A 22-year-old man is starting a 27-month prison sentence for stabbing a man in his back and neck after an argument on a South Emsall street
William Turner, of Little Lane, South Emsall, was sentenced on 7 April 2021 at Leeds Crown Court after being convicted of committing a Section 20 Assault and possession of a bladed article. The assault happened on the morning of 17 December 2018 after Turner had spent the evening drinking with the 28-year-old male victim […]
Blackpool man snared by police as he arranged ‘sickening’ child abuse
John Kenny, from Blackpool, arranged online to carry out sickening abuse of children. But little did he know that the people he was talking to were in fact undercover law enforcement officers and he was subsequently arrested. Kenny, 30, of Watson Road in the resort, admitted offences of arranging or facilitating the commission of […]
A man who raped and murdered a 15-year-old schoolgirl has died in prison
Kayleigh Haywood, from Measham, Leicestershire, was killed and her body was dumped in a hedgerow in November 2015 after being groomed online. Stephen Beadman, 34, was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 35 years in 2016. The Prison Service said he died at HMP Wakefield and the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman […]
A man has been jailed for the murder of Richard Hall, who was killed in an attack on Brown Clee Hill in Shropshire last summer
Richard, who was 70, and from Perton, in Staffordshire was walking on Brown Clee Hill on Thursday 13 August when he was stabbed to death. His body was found a day later on Friday 14 August after he died as a result of his injuries. Earlier today (Thursday 8 April), Moses Christensen, 21, from […]
A Dutchman who admitted swallowing 50 packets of cocaine in an attempt to smuggle them into the UK has been jailed for 32 months
Martinus Gunning, 42, was investigated by the National Crime Agency after arriving at London Gatwick Airport from the Netherlands on 10 January 2021.When stopped by Border Force, he initially claimed he was in the UK to visit a girlfriend but shortly afterwards said he had swallowed 50 packages. A total of 463g of the class A […]
Two east London cannabis factories have been shut down in the past ten days, resulting in the arrest of three people
Officers from the Drugs Focus Desk, part of the Violence Suppression Unit covering Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge, executed a warrant at an address in Charnwood Drive, E18, on Monday, 29 March. A 29-year-old man was arrested at the scene and was subsequently charged with cultivation of cannabis and abstraction of electricity. He is […]
A serving police officer has appeared in court charged with indecent image offences
DC Paul Allgood, 60 attached to the Met’s Economic Crime Unit pleaded guilty to three counts of making/possessing indecent images of children and three counts of outraging public decency when he appeared at Wood Green Crown Court on Thursday, 8 April. He is due to appear on bail at the same court on Tuesday, […]
A 24-year-old woman has been sentenced for ill-treating an 84-year-old resident at the Wirral care home where she worked
The Crown Prosecution Service (said that Valentina Baghiu, of Borough Road in Tranmere, poked, threatened and grabbed the wrist of the victim who was frail and suffered from dementia. The incidents had been filmed on the defendant’s mobile phone while she was working at Birch Tree Manor Nursing Home. The first video shows Baghiu poking […]
Gary Metcalfe verbally abused the terrified woman in her own home, telling her he would ‘kick the baby out of her’ and that he would bury her in the ground
During the 40-minute attack the 22-year-old also punched the woman in the face before grabbing a kitchen knife and threatened to rape her and stab her every time she made a noise. The woman managed to flee the property and raise the alarm. When she returned home with the police, she discovered a £500 […]
A Swindon man has been sent to prison for threatening violence and also for being caught with a machete
On Thursday 1 April, Trishton Whyte, aged 20, from Ruskin Avenue, was sentenced at Swindon Youth Court to 12-months in jail after admitting to threatening another man with a gardening tool on 9 November 2020 at an address in Meadowcroft, and for the separate machete incident last month. On the evening of Monday 8 March, Whyte […]
