llegal waste carriers and scrap metal dealers were the target of a week of action overseen by Kent Police’s Rural Task Force
Sixteen scrap metal sites were visited by the team between Monday 19 and Sunday 25 April 2021, with businesses across Medway, Dartford and Thanet checked. The activity was organised in support of a national policing campaign targeting catalytic converter thieves and the illegal trading of scrap metal. It was also following on from the recent […]
A teenager has been convicted of the murder of a man in Ashford following an investigation by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate
Jaydon McFarlane died after he was stabbed by Osita Alagbaoso in Arlington, near Brockfield Road, shortly before 12.30pm on Saturday 14 March 2020. Alagbaoso was arrested the same day and was found guilty of murder at Maidstone Crown Court on Wednesday 28 April 2021 following a trial. The 18-year-old, formerly of Hoppers Way, Ashford, previously […]
A teenager has been charged in connection with a stabbing in Newham
On Friday, 23 April, a 14-year-old boy was charged with Section 18 grievous bodily harm (GBH). He is remanded to youth detention pending his appearance at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 30 April. The charge relates to a stabbing on Anthems Way, E20, at 8.51pm on Wednesday, 21 April. The victim, a 16-year-old boy, was […]
A man from Jaywick has been charged with murder
It follows the death of a woman in her 40s – she was taken to hospital after being assaulted in Beach Road late on Friday and died on Sunday. Bobby Nethercott, 31, has been charged with murder and two counts of ABH.
A suspect is to appear at court charged with six offences, including arson, in Edenbridge after attacking firefighter with a hammer
At around 12.30am on Sunday 25 April 2021, officers were called to a fire at an address in Wellingtonia Way. It is reported a man assaulted a woman at the premises before starting a fire and damaging a number of windows. Kent Fire and Rescue Service arrived at the scene to […]
Two teenagers convicted of the murder of Lee Chapman in Southend have been jailed for life
Lamar Davis and a 17 year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were found guilty of murder on 15 December. Twenty-six-year-old Lee was stabbed multiple times in what was described as a “frenzied attack” in Cromer Road on the night of Friday 6 March last year. One of the wounds punctured his heart […]
Hampshire Dumbest criminals try to burgle Fareham Court House
Police Officers in Fareham responded to a report that two males were using a ladder to climb onto the roof of the Fareham Law Courts Response and Patrol officers were supported by a dog unit and the police helicopter. Two males were located by the helicopter on the roof and they made their way down […]
A man has been charged with the murder of a baby boy who died in 2018
West Midlands Police said the three-month-old boy was found by paramedics in cardiac arrest at a home in Stoke, Coventry, on 29 June. He had suffered a “catastrophic” head injury and was pronounced dead two days later in hospital, the force added. James Scott – who police say knew the child – appeared at […]
A murder inquiry has been launched in Northern Ireland after the body of a 61-year-old woman was found in Limavady, Co Derry
A murder inquiry has been launched in Northern Ireland after the body of a 61-year-old woman was found in Limavady, Co Derry. The PSNI were alerted to the incident at around 2.45pm on Friday after receiving a report of a sudden death of a woman at a flat in the Lodge Court area of the […]
Woman rescued from the Southsea harbour in critical condition after hovercraft ferry crew spotted ‘body in the water’
A major joint rescue operation involving the UK Coastguard, Ministry of Defence Police (MOD), a coastguard rescue helicopter, Gosport and Fareham independent inshore lifeboat has launched in Portsmouth this afternoon( Saturday 24th April 2021). The rescue operation was sparked after a woman was seen in front of the incoming craft we can reveal in the […]
