Detectives are today continuing their enquiries into the deaths of two teenage boys in Brentwood
The boys sadly died as a result of injuries they sustained during a disturbance in Regency Court at about 1.30am on Sunday morning. They have been named locally as Charlie and Frankie. This is the first pictures of the pair who are understood to have stabbed. Eight men remain in custody and are being questioned […]
A Horsham woman who harassed a teenage boy with whom she became infatuated whilst she was a teaching assistant at a school where he was a pupil, has been sent to prison
Fatinah Hossain, 25, of Dutchells Copse, Horsham, appeared at Brighton Crown Court on Thursday 21 October, and pleaded guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice and one count of sexual activity with the boy while in a position of trust. She was sentenced to five years and four months in prison. […]
A former West Midlands Police officer has been jailed for engaging in a relationship with a vulnerable woman during the course of his duties
James Ankrett admitted corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers after he formed an inappropriate relationship with the woman in July 2017. He was charged in 2019 following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and was sentenced to five months in prison on Monday 18 October at Wolverhampton Crown Court. […]
A persistent police dog helped track down a suspect seen running from police across fields in Peacehaven
Officers were called to Pelham Rise at 8.40pm on October 11 after a man was seen bleeding. When officers arrived, they were unsure of the exact route taken by the suspect, but a flicker of light had been seen in a field earlier. So PD Hox, a two-year-old German Shepherd, handled by PC Gareth Evers, […]
A police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape happening behind her home was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison the maximum allowed for manslaughter after his murder conviction was overturned
Mohamed Noor was initially convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual U.S.-Australian citizen and yoga teacher who was engaged to be married. But the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed out Noor’s murder conviction and 12 1/2-year sentence last month, saying the third-degree murder statute didn’t […]
A special week of action, which saw officers from across the Met crackdown on county lines, resulted in more than 120 vulnerable adults and children being safeguarded and 400 people being arrested
The Met took part in the latest national county lines intensification week, which ran from Monday, 11 October to Sunday, 17 October. County lines is the name given to drug dealing where criminals use phone lines to move and supply drugs, usually from cities into smaller towns and rural areas across the whole country. The […]
A man has been sentenced to life in prison following the fatal stabbing of Jack Ampadu in Kentish Town
Dwayne Stewart-Akers, 38 of Highgate Road, NW5 was found guilty at Harrow Crown Court on Friday, 15 October of the murder of Jack Ampadu in February. He was sentenced at the same court today to life in prison and will have to serve a minimum of 25 years in prison; less 214 days already served. […]
Officers investigating the stabbing of three people on a bus in Tower Hamlets in the early hours of Wednesday morning have charged a man
Samuel Modeste, 34 of High Road, Leytonstone has been charged with three counts of causing grievous bodily harm (Section 18 – wounding with intent) and one count of possessing a bladed article in a public place. He will appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 21 October. Police were called to Mile End Road, E3 […]
A serving Portsmouth Police Officer – specially trained in domestic abuse – has been found guilty of gross misconduct after manipulating a ‘highly-vulnerable’ female victim.
The male Portsmouth PC – who we are legally banned from naming – has yet to be sacked from the force after asking the vulnerable young domestic abuse victim – whose case he had been assigned to – out for cocktails, attempting to kiss her intimately and bombarding her with text messages and phone calls. […]
A man has been charged with the murder of a 44-year-old man in Lambeth in July
Arturas Ptickinas 28 of Norwood High Street, SE27, has been charged with the murder of Mauricio ‘Maurice’ Nascimento from Croydon. Ptickinas is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court today (Wednesday, 20 October). Police were called by the London Ambulance Service at approximately 6.55am to New Park Road, SW2 on 12 July. Officers attended and […]
