Two people have been charged with drug offences following two warrants conducted in the Swindon and Reading areas
The warrants, which were executed simultaneously on May 3 by our Fortitude teams with assistance from Neighbourhood Policing Teams, took place in Aldworth Close in Reading and Somerville Road in Swindon. Katie Longmate, 37, of Aldworth Close, and Chakir Smith, 28, of Beaumont Road, London, were arrested and charged with being concerned in the […]
Four men who violently robbed and assaulted a group of friends at a house in Brentwood have been jailed for a total of 38 years
On Friday 5 July 2019, a group of six friends travelled home from a festival in London to stay overnight at a house in Hatch Road, Brentwood. Around 4.45am, they woke to find three men wearing masks had forced entry into the property. They were then held at knifepoint while their possessions were […]
A man has t been jailed for 12 years and four months for killing 65-year-old Stuart Newton in Oswaldtwistle
officers were called to Worsley Court on February 13th, 2020, following reports Mr Newton had been found with serious head injuries. He was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead the following day. Nathan Scott Williams (top right) was arrested the day after Mr Newton had been found and later charged with his […]
A man has been jailed after he stalked a woman who he claimed to have mistaken for someone else
Darren Hodgkinson, 53, began harassing the woman in Wisbech after he believed her to be a prison guard he recognised called Jackie. Between 10 December 2021 and 4 January 2022, he visited the victim’s home in Park Avenue six times despite being told he had the wrong address and to go away. Hodgkinson, of […]
A woman who carried out a ‘sickening and brutal’ attack on a pensioner has been jailed for more than seven years.
A woman who carried out a ‘sickening and brutal’ attack on a pensioner has been jailed for more than seven years. Samantha McDonnell broke into supported accommodation on Hasbury Road, Bartley Green on 4 March this year. She let herself into a pensioner’s flat and demanded money before attacking him, hitting him to the floor. […]
Two men who callously opened fire on a group of people in an east London park – mistakenly believing them to be rival gang members – have been jailed
Sheikh Dibba, 21 of Central Street, Islington, and Fahim Rahman, 34 , of Moreland Street, Islington, left three people with life-changing injuries after they fired 13 shots at a group of people in a children’s play park in Hackney in October 2020. A jury found the pair guilty of three counts of attempted murder […]
A man who stabbed another man to death in an assault lasting just ten seconds has been jailed
Mohammed Al-Shihabi, 26 of Lighthouse View, Greenwich, was found guilty of manslaughter and possession of a bladed article at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, 4 April after fatally stabbing Mazaza Owusu-Mensah, 18, who lived in Greenhithe in Kent, in a brief but deadly altercation in March 2021.Al-Shihabi was found not guilty of murder. He was […]
A man from Wakefield has been given a two-year suspended sentence for posting online messages fantasising about abusing children and possessing thousands of child sexual abuse images
Jack Mallinson, 26, a trainee solicitor and special police constable with West Yorkshire Police, was identified by NCA investigators after he used instant messaging app Wickr to send encrypted content. In posts from October 2020, he described a graphic, fictional scenario of him abusing two young children and discussed his intentions to abuse a […]
A former metropolitan police officer convicted of perverting the course of justice would have been dismissed had he still been in the Met
Former PC Dylan Freedman, who was attached to the North West Command Unit before resigning earlier this year, was sentenced in February after admitting to driving at excess speed and later claiming his number plates had been cloned. A misconduct hearing which concluded on Wednesday, 4 May found he had breached the standards of […]
Former Dublin airport policeman became ‘serial money launderer’ for criminal gangs
A Dublin man believed to have laundered millions of pounds for organised crime groups by smuggling cash on hundreds of flights has been jailed for 20 months. The National Crime Agency began an investigation into 42-year-old Mark Adams – a former Dublin airport policeman from Malahide – in May 2018 after he was stopped […]
