A man who raped a woman in a car park in Gosport has been jailed for eight years
Portsmouth Crown Court heard that police were called to a commercial car park near The Anchorage at around 1.40am on 27 August 2020 after witnesses described hearing a woman crying for help. Officers attended and spoke to the woman, aged in her 20s, who was found by members of the public in a distressed state. […]
A suspected metal thief has been arrested during an alleged attempt to steal piping and wiring from a business rooftop in Maidstone
The man was detained in the early hours of Saturday 7 May 2022, after an officer had spotted suspicious activity in Church Street. The constable challenged the suspect at around 4am and a struggle took place, during which it is reported the officer was violently assaulted by the suspect and an unknown […]
A drink-driver who caused the death of a young woman was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison at Teesside Crown Court
Simon Allport, 43 from Stockton-on -Tees, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. On the 14 July 2020 at 5.30pm, Allport was driving his black BMW M4 Coupe along Tanton Road, Stokesley, when he collided with a silver Nissan Qashqai that was travelling in the opposite direction. Allport was on the wrong side […]
A woman who robbed an elderly man in Crawley has been jailed
The 70-year-old victim had walked to his local shops at Tilgate Parade on 28 August 2020 to purchase cigarettes and started to walk home via a nearby alleyway when he was assaulted from behind. He was repeatedly punched and kicked as he lay helpless on the floor, and heard a woman shout “get his […]
A 49-year-old man has been found guilty of a number of serious offences against women, including rape
Ian Ramsay from the Borders was convicted in relation to 16 offences at the High Court in Edinburgh. These included five instances of rape. His offending spanned a period from 2014 to 2020 and took place within Lothian & Scottish Borders, Renfrewshire and Ayrshire. Detective Sergeant Gillian Paddon said: “Ian Ramsay is a predatory […]
A Manchester man has been jailed after being found guilty of non-recent sexual abuse against a five year old child
Ilyas Akhtar, of Woodlands Road, Manchester, was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after being found guilty at trial of six counts of indecent assault. During the trial at Bolton Crown Court , the jury heard how the victim in the case, who was around five years old at the time that […]
A Birmingham man has been jailed for possessing and sharing extremist material online
Musa Muhammad, aged 30 from Dunsink Road, Witton, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday to five years in prison after admitting to three offences of possessing and sending extremist videos at an earlier hearing in March. Muhammed is also subject to a Part 4 order for 15 years which is issued to […]
A suspect has appeared at court charged with assaulting police officers in Sevenoaks
On Wednesday 4 May 2022, patrols were called to a report that a man was causing a disturbance outside the town’s railway station and had been aggressive towards other members of the public. A suspect was located in a car park in Hitchen Hatch Lane and arrested. It is alleged the man then […]
Two people have been charged with drug offences following two warrants conducted in the Swindon and Reading areas
The warrants, which were executed simultaneously on May 3 by our Fortitude teams with assistance from Neighbourhood Policing Teams, took place in Aldworth Close in Reading and Somerville Road in Swindon. Katie Longmate, 37, of Aldworth Close, and Chakir Smith, 28, of Beaumont Road, London, were arrested and charged with being concerned in the […]
Four men who violently robbed and assaulted a group of friends at a house in Brentwood have been jailed for a total of 38 years
On Friday 5 July 2019, a group of six friends travelled home from a festival in London to stay overnight at a house in Hatch Road, Brentwood. Around 4.45am, they woke to find three men wearing masks had forced entry into the property. They were then held at knifepoint while their possessions were […]
A man has t been jailed for 12 years and four months for killing 65-year-old Stuart Newton in Oswaldtwistle
officers were called to Worsley Court on February 13th, 2020, following reports Mr Newton had been found with serious head injuries. He was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead the following day. Nathan Scott Williams (top right) was arrested the day after Mr Newton had been found and later charged with his […]
A man has been jailed after he stalked a woman who he claimed to have mistaken for someone else
Darren Hodgkinson, 53, began harassing the woman in Wisbech after he believed her to be a prison guard he recognised called Jackie. Between 10 December 2021 and 4 January 2022, he visited the victim’s home in Park Avenue six times despite being told he had the wrong address and to go away. Hodgkinson, of […]
A woman who carried out a ‘sickening and brutal’ attack on a pensioner has been jailed for more than seven years.
A woman who carried out a ‘sickening and brutal’ attack on a pensioner has been jailed for more than seven years. Samantha McDonnell broke into supported accommodation on Hasbury Road, Bartley Green on 4 March this year. She let herself into a pensioner’s flat and demanded money before attacking him, hitting him to the floor. […]
Two men who callously opened fire on a group of people in an east London park – mistakenly believing them to be rival gang members – have been jailed
Sheikh Dibba, 21 of Central Street, Islington, and Fahim Rahman, 34 , of Moreland Street, Islington, left three people with life-changing injuries after they fired 13 shots at a group of people in a children’s play park in Hackney in October 2020. A jury found the pair guilty of three counts of attempted murder […]
A man who stabbed another man to death in an assault lasting just ten seconds has been jailed
Mohammed Al-Shihabi, 26 of Lighthouse View, Greenwich, was found guilty of manslaughter and possession of a bladed article at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, 4 April after fatally stabbing Mazaza Owusu-Mensah, 18, who lived in Greenhithe in Kent, in a brief but deadly altercation in March 2021.Al-Shihabi was found not guilty of murder. He was […]
A man from Wakefield has been given a two-year suspended sentence for posting online messages fantasising about abusing children and possessing thousands of child sexual abuse images
Jack Mallinson, 26, a trainee solicitor and special police constable with West Yorkshire Police, was identified by NCA investigators after he used instant messaging app Wickr to send encrypted content. In posts from October 2020, he described a graphic, fictional scenario of him abusing two young children and discussed his intentions to abuse a […]
A former metropolitan police officer convicted of perverting the course of justice would have been dismissed had he still been in the Met
Former PC Dylan Freedman, who was attached to the North West Command Unit before resigning earlier this year, was sentenced in February after admitting to driving at excess speed and later claiming his number plates had been cloned. A misconduct hearing which concluded on Wednesday, 4 May found he had breached the standards of […]
Former Dublin airport policeman became ‘serial money launderer’ for criminal gangs
A Dublin man believed to have laundered millions of pounds for organised crime groups by smuggling cash on hundreds of flights has been jailed for 20 months. The National Crime Agency began an investigation into 42-year-old Mark Adams – a former Dublin airport policeman from Malahide – in May 2018 after he was stopped […]
