A woman has been charged with a drink-driving offence following reports of a single vehicle collision on Victoria Avenue in Shanklin
Officers attended the scene after being called at 11.25pm last night (15 April) and found that a white Range Rover had collided with a tree. Natalia Deacon, 30, from Woodside Avenue, Sandown, has been charged with driving a motor vehicle when alcohol level above the limit. She has been released on unconditional bail and […]
A 22 year-old man from the Brighton area has been charged following a reported rape in Barnsley
Brandon Woolven, of no fixed abode, but from the Brighton area in Sussex, has been charged with rape and three counts of sexual assault upon the victim and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the incident. Police were called at around 10.20am on Thursday 14 April to a reported rape in […]
A Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of child sex offences after he arranged to meet a “13-year-old girl” while on duty
Det Con Francois Olwage, 52, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, spoke to the girl for two weeks on a chat forum. But the girl was in fact an undercover police officer. He was convicted of attempted sexual communication with a child and attempting to cause/incite a girl aged 13 to engage in sexual activity. The counter-terrorism […]
A man from Northwich who sexually assaulted a child and posted indecent images he had taken online has been jailed for four years and four months
Craig Crowther, 31, was identified by NCA investigators as username ‘craggy2014’ who, on numerous occasions, discussed his sexual interest in children with other paedophiles online. In May 2020, he told another user that he likes to “get involved” with children, and has access to a child who he had sexually abused. He shared four indecent […]
A doctor has been convicted of a series of sexual offences against women
Krishna Singh, 72, was found guilty of numerous sexual offences, including sexual assault, at Glasgow High Court today. The offences took place between 1983 and 2018. Detectives from Police Scotland began an investigation into Singh after a woman came forward in 2018 to report him. He was subsequently arrested and charged in April 2018. Detective […]
Police Officers who detained a man who had set his room on fire and tried to attack them with a knife have won a Thames Valley Police Federation Bravery Award
In April 2021, firearms officers PC Richard Fenemore, PC Lee Sullivan, PC James Dalton and PC Steve Hall (not pictured) attended a call from Local Police Area officers who requested urgent assistance in dealing with a subject, near Aylesbury. The man was armed with a knife and had barricaded himself within a room of his […]
A man has been convicted of raping a woman in a car park in Gosport
Portsmouth Crown Court heard that police were called to the commercial car park near The Anchorage at around 1.40am on 27 August 2020 after witnesses described hearing a woman crying for help. Officers attended and spoke to the woman, aged in her 20s, who was found by members of the public in a distressed state. […]
A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison following a burglary and an assault in Portsmouth
Louis Alan Bibby, of no fixed abode, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday (8 April) where he was sentenced to six years and 11 months in prison. This comes following two separate incidents, a serious assault on Fawcett Road on October 28 2020 and a burglary at an address on Exmouth Road on December […]
A young woman subjected to a violent and unprovoked assault as she walked home from Maidstone town centre has seen her attacker jailed
Gabriel Calin was sentenced to more than six years in prison after fleeing the country to avoid arrest. At around 1.10am on Tuesday 16 April 2019, the victim, who was in her late teens, was walking along Lower Stone Street when she saw a man she did not know who appeared to be following her. She slowed down to […]
An investigation into the theft of motorbikes across Medway has resulted in officers charging a 17-year-old boy
The teenager was arrested at 12.12pm on Wednesday 13 April 2022, after a patrol saw him riding a reported stolen motorbike along pavements near Aylesford Crescent, Gillingham. He attempted to leave the area on foot but was detained following a short foot chase. Officers also seized a screwdriver. The boy was […]
