Crime
ESSEX Police have started the new decade by giving 14 new Special Constables their warrant cards tonight, Monday 6 January. They held our first attestation ceremony of 2020 at Essex Police headquarters with our volunteers watched on by friends and family. Greeting them were Assistant…
ESSEX Firefighters were called to a van fire on the fifth level of a multi-storey car park in Harlow. On arrival on Terminus Street, crews reported that a van was on fire and the fire had spread to two vans parked either side of it.…
A HARLOW mother has expressed her anger after her daughter’s car was found tipped on its side in a street in Sumners on Thursday night (January 2nd). Paris Witham’s pink smart car was parked in Little Cattins in Sumners in Thursday night but when she…
ESSEX Police is appealing for anyone who saw or has dash cam footage of a collision on the M11 between Harlow and Epping. A black Range Rover and a silver Ford Galaxy were in collision on the London-bound carriageway between junctions seven and six at…
Do you know where Connor Nye is? ESSEX Police want to speak to the 24-year-old, who is from Braintree, in connection with a stabbing in the town this morning, Friday 3 January. Officers responded shortly after 12.50am following reports that a man in his 20s…
A MAN has been fined for being drunk and disorderly in the front counter of Harlow police station. Sergei Romanov, aged 49, of No Fixed Abode, pleaded guilty to the following. On 14/12/2019 at Harlow in a public place, namely the front office of Harlow…
PFCC helps to promote domestic abuse awareness training THE Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex is investing in training to help the community to spot the signs of domestic abuse taking place around them. Free training is being offered across the county to ensure…
ESSEX Police are reminding companies in Essex to ensure staff are careful while checking their emails following a ransomware attack. They received a report from a company in Hatfield Peverel on Saturday 11 December that they had been targeted in an attack, which restricted the…
A HARLOW MAN is set to stand trial over a serious assault on a woman. Tex Baker, aged 34, of Kingsland,, Harlow has been charged with the following. On 24th March 2014 at Harlow assaulted a woman thereby occasioning her actual bodily harm. A trial…
A NEW documentary on Channel 4 is set to explore the unsolved death of Stuart Lubbock. The young man died at Michael Barrymore’s home almost 20 years ago. The 31-year-old was discovered dead on March 31, 2001, in Michael’s outdoors swimming pool. The inquest into…
A TEENAGER who sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl has been given a £15 fine. The sixteen-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at Chelmsford magistrates court to six charges of sexual assaults upon a child. The victim was as young as…
ESSEX Police are trying to locate stolen coins of sentimental value after they were taken from an address in Nazeing. A woman reported that the coins were taken from a property in Middle Street between 12pm and 2.30pm on Wednesday 27 November. They included newly…
ESSEX Police are appealing for witnesses to a disturbance outside a restaurant in Harlow that resulted in a man being knocked unconscious. An altercation occurred outside Bonito Grill in Terminus Street at around 1.30am on Saturday 1 December. It was during this altercation that a…
THOUSANDS of online child sex crimes recorded in England and Wales could go undetected if Facebook introduces end-to-end encryption in its apps, NSPCC research suggests. Police recorded over 4,000 instances where Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp were used in child abuse image and online child sexual…
A HARLOW man has been disqualified from driving after pleading guilty to a series of traffic and drug offences. Mark Cooper, aged 32, of Brockles Mead, Harlow, pled to the following offences at Chelmsford magistrates court. On 30/06/2019 at Harlow, without the consent of the…
DOMESTIC violence kills 15 times as many people in Britain as terrorism, say campaigners who want the police to be given more money to tackle the problem. The huge disparity is highlighted in figures obtained from official sources by victims’ rights campaigners, who say the…





