UPDATED:Major search launched after five year old child is snatched from contact centre in Croydon
A major search has been launched for a missing five-year-old after she was snatched from the Croydon contact centre on Saturday. The missing girl who is understood to have been taken by a family member may be heading to the Sheerness or Sittingbourne area of Kent. She was last wearing a blue […]
A man has been jailed for racially abusing and spitting toward a family visiting Bridport
Daniel Lavery, aged 39 and of South Walk, Bridport, was sentenced at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court after admitting offences of using racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or […]
18 years in jail for man who claimed he strangled partner due to cage fighting dream
A man who claimed he strangled his partner after having a dream about cage fighting has been jailed for 18 years. Bradley Souto attacked his partner Rebecca Jackson as she slept on the evening of 13 November, 2019. After choking her unconscious, he rang his mother who told him to ring 999. A […]
A drug dealer who ran a county lines drug network in the Welwyn Hatfield area has been jailed for six years
In January 2021, two 15-year-old boys were found in an address in Hatfield along with quantities of crack cocaine and heroin. Th ensuing investigation found that the ‘cuckooed’ address was involved in the supply of drugs and the boys were victims of human trafficking. Officers from Hertfordshire Constabulary’s Operation Mantis team executed a warrant […]
Almost 27 years ago, Karen Reed was brutally murdered on her doorstep in Woking
The investigation, known as Operation Lilac, was featured on this morning’s episode of Crimewatch Live and continues to remain a high priority for the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team. Karen Reed, 33 was shot five times after answering her door to a man disguised as a pizza delivery driver on Saturday, 30 April 1994. […]
Police are appealing for the public’s help to locate a remand prisoner who was mistakenly released from HMP Wormwood Scrubs
William Fernandez, 24, was being held on remand awaiting trial for sexual assault by touching, indecent exposure and possession of a class B drug – offences for which he was arrested and charged in April 2020. On Wednesday, 24 March, the Met was informed by staff at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in west London that Fernandez […]
A county lines drug dealer has been sentenced at Swindon Crown Court to 54 months in prison after being convicted of supplying crack coca…
The court heard how Ezakyle Davis, 23, from Ilford used the pseudonym Logan to sell drugs – building up a well-established class A drug supply line in Swindon over a number of months. Davis was arrested on 8 December 2020 at a hotel in Victoria Road, Swindon following a lengthy investigation led by members of […]
A county lines drug dealer has been sentenced at Swindon Crown Court to 54 months in prison after being convicted of supplying crack cocaine and heroin from London to Swindon on a regular basis
The court heard how Ezakyle Davis, 23, from Ilford used the pseudonym Logan to sell drugs – building up a well-established class A drug supply line in Swindon over a number of months. Davis was arrested on 8 December 2020 at a hotel in Victoria Road, Swindon following a lengthy investigation led by members of […]
A Portsmouth man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for an assault in which he stabbed a man in the neck with a screwdriver last summer
Charlie McGowan, 21, of Drummond Road, Portsmouth, was found guilty of Section 18 Grievous Bodily Harm and burglary after previously pleading guilty to the burglary and guilty to a lesser charge of Section 20 Grievous Bodily Harm. He appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court for sentencing. During McGowan’s trial, the court heard how on the afternoon […]
A Portsmouth man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for an assault in which he stabbed a man in the neck with a screwdriver last …
Charlie McGowan, 21, of Drummond Road, Portsmouth, was found guilty of Section 18 Grievous Bodily Harm and burglary after previously pleading guilty to the burglary and guilty to a lesser charge of Section 20 Grievous Bodily Harm. He appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court for sentencing. During McGowan’s trial, the court heard how on the afternoon […]