Police have praised the heroics of two employees who wrestled a gunman to the ground following a shooting at Crawley College
Sandijs Dreimanis has today (Friday 11 March) been jailed for the incident which sparked a significant police response on 26 April last year. Around 3.12pm that day, police received multiple reports of a man armed with a gun, firing at people at the campus in College Road, Crawley. A spontaneous firearms incident (SFI) was declared […]
Sexual predator Christopher Michael Spybey, 44, has been sent to prison for 12-months, and must sign the sex offenders register for 10 years, after he attacked a woman on London Road, Hilsea
Spybey, of no fixed abode, but who was previously living in Sandleford Road, Havant, had denied the offence at 7.15pm on 28th October last year – putting his victim through the ordeal of a court trial. The sex offender approached the victim as she was getting in a parked car and started touching her over […]
Austrian who brought heroin worth £250,000 into the UK sentenced to five years in prison
A man who attempted to smuggle heroin worth almost a quarter of a million pounds into the UK has been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, 27, from Austria, was stopped at Dover Eastern Docks where he was a passenger in a lorry travelling from Belgium. The cab of the vehicle was […]
A train driver who was using WhatsApp less than thirty seconds before he crashed his train at nearly three times the speed limit has been sentenced, following a British Transport Police investigation
The judge at Liverpool Crown Court sentenced Philip Hollis to a 12 month prison sentence, suspended for two years. Hollis, 56, of Spellow Lane, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of passengers at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on 8 On Saturday 13 March 2021, Hollis was driving a Merseyrail Service from Liverpool Central to Kirkby, […]
More than £800,000 will be returned to the public purse after the National Crime Agency secured a forfeiture order on cash seized from a group of men attempting to smuggle it out of the UK
The money was found stuffed into the checked-in luggage of six Italian nationals, who were stopped by Border Force officers just before boarding a flight from Stansted Airport to Podgorica, Montenegro, on 2 February 2019. When questioned, Pietro Doca, William Cerri, Giuseppino Anfosso, Giovanni Piazza, Angelo Inferrera and Nicola Anfosso all claimed they traded in […]
Two people have been charged in connection with the death of a 10-year-old boy who was attacked by a dog
Jack Lis died after the attack on 8 November at a house in Pentwyn, Penyrheol, Caerphilly. A 28-year-old woman and 19-year-old man, both from the Caerphilly area, have been charged with being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting in death. Both were released on bail to appear before Newport […]
A sexual predator has been jailed after carrying out sex attacks across Scotland
Peter Renton aged 39 has been sentenced to nine years and three months in prison at the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 9 March, after being found guilty of serious sexual offences. Between April 2019 and June 2021, Renton carried out serious sexual assaults and assaults on two women in the Aberdeen, Musselburgh and […]
A 23-year-old woman has been sentenced to six years imprisonment after being found guilty of having sexual activity with a 14-year-old boy
Hannah Harris, from Henlow in Bedfordshire, was working as a teaching assistant at a school in Hertfordshire when she met the victim. She began an inappropriate relationship with him over the course of several months. Harris pretended to be the mother of a fellow pupil in order to see the victim, making contact with his […]
A cocaine dealer has been jailed after he was caught in the act supplying users from a car in Cranbrook
Only a small quantity of drugs were initially discovered when police searched Charlie Matthew’s vehicle before evidence from his mobile phone revealed the true extent of his criminal network. Officers from the Tunbridge Wells Community Policing Team arrested the 26-year-old on 21 October 2020, after he had been seen at the wheel of a suspicious […]
A suspected burglar has appeared at court following an attempted break-in at a Sittingbourne pharmacy
At around 10.15pm on Monday 7 March 2022, Kent Police received a report that a window had been damaged at the business in Milton Regis High Street. Officers went to the scene and then started a search of the area. At around 11.35pm, a patrol saw a suspicious vehicle and requested the driver to stop. […]
