A teenage girl has been charged by officers investigating reports of anti-social behaviour in Canterbury
Kent Police was repeatedly called to the Sturry Road area of the city between March and October 2021 following reports of food, bottles and glass being thrown at a property and abusive comments being shouted at residents. Following an investigation, a 16-year-old girl from Canterbury has been charged with stalking causing alarm […]
A man has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a woman following a fail-to-stop collision in Bournemouth
Dorset Police received a report at around 1.35pm on Saturday 23 October 2021 from the ambulance service of a road traffic collision involving a car and a pedestrian on Suffolk Road. The pedestrian – named by detectives as 40-year-old Clare Gafan from Bournemouth – sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment. […]
Officers have charged a man after a police car was rammed in east London
Aisa Khan Sampson-Spencer, 29 , of no fixed address, was charged on Wednesday, 27 October with the following offences: Dangerous driving Aggravated vehicle taking Criminal damage Fraudulent use of a registration mark Driving a motor vehicle without insurance Failing to stop at the scene of a collision He is due to appear in custody […]
A killer who claimed to have eaten parts of his victim has been refused parole under a new law aimed at denying freedom to those who will not reveal the location of a body
David Harker is serving a life sentence after admitting the manslaughter of Julie Paterson in Darlington in 1998. Her partial remains were discovered a month after she went missing but the rest of her body has never been found. Harker is among the first killers to been refused release under Helen’s Law. A murder […]
A shoplifter has been banned from four supermarkets in Whitstable and Herne Bay after he was jailed for theft
Gareth Owen, 39, is prohibited from entering the shops by a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) granted at Margate Magistrates’ Court on Monday 25 October 2021. He is not allowed to enter the Sainsbury’s stores in Reeves Way and High Street, Whitstable or the Co-Operative Food stores in Cromwell Road, Whitstable and Sea Street, […]
A man has been excluded from entering a number of locations in Southampton for two years after admitting a public order offence
Waheed Safi, aged 20, of Wilton Avenue, Southampton, appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 25 October, and was given a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order after pleading guilty to a public order offence at an earlier hearing. The incident took place on Friday 13 November 2020 when PCSOs on patrol in St Mary’s Street saw […]
A Barnsley teenager has admitted the murder of 15-year-old Loui Phillips in Monk Bretton earlier this year
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Sheffield Crown Court on Monday (25 October). He admitted stabbing, and killing, Loui in an unprovoked attack on Sunday 8 August. Loui was riding his bike with a friend along Fish Bank Lane at around 2pm when the teenager approached him from the […]
South Yorkshire Police have named the three men killed in a road traffic collision in Rotherham on Sunday
Martin Ward, aged 18, of Swallownest, Mason Hall, aged 19, of Woodhouse, and Ryan Geddes, aged 19, of Kiveton Park, died after a white Ford Fiesta they were travelling along Kiveton Lane in left the road and collided with a tree close to the Todwick Court junction at around 6.10pm. The three men sadly […]
A man jailed for attempting to smuggle £60 million of cocaine on a yacht has been ordered to hand over more than £300,000
Gary Swift, 55, from Liverpool, was given a confiscation order totalling £328,071 at Swansea Crown Court under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Swift was jailed for 19-and-a-half years at the same court in January 2020, after pleading guilty to importing class A drugs into the UK. This followed the seizure of 751 kilos […]
A convicted sex offender from Snodland has been sentenced to prison after ignoring measures imposed by the courts to prevent him from reoffending
Robert Kavanagh was jailed after he was found to have breached a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and also failed to meet requirements relating to the sex offenders register. Kavanagh had previously been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in February 2018, following convictions for the possession of indecent images of children. Upon his […]
