Rioter who set fire to a police vehicle jailed for five years
A 31-year-old man who set fire to a police vehicle during the riot in Bristol city centre has today been jailed for five years. Matthew O’Neill, of Patchway, South Gloucestershire, admitted charges of riot and arson at a previous hearing, on what would have been the first day of his trial. Footage collated and examined […]
A teenager who robbed a man of £340 and later bragged about it to his friend has been jailed for more than two years
. Nathan Arliss, 18, forced the man to transfer all the money from his bank account to them on 16 February. His accomplice Sally Owen-Brown, 18, had seen the victim the previous day and flirted with him. She then video called him whilst upset in the early hours of 16 February, claiming she hadn’t eaten […]
Seven year old hospitalised after traffic come incident
A 7 year old who was playing in a garden was rushed to hospital after being hit on the head by part of a traffic cone after someone threw it over a 6 foot fence in Burrell Court in Bewbush on Saturday evening. If anyone saw who threw it please contact Police Ref 1366/21/05
A drug dealer who planned the supply of £800,000 worth of cocaine has been jailed for nine years and two months
John Germaine, 33, of Holt Drive, Burscough, Lancashire, was arrested on 27 September last year on Bolton Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan, by officers from the specialist Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). On the back seat of his white Ford Kuga was £13,000 in cash and a one kilo bar of cocaine with a purity of […]
Letchworth Garden City man sentenced to 15 years for domestic violence offences
Danny Braybrook of Allison in Letchworth Garden City committed a series of violent offences between May and April 2021 including threatening his former partner with a samurai sword before sexually assaulting her. The court heard how on Sunday (30 May 2021) Braybrook violently assaulted the victim causing her to lose consciousness. Braybrook held a […]
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 34-year-old woman in Newham
Asim Hasan, 32 of Burrard Road, E16 was charged with murder in the early hours of Friday, 20 May. He appeared in custody at Thames Magistrates’ Court later the same day and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on Thursday, 26 May. This follows a call to police at 06:24 […]
Four men who were convicted of murdering student Bill Henham at a New Year’s Eve party in Brighton have been jailed for a minimum of 86 years
Bill was beaten unconscious and dropped into a recessed courtyard, within a disused building in North Street on January 1, 2020. The 24-year-old, from Henfield, suffered extensive injuries, having been savagely beaten, kicked, stamped on and struck with a wooden bannister spindle. Dushane Meikle, 28, of Amberley Drive, Hove, Gregory Hawley, 29, of no fixed […]
Kent Child sex offender receives increased prison sentence following referral to the Court of Appeal
A man who carried out multiple child sex offences has received an increased prison sentence after the Solicitor General Alex Chalk QC MP referred his case to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. Lewis Green, now aged 20, engaged in sexualised conversations with a child aged between 13 and 15 […]
A man from Tunbridge Wells has been jailed after making threats to murder and bury his partner during an abusive relationship which saw her also repeatedly beaten
John Kirby was sentenced to more than four years’ imprisonment, following convictions for a string of violent offences between January 2018 and August 2019. Kirby subjected his victim to a campaign of relentless physical and mental abuse, during which he regularly used violence which included punching and kicking the woman in the […]
A 55 year-old man who raped a woman at a residential property in Gosport has been jailed for seven years
The victim who was 22 at the time of the assault reported the rape in November 2020 at Fareham Police Station. She has been supported by specialist officers in the subsequent months. Mark Anthony Roberts of Stonebeach Rise, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex was subsequently interviewed under caution and later charged as part […]
