Three men have been charged with murder following the death of a man in Bournemouth
Dorset Police received a report at 3.16pm on Friday 14 January 2022 from the ambulance service that a man had been found unresponsive in an alleyway at the end of Shelbourne Road. Officers attended with the ambulance service and very sadly the man who has been named by detectives as 56-year-old Michael Bastable, known as […]
A man has been sentenced to four years in jail for his role in a smash and grab robbery on Regent Street in 2018
On Friday, 28 January, Wayne Russell, 23, of no fixed address, appeared at Southwark Crown Court and was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery. He was also sentenced to 16 months for possession of an offensive weapon, to run concurrently. On 5 June 2018, Russell and […]
A couple have been jailed after leaving their eight-week-old baby with more than 60 broken bones before she died
Benjamin O’Shea, 26, and Naomi Johnson, 24, claimed paramedics caused the fractures suffered by their daughter Amina-Faye – but they were found guilty of causing or allowing her to suffer physical harm. O’Shea has been sentenced to eight years and eight months in jail, while Johnson was handed a jail term of seven years […]
A 59-year-old man from Keynsham has been found guilty of rape following an investigation by Wiltshire Police
Malcolm Compton, of Carpenters Lane, Keynsham, appeared before Salisbury Crown Court yesterday (27/01) where the jury returned a unanimous verdict – after an hour and a half of deliberation. The court had earlier heard how Compton had initially met his victim on a dating website in September 2020 and they had been communicating online for […]
A man who bundled a woman into a van in Mountsorrel minutes before she was found seriously injured on the A6 has been convicted of kidnap
Chay Bowskill, 20, was found guilty yesterday (25 January) following a trial at Leicester Crown Court. Bowskill, of Empingham Drive, Syston, was also convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour and perverting the course of justice. He was found not guilty of a charge of section 18 grievous bodily harm. A second man, Rocco Sansome, […]
The National Crime Agency has obtained a forfeiture order for 15 gold bars worth £650,000 that are linked to an international money laundering network
NCA financial investigators took up the case after a Singaporean national was stopped at Heathrow Airport in March 2020, having arrived on a flight from Singapore. The woman was transiting through the airport to catch a plane to Chennai, India, and Border Force officers found she was carrying the bars in her hand luggage. She […]
A masked man who threatened two shop workers with a gun during a robbery has been jailed for five years
Shortly after midnight on 14 December, staff had just locked up at the Tesco petrol station in New Road, Durrington, and had set the alarm as per the daily routine. They made their way across the main car park to their vehicle and got in. At this point, they were approached by an unknown man […]
Police are appealing for information to trace Stephen Forsyth who is wanted for failing to attend court
The 61-year-old was charged with failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision and failing to provide a specimen for analysis following an incident in Boundary Road, Hove on July 29 last year. He was due to appear before Brighton Magistrates’ Court on September 2 last year, but did not attend […]
A man has been charged following a collision on the A1(M) on Friday morning
Hugh Raymond Holmes, of Spennymoor, has been charged with aggravated vehicle taking, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, causing serious injury whilst disqualified from driving, driving without insurance, and failing to provide a specimen of breath. The 32-year-old has been remanded in police custody and will appear at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court tomorrow. Emergency services […]
Witnesses said these four acted “like a pack of hyenas” as they hacked a man with shovels
Four offenders have been jailed after a man was hacked with shovels, leaving him with severe injuries. A witness described the attackers as “like a pack of hyenas to meat” during the incident in Sowerby near Thirsk. The victim’s van and car, which contained young children, were also smashed up and one of the group […]
