Tag Archives: Crime

November has seen some serious crimes heard in the courts, with the Joshua Hall verdict, the alleged rape of an elderly resident and fraudsters posing as police officers to target pensioners. There was also the conviction of a man for a horrific historic rape case, three decades after the crime …

Two men from Coventry have been jailed, along with a third man, for a total of 35 years for importing guns and ammunition into the UK by post before trying to sell them to organised criminals. The National Crime Agency launched an investigation after two semi-automatic pistols and hollow-point bullets …

A Midlands trio who plotted a ‘£100k-a-month’ mail order gun service smuggling US pistols and bullets into the UK have been jailed for a combined total of 35 years. Dashan Caines, aged 46 and of Sutton Coldfield, played a lesser role but was involved in an “efficient distribution network” which …

Three robbers stole a cash box from a Royal Mail van driver near Rugby. The gang raided the van while it was parked outside the Post Office in Main Street, Newbold on Avon, at around 12.45pm yesterday afternoon (November 25). The driver was not injured, but left “understandably shaken by …

A 53-year-old Chathamman has gone on trial after a suspicious package was sent to a Covid-19 vaccine plant in Wrexham. Anthony Collins was arrested following a raid on his home after the device was received at the Wrexham facilityin January. Bomb squad soldiers and police were called to the factory …

A man who allegedly sparked a bomb alert at a Covid vaccine plant sent similar suspicious packages to 10 Downing Street, a laboratory in Wuhan and the north Korean leader, a court heard today (November 15). Anthony Collins, 54, was said to have developed an ‘obsessive interest’ in the pandemic …

A man charged with murdering his neighbour in a series of stabbings near Tewkesbury faces trial next year. Can Arslan, 51, of Snowdonia Road in Walton Cardiff, Tewkesbury, is accused of murdering 43-year-old Matthew Boorman last month. Arslan was also charged with attempted murder, one count of causing grievous bodily …

Two cousins received almost £10,000 in the post from elderly and vulnerable people who had fallen victim to a “mean and nasty” fraud. Khaled Sarvari, 33, and Eymal Sarvari, 37, laundered the money while taking part in a “sophisticated and clever” operation to con a 91-year-old woman and another elderly …

On November 12, 1997, Ronnie Biggs, train robber, accidental folk hero and part-time Sex Pistol, was celebrating his “escape” from British justice after Brazil’s Supreme Court rejected a request for his extradition. The London-born villain had been convicted in 1963 of robbing a Royal Mail train – a crime which …

A former Royal Mail employee who stole 23 packages containing sportswear from the Gloucester depot of Parcel Force has been jailed. Alan Orzechowski, 27, of Clement Street, Gloucester,was taking high value clothing and selling it to order – he even sent out messages on his mobile phone advertising what he …