POLICE went to the scene of an incident at a gym in West Gate in Harlow. They attended at around 1pm on Friday September 5 following a report from a member of the public of concerns for a man inside the premises. The male was…

POLICE are appealing for information about two burglaries in Harlow which they suspect are linked. Both offences took place on Thursday July 31. In the first case thieves smashed a window in the rear door of a house in Burley Hill in Harlow between 3.55pm…

AN estate agent who walked into a police station and confessed to defrauding his clients out of £180,000 over a period of years has been spared jail reports the Harlow Star. Instead, a judge at Chelmsford Crown Court placed Paul Stephen Onslow – who traded…

POLICE would like to hear from anyone with information about an attempted burglary which took place in Churchfield in Harlow between 3pm on Saturday August 9 and 1pm on Sunday August 10. Thieves tried to get into a house by climbing over a hedge from…

DETECTIVES have released an Efit image of a man suspected of robbing a taxi driver and setting his car on fire. The driver had answered a call to pick up a woman and four men outside the Heart and Club pub in Pypers Hatch at…

DETECTIVES are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding a sexual assault in Harlow. A 47-year-old woman, who lives locally, was sexually assaulted in a park off School Lane shortly after 4:30pm on Sunday, July 27. On Monday, August 11, a 34-year-old man from Gravesend was…

ESSEX is ranked third in a UK league table for rural crime, according to latest statistics. More than £2m worth of items were stolen in the county last year, a survey by leading rural insurers NFU Mutual has revealed. Cambridgeshire topped the league with an…

A MAN has this afternoon (Monday) been arrested in connection with a sexual assault in Harlow. A 47-year-old woman, who lives locally, was sexually assaulted in a park off School Lane shortly after 4:30pm on Sunday, July 27. Police had been looking to locate Miles…

A MAN WAS arrested on suspicion of breaching an anti-social behaviour order in Harlow today (Sunday). At 2.40pm, four police units attended outside the Manor Hatch shops on Tumbler Road in Harlow after receiving a report of man acting aggressively in the street. A 40-year-old…

DETECTIVES in Harlow have issued an Efit of a man they want to identify after an attempted distraction burglary in Shawbridge, Harlow on July 17. Around 11.30pm the victim answered the door to a man who asked for ‘Paul’. The homeowner told the man that…

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…