A man has been jailed for the murder of Sir David Amess MP and of plotting to commit a terrorist attack in the UK
Ali Harbi Ali, 26 of Kentish Town, NW5, attacked Sir David with a kitchen knife shortly after midday, on 15 October 2021, during a constituency surgery event in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. He was sentenced today, Wednesday, 13 April, at the Old Bailey to life imprisonment with a whole life order. Following his arrest and during […]
A man has been jailed for sexually abusing a child over a number of years on the Isle of Wight
Michael Norman Smith, aged 58, sexually assaulted the boy between 1997 and 2003, beginning when the child was under the age of 10. During a trial at Isle of Wight Crown Court, jurors heard how Smith, who lived at Willow Way in Sandown at the time of the offences, would often have children over […]
Charges have been authorised against a man alleged to have thrown a chemical substance at a group of people in Lydd
Among the charges is the new offence of possessing a corrosive substance in a public place, which came into force on Wednesday 6 April 2022 as part of updated legislation under the Offensive Weapons Act 2019. It is the first time the new legislation has been used in Kent and is believed to […]
The ringleader of an organised crime group which supplied cocaine worth £21 million to dealers in London and Berkshire has been jailed for 20 years
Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership – a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit – established that Patrick Ince, 57, from Dartford in Kent, was using encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to oversee the enterprise. Operation Venetic is the UK law enforcement response to the takedown of the EncroChat service. Ince’s group […]
A hearing has determined that a former Metropolitan Police officer would have been dismissed had he still been a serving officer following his conviction for domestic abuse offences
Former Detective Sergeant Nathaniel Lee, previously based at East Area Command Unit, was found guilty of assault by beating at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, 27 July. He was fined £969, costs of £620 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £97. The offence happened on 5 October 2020 when DS Lee was […]
A Lancashire man has today been jailed for two years for posting extreme right-wing and racist material online and for making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child
Thomas Leech of Derby Drive, Preston, pleaded guilty to seven charges. He pleaded guilty to three counts of publishing a statement intending members of the public to be directly or indirectly encouraged or otherwise induced by the statement to commit, prepare, or instigate acts of terrorism or convention offences contrary to section 1(2)(b)(i) of […]
A man who carried out a violent and unprovoked attack on a woman in Workington has been sentenced to three years and 8 months in prison
John Pullin, 34, of Birks Road, Cleator Moor was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court after he admitted attempted grievous bodily harm with intent, two counts of assault and criminal damage, as well as breach of a criminal behaviour order which banned Pullin from the area. The court heard how police received a 999 call […]
Two men have been charged with the murder of a man in Dartford
At around 7.10pm om Saturday 2 April 2022, officers and South East Coast Ambulance Service were called to Temple Hill after a man was found with a stab wound to his abdomen. He was pronounced deceased at the scene. It is alleged the victim had been assaulted in a communal parking area […]
Twenty-year-old Sophie George, of Highbrook Close in Brighton, was jailed for 13.5 years this week for a disturbing plot to murder a former lover, which included this chilling ‘to-do list’
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, October 10, 2020, George – who was then 18 – was picked up by her victim in a van and stopped off briefly to collect two shopping bags. The pair drove through Brighton but George insisted they visit a park, grabbing the steering wheel several times before the vehicle […]
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he admitted bludgeoning his elderly neighbour to death three days before the funeral of the victim’s wife
Sable Thomas, 43, of Dalmeny Road, N7, was sentenced to serve a minimum of eight years in jail before he can apply for parole at Wood Green Crown Court on Friday, 8 April. He pleaded guilty at the same court on 26 November 2021 to manslaughter the manslaughter of Anthony Rooks, 80, by virtue of […]
