A Plymouth man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of attempted murder
Parry Williams, aged 54, of no fixed abode, was sentenced by HHJ Garnham this afternoon [Monday 1 March] following a trial at Plymouth Crown Court. Police were called to reports of a serious incident outside the Railway Inn pub in Albert Road, in the Stoke area of the city, at around 10.15pm on Saturday […]
Man jailed for murder attempt to cover up high value fraud
A 62-year-old man has been jailed for 11 years and eight months for trying to murder a disabled woman to cover up the fact he’d stolen more than £100,000 from her over a period of more than two years. Barry Andrew Riley, of East Morton in West Yorkshire, attempted to smother 75-year-old Ann Skelton with […]
A man who repeatedly kicked his ex-partner in the face while she sat on the floor has been jailed
Lewis Habergham, 29, saw the victim walking in Cambridge in November last year and began attempting to rekindle their relationship, But his advances were rejected and he punched her in the face in the street. He followed her back to her home and forced his way in, refusing several times to leave. The following […]
An Italian national who attempted to extort £10 million from the NHS by threatening to bomb a hospital in the UK has been convicted by a Berlin court.
Emil Apreda, 33, was identified as the individual behind a series of threats made to the NHS via email last year following an investigation by the National Crime Agency.Apreda, who was living in Berlin, sent the initial email containing the threat and ransom demand for £10 million in bitcoin to the NHS on 12 […]
A 22-year-old man from Widnes has been jailed for carrying out a knifepoint robbery at a supermarket in the town
Daniel Flanagan, of Rivenmill Way, approached a cashier in the occupied store off Derby Road at around 8.15pm on Monday 23 November. He demanded cash and told the man working behind the till that he had a knife. Flanagan then produced a bread knife from his trouser pocket and was subsequently given the cash […]
A man has been given an extended sentence of six years and four months for an attempted robbery in Redhill
Mark Evans, 38, of Frederick Gardens, Croydon, was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court after pleading guilty to all charges. He will serve a custodial term of three years and four months, with an extended licence period of three years to follow. Officers were called to Redhill Food and Wine in Horley at 8.55pm on Sunday […]
Drug traffickers jailed for importing £32m cocaine haul hidden in yams
Two men face a combined 36 years in prison after a National Crime Agency investigation found they were behind an attempt to smuggle cocaine worth £32million into the UK. Juan David Perea Lopez, 26 of New Cross, London, and Bashar Fares Al-Safee, 31 from North Kensington, London, arranged to import 400kg of the […]
Detectives investigating a series of knifepoint robberies at supermarkets in Ealing, Hounslow and Richmond have charged a man
Domingo Henderson, 45 of Corner Fielde, Streatham Hill has been charged with five robberies, two attempted robberies and one count of possession of a bladed article. He was arrested on the morning of Thursday, 25 February following a proactive operation by the Met’s Flying Squad. He appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 26 February […]
A Salisbury man has been sentenced to six months in prison after assaulting a police officer
Mark Parker, aged 24, from Cherry Close, Salisbury pleaded guilty at Salisbury Magistrates Court yesterday to assaulting an emergency work and possessing a knife in a public place. On Wednesday 24 February, Mark Parker attended a meeting with the police officer and a member of staff at The Probation Office in Salisbury city centre. While there […]
A man has been jailed for nine years for sexually abusing a boy over the course of nearly a decade
Joe Lloyd, now 29, assaulted the boy on several occasions between 2004 and 2012. Over the course of that eight-year period he subjected the boy to sexual assaults, including rapes, gradually becoming more serious over time. The offences came to light when they were reported to police in May 2017 and Lloyd was arrested […]
