Male charged with murder of teenager in Yiewsley
A 16-year-old male will appear in court charged with murder following a stabbing in Yiewsley.The male will appear in custody at Ealing Youth Court on Tuesday, 4 January charged with the murder of a 16-year-old male following an incident at the Philpotts Farm Open Space close to Heather Lane on Thursday, 30 December.A special […]
More than £20 million in cash and assets has been taken from criminals operating in Kent over the past five years, with close to £8 million taken across 2021
Specialist financial investigators within the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate use the Proceeds of Crime Act to relentlessly pursue organised criminals, including drug dealers, fraudsters, and thieves, to ensure they are unable to benefit from their offending. Their expertise and diligent case-building led to 193 successful outcomes over the past 12 months, with […]
Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes, who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, have been referred to the Court of Appeal
The jail sentences handed to Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes, who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, have been referred to the Court of Appeal for being too lenient, Attorney General Suella Braverman has announced.
A police officer who took selfies at a murder scene where a teenager was stabbed has been sacked
PC Ryan Connolly, who worked for Merseyside Police, also shared racist and homophobic pictures and took photos of mentally ill people being sectioned. Merseyside Police said the 37-year-old was sacked for gross misconduct after an anti-corruption investigation. Officers had found “severely offensive” photos taken between 2015 and 2018, the force said. Connolly, who was also […]
Dean O’Neil booked a hotel room in Derbyshire to meet a seven-year-old girl for sex
The 40-year-old also bought make-up and clothes as gifts for the youngster after agreeing to pay her father £200 and a Burger King meal for his daughter’s services. But she was really an undercover police officer posing as her dad. And when he went to the defendant’s address to arrest him two days before […]
A serial killer who attacked paedophiles and dubbed the UK’s Hannibal the Cannibal will die in an underground glass box after having his Christmas appeal for freedom refused
Robert Maudsley, aka Britain’s most dangerous prisoner, was told this week he will be incarcerated in his own glass cell until he dies, and cannot make any further appeals against the decision. The 68-year-old, who murdered child molesters, appealed to be allowed to spend the rest of his prison days with the “general population” […]
A Leeds man who spat in the face of a police officer will now be spending Christmas behind bars
Simon Carlin (37) of Morris Lane was jailed for two years at Leeds Crown Court yesterday (December 22) after pleading guilty to two assaults on police officers and other unrelated offences including harassment. Leeds District Police have welcomed the sentence and said the force remains committed to protecting its staff from abuse and assaults. […]
This is the face of the man who stole more than £1000 from charity shops and local businesses in a spate of burglaries in Portsmouth, Petersfield and Sussex has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison
Christopher Paul Rees, 43, of no fixed abode, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court yesterday (Monday 20 December) where he pleaded guilty to six counts of burglary. The court heard how the six offences took place at five charity shops and one hairdressing salon between December 11th and December 19th last year: Overnight between December […]
A man has been jailed for almost four years after admitting robbing an elderly woman in Northampton
Samuel Deans, aged 35, was a passenger in the woman’s car when he assaulted her and snatched her bag as she drove along Cheyne Walk on August 10 this year. The 83-year-old woman was left shaken and with serious facial bruising from the incident, and following an investigation by Northamptonshire Police, Deans was arrested […]
A Luton man who posed as a taxi driver to kidnap and rape a woman in 1993 has been has been jailed for 13 years
Zahid Majeed, 54, of Wardown Close, managed to evade justice for almost three decades but was finally caught following a DNA match. He was traced through work carried out under Operation Painter, a review of undetected rapes and sexual offences which occurred between 1974 and 1999. Our cold case unit reopened the investigation and […]
