Serving Met Police officer charged with rape offence
A Metropolitan Police officer will appear virtually at Hatfield Remand Court on Monday, 4 October. PC David Carrick, 46, who is based within the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was charged by Hertfordshire Constabulary on 3 October with rape. The officer was off-duty in Hertfordshire at the time. He was arrested on 2 October […]
A 37-year-old woman has been jailed for five years for her part in a violent robbery at a house in Chesterfield
Jessica Hodgkinson, along with a still unidentified man, burst into the home of the elderly couple at around 9am on 26 February 2020. Shortly before the incident Hodgkinson, of Dundas Road, Sheffield, had attempted to buy cigarettes from a man at a house in Newland Dale, Chesterfield. She argued with the man about a […]
Surrey And Sussex Police invest in Trimble X7 Laser Scanning technology
The nine new X7 laser scanners will replace each county’s older technology and increase the number of instruments available to the Forensic Collision Investigation Unit (FCIU). All front line FCIU vehicles will now be equipped to attend incidents. This will greatly reduce the likelihood of any delays in getting a laser scanner transported to a […]
Police investigating the death of a man in Annfield Plain have this evening charged a teenager with murder
The 15-year-old has been remanded in police custody to appear before Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning. It follows an incident in which a man was seriously assaulted at a garage on Morrison Road at 2.40am on Sunday. The victim, 40-year-old Thomas Mallaby, was taken to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary for emergency treatment but he […]
A 33 year-old man has been charged by detectives after a woman was threatened with an imitation firearm in Southsea
The 29 year-old victim was threatened on Cottage Grove following a dispute at around 2.15am on Wednesday (29th September). Officers subsequently carried out a warrant at an address on Cottage Grove, where an imitation firearm and drugs were located, and the 33 year-old man was arrested. Matthew Timothy Perry of George V Avenue in Worthing, […]
Drivers were left at a standstill after climate group Insulate Britain staged their 10th day of protests on two major motorways in London
Around 30 activists blocked roundabouts at Junction 3 of the M4 near Heathrow Airport and Junction 1 of the M1 at Brent Cross. The incidents left drivers in west and north London beeping out of frustration after being unable to move for sustained periods. Eight of the demonstrators had been released from police custody on […]
Members of a London-based organised crime group have been jailed for a total of 29 years for possessing and supplying handguns and ammunition
Artem Kuts, 39, of the Isle of Dogs, and Oliver Mark, 40, of Stratford, were arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the supply of firearms. They were found guilty on 28 May following a seven-day trial at Southwark Crown Court, and were today (1 October) sentenced to 15 years and eight […]
An investigation into a £5m drugs trafficking network has led to ten people being arrested
Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate carried out five search warrants at various addresses in Maidstone and Dover on Wednesday 29 September 2021. In connection with the investigation, six people were arrested along with four serving prisoners in HMP Elmley and HMP Rochester. At one of the addresses, PD Clay assisted with the […]
A man who shared extremist material online before travelling abroad to join terrorist group Daesh in Syria has been jailed
Stefan Aristidou, 27 , of no fixed address, was today (Friday, 1 October) sentenced to 28 months’ imprisonment at the Old Bailey after admitting to four counts of dissemination of terrorist material (contrary to section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006) at a previous hearing. Aristidou’s family feared he had travelled to Syria and […]
A house in #Dartford has been closed down following reports of anti-social behaviour and drug use
Officers from Dartford’s Community Safety Unit applied for the closure order following repeated calls to the house in Hill View. Local police officers successfully applied for the closure order under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 at Medway Magistrates’ Court on Friday 24 September 2021. The order, which was supported by Dartford […]
