Tag Archives: Crime

Police confirmed that a replica assault rifle found after a car chase and armed police response was actually a water gun. Three teenagers after armed officers and a police helicopter were deployed to Plympton, in Plymouth, following reports of a ‘gun’ being brandished from a car window travelling from Newton …

Martin Lewis’ Money Saving Expert has issued a warning about an impending stamp price increase on October 7. The team at MSE, led by the BBC and ITV star, have detailed how the cost of first-class stamps is set to surge by a whopping 22 per cent from next month. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …