A man from Norfolk has been sentenced for deliberately causing extensive damage to his car in an attempt to fraudulently claim on his insurance
Shamim Ali, 53, of Ipswich Road, Norwich, claimed that his car had been vandalised whilst he was at a party. Discrepancies between the engineer’s report and Ali’s account raised alarm bells for his insurer, Zurich, who referred the case to the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) for investigation. Ali pleaded guilty […]
A man has been jailed for assaulting a woman with a weapon at a property in Brighton
A concerned neighbour called the police and went to help an injured woman in distress in Baden Road, Brighton, shortly after 7.30am on September 26 last year. Officers from Sussex Police’s Tactical Firearms Unit (TFU) and divisional officers from Brighton and Hove responded rapidly and arrested 56-year-old David Keville, AKA David Alexander, at the […]
Police have charged with driving offences in Milton Keynes
Ryan Page, aged 23, of Westbury Lane, Newport Pagnell, has been charged with dangerous driving and failing to stop for a police officer. The charges relate to an incident on Saturday 5 March where officers were alerted to a group of motorists gathered and driving anti-socially in […]
Two men have been charged and will appear in court in connection with an alleged incident at Stansted airport
Lee Carey, 55 of Brentwood Road, Romford and 31-year-old Jak Bruce of Watchgate, Darftord have been charged with causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress (an offence under Section 4A of the Public Order Act). The pair have been released on bail ahead of their appearance at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday […]
Police in Hemlington have welcomed a 30-month-sentence handed to a man who was sentenced earlier this week for dangerous driving, possession of a class A drug, no insurance and failing to provide a specimen of breath
24-year-old Macauley Owen, of Fairfax Court in Hemlington, was handed the sentence at Teesside Magistrates Court earlier this week (Monday 7th March). The incident happened around 2:15am on Tuesday 1st February, when Owen was seen driving an Audi A3 near Stainton Way. He abandoned the vehicle, made off on foot and was arrested nearby. […]
Man sentenced for New Milton child sex offence
Martyn Quinn, 65, from Beechwood, Fordingbridge, appeared at Southampton Crown Court for sentencing, having previously pleaded guilty to one count of assault of a boy under 13 years old by touching. The court heard how Quinn sexually assaulted the boy at premises in Gore Road, New Milton, on 2 January this year. Quinn was sentenced […]
A suspect has appeared in court after three men were slashed with a weapon during a night out
The victims, two aged in their twenties and the other aged in his teens, were assaulted in St James’ Street, in Nottingham city centre, at around 6.50pm on Saturday 19 February. Two suffered facial wounds and the other was treated for a deep cut to the back of his head. Two other men suffered minor […]
A paedophile whose gang may have sexually abused more than 139 underage girls has been Released and is living in a bail hostel in Plymouth
In 2011, Jake Ormerod was sentenced to 10 years. In 2012, that jail term was cut from 10 years to seven by judges at London’s Criminal Appeal Court. Ormerod used social networking websites including Facebook to groom his victims before luring them back to his squalid home in Torquay, Devon. would hang around school […]
A man has been jailed for a vicious assault on a homeless man outside Newcastle Central station
Lee David Martin, aged 40, of Tumulus Avenue, Walker, Newcastle, pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm and outraging public decency at an earlier hearing and was sentenced to five months in jail at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday 7 March. Kerry Ann Walker, aged 33, who is currently remanded in custody […]
A man drove a woman around the country – ending up around 340 miles away from her Nottinghamshire home – while subjecting her to controlling and coercive behaviour.
Jonathan Cook, 25, took her to various locations including Whitby in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, London and Cornwall during a week-long ordeal. Concerned family members contacted Nottinghamshire Police and the force liaised closely with Devon and Cornwall Police which led to the pair being found on Marazion Beach in Cornwall and Cook being arrested on 16 October […]
Trafford man jailed following ‘sustained and deplorable campaign of domestic abuse
Philip Daly, of Beechlands Avenue, Altrincham, appeared at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court this afternoon (Thursday 10 March 2022), where he was jailed for 18 years with a further five years to be spent on license. Daly was found guilty of the following offences at trial in October 2021: Eight counts of ABH. One […]
Russell pleaded guilty to the murders as well as the robberies and causing grievous bodily harm with intent
Anthony Russell, 39, of Riley Square, Coventry, was sentenced at Warwick Crown Court today to a whole life order after he embarked on a campaign of extreme violence against vulnerable victims over seven days.Between 21 October 2020 and his arrest on 30 October 2020, Russell murdered Nicole McGregor, David Williams and Julie Williams. He raped […]
A drug dealer from Bristol has been jailed for seven years and six months
Mazin Mohammed was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court today, Friday 11 March, after admitting offences including possession of heroin and cocaine with intent to supply. The 28-year-old from Claverham Road was arrested in December following a report from the member of the public that a suspected drug deal had taken place. We traced the […]
Heroin, knives, and cash have been seized by officers investigating alleged county lines drug dealing in Chesterfield
The warrants, which took place in Sheffield and the Grangewood area of the town, resulted in five people, three men and two women being arrested, and a quantity of drugs, knives and cash were also seized.The man and woman arrested in Sheffield have subsequently been charged with conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine – […]
The mother of a murdered teenager has explained how she and her family are living every day to honour his memory
Sixteen-year-old Joseph Whitchurch was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Boxing Day morning 2020 by Jake Rollinson, a violent criminal and small-time drug dealer. Rollinson, aged 21, was today (Friday) handed a life sentence by a judge at Nottingham Crown Court and will spend at least the next 19 years behind bars. In […]
A 27-year-old woman who hit a police officer on the head with a skateboard threw missiles at other officers and smashed the window of Bridewell Police Station has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.
Mariella Gedge-Rogers, of Clifton, Bristol was convicted of rioting in Bristol City Centre following a crown court trial last month. A jury unanimously found her guilty of being part of a group that used or threatened violence and together, caused others to fear for their personal safety outside the city centre police station on […]
A lorry driver who hid 63 kilos of cocaine in a legitimate load of electronics has been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation
Elroy Patrick Spek, 50, from the Netherlands, was driving an HGV from the Netherlands to the UK on 17 June 2021 when it was stopped at the UK border in Coquelles, France.The trailer was searched by Border Force officers and three cardboard boxes were found to have been secured to the top of the […]
A husband and wife duo have been jailed at Southwark Crown Court today after being convicted of a series of offences including rape and controlling prostitution for gain involving Romanian women who had been trafficked into the UK
Detective Sergeant Chris Weatherstone from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command, said: “This lengthy and complex investigation over several years has dismantled an organised crime group (OCG) who were exploiting women in London for their own financial gain. “Individuals are often reticent or too afraid to come forward in modern slavery investigations, so it is our […]
