A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with rape
PC Adam Zaman, 28, who is based on the East Area Command Unit, was charged by the City of London Police on Wednesday, 27 October. He has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court the same afternoon. The charge relates to an incident which is alleged to have occurred in the […]
A man has been charged with murder following a fatal shooting in Brixton
Trevin Campbell – 31 of Kingswood Avenue, Thornton Heath will appear in custody at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 27 October charged with the murder of 25-year-old Gary Mayhew.Campbell was arrested by officers on Monday, 25 October.This follows an investigation after a shooting in Belinda Road, SW9 on the morning of Thursday, 21 October.Two other […]
A prolific drug dealer finds himself behind bars this week after he was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court
A prolific drug dealer finds himself behind bars this week after he was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Friday. Edward Chapman, 23, of no fixed address, was arrested on 4 June 2020 when plain-clothed officers spotted him acting suspiciously in a small car park off The Mount in Guildford. Chapman was the rear passenger […]
A burglar who stole a lifetime’s collection of antique coins from a world-renowned collector has been sentenced in his absence
Dominik Kuzio, 31 of no fixed abode, was convicted at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, 18 October of breaking into Simon Bendall’s Westminster home and was given a sentence of four years’ imprisonment. Mr Bendall, who died in June 2019 aged 80, was a world-renowned expert on ancient coins and was a collector, scholar […]
Wayne Couzens is seeking permission to appeal against his whole-life term for the murder of Sarah Everard
A court official said on Tuesday: “We have been notified that an appeal has been lodged by Mr Couzens.”If permission is granted the case will be heard by the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.
A man has been jailed following a random attack in which he left a stranger fatally injured
Patrick Beckley, 32 of no fixed address, was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on Monday, 25 October to life with a minimum of 21 years imprisonment having been convicted at an earlier hearing of the murder of Michael Lavery, as well as actual bodily harm of two other men and assault on an emergency […]
A man has been charged with firearm offences as part of an investigation in the south of the county
It follows the proactive stop of a vehicle and several seizures executed in Canvey and Benfleet over the weekend (from Friday 22 October). Officers and detectives from Castle Point’s Operation Falcon team, a team of officers dedicated to tackling crime across the district, Castle Point CID and our Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are […]
Detectives investigating the murder of two teenage boys in Brentwood are continuing to question three people
The boys died following a disturbance in Regency Court at around 1.30am on Sunday morning (24 October). So far officers have seized more than 200 hours of CCTV footage and spoken to more than 20 people as part of the investigation. Three men – two from Grays aged 19 and 20 […]
Firefighters tackled a fire at a house on Rosecroft Close in Orpington on Saturday evening
Most of the first floor and part of the external facia of the semi-detached house were damaged by the fire. There were no reports of any injuries. The Brigade’s fire investigators believe the fire was accidental and involved a lithium-ion battery. A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: “Batteries can present a fire risk if […]
A rose copper gold kitchen knife left at the scene of an attempted murder in Hoo has led to a man being jailed for more than 16 years
A rose copper gold kitchen knife left at the scene of an attempted murder in Hoo has led to a man being jailed for more than 16 years. Clayton Perfect used the distinctive weapon in a vicious assault on a man before fleeing the scene. The 22-year-old left the blade stuck in a […]
