One of the Isle of Wight’s oldest hotels is set to go under the hammer at an online auction at a guide price of a whopping £700,000
Originally built in 1872 as a gentleman’s residence, the elegant Victorian property is situated on the edge of Ventnor town centre. Ventnor Towers Hotel is one of a select few properties which offers a functioning helipad within its impressive grounds of 2.92 acres. Ventnor is hailed to be one of the sunniest spots on […]
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 31-year-old man died following a stabbing
Ricky Collins died in hospital after being found by police in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, at 10pm on 29 March. Derbyshire Police said a 24-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, both from Sheffield, were detained on Monday and remain in custody. A 16-year-old boy, from Sheffield and held on suspicion of murder, has been bailed pending […]
A man has been charged after an elderly woman was robbed in Whitefield after coming home from having her Covid-19 injection
At 8.55am on Sunday 28 March a woman in her 70s was robbed of her mobile phone and bank card on Rectory Green, Whitefield. A short time later a man believed to be the offender resisted arrest by attending officers, he then escaped and police launched a public appeal. Lovemore Mandega of Church Drive, […]
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman suffered stab wounds
The woman, in her 40s, was taken to hospital after being injured in Wootton Street, Bedworth, Warwickshire, on Saturday afternoon. Carl Aubertin, 37, of Wootton Street, is due before Coventry Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday where he is also charged with assault. The woman remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition.
A pair of drug dealers were caught with heroin and crack cocaine worth more than £11,700 have been sentenced
Ben O’Leary and Jamie Drysdale were identified as running the Billy Boy drug line, which was selling drugs in the Thurrock area. Officers stopped Drysdale while he was driving along Stifford Hill, South Ockendon, on 6 February and noticed he was trying to hide something in his underwear. During a strip search in custody, […]
A knife attacker who headbutted a man before stabbing him twice during an incident in Cinderhill was caught as he tried to leave the area in a taxi
The victim, who is aged in his 30s, had just got out of his van after finishing work when he heard a man and a woman arguing in Wareham Close. As he started to walk away from his van he heard smashing sound coming from the couple’s direction. He looked over and saw a […]
A man and boy have been sentenced to prison following a stabbing in High Wycombe
Romario Hale, aged 18, of Hennerton Way in High Wycombe, and a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday (31/3) where they pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and possession of a bladed article. Hale was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for […]
Wanted man from Poland behind bars after using fake identity to escape arrest
A man wanted in Poland who moved to the UK to escape arrest was sentenced to 18 months in prison when he appeared at Kingston Crown Court yesterday (31 March). Wladyslaw Kieruc, 55, of no fixed abode and originally from Bialystok in Poland, was arrested in November 2020 at a brothel in Colliers Wood, […]
The two bodies which were recovered from a house in Troon Avenue, Dundee, have now been formally identified as Bennylyn Burke, 25, and her daughter Jellica, 2
Bennylyn and Jellica’s family have been updated and are being supported by police family liaison officers. Officers in Dundee attended a property on Troon Avenue around 3.20pm on Friday, 5 March, 2021, as part of an enquiry into the disappearance of Bennylyn and two children who had been reported missing from South Gloucestershire on […]
A stop check by officers from the Road Safety Team has led to a man being charged with eight offences
On Thursday 31 March 2021, officers acting on information that a car was being driven by a person without insurance or a licence stopped the car in London Road, Dover. They arrested the driver and it is alleged that an officer was assaulted during the arrest. The suspect then became ill in custody […]
