More than £1,000 worth of luxury air fresheners and clothes were seized after police searched a car that was spotted on the M20
A dog handler from Kent Police saw the vehicle on Sunday 27 March 2022 during routine patrols. The driver appeared to be acting suspiciously and trying to evade the police. The car was followed to the A229 and stopped, where initial enquiries revealed the driver had no insurance. A search of the car then uncovered […]
A man who was caught with three kilograms of high-purity cocaine worth more than £200,000 when he was stopped by police in Leeds has been jailed
Issa Muvunyi tried to ram his way out when specialist officers from West Yorkshire Police’s Proactive Intercept Team boxed in the van he was driving during a controlled stop on Stanningley Bypass, Pudsey, on November 8 last year. Despite his attempts to escape causing damage to the lead police vehicle, the van was safely brought […]
Why are online casinos thriving?
For many decades, casinos have been a significant part of the UK’s gambling culture. While physical casinos have been prominent in the past, online casinos seem to be enjoying increasing adoption among casino players in the UK. Nowadays, virtually everything is available on the go. The increasing deployment of internet-enabled solutions has revolutionized our lives. […]
A man is due to appear in court charged with the murder of a woman in Leeds
Tony Brooks, aged 35, of Agbrigg Road, Wakefield, has been charged with the murder of Kirstie Ellis, who was found dead at an address in Stanhall Mews, Stanningley, on Friday, March 25. He is due to appear at Leeds Magistrates Court this morning. A 35-year-old woman, who was also arrested in relation to the […]
A man has been charged after a van was taken from a drive and crashed into a garden fence
Police were called to reports that keys had been taken from the kitchen of a property in Newthorpe Common, Eastwood. A van is then believed to have been taken from the drive before officers tried to stop a suspect vehicle and the driver crashed into a fence. Leon Cooper, 24, of Warwick Road, Somercotes, […]
Detectives are renewing an appeal to find the killer of a man who was fatally stabbed during a night out in Prescot
Adam Ellison, 29, was assaulted in Market Place in the early hours of 4 November in 2017 after becoming involved in an altercation with two males on board a scrambler bike. During the incident, Adam was stabbed in the neck with an unknown weapon causing him to fall to the ground. He was taken […]
A man who ran the UK arm of a major international organised criminal network dismantled by the National Crime Agency has been jailed for orchestrating the importation of multi-million-pound drug shipments
Irish national Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh, 54, who was a high-ranking member of the Kinahan organised crime group a Irish network involved in drugs supply, firearms and money laundering – acted as the figurehead of the organisation in the UK. He lived with his family in a fortified mansion, complete with reinforced doors and bulletproof […]
A motorist involved in a fatal collision with a pedestrian in the car park of a Poole supermarket has been sentenced
Ericson Dalire Andres, aged 41 and of Parkstone Road, Poole, appeared at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Friday 25 March 2022 to be sentenced after admitting a charge of causing death by careless driving at an earlier appearance at the same court. He was sentenced to a 12-month community order, with a requirement to carry […]
Violent man behind bars after abusing victim for nearly ten years
Imagine you spent time making a plan of what you would do if someone was going to kill you. That’s the reality for one victim of domestic abuse who suffered at the hands of her perpetrator for almost a decade. Her abuser, Toni Flisik, 38, of Fernback Crescent in Ascot, was sentenced at Guildford Crown […]
Members of a drugs ring which wreaked havoc on Wearside have been jailed for a combined total of almost 36 years after pleading guilty to conspiring to supply illegal drugs
In November 2019 more than 160 officers from across the North of England joined forces as part of a coordinated crackdown aimed at dismantling the criminal organisation once and for all. A total of nine men were arrested in strikes that saw 15 properties raided, including those belonging to ringleader Leighton Hackett and […]