An officer who was spat in the face as he tried to arrest a man has spoken of his ordeal following the man’s jail sentence
PC Ryan Shiel was confronted by Michael Green, who was threatening to fight the officers who attended a report of a domestic incident in Thorneywood Rise, Thorneywood, at 7.10pm on 12 October 2020. He said: “Green was very loud and confrontational when we arrived. He was threatening to fight and refusing to leave the […]
A drug dealer who ran a county lines drug network has been jailed for more than seven years
Hamsa Jama ran a drug supply network in Stevenage He was found guilty at St Alban’s Crown Court on 25 November. Jama was arrested during a raid in July at an address in Stevenage, following an investigation by Hertfordshire Constabulary’s Operation Mantis and Scorpion teams into the supply of drugs in the town. The […]
Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 21-year-old man who died after being stabbed in a Leicester alleyway
Abdourahmaane Sidibe, 21, of Orson Street, Leicester and Ali Mohammed, 20, of Pembroke Street, Leicester, were both found guilty yesterday (Monday) of the murder of Mohammed Jibreel following a trial at Leicester Crown Court. Sidibe was also found guilty of the possession of an offensive weapon. At the same court, Sidibe was sentenced to […]
A man who stabbed a stranger to death for a second-hand designer bag has been convicted
Samuel Odupitan, 23 , of Longheath Gardens, Croydon, killed 24-year-old Tyler Roye during the early hours of Wednesday, 26 February in Bywood Avenue, Croydon. He appeared at Croydon Crown Court on Tuesday, 1 December where he was found guilty of murder following the vicious attack, which took place just minutes away from the victim’s […]
A man who dragged an officer along the ground with his car and punched another in the head has been jailed for four years and three months.
Two officers were on patrol when they carried out a routine check on a Vauxhall Corsa parked on a grass verge in Merlin Close, Chafford Hundred, on 14 January this year. They spoke to the driver, Dayne Cooper, and found the car had no insurance or registered keeper. They also noticed two half snooker […]
Devon and Cornwall Police is running the annual Christmas drink and drug driving campaign from Tuesday 1 December 2020 through to Friday 1 January 2021
Officers want to raise awareness of the inherent dangers involved in drink and drug driving by encouraging people to take responsibility for their actions this Christmas. Throughout the month-long operation, officers will be requesting roadside breath tests from all drivers who commit a moving road traffic offence, irrespective of whether or not they suspect a […]
A man who carried out a vicious attack on a man in Peterborough, leaving him in a coma, has been jailed for more than four years
Mahmoud Shrara, 21, was arrested in connection with an attack on two men in Peterborough city centre in the early hours of 2 September 2018. The 38-year-old victim was walking with a friend towards Broadway from Cattle Market Road at about 12.40am when they engaged in conversation with Shrara and two other men. For […]
A father who threw his 11-month-old baby boy into a river and killed him has been given a hospital order
Zak Eko of no fixed abode, has been sentenced to a hospital order and an indefinite restriction order at The Lowry Nightingale Court after being found guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility. At around 16.25 on Wednesday 11 September 2019, police were called to reports that a child was in the River Irwell close […]
Officers who protect you from some of the county’s most dangerous offenders have secured the conviction of a registered sex offender who breached an order against him
Sanjoy Rajput had been subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) which restricted his use of devices with internet access.However, when officers from the Management of Sexual Offenders and Violent Offenders team (MOSOVO) carried out an unannounced visit to his home in Harebell Drive, Witham on 23 September they identified he had a mobile […]
A 34 year-old Liam Wilkinson has been sentenced to time in prison following numerous charges in which he put members of the community at risk.
Liam Wilkinson, of Southey Hall Road, Sheffield was charged with driving a motor vehicle dangerously, failing to stop, driving without insurance, possession of an offensive weapon in a public place, possession of a knife in a public place and possession of a class C controlled drug.On 15 May, officers patrolling in Firvale requested Wilkinson, who […]
