A man was jailed for seven years at Inner London Crown Court after a loaded handgun was seized by officers executing a firearms warrant.
Leonard Paynter, 30 of Stanthorpe Road, Streatham, was sentenced on Wednesday, 17 March after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm, two counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs (heroin and cocaine) and possession with intent to supply Class B drugs (cannabis). On Wednesday, 29 January 2020 officers from Viper, part of […]
A suspect has been charged with multiple offences including two incidents of spitting at police officers
Jonathon Newman, 23, of Station Road East, Canterbury, was arrested at 2.30pm on Wednesday 17 March 2021 when Kent Police received a report of threatening and abusive behaviour at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford. A lock knife was also seized following a search of his clothing. After being taken into custody, […]
Two suspected drug dealers are to appear in court following the seizure of Class A drugs and a stun gun in Ashford
During the morning of Friday 19 March 2021, officers from Kent Police’s Divisional Support Unit in Folkestone executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at a property in Sotherton, Ashford. Quantities of heroin and crack cocaine were recovered from the property including hidden within the floor and the loft. […]
A Stafford man has been jailed for eleven-and-a-half years for the rape of a teenage boy in the town
Richard Sherriff, aged 40, was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court. He was found guilty on 29 January of the rape of a boy aged between 13 and 15, between May 2008 and February 2009, following a trial at Stafford Crown Court. Sherriff, of Main Road, Little Haywood, was found not guilty of assault by […]
Two men have been jailed for their part in an attack which left a Bridgend response officer unconscious
Jay Curnock, 26, and Georgie Cox, 20, were both jailed at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court this week. On 28th January, at approximately 8pm, Pc Paul Evans and a colleague attended Brynmenin House following reports that people were fighting outside the premises. When he arrived, he was told by the centre manager that Jay Curnock was […]
Detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of Hussain Chaudhry in Walthamstow have charged a man with murder
Marvin Ward, 18 of Westwood Road, Ilford will appear at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 22 March. He was charged on Sunday, 21 March, with the murder of Hussain Chaudhry. He was also charged with two counts of attempted murder, relating to a man in his 20s and a woman in her […]
Susan Tyler, aged 59, from Surrey pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court to committing one count of money laundering in February 2017
Winchester Crown Court heard that during a search of an address at which Tyler resided, documentation linked to fraudulent activity was located by officers. Investigators later discovered that she had made 123 separate PayPal transactions, using two separate PayPal accounts, over a period of 12 months. During this time she also made several payments […]
A man who bit and attacked two police officers, leaving one with a fractured hand, has been jailed for two-and-a-half-years
One of the police officers suffered a deep bite wound and fracture to his hand and had to have bone fragments removed from the wound, while his female colleague was left with injuries to her back and legs after she was repeatedly kicked and thrown to the ground.Following the hard work of detectives, Alfie Butler […]
A Portsmouth man has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after he stalked and harassed his ex-partner over a period of ten months
Billy Griffiths, 28, of Ship Leopard Street, pleaded guilty to stalking from September 2019 to November 2020 He pleaded not guilty to controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship, having a bladed/pointed article in a public place and burglary. The court heard how in the evening of September 30th last year, […]
A man jailed for the sexual abuse of nine children has had his sentence extended on appeal
Jonathan Richard Maertens, 35, of Freshwater, recorded himself abusing the girls, aged between four and 17. Following an investigation, during which almost 2,500 pieces of footage and 12,000 indecent images detailing his direct offending were found on hard drives, he pleaded guilty to 34 separate indictments: • 10 multiple incident counts of rape of […]
