An Edinburgh pensioner has been left shaken after her purse and watch were allegedly pinched by a woman she invited into her home on her birthday. The 80-year-old resident, who lives on Restalrig Road South, noticed the woman sitting on the stairs outside her flat wrapped in blankets on Sunday …
Read More »Dementia-hit OAP loses £47k to greedy nephew in nasty fraud
Greedy fraudster Richard Frost helped himself to nearly £50,000 from his elderly aunt’s savings. The 43-year-old had control of her bank accounts and began ‘borrowing’ money from them during covid. But he became addicted to withdrawing the cash. Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard he also sold her car and kept the …
Read More »Speeding East Lothian driver hit parked car so hard it got embedded in cottage
A dangerous driver has been told he was lucky not to have killed someone when he smashed his motor into a parked vehicle with such force that the car was shunted into the front of a house. Graham Burton was speeding along a country road before losing control of his …
Read More »Royal Mail investigating after postboxes in Dartford repainted as chocolate wrappers
Postboxes have been vandalised again just six months after they were spray-painted to look like Mr Blobby and a Cadbury’s Creme Egg. The pillar boxes in Temple Hill, Dartford, have been given a fresh lick of paint — but it’s not the traditional Royal Mail red you might expect. A …
Read More »Nursing student found with more than 100 sexual images of children
A nursing student downloaded sexual images of children as young as four, a court has heard. Niamh O’Brian, 20, of Heol Cynwyd, Llangynwyd, Maesteg, was found by police to have possessed and distributed indecent images, both still and moving, of children. Police visited O’Brian at her home and at the …
Read More »Glasgow Lidl worker guilty in scam that duped OAP out of £316k in gold bullions
A Glasgow supermarket worker has been convicted of his involvement in a £316,000 gold bullion scam. Michael Sajid was sent a package after an 84 year-old woman was allegedly duped into posting it. But, the 38-year-old told police he had nothing to do with any gold – and that he …
Read More »Spar and Post Office ram raiders escape with cash and vapes
A Devon Spar and Post Office has been targeted in a late-night ram raid. A quantity of money and vapes were taken during the break in. Police were called around 3.45am to the Spar and Post Office in Bampton. A door had been forced open and an amount of money …
Read More »Man suffered fatal stab wounds after incident involving nephew
An inquest has been opened into the tragic death of a man in Devon who suffered fatal stab wounds following an incident involving his nephew. During a short public hearing, held by senior coroner Philip Spinney at Devon Coroner’s Court in Exeter on August 12, it was explained how Jonathan …
Read More »Dad of Southport stabbing victim pays tribute to girl, 7, ‘loved by everyone’
Exclusive: Postie David Stancombe remembered Elsie Dot as the “most polite young girl you could ever meet” who “lit up every room she entered” in a touching tribute with the Royal Mail Elsie Dot Stancombe’s family has remembered the youngster with a touching tribute ( Image: PA) The devastated dad …
Read More »Woman ‘shot in the face with BB gun’ at busy Epping roundabout in broad daylight
Officers from Essex Police are investigating a group of ‘suspicious’ boys after a woman was allegedly struck in the face by a BB gun pellet. The force received a report of a group of people acting suspiciously at the Four Wantz roundabout in Epping shortly after 5.30pm on Sunday (August …
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