A serving police constable has been sentenced for causing death by careless driving following an incident in which a pedestrian died
PC Daniel Francis, 33, attached to the West Area Command Unit, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, 7 December. He was sentenced on Friday, 4 February at the Old Bailey to 12 months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years. He was also ordered to complete 240 hours of unpaid work, 20 days rehabilitation activity, […]
Seven men have been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation uncovered plots to sell a terrifying haul of automatic and semi-automatic firearms and to target a man in a revenge shooting
The men all pleaded guilty to charges which arose from Operation Venetic – the UK law enforcement response to the takedown of encrypted communications platform EncroChat. On 3 April 2020 Brandon Moore, 24, and Jordan Waring, 24, survived a shooting in Kersal, Salford. The men immediately began plotting with accomplice Umair Zaheer, 34, to hatch […]
A man who went on the run for 5 years has been jailed in connection with a £2million drugs haul discovered by police on the Isle of Wight
Henry Thomas Henderson, aged 56 years, of The Rogers in Shanklin, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday 4 February having previously admitted the following:
Eight people are now facing murder and manslaughter charges after a man was repeatedly stabbed in Tunbridge Wells
Xhovan Pepaj, aged 25, was fatally injured in Caley Road, at around 3.15am on 4 December 2021. He had sustained multiple injuries. Since then, an investigation by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate has led to the arrests of 12 people. The following eight suspects appeared before Maidstone Crown Court on Friday 4 […]
A businessman has admitted defrauding a vulnerable disabled woman after forging her signature on a lease agreement linked to his karate club
Martyn Styler, aged 38, put the woman at significant financial risk by forging her signature on an agreement for IESKA Sports Club in Gosport, for which he was the director and owner at the time. This forgery resulted in the victim, who is deaf, being put at risk of losing £24,000 relating to the […]
CCTV Captures Moment Drunk Drives Onto Railway Line
A woman who drove her Ford Fiesta onto the railway line while drunk has been sentenced, following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation. Tayler Barnham, 29, of Guinevere Terrace, Rochester, appeared at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on 11th January where she pleaded guilty to one count of driving without due care and attention and one count […]
A man who attacked and killed a woman following a chance meeting in Redbridge has been jailed
Valentin Lazar, 21 of Hockley Avenue, E6 appeared at the Old Bailey on Thursday, 3 February where he was sentenced to life imprisonment to serve a minimum of 23-and-a-half years. Due to his guilty plea the sentence was reduced from 28 years. Lazar, who will also remain on license for the remainder of his life, […]
A woman who slit the throat of a seven-year-old girl as she played in a park has lost an appeal against her sentence.
Emily Jones was killed in Queen’s Park, Bolton, on 22 March 2020. Eltiona Skana, 31, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to serve a minimum of 10 years and eight months. She challenged both the sentence and the minimum term but Court of Appeal judges rejected her appeal. Skana admitted […]
Thieving medical staff and a serial burglar were among those locked up for a combined total of more than 22 years in the first month of the year, thanks to the work of a single Kent Police team
The Chief Constable’s Crime Squad, which is based across the county, also made 27 arrests in January 2022, and received authority to issue 37 charges. Among those jailed were health care workers who stole medication from terminally ill patients. The two women, who were each sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for […]
Amber Sellens has been given an unpaid working order after stealing over £3000 from employer
Amber Sellens, aged 23, of New Road, Aylesford, was sentenced on 10 January 2022 at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court. She pleaded guilty to:• theft by employee, amounting to £1000, on 26 February 2021• theft by employee, amounting to £1079, on 1 March 2021• theft by employee, amounting to £681, on 2 March 2021• theft by employee, […]
