Woman missing from Grays
Update: Elizabeth Cook has now been found. HAVE you seen Elizabeth Cook, who is missing from her home in Grays? The 27-year-old was last seen at about 6am today, Saturday, April 14 and her family and...
View ArticleTwo men sought after knife point robbery in Tilbury
ESSEX Police would like to talk to these men in connection with a knife point robbery at a shop in Tilbury on Wednesday, April 11. At around 6.05am two men walked into Dods newsagents in Broadway...
View ArticleStanford-le-Hope man who brandished imitation firearm at youths jailed for...
A MAN whose use of an imitation firearm caused youths to flee in terror has been jailed for over 10 years. Peter Brown, 29 (06.04.1989) of Hope Street, Stanford-le-Hope was sentenced to 10 years and...
View ArticleSearch for man suspected of indecently exposing him on train near Grays
Can you help officers from British Transport Police identify this man? They would like to speak with him in connection to a sexual exposure on board a train travelling between Grays and Tilbury. The...
View ArticleTilbury man charged in relation to assaults on women
A MAN from Tilbury faces several charges in relation to acts of violence against women. Zach McCarthy, aged 22, of Tennyson Walk, Tilbury has been charged with the following. On 09/11/2017 at...
View ArticlePolice investigate possible abduction in Tilbury
ESSEX Police are investigating following reports a man was forced into a car on The Circle in Tilbury. Just before 9.25pm on Wednesday, April 17, a man dressed in a grey jacket and grey tracksuit was...
View ArticleThurrock Council sniffer dogs find thousands of counterfeit cigarettes across...
SNIFFER dogs helped Trading Standards officers seize 29,000 counterfeit or illegally imported cigarettes in a series of inspections carried out at tobacconists last week. Teams accompanied by...
View ArticleGrays man faces trial over sex attacks on child
A MAN from Grays faces a trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted a child. John Garner, aged 51, of Orsett Road, Grays, faces a total of eight charges in relation to sexual conduct with a...
View ArticleMurder investigation launched after woman dies in West Thurrock
ESSEX Police have started a murder investigation following the death of a woman in West Thurrock this morning (Friday, April 20). They were called at around 8.30am with reports a woman had been...
View ArticleMan charged with murder following death in West Thurrock
ESSEX Police have charged a man with murder following the death of a woman in West Thurrock yesterday, Friday, April 20. Florin Ion, 31, unemployed, of Ipswich Crescent, Birmingham, is due to appear...
View ArticleTwo charged with criminal damage and police assault at illegal traveller...
ESSEX Police have charged two people after responding to reports of criminal damage in Grays yesterday, Friday, April 20. A 13-year-old boy, who cannot be name for legal reasons, was charged with...
View ArticleAppeal after distinctive motorbike stolen in Chafford Hundred
AN APPEAL has been made after a motorbike was stolen from Chafford Hundred overnight (Friday) The orange KTM 150 motorbike was taken from Cardinal Road in Chafford Hundred on Friday night between 2200...
View ArticleUpdate: Armed disturbance in Tilbury
Update on armed mass brawl in Tilbury Statement from Essex Police “We are appealing for information about a disturbance in Leighton Gardens, Tilbury, at around 10.30pm yesterday, Saturday, April 21. We...
View ArticlePolice name woman who died in West Thurrock attack
DETECTIVES investigating a murder in West Thurrock are now in a position to name the woman who died. Julie Hunt, 47, from Rainham, east London, sadly died of her injuries following an assault near to...
View ArticleCrime in Tilbury: Councillors : “Police gave up the fight against drugs long...
TILBURY councillors have made a withering attack on police and politicans as violence erupted on their streets at the weekend. Leighton Gardens and Melba Gardens have been the centre of a number of...
View ArticleThurrock man arrested after violent scenes at Liverpool v Roma Champions...
A THURROCK man was among nine arrested over violent clashes over violent clashes before the Liverpool v Roma Champions League semi-final first leg last night (Tuesday) reports the Liverpool Echo....
View ArticleClose to a hundred grooming offences in Essex last year
MORE than 6,000 grooming crimes have been recorded by police in England and Wales since April 2013, new Home Office figures show. There were a total of 2,996 grooming crimes recorded from April to...
View ArticleGrays man wanted over allegation of rape
ESSEX Police want to speak to Reece Mashiter in connection with an allegation of rape. The offence was reported to have taken place in Grays in October 2017. Mashiter is also wanted under a court...
View ArticleFormer Tilbury footballer Kev Malthouse died “on the spot” as murder trial...
SEMI-professional footballer died “on the spot” when attacked by a teenager with an axe or a knife, a court heard. Kevin Malthouse, 24, from Stanford-le-Hope, played for Tilbury FC and died in Grays,...
View ArticleCo-op on Lodge Lane robbed by man armed with knife
ESSEX Police are investigating a robbery at a Co-op store in Grays. A man, armed with what has been described as a large knife, went into the store in Lodge Lane at around 8.10pm on Sunday, April 29...
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