A robber who stole £5,000 from a building society has been jailed for eight years.

  Bruce Chipunza threatened two members of staff at the Saffron Building Society branch in Culver Street West, Colchester, on 1 July 2019. Chipunza, who was armed with a screwdriver, ran off but detectives scoured CCTV footage from around the town centre. It showed him entering a hotel where he changed his clothing, then took […]

Serial abuser Joshua Terry has been sentenced to 28 months in jail after carrying out frenzied attacks on partners – leaving one with a severely fractured cheek and in need of surgery to prevent her from going blind

  Terry, 26, was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court to  a total of 28 months, including nine months for assault occasioning actually bodily harm, nine months for possession of a bladed article, four months for common assault and 10 months for witness intimidation to both be served concurrently, 10 months for disclosure of private photographs […]

Three men who robbed a Peterborough pensioner of his watch have been jailed

  Omar Bkara, Nouralaine Manssouri and a 17-year-old boy, who can’t be named for legal reasons, followed the 75-year-old man and his wife as they left a shop in Long Causeway on 16 September. As they approached Minister Precincts, one of the men sprayed the victim in the face which caused his eyes to sting, […]

A man who threatened a member of rail staff at York station has been jailed for 20 weeks

  Philip Longstaff, aged 49, of Coronation Avenue, Shildon, was jailed by North Northumbria Magistrates on Thursday, 12 November, after breaching bail conditions relating to the incident and other offences. The court heard how on Monday, 9 November, shortly after midnight, the station night controller witnessed Longstaff smashing hand sanitiser dispensers before moving onto the […]

Woman sentenced for grievous bodily harm in Bracknell

  A woman has been jailed for more than five years for grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice in Bracknell. Alison Dean, aged 27, of Haversham Drive, Bracknell plead guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice and was found guilty by a unanimous jury of one count of section […]