A man is due in court later this month charged in connection with a number of burglary offences
Officers carried out a warrant at an address in Colchester on 29 September and recovered a number of items of stolen property.A 42 year-old man was arrested the following day.Greg Atkins, of Riparian Square, Colchester was later charged with five counts of burglary.The charges relate to reported incidents between March and August this year.He appeared […]
Targeting the vulnerable and elderly is despicable and Nicola Collins preyed on their charity and good nature
On several occasions in July and August this year, 38 year-old Nicola Collins had stopped people in Rayleigh and Rochford claiming her car had broken down and asking them for money for petrol. Many of the people Collins stopped were elderly or vulnerable. Officers in Rayleigh investigated seven reports of this behaviour and Collins, of […]
Officers in Essex Charge woman after she racially abused a family in Colchester
A woman has been charged following allegations a family were racially abused. Teresa Jefferies, 58, was arrested on Sunday 11 October in relation to the incidents last month in Chinook, Colchester. She has been charged with using threatening or abusive words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress; using threatening or abusive […]
A dangerous sex predator who was jailed for seven years in 2017 for raping two girls will be RELEASED next week
In 2017, Michael Manion, (then aged 22), unemployed, of Nutley Place, Hove, was convicted of three counts of raping a nine-year old girl He was also convicted of the rape of a 16-year old girl Manion received 54 months for each count of the offences against the nine-year old, to run concurrently with a […]
A sex offender who lied about being cured of his sexual desires for small boys has been jailed after he groomed and 11-year-old boy
James Watson had been convicted a decade earlier for doing exactly the same thing while living in Essex, Exeter Crown Court was told. Watson completed a sex offenders’ treatment programme after that offence and later claimed to have a certificate from a counsellor which proved he was no longer a risk to children. He […]
A man has admitted causing more than £5,000 worth of damage to the front office of Brighton’s John Street Police Station
Aaron Barrett, 29, of North Road, Brighton, appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on Monday (12 October) after being arrested following the incident on Sunday afternoon (11 October). Barrett refused to leave the front office of the police station after becoming aggressive with staff. He then climbed onto the atrium roof and threw tiles and plasterboard […]
A paedophile who committed a number of sex offences against two girls in Blackpool ‘to satisfy his own depraved sexual desires’ has been jailed for 11 years.
Richard McAdam, of Rixton Grove, Thornton, was arrested in August 2017 after Lancashire Police received a complaint from a victim who alleged she had been raped by the 60-year-old in 2001, when she was 12. Another victim was identified by police and reported that she had been indecently assaulted as a child by McAdam […]
Maidstone Burglar bailed to face court
A suspected burglar has been charged following a reported break-in at a Maidstone address. On 18 September 2020, central heating fittings and a quantity of copper were allegedly stolen from a garage at a private address in Mallings Drive, Bearsted. On Monday 12 October, Brian Smith of no fixed address was arrested in […]
Romney Marsh search warrant leads to further county line charges
Four men have been charged and remanded in connection with county lines drugs supply following a search warrant at a caravan site in Romney Marsh. The suspects were arrested by officers from the County Line and Gang Team, who have been investigating a suspected line running out of London and into east […]
A 28 year old Farnborough man who threatened four other men with a machete in a public street, has been jailed for seven and a half years
Gregory Small, of Cedar Road, Farnborough, was found guilty of attempted GBH and affray following a three day trial. He was sentenced to a year for the affray.He had earlier admitted threatening someone with a bladed article in a public place for which he was sentenced to a year and a half in prison.During an […]
