A suspected burglar has been charged in connection with a number of shed break-ins in Ashford
It follows three reports made to Kent Police regarding sheds being broken into in Charing Heath during the evening of Sunday 13 February 2022 where items including a pressure washer were stolen. Johnny Collins, 21, of Wind Hill, Ashford, was arrested and charged with three counts of burglary on Tuesday 1 March following an investigation […]
A man from Surrey who mounted the pavement and drove his car at a group of people on Brighton seafront has been jailed
Alpacino Veii, 25, of Westway in Caterham, Surrey, was one of four men reported to have been involved in a fight at a restaurant in King’s Road, Brighton, at around 5.15am on November 10, 2019. The altercation continued east along the seafront before one man – later identified as Veii – left towards the Lanes […]
A Romanian man has been jailed for four years for attempting to smuggle three handguns into the UK
National Crime Agency officers launched an investigation after Ionut Constantin Diaconu, 36, was stopped at Dover’s Eastern Docks on 12 July 2021. He was a passenger in a lorry being driven by fellow Romanian Constantin Neascu, 39, which was searched by Border Force. Three converted Ekol model Gediz self-loading gas pistols marked as Glock were […]
A 31 year-old man will appear in court tomorrow following a sex attack against a woman in her 70’s in Rotherham
Monjur Khan will appear in court tomorrow morning (Wednesday 2 March) in connection to a sexual assault on Clifton Bank in the Wellgate area of Rotherham on Saturday. Police were called to the road at 1.29pm and responded to reports that a woman aged in her 70s had been the victim of a sexual assault. […]
A 44-year-old man from Southampton has been convicted of assaulting an emergency worker and shoplifting offences at Southampton Magistrates Court
Steven Wood, 44, of Wavell Road in Southampton was sentenced to two months in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting a police officer and subsequent shoplifting offences. It comes after two Police Community Support Officers were on routine patrols in the Witts Hill area of Southampton just before 10pm on Friday 25 February. They spotted […]
Two men from Manchester and Liverpool have been jailed for over 15 years today following a covert investigation into their criminal activity as leaders of an organised crime group in Manchester
The investigation centred on the use of the encrypted communications service Encrochat, which Remez Caffrey and John Chean were both using to import and supply class A and B drugs. Following the takedown of Encrochat in June 2020 as part of the UK-wide Operation Venetic, GMP was made aware of a user handle on the […]
An Exmouth woman has been jailed for 10 years after stabbing her partner to death in an attack she claimed she couldn’t remember
Tanya Hoskin, 52, stabbed her former husband Nigel Johnston in the chest with a knife in the kitchen of their Tennyson Way home one night soon after Christmas 2020. Mr Johnston, 54, underwent emergency surgery at the scene but died a short time later from a single deep stab wound. Exeter Crown Court heard that […]
A suspected drink driver who is alleged to have filmed Kent Police officers while driving has been charged
Officers were parked in their patrol car, in Dux Court Road, Rochester, at around 11pm on Friday 25 February 2022 when they became aware of a vehicle next to them. They are then reported to have seen the driver recording them on his mobile phone whilst driving the van. The vehicle was […]
A man who lured a taxi driver to Blackburn before robbing him at knifepoint has been jailed for four years
At 8.40am on September 6 defendant Reece Waring called the taxi from a hotel in Blackburn and arranged for it to collect him from a nearby street. Waring got into the front of the taxi and claimed he was from Salford, but was unable to say exactly where from. When the taxi driver dropped him […]
One of the UK’s most wanted tax fugitives has been caught while walking her dogs in Spain
Sarah Panitzke, originally from York, was arrested in an operation led by the Spanish Guardia Civil, working alongside HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Plain clothes officers approached the 47-year-old as she walked her two dogs in the small town of Santa Barbara near the Catalan coast on Sunday morning (27 February). Panitzke disappeared in May […]
A prolific thief has been jailed for stealing from dozens of cars parked at beauty spots
Appearing before Salisbury Crown Court on Friday (25/02) Lenny Wells, 34, of Eyres Way, Salisbury, was sentenced to four years imprisonment after being found guilty of conspiracy to steal from motor vehicles. The court had heard that Wells had broken into a total of 36 cars between February 21 and June 21 over five counties […]
Adam James Curtis Has Been Charged With A Single Count Of Possession Of An Air Weapon With Intent To Cause Fear Of Violence
Adam James Curtis Has Been Charged With A Single Count Of Possession Of An Air Weapon With Intent To Cause Fear Of Violence
A man from Birmingham has been jailed for more than nine-and-a-half years following a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected organised crime group involved in the supply of firearms in the West Midlands
21 -year-old Khalid Khan was arrested by officers from the NCA’s Armed Operations Unit at a flat in the Rubery area on 13 November 2021. As officers entered the premises a jacket, packet of drugs and mobile phone were thrown from the window into the street outside. In a pocket of the jacket officers […]
A Tunbridge Wells burglar who targeted a business on an electric scooter has been jailed
On 29 October 2021, Frederick Webb forced open the front door of a jeweller in the High Street and smashed the glass in several cabinets. He then stole jewellery worth almost £44,000 and left the scene on an e-scooter. Webb returned to the High Street on 3 November and went to a […]
Five men have been sentenced in connection with the death of Andrew Ballantyne in High Wycombe last summer, in a hearing at Reading Crown Court
Asher Anderson, aged 35, of Walton Gardens, Wembley was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of Andrew Ballantyne, and three months imprisonment for common assault, relating to an incident on the same evening, to be served concurrently. James Scott, aged 32 of Hawthorne Road, High Wycombe, was sentenced to six years and […]
A man caught driving almost twice the legal limit on the M4 has appeared in court
Daniel Stewart, 34, of Strouds Close, Swindon, was driving a BMW 440I Sport on the M4 near to Chippenham shortly before midnight on May 26 when he was sighted by a Roads Policing Officer who recorded his speed as 135mph. Officers stopped the vehicle and Stewart was issued with a Traffic Offence Report. He […]
Police are investigating after a woman reported that man had raped her in Yate
The attack took place overnight Sunday 27 to Monday 28 February. It happened in the area off Folly Bridge Close behind McColls and the Cranleigh Court Chapel. The woman told the specially-trained officers who first attended that she was walking home after meeting a friend when two men attacked her and one of them raped […]
A man from Camber in East Sussex who raped two teenage girls has now been given a 13-year prison sentence following an investigation by Sussex safeguarding detectives
Scott Mucklow, 29, of Denham Way, Camber, was sentenced at Brighton Crown Court on Thursday 24 February, having previously been convicted of raping a girl then aged 14 at his address in 2009, and of three counts of raping another girl aged between 16 and 17 several years later, one of them at an address […]
