A London man was sentenced for creating hundreds of fraudulent insurance policies on behalf of others by using false information and compromised bank accounts
Rodney Bruce Van der Puye, 34, of Cator Street, Southwark, made around £50,000 by acting as an illegal intermediary, also known as a ‘ghost broker,’ in just over 15 months. Van der Puye targeted some of the UK’s largest insurance companies, using his, his mother’s, and the identities of unknowing members of the public […]
A knife-wielding robber who threatened to stab an elderly woman during a Gravesend shop robbery and a burglar who targeted a Gillingham home while the occupants were in bed are just two of the people sentenced in June as a result of the Chief Constable’s Crime Squad’s work
During June, the team of uniformed officers and detectives who primarily investigate burglary and robbery crimes received prison sentences totaling 12 years and nine months. One of them was a serial offender. Michael Williams went to a house near Watling Street in Gillingham and broke in while the residents were sleeping. Before fleeing the scene, […]
Liam Porter, 40, is a serving police officer, and the alleged crime took place while he was on duty
A police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman while on duty. Liam Porter, 40, is a serving officer with Hampshire Constabulary. PC Porter is accused of carrying out the attack in Clanfield village on January 18, according to the report. The officer has been suspended from duty and is scheduled to appear […]
Three people have been charged with conspiring to bring prohibited items into the Winchester Prison
They are as follows: Christopher Harman, 36, of Pentons Close, Holybourne, was arrested. Liam Currell, 31, of no fixed address Stephanie Burt, 30, of Stanley Green Road, Poole, Dorset, was arrested. All three have been charged with conspiracy to bring a list A item, namely steroids, into prison and conspiracy to bring a list […]
A Canton man has been convicted of possessing over 25,000 Nitrous Oxide cannisters
Robert Arthur James Russ, 42, was arrested on Saturday, July 2, following the execution of a warrant at his home address.Officers discovered 700 cannisters in his home and car, but Russ also had access to a storage unit on Newport Road, where officers discovered 42 boxes containing 25,200 cannisters.Russ acknowledged ownership and told officers he […]
A Staffordshire manager who posted images of himself sexually assaulting a child online has been sentenced to eight years in prison
A Staffordshire manager who posted images of himself sexually assaulting a child online was sentenced to eight years in prison.Investigators also linked some of Ian Worthington’s images to a device belonging to an Australian sex offender who was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2015.Worthington was arrested in November 2020 after National Crime Agency […]
A sex offender who had been wanted by police for almost two years was apprehended after being discovered living on a boat on the Isle of Wight
Since October 2020, James Ernest Williams, also known as Alan John Appleton, has been one of Devon & Cornwall Police’s most wanted criminals, with an appeal issued to find the now 55-year-old for violating the terms of his release from prison. He did not appear in Newton Abbott Magistrates Court on December 9th, 2020. Last […]
Tracey Connelly was sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison in 2009 for torturing and allowing the death of her 17-month-old son Peter
Baby P received 60 visits from social workers, police, and health professionals over an eight-month period, causing outrage. Connelly was granted parole in 2013, but was returned to prison just two years later for violating her parole terms. Dominic Raab, Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, stated, “Tracey Connelly’s cruelty was pure evil, which […]
A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison after being found guilty of raping a woman on New Year’s Day
Mohammed Elmi Mahamed approached his victim, a 19-year-old woman who cannot be named for legal reasons, in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2022, at a taxi rank in Barnsley town centre.The victim had gone out to celebrate the New Year with friends but had lost contact with them earlier in the evening.“Our victim […]
A 24-year-old woman has been sentenced as the 19th person in connection with the March 2021 riot in Bristol
Charly Pitman, of Brislington, Bristol, was found guilty of rioting in April after a trial at Bristol Crown Court. She was sentenced to three years in prison today (7 July) in the same court. During Pitman’s trial, jurors heard how she challenged police officers as they attempted to separate them from the neighbourhood police […]
A woman as been sentenced to 16 years in prison for murder in the death of Darren Russell in Erskine, Renfrewshire
Stephanie Bowie, 29, was found guilty of murder, possession of a bladed article, and attempting to defeat the ends of justice on Thursday, June 9, 2022, at the High Court in Glasgow. She was sentenced today in Stirling High Court (Thursday, 7 July, 2022). Darren Russell, 21, died on the doorstep of his family home […]
A knife-wielding man in Folkestone was sentenced to two years in prison after lunging at a police dog with a zombie knife
Reece Armstrong, 26, of no fixed address, was involved in a fight with another man in Endrook Valley on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 23, 2022. At around 4.20 p.m., an officer arrived in the area with PD Blue and approached Armstrong. Armstrong spoke to the officer briefly before standing up and pulling a large […]