Brighton man found in woman’s wardrobe jailed for breaching restraining order
A Brighton man who breached a restraining order against a woman multiple times, including being found hiding in her wardrobe, has been jailed. Leon Chart, 42, of no fixed address, was ordered not to contact or enter the home of his victim after being convicted of actual bodily harm and criminal damage in 2020. But […]
A drug dealer who cycled round Cambridge carrying a loaded gun and a knife has been jailed
Liam O’Shaughnessy caught the eye of a police officer on 29 December last year (2021) when he was spotted urinating in Gresham Road. The officer went to speak to him and after smelling, cannabis made the decision to detain him so he could be searched. While waiting for his police colleagues to arrive, O’Shaughnessy […]
Police officers attended Appletree Way, Wickford, following information that a drugs line was operating from a property there
When they arrived on the morning of 14 September 2021, they detained Darren Lewis at the doorway. Upon entering the property, they arrested Christian Bayoko. Beside him was a hammer and he was surrounded by 20 wraps of heroin and 66 wraps of crack cocaine. During the search, officers seized drugs paraphernalia, two mobile […]
Two men have been jailed after threatening a father and son with knives in Newcastle-under-Lyme last year
Two men have been jailed after threatening a father and son with knives in Newcastle-under-Lyme last year. Yusuf Kose, aged 18, of Meadow Lane, Newcastle, was sentenced to 18-months at a young offenders institution at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on Monday (21 March) after admitting to threatening a person with a blade in a public place, […]
A drug dealer found in the home of a vulnerable man has been jailed for more than three years
Police received information that a man was being exploited by a drug dealer in his home in Abbots Way, Ely in January. Officers visited the property and found 24-year-old Jorge Correia attempting to flush £1,000 of crack cocaine and heroin down the toilet while also trying to evade police by climbing out of the […]
A man who violently raped and assaulted a vulnerable woman in her own home has been jailed
AtMinshull Street Crown Court, Brian Brough of no fixed abode has been jailed for 22 years after being found guilty of vaginal rape, oral rape, attempted anal rape, burglary with violence and section 18 assault. The court heard how at around 9pm on 19 March 2021, Brough attended an address in the Little Hulton […]
The stepfather of a five-year-old boy told police he carried his dead body to the banks of a river, but does not know how he died, a court has heard
Logan Mwangi’s body was found in the River Ogmore, in Sarn, Bridgend, last July, with 56 internal injuries. John Cole, 40, told police after his arrest he had been woken by Angharad Williamson, 31, screaming that Logan was dead, Cardiff Crown Court heard. Mr Cole, Ms Williamson and a 14-year-old each deny Logan’s murder. […]
A man has been convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh following the murder of 54-year-old Margaret Robertson in Aberdeen
Norman Duncan was convicted of murdering Margaret Robertson at her home onon 25 September, 2019. On Wednesday he has sentenced life imprisonment, with a minimum of 20 years. Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Inspector Gary Winter said: “Margaret suffered a horrendous and sustained attack in her own flat – a place where she should have […]
A DJ and owner of a London nightclub has surrendered music kit bought for more than £214,000 in a NCA civil recovery case that linked the equipment to suspected cyber-enabled frauds.
Officers seized the equipment in 2019 when they executed a search warrant at Fold nightclub in Canning Town – run by Lasha Zhorzholiani – as part of an international investigation into the so-called QQAAZZ organised crime group. The QQAAZZ group provided bespoke money laundering services to many of the world’s most prolific cyber crime […]
A man has been jailed for six and a half years after raping a woman he met in Hackney
Kenneth Ajilore, 28 of Prince George Road, N16, was sentenced at a Nightingale Court based at Hendon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 24 March. He was found guilty following a trial at the same court on 14 March. Detectives began an investigation after they were called by a woman, aged in her 20s, who’d been […]
