Westminster terror attack: Police raid flat in Midlands
Armed police have carried out a raid on a flat in the Midlands thought to be linked to yesterday's terrorist attack in London. Eye-witnesses reported seeing officers storm a flat in Birmingham late...
View ArticleNaked man found lying at foot of stairs had broken neck, inquest...
A man died in hospital weeks after being found lying naked, with a broken neck and in cardiac arrest at the foot of a flight of stairs, an inquest heard. Slawomir Niestepski, a married Polish labourer...
View ArticleMost Leicestershire Police officers want spit-guards to hood...
An overwhelming majority of Leicestershire Police officers want to be issued with mesh hoods to place over the heads of prisoners who spit at them.A survey by Leicestershire Police Federation has found...
View Article'Bully' who threatened ex-girlfriend with violence and revenge...
A vengeful "bully" who threatened to "wrap a hammer" around his ex-girlfriend's head and put a sexual image of her on social media has been jailed.Connor Kenney also sent a malicious Valentine's Day...
View ArticleSee inside Leicester fake clothing factory where counterfeit...
A man and a woman have been given suspended prison sentences after helping to run a fake designer clothing factory in Leicester.Trading standards officers found hundreds of items of clothing, for...
View ArticleRobbers armed with a shotgun steal cash from building society in...
Two masked men armed with a shotgun stole cash in a raid at the Nottingham Building Society in Shepshed.The pair burst into the bank in Bull Ring, Shepshed at 1.25pm today and staff handed over cash.No...
View ArticlePolite request 'from God' asking burglars to leave Salvation Army...
A polite note to burglars has succeeded in deterring break-ins at the Salvation Army headquarters in New Parks, Leicester.In early December there were two attempted break-ins within just over a week.No...
View ArticleThree men charged with armed robbery in Measham
Three men have appeared in court charged with robbing a security guard as he delivered cash to a village shop.The men, all from Leicestershire, were arrested in the Rotherham area and questioned by...
View ArticlePolice officer who followed Fosse Road killer driver is cleared...
A Leicestershire Police officer who followed a speeding car which later crashed and killed two of its occupants has been cleared of any fault or wrongdoing.The officer began to follow the Peugeot...
View ArticleChild porn shame of Leicester children's charity former boss...
The former chief executive of a prominent children's charity is facing jail for downloading child pornography and trying to persuade a 15-year-old boy to engage in sexual activity.Richard Clark, who...
View ArticleHomeless drug addict with more than 90 convictions stole perfume...
A homeless and penniless drug addict with 90 previous convictions stole perfume and a handbag to sell for food just days after being released from jail.Laura Neale was arrested for shoplifting in...
View ArticleMan dies after 'car park assault' in Canonsleigh Road, Leicester...
A man in his 20s has died after being found injured in a car park this morning. Emergency services were called to the scene in Canonsleigh Road, off Halifax Drive, Stocking Farm, just after 6.20am,...
View ArticleMurder investigation launched after man is found in Leicester car...
A murder investigation has been launched following the death of a man in Leicester. Emergency services were called to a car park in Canonsleigh Road, off Halifax Drive, Stocking Farm, just after 6.20am...
View ArticlePervert who treated foster daughter 'like sex slave' wasn't...
The police and social services have been criticised for not prosecuting a self-confessed paedophile who sexually abused his step-daughter in the 1980s - leaving him free to foster a vulnerable teenage...
View Article'He took my family and my childhood' - Paedophile victim's anger...
The victim who was sexually abused by her "evil" step-father fought back tears as she told the judge she had waited 30 years for justice. She stood in the witness box at Leicester Crown Court, shaking...
View ArticleMadeleine McCann's kidnappers are being protected, says former...
Someone is protecting Madeleine McCann's kidnappers, says a detective who hunted for her for three years.As Kate McCann went through yet another Mother's Day without Madeleine yesterday, retired...
View ArticleArsonists set fire to hay as horses feed in Anstey field
Arsonists set fire to bales of hay as horses nibbled at the straw.Owner Lee Hamilton has told how the actions of the arsonists yesterday could have given one of his horses, which is elderly, a heart...
View ArticlePolice name Leicester car park stabbing victim as 22-year-old
Police have confirmed the identity of a young man who died after he was stabbed at the weekend.Pedro Godinho, 22, was found with a stab wound in a car park in Canonsleigh Road, Mowmacre, Leicester,...
View ArticleBrazen thief walked into shop and stole till while staff were...
Police are searching for a thief who walked into a shop and grabbed the till before running away.The man stole the till, which contained about £30 from Euro Minimarket, in Fosse Road North,...
View ArticleWomen at Download Festival 'sexually assaulted while sleeping in...
Two young women at the Download Festival woke up to find they were being indecently assaulted, a court has been told.Prosecutors say Edward Bater (21) had previously begged one of the women to let him...
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