A drug dealer was sentenced to prison after fatally stabbing a man in a North Yorkshire park
Brooklyn Bell, 19, murdered Simon McMinn following an argument over Bell’s attempt to sell cocaine to schoolchildren. Bell, from Keighley, worked for a West Yorkshire-based county lines drug gang. He’d gone to Skipton’s Aireville Park to sell drugs, including £60 worth of heroin and crack cocaine to Mr McMinn and a friend. Mr McMinn […]
Four people who advocated racist violence, as well as the manufacture and possession of weapons, were sentenced to more than 30 years in prison today at Sheffield Crown Court (Thursday, June 23rd)
On Tuesday, March 29th, Daniel Wright, Liam Hall, Stacey Salmon, and Samuel Whibley were found guilty of a total of eighteen offences following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court after their wrongdoing was exposed by an undercover police officer. The jury heard how the defendants met in a private online chat group to share extreme […]
A £1000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of wanted paedophile Trevor McCurdy
Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to £1000 for anonymous information leading to the arrest and charging of a wanted man from Havant. Police have previously requested assistance in locating 69-year-old Trevor McCurdy, who is wanted on a warrant for failing to appear in Portsmouth Crown Court in connection with sexual activity with a […]
At Norwich Crown Court, two men were sentenced for fraud offences
Officers from Norfolk Police’s Operation Moonshot team stopped a Saab motor vehicle on Hall Quay in Great Yarmouth on March 15, 2022. Inside the vehicle were unopened letters from various addresses in Hemsby and Martham, as well as credit cards in a variety of names. Officers apprehended both occupants, and further investigation […]
Two Norfolk Police officers have been nominated for a Police Bravery Awards after safely apprehending a gun-wielding man intent on ending his life in a’shootout.
PC Leanne Payne (pictured) and PC Joseph Konieczny were called to a pub in Surlingham on May 23, 2021, after reports of a man dressed in military-style clothing and armed with what was described as a rifle.The suspect had gone to the location with an imitation gun, intending to provoke a police shooting because he […]
Met Police have charged a man with the murder of his 89-year-old grandmother in south London
The victim, Sakunthala Francis, was discovered with stab wounds at a home on Brigstock Road in Thornton Heath at around 9.20 p.m. on Tuesday. The Met Police have charged a man with the murder of his 89-year-old grandmother in south London. On Wednesday evening, Verushan Manoharan, 31, was charged. Sakunthala Francis, the victim, was discovered […]
Three men have been charged in connection with a gunpoint street robbery in Leyton
Ahmed Bana, 25, of Hale Gardens, N17, has been charged with robbery conspiracy and possession of an imitation firearm while committing a schedule 1 offence. Nurul Amin, 24, of Cavendish Road, N4, has been charged with robbery conspiracy. Dante Campbell, 20, of Denmark Road, N8, has been charged with conspiracy to […]
Following arrests by the Royal Wootton Bassett Community Policing Team, two men have been charged with theft
Officers arrested two people on June 11 after receiving reports of a scrap metal theft in Broad Town. As part of our investigation, a vehicle containing scrap metal was seized, and the pair was also linked to a separate theft of scrap metal in Chippenham on May 10. Florin Toma, 42, […]
A Folkestone man has been sentenced to prison after his drugs network used the encrypted Encrochat phone system to organise deals in east Kent.
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate discovered Jordan Nicholl and his brother Ryan Nicholl were supplying drugs on a large scale between March and June 2020 using information obtained from the criminal phone system. Both men were detained during pre-planned warrants at their respective homes, and Jordan Nicholl was sentenced to […]
As part of a 19-month investigation into fraudulently signed building cladding safety forms, a man has been charged with fraud
Thomas Michael Clarke, 33, of Knowsley Lane in Prescot, has been charged with fraudulent representation. Following the Grenfell Tower fire, EWS1 forms were introduced to allow residents to have their building’s cladding assessed for potential fire risk. The forms require an appropriate professional to confirm the checks have been completed, but residents of high-rise […]
