended the scene and the victim was flown to a London hospital, […]
A man who inflicted serious facial injuries on his victim in an unprovoked attack in Ramsgate has been jailed for three years
James Beaumont, 19, from Lancaster Road, Canterbury stamped on the man’s head causing a fractured eye socket and fractured finger on Saturday 12 February 2022. Kent Police was called to Ramsgate High Street at about 9pm where they found the man, he was taken to a local hospital and treated for his injuries. […]
Man charged following shooting in Edlington
A 21-year-old man has today (29 May) been charged in connection with a shooting in Edlington last week. Police were called to Prince’s Crescent shortly before 1pm on Sunday 22 May. A 27-year-old man suffered wounds consistent with a firearms discharge to his right arm. He was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening […]
He was jailed for seven years and will be a registered sex offender for life
Glen Noone has been given a seven-year prison sentence for raping a woman in Lewes. Noone, 33, of Lammas Close, Littlehampton, was sentenced at Chichester Crown Court on Wednesday 11 May, having been found guilty of the rape of the woman at a private address in Lewes in October, 2019. He was jailed for seven […]
The court heard how the 33-year-old, who was a local children’s martial arts instructor and children’s entertainer, had sexually abused three children on multiple occasions over a seven year period
A man has been jailed for a total of 13 and a half years after being found guilty, and subsequently convicted, of committing a string of serious child sex offences between January 2005 and June 2012 Steven Oxborrow, aged 33 of Wilverley Road in Wootton was previously found guilty at Southampton Crown Court on […]
Ahmed Ozyoruk was running the ‘Ace’ line, which was supplying Class A drugs in Braintree
A dealer who had taken over the home of a vulnerable man and was using it as a base from which to sell drugs has been jailed thanks to the work of our specialist drug officers. Ahmed Ozyoruk was running the ‘Ace’ line, which was supplying Class A drugs in Braintree. Officers from our Op […]
A Metropolitan Police officer faces a trial accused of 44 charges against a dozen women
Pc David Carrick is accused of the charges, which include 21 counts of rape, over a 17-year period. An eight-week trial will take place at Southwark Crown Court on February 6, 2023. The 47-year-old, who worked as an armed officer, appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday by video link from Belmarsh prison. He […]
A man who viciously assaulted a woman and then filmed them having sex before sharing the footage with friends has been jailed
Paul Thomas Kavanagh, aged 56, of Westbourne Park Road, Westminster, pleaded guilty to ABH and disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress at an earlier hearing and was sentenced to two years in jail at Isleworth Crown Court Friday 27 May. He was also handed a restraining order forbidding him […]
