Tag Archives: Crime

For many people, one experience in a dock at court is enough to haunt them for a lifetime. For others, Liverpool Crown Court has become something of a second home to them with the amount of times they have appeared before a judge. Over the last year Liverpool’s courts have …

Courier companies including Royal Mail, Evri (formerly Hermes), DHL, Amazon and DPD have issued advice on how to spot and protect yourself from delivery scam texts. It comes after a rise in ‘smishing’ incidents as scammers take advantage or more and more people turning to online shopping. Tech-savvy offenders are …

The rise in online shopping has given scammers opportunities to try and swindle valuable details from you by sending texts pretending to be from well-known delivery companies. Known as ‘smishing’, the con aims to get you to click on dodgy website links and to give away your personal information. They …

A Royal Mail delivery driver has been suspended after getting into a fight with a customer in the street following a row over a parcel. Mark Walker said he threw two punches in “self-defence” after coming under attack from an angry customer. The 38-year-old agency worker has now been suspended …

Masked men stole parcels from a Royal Mail depot in Liverpool the week before Christmas. Merseyside police said two men, who were wearing black clothing with their faces covered, entered the loading bay area of the depot, on Harrington Road at around 8.20am on Friday, December 16. They targeted a …

Nearly every set of Christmas lights bought for safety tests on online marketplaces should not have been on sale in the UK, a shocking new report has found. Consumer champion Which? has called for online marketplaces to be made legally responsible for dangerous and illegal products sold through their sites …

A brazen burglar stole a huge haul of mail after sneaking into a postal depot in the dead of night, a court has heard. Richard Cook was seen pushing large trollies full of parcels away from the building, none of which have ever been recovered. The 36-year-old has more than …

A ‘missed delivery’ scam email purporting to be from Royal Mail has been reported to police more than 400 times. Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for Cyber Crime, has issued an alert about the fake emails. It says: “The emails claim that the recipient missed a delivery and …

A Northumberland daughter who took out fraudulent mobile phone contracts in the names of her family members has dodged jail. Laura Rowell was living with her mother, father and sister when she took out the contracts without their knowledge in March 2020 in order to sell the “high end” Samsung …

Dramatic images show the torching of a smugglers’ boat carrying cocaine with a street value of around £24 million following a tense chase with a naval warship in the Caribbean. More than 400kg of drugs were seized from the vessel, which is believed to have come from South America, and …