Five men have been sentenced this week at Burnley Crown Court, following a county line drugs investigation by Cumbria Police, assisted by West Yorkshire Police
The West Yorkshire crime group, branding itself ‘Striker’, flooded South Cumbria with crack cocaine and heroin between 26th July and 9th September 2021 and exploited children as young as fourteen to traffic drugs from Bradford to Barrow-in-Furness. Asim Hussain (21) of Waterlily Road, Bradford, the head of the crime group, was sentenced to eight years in prison and […]
A Coventry man who conned his way into a woman’s home by pretending to be a police officer and stole from her has been jailed
Karl Hope, from Adelaide Street, saw the woman in a distressed state in her car outside her house on 23 December last year. He told her he was a police officer concerned for her welfare. The 31-year-old flashed an ID card that was enough to convince the woman he was genuine. Hope escorted her into […]
A man has been jailed after he sent his brother to do a DNA test in his place so he could avoid paying maintenance for two of his children
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Gary Lewis, 25, and his brother Robert Lewis, 24, both from Potternewton in Leeds, conspired together so that Gary Lewis would not have to pay maintenance. The mothers of the two children had both independently applied to the Child Maintenance Group (formerly the Child Support Agency) to get […]
Twenty-eight search warrants were executed and Ten people have been charged
Friday 25 March 2022 Ten people charged and £10 million worth of assets restrained following warrant activity Ten people have been charged and £10 million worth of assets restrained following a morning of warrant activity by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate. Twenty-eight search warrants were executed on the morning of […]
Two people have been sentenced for their role in the death of a defenceless two-year-old child
The court heard how Kyrell Matthews had suffered a string of terrible injuries during his short life, before his death in October 2019.On Friday, 4 March, at the Old Bailey, the boyfriend of Kyrell’s mother, Kemar Brown, 28 of Bensham Manor Road, Thornton Heath, was found guilty of Kyrell’s murder. He was also found guilty […]
Three people have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Gary Jenkins who died after being assaulted in Bute Park, Cardiff
Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, was attacked during the early hours of Tuesday, July 20, 2021, and died at the University Hospital of Wales on Thursday August 5.Jason Edwards, 25, Lee William Strickland, 36, and Dionne Timms-Williams, 17, have all received life sentences at Cardiff Crown Court.Edwards and Strickland must each serve a minimum of 33 […]
A brothel owner has been ordered to repay around £333,000 earned through the sexual exploitation of women in Dartford
Mario Nicolae, 44, was arrested in September 2018 following complaints from within the community that a property he was renting in Downs Avenue was being visited by different men at various times of the day and night. He initially denied receiving half of what his sex workers earned and claimed he sometimes helped […]
Police have charged Wayne Couzens, 49 with Four counts of Indecent exposure
Detectives investigating a series of sexual offences in Swanley, have now charged a man. Police have charged Wayne Couzens, 49, of no fixed address, with the following offences: Indecent exposure between the 22 January 2021 and 1 February 2021 Indecent exposure between 30 January 2021 and 6 February 2021 Indecent exposure on 14 February 2021 […]
New legislation due to be introduced today and will go further than the current law on people using their mobile phones while driving
The change in the law makes it an offence to use any device that is capable of interactive communication by transmitting and receiving data, even if that functionality has been turned off such as in ‘flight mode.’ Drivers will be banned from using their phones to take photos or videos, scroll through playlists or […]
A drug dealer who ran a county lines drug network in the Watford area has been jailed for more than seven years
Hertfordshire Constabulary’s Operational Support Group arrested two people after raiding an address in Watford town centre, following a long running investigation into the supply of drugs in the town. Officers seized crack cocaine worth more than £4,000 during the operation, along with mobile phones believed to be used in the supply of drugs. […]
