A family who brought a Polish woman to the UK for the purpose of servitude have been jailed
Two men and two women have been were sentenced on Friday, 25 March, at Reading Crown Court after they were found guilty at Wood Green Crown Court on 2 December 2021, following a seven-week trial. They are: Izabela Dytlow, 47 of Tottenhall Road, Enfield who was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment after being convicted […]
Two men have been charged in connection with a non-recent sexual offences investigation launched in 2018
Reports were received in 2018 about sexual offences against seven victims in Rochdale in the 1980s and 1990s. Anthony Whitehead, of High Bank, Bolton, has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and two counts of inciting a boy to commit an act of gross indecency. Mathew Carl Laryea, of Langport Avenue, Longsight, […]
Officers have renewed an appeal for witnesses and video footage in relation to a number of car fires in Ramsgate
At around midnight on Monday 14 March 2022, Kent Police was made aware by Kent Fire and Rescue Service that a car was alight in Newcastle Hill in the town and that it was believed to be suspicious. Further vehicle fires were reported shortly after in Finsbury Road, Broad Street, Ann’s Road, […]
A charge has been authorised against the owner of a dog which is alleged to have been seen worrying livestock in Ashford
At around 4.30pm on Thursday 10 March 2022, a dog is reported to have been seen chasing a sheep on agricultural land in Kenardington. At one stage, a witness reported seeing a distressed ewe be dragged across the field by the dog, before it and its owner left the area. The […]
The man accused of murdering Sir David Amess MP told police only hours afterwards that it was a terrorist attack, a court heard
Sir David, the MP for Southend West, died after he was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, denies charges of murder and preparing acts of terrorism. The trial at the Old Bailey heard how Mr Ali told police officers he “killed […]
A 52-year-old pilot has been charged with attempting to fly illegal immigrants into the UK in his aircraft
Richard Styles, of no fixed abode, was detained during an operation led by the National Crime Agency yesterday (24 March) at Deenethorpe Airfield near Corby, in Northamptonshire.He had just flown his twin-engine plane to the airfield from Belgium.Northants Police officers, who were working with the NCA, stopped a taxi which had left the airfield […]
A London-based nurse currently serving an 18-year prison term for trafficking Nigerian women to Europe and forcing them into sex work has been ordered to hand over almost £184,000
Josephine Iyamu, 54, was the first British national to be convicted under the Modern Slavery Act for offences committed overseas, in a landmark prosecution led by the National Crime Agency in 2018. Iyamu was handed a confiscation order totalling £183,806.06 at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday 4 March. The confiscation amount took into account her […]
The victims were all former pupils, both male and female, of The Ruskin School in Swindon, Wiltshire, and The Weald School in Beare Green, Dorking
Creighton Muirhead, 67, of the Lechlade area of Gloucestershire, was convicted of 23 offences of non-recent sexual offences against 19 victims which took place at a school in Dorking and a school in Swindon between 1980 and 2008. The victims were all former pupils, both male and female, of The Ruskin School in Swindon, Wiltshire, […]
A 41-year-old man has been jailed for two years and eight months after he admitted to two counts of ABH and one count of coercive and controlling behaviour
Jagjit Randhawa, previously of Kettering, subjected his former partner to both psychological and physical abuse over the period of a year, culminating in a call to police at the beginning of March 2021 in which the woman reported Randhawa to have punched and kicked over the course of the night, before strangling […]
Three prolific burglars have been jailed at Isleworth Crown Court for their part in conspiring to burgle properties in London and across the Home Counties
Detectives from the Met’s Flying Squad, along with officers from North West and West Area Basic Command Units, launched Operation Bayview in response to a high number of residential burglaries, often targeting the elderly and the vulnerable. All three men pleaded guilty on Friday, 28 January at the same court and were sentenced on Monday, […]
