An Albanian drug supplier who arranged cocaine deals within the UK worth almost £1.4 million has been jailed for 10 years.
Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership, a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit, identified Taulant Stoica as the fixer behind a number of drug deals in London and Bristol, arranged on encrypted messaging platform EncroChat. Stoica, 35, from Bexleyheath in Kent, used the EncroChat handle ‘Palefog’ to organise the handover of […]
A man who is suspected of being a high-ranking member of a Vietnamese people smuggling network has been arrested
32-year-old Mai Van Nguyen, of Holloway Circus, Birmingham, was detained in an operation in the Woolton area of Liverpool on Tuesday morning (8 February). After being questioned by NCA investigators he was charged with the offences of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering and is now due to appear before Birmingham Crown Court […]
A man who was in charge of children’s homes both as a Housemaster and Superintendent in the 60s and 70s has been jailed for sex offences
Peter Frank Hickman, 85 of Lawdley Road, Coleford, Gloucestershire was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Friday, 11 February to six years’ imprisonment. On Monday, 26 July 2021 he pleaded guilty to the following offences at Croydon Crown Court: – Indecent assault on a boy under the age of 16, committed in the victim’s bedroom, […]
Teenager Trent Hutchinson He Was Sentenced To Life Imprisonment, With Minimum Term Of 14 Years
Teenager Trent Hutchinson He Was Sentenced To Life Imprisonment, With Minimum Term Of 14 Years
An HGV lorry driver is behind bars after being found guilty of causing death by careless driving after colliding with the back of a car on the M23 during the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run in 2019
Michael Black, 52, of #Crawley, #West Sussex, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and banned from driving for 22 months after being convicted of the death of 80-year-old vintage car driver Ronald Carey. Ronald’s wife Billi, who was in the front passenger seat at the time, also suffered serious injuries as a result of […]
Two men involved in laundering £15 million have been sentenced to a total of 12 years in jail
Jonathan Porter, 57, from Loughton, Essex, and Peter Stanley, 64, from Westminster, central London, were found guilty of money laundering after a ten-week trial at Southwark Crown Court. Porter was the director of alcohol broker Europlus Trading Ltd and claimed to be supplying wholesalers in Calais. He claimed French customers paid him in Sterling […]
A Met Police officer arranged to meet a 15-year-old girl in a park where he put his arm round her, a court has heard
PC Adnan Arib, 45, is accused of two counts of misconduct in public office, one in connection with the 15-year-old and another with a second girl aged 16. The officer, based at Bethnal Green police station in east London, is alleged to have told one she was “very pretty” before inviting her out. He […]
Domestic abuse has led to a man being jailed for more than five years
Michael Yeo was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday 4 February 2022 after he admitted assault, kidnap, affray, criminal damage, possession of a bladed object and remaining unlawfully at large. The court heard how the 26-year-old, of no fixed address, had assaulted his former partner following an argument at an address in […]
Officers made short work of putting a car thief back behind bars… just 24 hours after left prison
Colin Jones, 43, was last week jailed for four and half years after he broke into an Ashington home and stole a car in the early hours of December 15 last year. Less than 24 hours earlier, on the morning of December 14, he had been released from prison after serving a sentence for a […]
A teenager has been banned from attending football matches after he was arrested by officers ahead of the fixture between Brighton and Hove Albion and Crystal Palace
The 16-year-old boy from Hove, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared before Worthing Youth Court on February 3. He admitted four charges which were; possession of an offensive weapon, namely a knuckle duster; possession of a bladed article, namely a lock-knife; possession of an adult firework, namely a flare; and possession of articles […]
