A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility following the death of a woman at a hotel in Bournemouth
Stephen Cole, 32 and of Bournemouth, appeared at Winchester Crown Court and admitted the charge on Tuesday 4 May 2021. He is due to be sentenced at the same court on Tuesday 1 June 2021. At around 8am on Wednesday 9 December 2020 officers were called to the Travelodge hotel on Christchurch Road following […]
Three men who operated a drugs supply network across Gravesham have been jailed for a total of more than 20 years
Alex Oni played a leading role in coordinating multiple county lines which primarily operated in Gravesend. The lines often coerced vulnerable people into supplying the substances, including a 12-year-old boy. Adrian Bodzioch and Deividas Sakalauskas were sentenced alongside Oni and acted as runners who transported the drugs from London to north Kent. All three were […]
An 82-year-old man has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence after causing a collision with a car on the hard shoulder of the M4 last year.
Francis Nailor, 82, of Small Lane, Stapleton, Bristol, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision at Swindon Magistrates’ Court at a previous hearing. He was sentenced today (04/05) to six months in jail, suspended for 12 months, at Swindon Crown Court, and ordered to pay […]
West Midlands Police have charged a 18-year-old man with murder after a fatal stabbing in Smethwick
The teenage victim is named as Derlarno Samuels Derlarno, who was aged 17, was found with stab injuries in a car that crashed in Heath Street, Smethwick, at around 4.10pm on Saturday (1 May).
Romanian National Charged With Haringey Murder
Romanian National Charged With Haringey Murder
A cruelty probe has been launched after two horses were found dead in Micheldever
Travellers racing horses on the A33 causing police to close the road due to serious safety concerns and over two hundred in people in attendance stood on the carriageway and hanging out of vehicles. One dead horse was located in East Stratton and the other in Micheldever close to the A33. The cause of […]
Kent Police refer themselves to the IOPC following incident in Folkestone
A man was seriously injured and flown to a London hospital after falling or jumping from a 3rd-floor window when police attended Lennard Court, off Ryland Place in Folkestone on a “routine enquiry” at 6pm on Friday evening. The incident has been referred to the IOPC by Kent Police
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Michael Fadayomi in Willesden earlier this week
Marcus Griffiths, 42 , of Hoveden Road, NW2 was arrested later the same day. On Saturday, 1 May, he appeared at Willesden Magistrates’ Court charged with Michael’s murder. He is also charged with being in possession of a bladed article. He was remanded in custody to appear at the Crown Court on a date […]
Man jailed after causing death of motorcyclist by careless driving
A man has been sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment and banned from driving for three years and eight months after pleading guilty to causing death by careless driving following a collision in Lingfield in September 2018. James Wells, 38, of Oxted, was initially charged with causing death by dangerous driving following the death of motorcyclist […]
A truck driver from Luton has been jailed for attempting to smuggle a group of migrants out of the UK
Romanian national Alexandru Fuiorea, 30, of Twyford Drive, was arrested by the National Crime Agency at the M20 Medway Services on 4 October 2020. His vehicle was searched by officers from the NCA and Kent Police, who found 17 migrants in the trailer. They were a mixture of Tunisian, Moroccan, Bangladeshi, Afghan, Indian and […]