An Eastleigh man has been sentenced to seven years in after pleading guilty to rape in January 2019
David Gordon Howse, aged 33, of The Quadrangle pleaded guilty to raping a 24-year-old woman at some stage between 11.30pm on Tuesday 8 January and the early hours of Wednesday 9 January 2019. The woman was walking in Beaulieu Road before cutting through an alleyway into a car park area between Beaulieu Road and […]
A firearms supplier who kept an arsenal of lethal weapons in his house, including in his daughter’s bedroom, has been jailed for eight years
Darren Dixon, 32, from Kentish Town, London, was arrested in October 2019, following a joint investigation by the National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service.The haul of 26 firearms in his home included five handguns with loaded magazines, a sawn-off shotgun and a pump action shotgun, which were found in the room where his three-year-old […]
Three men have been given prison sentences after they were found guilty of assaulting a vulnerable man in Derby
Officers were called to a disturbance at a property in the Rose Hill area around 2.15 am on Thursday 1 November 2018. They found a man had been assaulted at the address and three men, who were also at the property, were arrested. The victim, who was in his early 20s and has learning […]
A pickpocket wanted for stealing a woman’s phone at Holborn station on the London Underground has been jailed
Investigators passed around the man’s image after they played back the CCTV, watching him dip into the victim’s pocket while she paid for a train ticket. Months later, on Wednesday 24 February, the same man was seen by officers acting suspiciously at Liverpool Street station. He was arrested and jailed the next day for […]
Two men have been jailed for their parts in a terrifying robbery during which the victim was forced into a car at knifepoint
Louis Robson and Daniel Singleton drove their victim around Doncaster and forced him to hand over his phone and jewellery before he was able to get out and run for help. The victim’s ordeal began when he was walking home from a night out at around 5am on Sunday 6 September last year. As […]
Fugitive armed robber comes out of hiding to buy Call of Duty with friend before getting arrested for attacking officers
This is the moment two of our officers were attacked by a man who’d told them he’d come into town with a friend during lockdown to buy the new Call of Duty game – before it was revealed he was an armed robber on the run from prison. Clint Butler, aged 36, kicked one […]
A man who crashed a BMW while driving under the influence of drugs, causing the death of a passenger, before fleeing the scene and hiding in a loft, has today been jailed for six years
Police were called just after 11pm on Sunday 30 June 2019, after a silver BMW 320I left the road on Mountbatten Way, flipped and came to rest on a verge. Witnesses told officers who attended that a person – later found to be Luke Andrew Bates, 34, of Mansergh Walk, Totton, was seen getting […]
A motorist who crashed while high on drink and drugs, killing his housemate, has been jailed
A motorist who crashed while high on drink and drugs, killing his housemate, has been jailed. Ionut Dumitru was driving a recently purchased grey BMW 5 Series southbound on the A21 London Road, at Flimwell, when he left the carriageway and collided with a tree. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of 14 […]
A man who made a hoax call in attempt to get his colleague into trouble with police has been jailed for 10 months
Ashley Hall, 26, a Labourer, of The Nurseries in Bognor Regis, dialled 999 at 4.07pm on 26 June and reported seeing a man waving a machete out of the window of a car in the Burgess Hill area. Due to the seriousness of the report, this triggered a significant emergency response involving over 20 officers, […]
A fifth man has been charged by detectives investigating the murder of Gabriel Bringye in Haringey
David Adeyanju, 18 , of Golders Green, appeared in custody this morning (Friday, 5 March) at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court charged with murder. He was remanded in custody – date and venue await. Four teenagers have previously been charged with Gabriel’s murder. [A] has also been charged with handling stolen property.Police were called to […]
