Man seriously injured after horror fall from scaffolding onto busy street in Orpington
A man thought to be a builder has to fallen from scaffolding on a busy street in Bromley. Police and ambulance teams were spotted on Queensway at around 1pm Thursday on Thursday Officers appeared to have set up a cordon with the connecting junction to Fairway. Two police car and ambulance vehicles were seen […]
Three teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm following an investigation by Thames Valley Police
Three teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a teenager was stabbed to death at a Reading beauty spot. The charges are in connection with the death of Olly Stephens, aged 13, which occurred in Emmer Green, Reading on Sunday 3 January. A 13-year-old girl and two boys, […]
Leeds Drug Dealers Caught With Gun Jailed For Nearly 20 Years
Two men who ran a large-scale cocaine dealing operation from house in a Leeds student area where they kept a gun have been jailed following an investigation by specialist detectives. Officers from Leeds District Precision Team, which supports the force-wide Programme Precision initiative to tackle serious and organised crime that impacts on local communities, […]
Two men convicted of attempting to murder a man in the street using a machete and sawn-off shotgun have each been sentenced to a total of 24 years’ imprisonment at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court
Keiron Hassan, 32, and Kamal Legall, 26, approached the victim outside a shop on Harris Avenue in Rumney. Hassan hit the man to the nape of the neck with the machete causing a five-inch-long cut and fractured vertebrae. Legall stood over the man and shot him to the buttock causing a wound and fracturing […]
A man has been sentenced at the Old Bailey for the manslaughter of Mark McCann-Barrett in Tottenham
Louis Kelly, 40 of Belgrave Gardens, NW8, was told by the judge he must serve a minimum of 12 years in prison. Kelly was previously convicted at the same court on Friday, 13 November 2020. During trial, the court heard that police were called at 9.27am on 17 September 2019 to reports of a […]
Drug dealer Zahid Rashid who was found to be living a lavish lifestyle has been sentenced to a total of four years and four months for possession with intent to supply cocaine, cannabis and for possession of prescription drugs
Rashid, 48, of Station Road, Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A, Class B and possession of Class C drugs and was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court . The defendant was arrested on Christmas Eve last year (2019) when roads policing officers stopped a VW, which had been […]
A post-mortem examination has found a man who died at an address in Rayleigh on New Year’s Day had sustained a stab wound to the chest
The man has been named by Essex Police as 31-year-old Paul Fletcher.He was found unresponsive at an address in Worcester Drive at around 1am on New Year’s Day and, sadly, died at the scene.Hannah Sindrey, 23, of Worcester Drive, Rayleigh, has been charged with murder and appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Monday 4 January.She […]
A man wielding a kitchen knife has been jailed for more than a year
Stephen Gervis, 39, of New Street, Cambridge was on Parkers Piece on 8 November when he was seen by an off duty special constable pushing and shoving a man and a woman. He was then seen on CCTV to take a three-inch kitchen knife from his pocket and threaten and stab a man. Gervis […]
A man robbed a teenager and his friend of their mobile phones following a dispute about fake earphones
Kaspers Zukovskis, 20, first targeted the 19-year-old victim while he was sat inside McDonalds, on Bourges Boulevard, in Peterborough, at about 4am on 22 August last year. Zukovskis told the victim he owed him £20 after the teenager had allegedly sold Zukovskis fake Apple earphones a few weeks earlier. He snatched the victim’s phone […]
Police Scotland confirmed officers have charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct action
Former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested and charged with culpable and reckless conduct over her journey between Scotland and Westminster while waiting for results of a coronavirus test. Ferrier had the SNP whip removed for making a trip from Glasgow to the House of Commons and then a return journey after being informed […]