A MAN has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for distraction burglaries where he preyed on residents in Harlow and Saffron Walden. HH Judge Halworth, in passing sentence, said that there was nothing more abhorrent than this type of burglary where you have elderly and…

POLICE are looking to identify a man in connection with a theft of a mobile phone in Harlow. The theft happened on May 25 shortly after 1pm in Joe Jennings Bookmakers on Terminus Street. The suspect removed a BlackBerry Curve from the table whilst the…

ESSEX Police executed five search warrants in Harlow after a series of raids in connection with a six-month operation into suspected paedophiles. Essex Police, were part of a group of more than 45 forces, involved with the investigation coordinated by the National Crime Agency (NCA).…

DETECTIVES investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman in Harlow have arrested two people. Nicola Miles was found seriously ill inside a residential property on Brockles Mead shortly before 11pm on Monday, June 30. The 47-year-old local woman died a few days later…

A WOMAN is due to appear in court today (Monday) after she was charged with burgling a woman’s home in Harlow. The break-in happened when a woman and a boy entered a flat near Broadfield shortly after 3pm on Friday, June 27 claiming to be…

A WOMAN was taken to hospital after an alleged attack in Puffers Green in Harlow. Essex Police were called at just after 1.30pm on Monday June 23rd to the Puffers Green area near to the Clock Tower on Second Avenue. On arrival they found a…

POLICE are appealing for information after a man was assaulted on a night out in Harlow leaving him with a broken jaw. The man, a member of bar staff, in his 20s, from Braintree, was near the dance floor in Bar 21, Harlow at 2am…

A HARLOW woman faces jail after she set alight her council flat a fortnight after moving in because she ‘did not like the neighbours’. Leesa Wenman, 32, has been found guilty of arson after she started two fires in the bedroom of her home in…

POLICE are looking to identify a man they want to speak to in connection with a theft from a shop in Harlow. The theft happened on May 13 at 5:10pm at Holland and Barrett in the town. Thieves left the store with over £100 worth…

POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a racist attack in Harlow. An Asian taxi driver was verbally abused by a man outside Tasty Grill at the bus station at 4:30pm on Thursday, June 5. A 47-year-old local man was arrested at the scene on suspicion…

ESSEX Police has put a number of policing operations in place in order to minimise an expected rise in domestic incidents during the World Cup. According to research published in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (2013) police forces across the UK could…

DETECTIVES have warned elderly people to be on their guard after a thief posing as a police officer tricked his way into a woman’s home in Harlow. The incident happened at Hare Street Springs, at about 5.15pm on Thursday June 5. The trickster stole a…

POLICE officers in Harlow have issued CCTV images of a heartless thief who stole more than £1000 worth of oil from the St Clare Hospice site in Hastingwood Road last month. Between May 14-15, the man removed the fuel which is used to provide the…

POLICE officers in Harlow have issued an Efit of a man they want to identify, who is believed to be responsible for several indecent exposure incidents in Harlow. A man has exposed himself of three occasions to a 16 year old schoolgirl in the Felmongers…