AN Aberystwyth woman has been jailed, and an organised crime gang disrupted, after heroin worth £45,000 was found at her home
Dyfed-Powys Police found more than 400g of the class A drug during a warrant at Susan Marie Proffitt’s home – resulting in one of the force’s largest single seizures of heroin in Ceredigion. The result has disrupted an active organised crime gang supplying class A drugs to the area. Sergeant Steven Jones said: […]
A prolific county lines drug dealer has been sentenced to six years and nine months behind bars
Daniel Oluwaseun,Temi Ojeh, 33, of Broomcroft Avenue, Northolt, appeared at Kingston Crown Court last Wednesday (25 November) where he was sentenced after pleading guilty to dealing drugs across the north of Surrey including Stanwell, Staines and Ashford. Ojeh was arrested on 7 July this year after officers on mobile patrol in Staines-upon-Thames witnessed him […]
A 19 year old who launched a brutal and unprovoked assault on a teenager has been jailed for four months
Harry Lee Powell, of York, was sentenced at York Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, 1 December after pleading guilty to the assault. The court heard how, on Friday 30 October, Powell, accompanied by a group of friends, approached his 16-year-old victim, who was sitting in the waiting room at York station. Completely unprovoked, Powell immediately […]
A man from Reading has been sentenced to an extended prison term of 12 years after he was convicted of robbery in Reading
Richard Todd, aged 54, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to one count of robbery in a hearing at Reading Crown Court on Monday (30/11). In the early hours of Saturday 18 January this year, the victim, a man aged in his sixties, was asleep at his home in Wensley Road, Reading, when he was […]
A man who shot a woman with an air rifle has been jailed for four-and-a-half years
Curtis Elliott carried out the attack after the victim ended their relationship on 26 July this year.He pulled up in his car next to her as she walked along Woodlands Close in Clacton and threatened to kill her, before pointing the weapon at her.He shot the terrified woman in the shoulder as she ran away. […]
A van driver has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for causing the death of another motorist
Jamie Tarbert, 32, appeared at Leicester Crown Court yesterday (Monday 30 September) where he pleaded guilty to causing death by driving without due care and attention while over the prescribed limit for drugs. The charge related to a collision in Rearsby Road, Gaddesby on the morning of 22 July 2019. A Mercedes Sprinter […]
A man remains remanded in custody in relation to a murder in Greenford
Shanil Patel – 31 of Drew Gardens, Greenford (the son of the victim) was charged on Friday, 27 November with the murder of 62-year-old Hansa Patel. A hearing was held at the Central Criminal Court today, Tuesday, 1 December. Shanil Patel did not attend. He is next due to appear at the same court […]
A man who assaulted a 69-year-old woman on board a bus in Camden has been given a suspended sentence
Bradey Weight, 24, of Kentish Town, appeared at Wood Green Crown Court on Monday, 30 November, where he was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months. He must also carry out 250 hours of unpaid work and spend 35 days in rehabilitation. He previously pleaded guilty to GBH without intent at Highbury Corner […]
A man who stabbed a hotel concierge worker to death so he could steal his Gucci bag has been convicted of murder.
Samuel Odupitan, 24, knifed Tyler Roye six times as he was making his way home after work in south London in February. Prosecutors said Odupitan had come across his 24-year-old victim on the tram and then “murdered him in cold blood for the sake of a designer bag The defendant, from Croydon, was found […]
A pub drinker who assaulted his former friend in Gillingham has been jailed for two years
Dirk Peterson was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on 30 November 2020 after admitting two counts of actual bodily harm. The 52-year-old of Ivy Street, Rochester, was charged with the offences after he assaulted two men, one of whom he had been drinking with in the Fluer De Lis pub in Gillingham Road, […]
