The trio sold the class A drugs across the Medway towns and have now been jailed
Leesean Francis, Robert Downey and Mohamud Salah have all been jailed for their part in distributing and supplying crack cocaine and heroin across Medway. The trio sold the class A drugs across the Medway towns but were arrested on 25 January 2022 after officers from Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team […]
A jail term has been imposed on a man who sprayed bleach towards a group of people during an altercation in Lydd
Andrew Maloney was given a 16-month sentence at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday 19 May 2022 after admitting possession of an offensive weapon, affray and criminal damage at a previous hearing. The 53-year-old, of The Derings, Lydd, was arrested following a disturbance at a kebab shop in the town’s High Street in the early […]
Police are appealing for witnesses and information following an incident of indecent exposure in Thorpeness
The incident occurred at some point between 2.30 pmto 3.30pm on Wednesday, 18 May. Two women were walking along the Cliff Path footpath, which runs between Sizewell and Thorpeness, when they were approached by an unknown man walking in the same direction, who reportedly walked past them as though in a hurry. After a […]
A man who kept extremist manuals on how to make explosives and carry out attacks has been jailed for terrorism offences
Detectives found the daesh publications on a mobile phone belonging to 20-year-old Nuh Raheel, hidden under a mattress during a pre-planned police search of his address in Birmingham in October 2020. Appearing at Leicester Crown Court on Friday, Raheel was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in a youth offenders’ institution, with a one-year extended licence period. […]
Police have issued a renewed appeal for the public’s help to trace a man who is wanted in connection with an escape from custody
Officers are trying to find 17-year-old Allan Sulley. He pleaded guilty to burglary and theft at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (18 May 2022) and was remanded into custody. He was later taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre after complaining he felt unwell. Whilst there he fled out of the hospital out of the […]
A serial burglar and conman has been jailed for more than a decade
Jim Chuter, 33 of no fixed address, appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday, 19 May where he was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for a linked series of burglaries committed in London, Surrey and Thames Valley. He had previously pleaded guilty to 26 charges including nine for burglary, sixteen counts of fraud and a […]
A sexual predator who abused two young girls has been jailed for 26 years
Trevor Hawker, aged 42, attacked his first victim in 2008. He then went on to repeatedly abuse another young child – including raping her – between 2014 and 2018. When confronted with the allegations in police interviews Hawker denied them all, claiming that his victims were lying about what had happened to them. However […]
Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences, as part of an ongoing investigation being led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.
An 18-year-old man was arrested at an address in Essex on Wednesday, 18 May on suspicion of encouraging terrorism (contrary to section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006 (TACT). He was originally detained under PACE. On Thursday, 19 May, he was detained under TACT and a warrant of further detention application was granted by […]
A man has been jailed for 18 years for the non-recent rape of a child on the Isle of Wight
David Michael Wells, aged 47, from Chale Green, was charged with six counts of rape following a lengthy police investigation. The investigation began in January 2020 after the victim reported she had been abused by Wells between 2017 and 2018 when she was under the age of 16. Wells denied the offences and […]
A man and woman have been jailed for kidnapping and stabbing a man in Newcastle-under-Lyme last year
Henry Parkhurst, aged 24, of HMP Dovegate, Draycott-in-the-Clay, was sentenced on Friday (13 May) at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, to nine years behind bars after being found guilty of wounding with intent and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. Katherine Beckham, aged 27, of Pickwood Road, Leek, was jailed for four years, […]
An investigation by officers from the Met’s South East Public Protection unit has led to the conviction of a ‘manipulative sexual predator
Robert Wain, 59 of Victoria Street, Gillingham, was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court of 35 sexual offences against children on Wednesday, 18 May. Specifically he was found guilty of: – 17 counts of Indecent assault on a boy under 16;– 3 Counts of buggery;– 6 counts of rape;– Attempting to indecently assault a boy under […]
A man has been jailed for possessing more than £51,000 of class A drugs in Southampton as part of a police crackdown on county lines networks
At Southampton Crown Court, Mohammed Artan, 36, from Golden Grove, Southampton, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine. He was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, and for the drugs and paraphernalia seized by police after his arrest to be destroyed. During County Lines Intensification Week, […]
A man has been jailed for seven years after a self-loading pistol and ammunition were seized from him on the M1 in Hertfordshire
Albanian national Klejdi Kazani, 21, was under investigation by the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) – a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit – when he was arrested in August last year. OCP investigators tracked him while he was travelling on the M1 from Birmingham to London and shared intelligence with West Midlands […]
A Plymouth man has been jailed for life after brutally murdering an 18-year-old woman in a sadistic and prolonged attack, committed to satisfy his morbid fascination with serial killers. He must serve a minimum term of 30 years
A Plymouth man has been jailed for life after brutally murdering an 18-year-old woman in a sadistic and prolonged attack, committed to satisfy his morbid fascination with serial killers. He must serve a minimum term of 30 years and 190 days. Cody Ackland, 24, struck Bobbi-Anne McLeod on the head with a claw hammer at […]
Middle aged woman stabbed in Tottenham Park
At 10.05pm on Wednesday, 18 May police were called to the Lordship Lane Recreation Ground off Higham Road, N17 following reports of an assault. Officers attended and found a 43-year-old woman with what appeared to be slash wounds. She was treated by London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance medics before being taken to an […]
A suspect has appeared at court charged with assaults on police officers and a member of the public in Maidstone
A suspect has appeared at court charged with assaults on police officers and a member of the public in Maidstone. At 12.23am on Tuesday 17 May 2022, Kent Police received a report that a man had been struck with a glass bottle on the Millennium Bridge. It was alleged the victim had been speaking to […]
Four arrests have been made and specialist manufacturing equipment made to make millions of pounds worth of counterfeit prescription drugs has been seized following dawn raids
A total of nine addresses were raided by officers in Salford and Wigan as part of a crackdown on the illegal supply and manufacturing of counterfeit prescription drugs where two sophisticated labs, believed to be where Diazepam pills are being made, were discovered. It’s estimated that both labs, on Albion Street in Salford and Lower […]
A sex offender who abused two children near Sevenoaks has been jailed
Robin Noble was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment, following a trial at Maidstone Crown Court. He committed a series of offences with one of the victims between 2008 and 2012, and with a second victim between 2005 and 2013. The abuse was reported to Kent Police and he was arrested on 13 December 2018. Noble, […]
