A third man has been imprisoned in connection with a scam in which a group attempted to steal bank cards and personal information from cash machine users in Thanet.
Attaul Qayyum, 22, drove for the group that installed devices on a machine in Ramsgate in August 2020. They were arrested later that day after an off-duty police officer noticed them acting suspiciously. Qayyum, of Abbotsbury Road, Morden, south London, was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, after being convicted […]
During dawn search warrants, £25,000 in jewellery was seized from properties in Kent, London, Essex, and Hertfordshire
During dawn search warrants, £25,000 in jewellery was seized. The Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate has made more than a dozen arrests as part of a large-scale fraud investigation. Officers conducted dawn raids on properties in Kent, London, Essex, and Hertfordshire on Wednesday, June 15 and Thursday, June 16, 2022. Detectives are looking for […]
A robber who drove a delivery van across Canterbury in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the goods inside has been sentenced to three years in prison
Kent Police officers tracked Ronnie Mead down using the van’s tracking device and arrested him 20 minutes later, surrounded by half-opened packages. The 33-year-old from Hunton Gardens pleaded guilty to robbery, taking a motor vehicle without consent, and cannabis possession and was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Mead initially […]
Registered sex offender Ian Willett has been recalled to prison for violating the terms of his licence
Ian Willett, 23, was sentenced to 40 months in prison last year for sexual assault, assault by beating, and kidnapping. This followed an incident on August 23, 2020, in which he assaulted a woman at Newport bus station on the Isle of Wight and dragged her to Church Litten Park. The woman fought back and […]
A Syrian migrant on trial in Belgium for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter has claimed that it was the first time he had ever consumed alcohol and that he had been seduced by the girl who he claims is “older than that in her head.”
In mitigation, a Syrian migrant on trial in Belgium for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter has claimed that it was the first time he had ever consumed alcohol and that he had been seduced by the girl who he claims is “older than that in her head.” The accused, who arrived in Belgium from Syria in […]
A court heard that a man accused of murdering his partner’s son was seen “laughing and smirking” shortly after the teen died
Sebastian Kalinowski, 15, died in a Huddersfield hospital in August 2021.Prosecutors claim his mother, Agnieszka Kalinowska, 35, and her partner, Andrzej Latoszewski, 36, abused him before his death.Both deny murder, though Mr. Latoszewski has admitted manslaughter.Both entered a guilty plea to a charge of child cruelty on Thursday, having previously denied the charge.Sebastian was taken […]
Today (Friday, June 17), a man is due to be sentenced for the manslaughter of a fisherman outside a Royal British Legion club in the New Forest.
Max Maguire died in October 2021 from stab wounds to the chest outside the club in Lymington. Draven Jewell, 21, was found not guilty of murder but convicted of the manslaughter of a fisherman.On October 22, 2021, he was on trial at Winchester Crown Court for the death of a father-of-one. He was also […]
A 19-year-old man charged with a knife crime following a stop search in Finedon was given an 18-month community order
Wellingborough Neighbourhood Policing Officers conducted a stop search on 19-year-old Olatide Nathan, of Heath Green Grove, Birmingham, in Poplar Road on May 18, 2022, at 8.15pm, and he was found to be in possession of a knife. He appeared in Northampton Magistrates’ Court this week (June 13) and pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed […]
A 21-year-old Warrington man was sentenced to a year in prison for assaulting a pensioner
Following an investigation into an incident in Warrington, Benjamin Jones of Trafford Avenue, Bewsey and Whitecross appeared at Chester Magistrates on Monday 13 June to admit the charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He was subsequently sentenced to one year in prison. The 75-year-old victim was assaulted while walking down Church Street in […]
A food waste recycling company was fined £2 million after being found guilty of corporate manslaughter in the deaths of two employees who drowned after falling into a semi-liquid pig feed tanker on the road
A food waste recycling company was fined £2 million after being found guilty of corporate manslaughter in the deaths of two employees who drowned after falling into a semi-liquid pig feed tanker on the road. Nathan Walker, 19, and Gavin Rawson, 35, were killed in the incident at Greenfeeds Ltd in Normanton, Bottesford, Leicestershire, in […]
