Update on Corby murder investigation and appeal for Snapchat footage
Detectives working on the Rayon Pennycook murder investigation have been granted a 36-hour extension by Magistrates to question three young people arrested in connection with his death. Police officers were called just before 7pm on Tuesday, May 25, to Constable Road to reports that Rayon had been stabbed. Sadly, and despite the best efforts of […]
Dressed from head to toe in black, Andrew McNair climbed through a bedroom window before subjecting the elderly man to a brutal attack and stealing cash
The 28-year-old, of Warden Bay Road, Sheerness, admitted robbery and was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday 25 May 2021 to five years and four months’ imprisonment. McNair was one of three men who entered the victim’s home, in Kent Avenue, Minster, at around 9.30pm on Saturday 10 October 2020. […]
Detectives investigating allegations a man was assaulted and dragged from his vehicle in Headcorn have issued images of a person they would like to identify
On Saturday 17 April 2021, the victim had been travelling in a Ford Transit flatbed truck when at around 2.15pm he was approached by two men in a car park off the High Street. It is reported he was punched in the face and pulled from his vehicle and then made to get […]
Targeted action taken against suspected drug dealers led to six people being remanded in custody
Between Monday 17 and Sunday 23 May, officers in Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team carried out 16 warrants against individuals believed to be involved in supplying class A substances. The activity had been arranged to support a national week of action carried out by forces across England and Wales. […]
Man jailed for sex offences
A man has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for sex offences after he travelled to London with the intention of committing his crimes. James Ritchie, 30, (04.10.91) of Ballroyd Road, Huddersfield, arranged to travel more than 190 miles from Huddersfield to London with the intention of sexually abusing underage children. Ritchie was charged with […]
Gang brothers banned from YouTube drill videos
Two Birmingham brothers have been banned from appearing in drill music videos glorifying gun and drug crime as part of innovative gang injunctions we’ve secured. We discovered Kareem and Theo White, from Kingstanding, featured in several YouTube clips in which members of a Birmingham gang aim coded threats to rival groups. L-R: Kareem and Theo […]
Officers charge second man in connection with Southampton robbery
Officers from Southampton’s Proactive Team have charged a second man in connection with a robbery in Southampton. James Stevenson-Mackie, 18, of James Weld Close, Southampton, has been charged with robbery and possession with intent to supply Class A drugs – cocaine and possession with intent to supply Class B drugs – cannabis. At around 5.30pm […]
Two men have been convicted following the 2019 fatal shooting of a man in an east London snooker club
Two men have been convicted following the 2019 fatal shooting of a man in an east London snooker club. Jeton Krasniqi, 27 , of Kershaw Road, Barking and Dagenham, was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, 25 May of the murder of 27-year-old Grineo Daka. He was also convicted of possession of a […]
Prison for man who launched attack in search of drugs
A man who launched an attack during his search for drugs has been jailed. Ross Treby and Caroline Mulliez were looking to buy class A drugs when they came across a man parked up in Eltisley on 23 September last year (2020). As Mulliez went to the man’s car window, Treby appeared and started punching […]
Two men have been charged with 19 drug-related offences including the supply and sale of Class A and B substances
Daniel Tillyard, 26, of Victoria Park Square, Tower Hamlets, London, and Shamil Amin, 32, from Copse Hill, Purley, London, have been charged with 19 drug-related offences following a complex investigation into pharmaceutical misconduct, and the supply and sale of Class A, B and C drugs including cannabis edibles, in the South East. The charges relate […]