A van driver who attempted to smuggle heroin and cocaine worth £16.5m by hiding it within catering supplies has been jailed for 10 years
Ross Patrick Deffley, 26, from Solihull, was arrested and a National Crime Agency investigation began when he was stopped at the border in Dover on 21 September 2021. The van contained boxes of nitrous oxide canisters for the catering industry. However, when searched by Border Force officers, 183 kilos of heroin and cocaine was […]
A Sheffield cocaine dealer has been jailed after police busted a nationwide drugs ring, with 13 members locked up for a total of 129 years
. Mohammed Jahangeer, 39, of Ribston Walk, in Darnall, Sheffield, was part of a criminal network which peddled class A drugs across the country. He and two other men were sentenced on Wednesday, January 5, becoming the final members of the organised crime group to be jailed for their part in the huge operation. Jahangeer […]
A man has been given a life sentence for killing his girlfriend’s unborn baby
Asa Davison, 35, was found guilty of child destruction and grievous bodily harm with intent for attacking the woman in Gillingham, Dorset, in 2020. Bournemouth Crown Court heard he was angry she was carrying another man’s child, conceived before they started their relationship. He was ordered to spend at least 12 years in jail. […]
A Kirkby male has been jailed for nine years and four months on Thursday, in the latest Operation Venetic case
Anthony Lonergan, 25, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court to be sentenced for conspiring to supply Class A and Class B drugs in the Merseyside area. Lonergan was arrested on 21st October 2021 after being identified as using the encro-chat handle ‘palacepuma’. Lonergan worked with others to supply Class A drugs and Class B drugs […]
A man who attempted to travel to Syria to engage in terrorism has been jailed, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command
Mamun Rashid, 28 travelled from the UK to Istanbul in the summer of 2018 with the intention of crossing the border into Syria and joining the armed conflict against government forces. He was arrested close to the Turkey-Syria border in early 2019, and later deported back to the UK. He was arrested by the Met’s […]
Man Charged After Damaging Windows Of Eights Shops And A Pub In Gravesend
Man Charged After Damaging Windows Of Eights Shops And A Pub In Gravesend
The man was detained following Taser deployment. A knife was recovered at the scene after Officers are attacked
Detectives investigating an incident that left two officers injured are appealing for witnesses. At around 10am on Thursday, 30 December officers from the Met’s South Area Command Safer Transport Team stopped a man riding a motorcycle at Cherry Tree Green, Croydon. The man, aged 23, became violent during the stop. He was detained following Taser […]
A man has been charged with assault and possession of a weapon for the discharge of a noxious liquid or gas after a woman was sprayed with a noxious substance in Portslade on New Year’s Day
Emergency services were called to an address in Brasslands Drive, at 10.53am following the report and a man was arrested later that day. The woman was taken to hospital but discharged later the same day and is understood to be suffering no lasting ill-effects.Another woman who was present at the incident was also treated for […]
A Lancashire man has been jailed for more than two years after friends, his ex-partner and colleagues invested almost £90,000 in a fictitious company
Matthew Normyle of Lord Street, Morecambe, has today (Tuesday 4 January 2022) been sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison at Manchester Crown Court for fraud by false representation. There will be a Proceeds of Crime hearing sat a later date. Normyle’s offences were carried out while he was living in Salford […]
Thomas and James Lee planned and carried out two shootings during a 48-hour crime spree in Newcastle in 2019
Two brothers who tried to murder a mother in her home by firing a sawn-off shotgun through the window have been jailed. Thomas and James Lee planned and carried out two shootings during a 48-hour crime spree in Newcastle in 2019. The first incident on the night of October 3 saw the brothers fire a […]
