Tag Archives: Crime

Christmas cards and letters have been found strewn and soaking on the ground – sparking fears a postbox was raided. The mail – addressed to locations including Faversham, Whitstable and Bury St Edmunds – was found littering streets through Faversham town centre by shocked passers-by. A hand-written letter was among …

Murderer and morgue monster David Fuller’s third wife is divorcing him and has sold the house they owned together, it has been reported. Fuller, 67, was sentenced last week for the murders of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells in 1987. He was …

A warning is being issued to last-minute Christmas shoppers that there is a rise in scam delivery text messages. With online shopping increasing this year, there are expected to be huge numbers of parcels delivered to households across the UK in the coming days. In the final three months of …

If you’ve ever received a bizarre text message claiming you have a parcel “waiting for delivery”, it’s likely to be a fraudster waiting in the shadows to scam you. More than a million scam texts are expected to be sent out across the country this week, and more than half …

The spate of doorstep thefts has shocked residents of the idyllic riverside village of Waldringfield, where there were just four burglaries reported last year. The theft of the drawings came after a 5ft model reindeer Lesley York had ordered for Christmas for £50 was taken from his doorstep on being …

Police are hunting for a man after an attempted burglary in south Bristol. Officers have issued an image of a man wearing an orange high-vis tabard with what appears to be a Royal Mail logo, who was seen in St Annes around the time of the crime. Royal Mail told …

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 …