A man from London has been charged with possessing and supplying cocaine after officers found a bag of the class A drugs inside a car in Maidstone
Plain clothed officers from Kent Police’s Proactive Tasking Team spotted a suspicious vehicle at around 7pm on Friday 11 March 2022 and followed it until it stopped in Bower Lane. The car was searched and patrols discovered a blue carrier bag within the interior lining of the car roof. Inside the bag were […]
A man has been jailed for life for the murder of pensioner Bill Howard in Accrington
John Swannack, 59, of St Leger Court, Accrington, was told by Judge Robert Altham at Preston Crown Court he would have to serve a minimum of 30 years until he is eligible to go before the Parole Board. We were called to an address just before 2pm on August 28, last year, to St […]
Officers investigating a murder in Banbury have today (16/3) made three further arrests
Officers investigating a murder in Banbury have today (16/3) made three further arrests. A woman aged in her thirties, a man aged in his twenties and a girl aged in her teens, all from Banbury, have been arrested this morning on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and perverting the course of justice and remain […]
A 33-year-old man has been sent to prison for four and a half years after being found guilty of domestic assaults and coercive and controlling behaviour
Royston Kevin Evans, previously of Wellingborough, started a campaign of abuse against his partner in March 2021. It started with small comments designed to put the woman down before his behaviour gradually escalated over time to physical abuse and exceptionally controlling behaviour. Evans limited who the woman could talk to, stopped her from leaving the […]
A man has been jailed for shooting his love rival with a BB gun before driving a car into a crowd – including a heavily pregnant woman – outside a pub in Stourbridge
Jack Richardson, aged 25, of West Street, Stourbridge shot a BB pistol at his ex-partner’s new boyfriend before driving a silver Volvo into him last summer. He tried to reverse the car into him a second time and instead rammed the vehicle into a crowd of people gathered outside the Gigmill Pub on 18 June. […]
A man who was running a drug line from his Guildford bedroom has been jailed for four years
Khalid Chowdhury, 22 of Worplesdon Road, Guildford, appeared at Guildford Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to multiple drugs offences. Chowdhury was identified as the main suspect in a large investigation into an active drugs line which was carried out by Surrey Police. Phone work indicated that Chowdhury was involved in the supply of cannabis […]
A man has appeared in court today charged with the murder of Ryan Kirkpatrick in Carlisle last September
Liam Craig Porter, 32, of Fulmar Place, Carlisle, appeared before the city’s magistrates’ court this morning. Porter was remanded in custody ahead of a further appearance before Carlisle Crown Court tomorrow (March 16). He also faces an alternative charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Mr Kirkpatrick as well as a charge of […]
A Nuneaton drug dealer has received a prison sentence of more than two years after pleading guilty to drug offences
Martin McGuire, 33, appeared at Birmingham Crown Court last week where he was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in prison for possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply. McGuire was arrested in Princes Street, Nuneaton in June 2020 after plain clothed detectives from Nuneaton Proactive CID spotted a suspected drug deal. McGuire was searched […]
West Ham defender Kurt Zouma and his brother Yoan are being prosecuted by the RSPCA under the Animal Welfare Act, the charity has said
Kurt Zouma was seen kicking and slapping one of his cats in footage that surfaced on social media in February, with the RSPCA taking the 27-year-old’s two pet cats into care the same month. Yoan Zouma’s club suspended him last month after saying he had been responsible for filming the incident and said in a […]
A prolific bicycle thief has been jailed after he was caught taking property at Gatwick Airport
Max Huggett, 30, was captured on CCTV cameras looking at bicycles locked in a shed near the South Terminal on January 23 this year. The owner of the bicycle had left it there and returned to find it had been taken. But security workers at Gatwick Airport were able to find footage of Huggett on […]
