Fraudsters jailed after £60,000 stolen from victims across north and west Kent
Fraudsters who stole £60,000 during a conspiracy which saw 47 elderly victims targeted have been jailed for a combined total of over eight years. All but one of the victims singled out by Aaron Leacock, Warren Roache or Sean Lee was aged 70 or over, with the bulk of the offending committed […]
He appeared at Swindon Magistrates Court and was given a 12 month and two week prison sentence
Martin Morgan, 36, of Whitworth Road, was initially arrested on March 7 for a series of thefts from various shops in the town including the Co-Op in Old Town, Co-op in Cheney Manor Road, Marks & Spencer and Boots in the Brunel Plaza. He was arrested on suspicion of eight counts of theft totaling more […]
A delivery driver was asked to take a woman to hospital after she came out of a house screaming that she’d been stabbed
He was just about to leave after delivering food to a property in Tudor Close, Newark, when the victim came running towards his vehicle in her underwear, got in and screamed ‘please just go.’ She asked him to take her to the hospital and called another person asking them to call the police. A […]
A woman who pushed a bin into a burning police car during the riot in Bristol last March has been jailed for nine months
Jasmine York was found guilty of arson by a jury at Bristol Crown Court following a trial last month. The 26-year-old was captured on camera pushing a large wheelie bin into a police car which was engulfed in flames. She was also heard saying “we will burn your ******* cars”. York, of […]
A Manchester man has been jailed for 12 years after using the encrypted phone network EncroChat to import cocaine worth £1.6m
Ibraheem Abdullah, 38, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers on 17 April 2020 when the 20 kilos of high purity cocaine – hidden in boxes of mobile phone accessories – was seized at a joiners yard in the Middleton area. Abdullah (also known as Dwaine George) attempted to escape when he spotted NCA and […]
A man who sent terrorist propaganda to others over an instant messaging app has been jailed, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command
Ali Abdisalam Sheikh Abdillahi, 31 and from north London, shared the extremist material on a channel he created on the app in July 2020. This material included recordings of an Islamist extremist preacher who advocates armed jihad, and two Daesh propaganda videos showing executions and graphic violence. Upon being arrested, his devices were recovered and […]
A man from Norfolk has been sentenced for deliberately causing extensive damage to his car in an attempt to fraudulently claim on his insurance
Shamim Ali, 53, of Ipswich Road, Norwich, claimed that his car had been vandalised whilst he was at a party. Discrepancies between the engineer’s report and Ali’s account raised alarm bells for his insurer, Zurich, who referred the case to the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) for investigation. Ali pleaded guilty […]
A man has been jailed for assaulting a woman with a weapon at a property in Brighton
A concerned neighbour called the police and went to help an injured woman in distress in Baden Road, Brighton, shortly after 7.30am on September 26 last year. Officers from Sussex Police’s Tactical Firearms Unit (TFU) and divisional officers from Brighton and Hove responded rapidly and arrested 56-year-old David Keville, AKA David Alexander, at the […]
Police have charged with driving offences in Milton Keynes
Ryan Page, aged 23, of Westbury Lane, Newport Pagnell, has been charged with dangerous driving and failing to stop for a police officer. The charges relate to an incident on Saturday 5 March where officers were alerted to a group of motorists gathered and driving anti-socially in […]
Two men have been charged and will appear in court in connection with an alleged incident at Stansted airport
Lee Carey, 55 of Brentwood Road, Romford and 31-year-old Jak Bruce of Watchgate, Darftord have been charged with causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress (an offence under Section 4A of the Public Order Act). The pair have been released on bail ahead of their appearance at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday […]
