A man was jailed yesterday (2 Sept) for a total of six years after being found guilty of a number of non-recent child sex offences.
A man was jailed for a total of six years after being found guilty of a number of non-recent child sex offences. Alan Kenneth Jerrim of Wykeham Road, Netley Abbey had been found guilty at Winchester Crown Court on Monday 26 July of four counts of indecent assault of a girl under 13 and one […]
Five sentenced over County Lines drug dealing into West Sussex
Five people involved in a ‘County Lines’ drug supply chain between London and Bognor Regis have been sentenced to a total of 32 years in prison. On 28 August 2020, officers from the Metropolitan Police and Sussex Police executed two Misuse of Drugs Act warrants; one at Pittman Gardens in Ilford, East London, and the […]
A 16-year-old boy who raped a woman in an “horrendous attack” at a Sheffield park has been sentenced to seven years
The teenager, who had denied the charge, was one of a gang who lured their 21-year-old victim to High Hazels Park on November 23, police said. A second boy, 16, was also sentenced to two years for sexual assault following the two-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court.Neither of the boys can be named for legal […]
Welwyn drug dealer charged and remanded
Following a series of suspected heroin overdoses in #WelwynGardenCity, police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the incidents. Police were called by the ambulance service just after 10pm on Thursday 19 August to reports that a man had collapsed inside an address in Peartree Lane, Welwyn Garden City, following a suspected drug […]
Sign language has been used by an officer to help several victims of crime in Medway
Police Community Support Officer Debbie Turner learned the valuable skill after her daughter was born prematurely 35 years ago and suffered with hearing loss. As a result, Debbie attended several events where she was made aware of the different methods used to communicate and went on to gain a formal British Sign Language […]
A man who killed his estranged wife in a house fire in Harlesden has been found guilty of murder and arson with intent to endanger life
Damion Simmons, 45 of no fixed address, was convicted at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, 31 August. He will be sentenced at the same court on 22 September. The jury heard how Simmons deliberately started a fire at a residential property in Alric Avenue in the early hours of Thursday, 16 April 2020. Denise Keane-Simmons, […]
Man jailed for 12 years for sexual activity with children in Staffordshire
A 39-year-old man’s been jailed for twelve-and-a-half years after being found guilty of a number of historical sexual offences against children in Staffordshire. Gareth Robinson from Gillow Heath was found guilty at an earlier hearing of one count of sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13 and a further five counts […]
Authorities in Cyprus and the Isle of Man are desperate to find family members of a British woman whose body has lain unclaimed in the morgue of Paphos hospital since her death seven months ago in January
Unless a family member can be found in the next few months, Patricia Lambert will be given a ‘paupers’ funeral by the state. On top of that, fraudulent withdrawals of cash have been made from her Isle of Man bank account and squatters are living in the Kato Paphos apartment she owned, according to […]
Two men have been jailed for more than 26 years following a regional investigation into attacks on cash machines in northern England
Stuart Penney and James Fairburn were jailed at Leeds Crown Court today (Tuesday) after they pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to cause an explosion. The investigation by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit (YH ROCU) focused on seven attacks on cash machines in Darlington, Bradford, Keighley and […]
A man and a woman have been jailed after a police investigation found they were trafficking young women from Brazil to London to exploit them as sex workers
Shana Stanley, 29 and Hussain Edani, 31, both of Northolt Road, Harrow, were sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Friday, 27 August. Stanley was sentenced to three years and seven months while Edani was sentenced to eight years and two months. They each pleaded guilty at the same court on Monday, 9 August to four […]