Tag Archives: Crime

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 …

Dubbed the UK’s ‘loneliest dog’, Lurcher Albie has finally found a home after spending almost 5 years in an RSPCA animal shelter. Albie was rescued just before Christmas in 2017 and remained in the charity’s care while the case progressed. Unfortunately, once Albie was available for rehoming, the world was …

Police have confirmed, despite local rumours, criminal damage to a historic fountain at a Devon beauty spot did not involve Royal Navy cadets. Local residents were left “devastated” by the vandalism at the ornamental fountain. Dartmouth Police were called to reports of criminal damage to a fountain on Friday August …

A postal worker stole parcels worth tens of thousands of pounds to sell on his eBay account after falling into debt. Saul Myerscough stole from a Royal Mail depot over a “four or five year period” during which he hid his illicit actions from his friends and family. The Leyland …