Police have issued a renewed appeal for the public’s help to trace a man who is wanted in connection with an escape from custody
Officers are trying to find 17-year-old Allan Sulley. He pleaded guilty to burglary and theft at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (18 May 2022) and was remanded into custody. He was later taken to the Queen’s Medical Centre after complaining he felt unwell. Whilst there he fled out of the hospital out of the […]
A serial burglar and conman has been jailed for more than a decade
Jim Chuter, 33 of no fixed address, appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday, 19 May where he was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for a linked series of burglaries committed in London, Surrey and Thames Valley. He had previously pleaded guilty to 26 charges including nine for burglary, sixteen counts of fraud and a […]
A sexual predator who abused two young girls has been jailed for 26 years
Trevor Hawker, aged 42, attacked his first victim in 2008. He then went on to repeatedly abuse another young child – including raping her – between 2014 and 2018. When confronted with the allegations in police interviews Hawker denied them all, claiming that his victims were lying about what had happened to them. However […]
Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences, as part of an ongoing investigation being led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.
An 18-year-old man was arrested at an address in Essex on Wednesday, 18 May on suspicion of encouraging terrorism (contrary to section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006 (TACT). He was originally detained under PACE. On Thursday, 19 May, he was detained under TACT and a warrant of further detention application was granted by […]
A man has been jailed for 18 years for the non-recent rape of a child on the Isle of Wight
David Michael Wells, aged 47, from Chale Green, was charged with six counts of rape following a lengthy police investigation. The investigation began in January 2020 after the victim reported she had been abused by Wells between 2017 and 2018 when she was under the age of 16. Wells denied the offences and […]
A man and woman have been jailed for kidnapping and stabbing a man in Newcastle-under-Lyme last year
Henry Parkhurst, aged 24, of HMP Dovegate, Draycott-in-the-Clay, was sentenced on Friday (13 May) at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, to nine years behind bars after being found guilty of wounding with intent and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. Katherine Beckham, aged 27, of Pickwood Road, Leek, was jailed for four years, […]
An investigation by officers from the Met’s South East Public Protection unit has led to the conviction of a ‘manipulative sexual predator
Robert Wain, 59 of Victoria Street, Gillingham, was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court of 35 sexual offences against children on Wednesday, 18 May. Specifically he was found guilty of: – 17 counts of Indecent assault on a boy under 16;– 3 Counts of buggery;– 6 counts of rape;– Attempting to indecently assault a boy under […]
A man has been jailed for possessing more than £51,000 of class A drugs in Southampton as part of a police crackdown on county lines networks
At Southampton Crown Court, Mohammed Artan, 36, from Golden Grove, Southampton, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine. He was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, and for the drugs and paraphernalia seized by police after his arrest to be destroyed. During County Lines Intensification Week, […]
A man has been jailed for seven years after a self-loading pistol and ammunition were seized from him on the M1 in Hertfordshire
Albanian national Klejdi Kazani, 21, was under investigation by the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) – a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit – when he was arrested in August last year. OCP investigators tracked him while he was travelling on the M1 from Birmingham to London and shared intelligence with West Midlands […]
A Plymouth man has been jailed for life after brutally murdering an 18-year-old woman in a sadistic and prolonged attack, committed to satisfy his morbid fascination with serial killers. He must serve a minimum term of 30 years
A Plymouth man has been jailed for life after brutally murdering an 18-year-old woman in a sadistic and prolonged attack, committed to satisfy his morbid fascination with serial killers. He must serve a minimum term of 30 years and 190 days. Cody Ackland, 24, struck Bobbi-Anne McLeod on the head with a claw hammer at […]
