Friday 21 September 2012
Cannabis Worth £47K In Family Hols Suitcases
Thursday 20 September 2012
Priest Wanted By Police For Sex Crimes
Wednesday 19 September 2012
Star Banned For Riding Moped Uninsured
Tuesday 18 September 2012
Bookie Bandit: Do You Know Him?
Police are hunting this wannabe armed robber, who threatened to shoot the cashier of a West London bookies.
The Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad have released this CCTV still in the hope the suspect will be identified and brought to justice.
He walked into William Hill Bookmakers, Golborne Road, North Kensington at 7.20pm on Saturday August 4.
The suspect threatened to shoot the cashier, intimating he was in possession of a gun.
When the cashier refused to hand over money, the suspect made off empty handed.
He is described as between 55 and 65 and around six feet tall.
He was wearing a light brown or beige zip up fleece/cardigan jacket.
Anyone with information that may assist police should call 020 8247 7948.
To remain anonymous call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Monday 17 September 2012
Solicitor Jailed For £1.3M Mortgage Fraud
Sunday 16 September 2012
CCTV Captures Credit Card Conman
Police are hunting this audacious credit card fraudster, who tricked a high-end Knightsbridge jewellery store into selling him two luxury-brand watches, worth over £10,000 each.
Hackney Police in East London believe the suspect has links to their area and have released this CCTV footage in the hope somebody will identify him.
He fraudulently used the card on August 15, last year to obtain the watches at Pacha Jewellers.
The suspect went on to use the card in a number of smaller value transactions before the card was blocked.
Anyone with any information is requested to contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Saturday 15 September 2012
Disowned Son Cleared Of Vandalising Father's Bentley And Lincoln
A teenager, accused by his father of deliberately vandalising his two prestige vehicles parked outside the family's suburban home, was cleared of the charges yesterday.
Sir Ricky Daniel Hearne, 19, of Gilliam Grove, Purley was reported to police by his father David, 64, who claims he caught his estranged son on home CCTV causing over £3,000 worth of damage to the cars.
After a trial at Croydon Magistrates' Court Hearne jr. was cleared of causing £1,920 worth of criminal damage to a Bentely turbo and £1,259 to a silver Lincoln (pictured being driven away by Hearne snr.).
Hearne snr., who has recently changed his name, told the court he has been a victim of a campaign of vandalism by the defendant, who he calls 'Ricky', even accusing him of blowing a vehicle up at Christmas.
The father-of-nine, who now questions whether the defendant is his biological son, installed CCTV outside his home after a series of attacks on his property.
After returning home from a trip to Israel on June 4 and finding the two cars damaged he viewed the recorded footage.
“I see Ricky come in and throw something at the windscreen and kick the wing mirror off and kick the side of the Bentley,” Hearne told the magistrates.
“The whole side of the car was kicked in, in two or three places and the petrol cap and back of the car had been kicked in.
“It was Ricky. I am one hundred per cent. I have now more than disowned him, I despise him.
“When someone puts a petrol bomb in your car on Christmas morning, you would.
“I have had seven (cars) done by him in the last twelve months.
“I have video evidence of him doing it. It is not fantasy or make believe. I just don't understand why he is doing it.
“The windscreen of the Lincoln was smashed in and the wing mirror had been kicked off.”
Since the allegation Hearne jnr. has lived at another address.
Friday 14 September 2012
Iphone App Tracks Down Knife-Wielding Masked Mugger
Thursday 13 September 2012
Armed robbers Caged For Violent Shop Raids
Wednesday 12 September 2012
Ugandan Family Accused Of 18-Year Immigration And Benefits Plot
Tuesday 11 September 2012
Teen Jailed For Horror Metal Comb Killing
A teenage girl has been caged for a minimum of ten years for the horrific hate-filled murder of another youngster she stabbed in the head with a metal comb.
Sunday 9 September 2012
'Menace Of Mayfair' Jewellery Conman Back Behind Bars
A notorious smooth-talking jeweller – jailed for stealing customers valuables – is back behind bars for flouting a court order within a week of his release.
Andrew Batchelor, 54, (pictured) – dubbed the 'Menace of Mayfair' - was originally jailed for five years in 2009 for duping nearly fifty victims during a five-year scam.
He was given a Serious Crime Prevention Order – prohibiting further jewellery dealing – but set up a trading website within a week of leaving prison.
He was convicted at Southwark Crown Court on three counts of breaching the order and was sentenced to two-and-a-half years imprisonment.
One count involved a businesswoman, who he entertained at the five-star Royal Garden Hotel, disappearing with her Cartier bracelet during lunch.
Batchelor has a history of charming customers at top hotels and wine bars, convincing them he could achieve top prices for their jewellery, but he never paid, insteading lavishing himself with the proceeds.
Batchelor also earned the nickname the 'Glasgow Goldfinger' during a similar fraud from his store in the city's Exchange Square, which resulted in a five-and-a-half year sentence in 1999.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service Lifetime Offender Management Unit arrested Batchelor on March 28 for dealing again and he was charged the same day.
Detective Inspector Karl Amos of the MPS Lifetime Offender Management Unit said: “Batchelor clearly pays little regard to the criminal justice system.
“No sooner had he been released from prison than he was again setting up a false business in breach of the Serious Crime Prevention Order.
“The early enforcement of the Serious Crime Prevention Order allowed the police to make an early and decisive intervention, limiting his ability to commit further crime and preventing further members of the public from losing their belongings.”
Saturday 8 September 2012
Fatal Streatham Stabbing: Two Charged
Two people have appeared in court accused of the murder of a man, whose throat was slashed in South London.
Hanad Osman, 24, (pictured) was fatally injured in Gleneldon Mews, Streatham on August 21.
Ayanle Adan, 26, and Ahmed Hassan, 25, appeared in custody at Camberwell Magistrates' Court charged with murder.
A post-mortem examination at Greenwich Mortuary on August 22 gave the cause of death as a laceration to the neck.
Three other men, one aged 35 and two in their 20's, were also arrested in connection with the investigation and have been bailed to return, pending further enquiries, on dates in October.
Friday 7 September 2012
Self-Styled 'Doctor' Convicted Of Raping 11 Year-Old Schoolgirl
A trusted businessman, who raped an eleven year-old schoolgirl at his office after grooming her with pornographic internet images, faces a lengthy prison sentence after his conviction today.
Kamil Hossenbux, 62, (pictured) of Ferns Close, South Croydon had made online searches for sick under-age material throughout the day, before collecting the victim from school, Croydon Crown Court heard.
He was found guilty to raping; sexual assaulting and inciting the girl to engage in sexual activity on September 22, 2010 at his property in Elmwood Road, West Croydon.
Hossenbux was remanded in custody for the preparation of a report into his dangerousness - which may result in a minimum sentence for public protection to be decided by the trial judge.
Self-styled 'Dr' Hossenbux previously ran a language college from the building, but has since changed its use to a private care home for residents with learning disabilities and dementia.
He also has an online dating profile in which he seeks contact with women as young as eighteen years-old.
Prosecutor Miss Karen Holt told the jury the defendant knew the girl's family. "They saw him as an older, learned, intelligent man, who helped the family fill-out documentation and forms.
"He was a trusted friend and began to call on the family home regularly and the Crown say this allowed him to gain access to the victim.
"When alone with her in his car there was an element of grooming and he made suggestive comments to her that she was a big girl now and should start to learn about sex.
"He would hold her hand and touched her leg on one occasion and said it was time she learned about it.
"He would pick her up from school under the guise of helping the family out, but on this day he took her to a building he described as his office.
"To use her words they: 'snogged' and he took her clothes off," explained Miss Holt. "She had to sit on a table and he told her to open her legs wide."
The prosecution say Hossenbux then performed a sex act on the girl and forced her to perform one on him.
"The defendant then lied down on the floor and told her to lie on top of him," added the prosecutor, saying this is when the rape occurred.
"The Crown say the defendant sought to prepare this young child by also showing her pornography on his computer.
"After wards he told her she had: 'done good', drove her home and gave her five pounds. He told her not to tell her mother."
However, the girl told another relative and gave a statement to police on October 2, 2010, the day Hossenbux was arrested.
When quizzed by officers the defendant claimed he drove the girl to his office only so that she could use the internet because she did not have it at home.
"He told the police he became aware that she was looking at pornography and said she was playing with herself," said Miss Holt.
"He said she talked about the world coming to an end and that she had to do everything, which he took to mean sex.
"He maintained throughout that he had never done anything that she alleged."
Hossenbux's laptop was examined and the defendant questioned again on November 12.
"He said the only sites he visited were naturist sites as a possible business venture," explained miss Holt. "However, the computer's search history was consistent with searching for sexual images of children."
The jury were told on the day of the rape the defendant had been viewing such material since ten in the morning.
Thursday 6 September 2012
Thieves Admit ASDA Cash-Back Scam
A greedy group of thieves, who exploited ASDA's new self-service system to repeatedly steal cash back from the automated machines, have admitted their "nice little earner," and await sentencing.
Ringleader Mark Baldock, 34, of Sydney Road, Sutton (pic.top r.) pleaded guilty to stealing £318; Tyron Parsons, 22, of Washington Road, Worcester Park (pic.top l.) admitted stealing £1,200; Keeley Macaree, 22, of Senga Road, Wallington (pic.bottom r.) admitted stealing £2,350 and Claire Collins, 28, of Kingston Avenue, Sutton admitted stealing £866.
Keeley's twin sister Geraldine Macaree, 22, (pic.bottom l.) pleaded not guilty to stealing £7,500 and the prosecution offered no evidence.
The thefts from ASDA took place between December 27 and January 3, this year.
Baldock opened the card account on November 22 and it was not used for anything else, but the scam, which involved the defendants pocketing cash-back money given to customers.
The Recorder of Croydon Warwick McKinnon said: "We are dealing here with a nice little criminal venture with repeated attempts to exploit this quirk in the system.
"This, on the face of it is organised crime.
"This is slightly easier than shoplifting. You get the money and leave and no one is going to stop you.
"Baldock was the driving force behind this nice little earner. He is the number one whose brainchild this is."
Couple Baldock and Collins are serial shoplifters and she has thirty-six previous convictions, mostly for theft.
Parsons has forty-eight convictions and Keeley a record for alcohol-related offending.