Two from Tilbury charged after search recovers £250,000 “stolen” property
SUSPECTED stolen property worth at least £250,000 was recovered during a search of premises. Officers executed a search warrant at a site in Honiley Avenue, Wickford, on Wednesday 2 September and...
View ArticleLess than a week to go to have a say on roads policing
THERE is less than a week to go for those who live, work and travel in Essex to have their say on the future of roads policing. People who have concerns about speeding or are worried about road safety...
View ArticleCharity launches free domestic abuse advice line for businesses
A NEW advice line for businesses supporting employees experiencing or at risk of domestic abuse has been launched by crisis support charity Hestia. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men will experience domestic...
View ArticleC17 Gang: Further interim gang injunction
A MEMBER of a drug-dealing gang linked to a series of violent incidents and anti-social behaviour in Thurrock has today, Friday 25 September, been made the subject of a further interim gang...
View ArticleEast Tilbury man pleads guilty to possessing of imagers of child abuse
AN EAST Tilbury man has pleaded guilty to possessing images of child abuse. Christopher Curry, aged 31, of King George VI Avenue, East Tilbury made the plea to the following at Chelmsford Magistrates...
View ArticleChief Constable commends officers, staff and partners for their work to...
Chief Constable commends officers, staff and partners for their work to tackle a violent gang in Thurrock. FIVE police officers, five members of police staff and two members of partner agency staff...
View ArticleStanford-le-Hope: Appeal after man suffers head injury
ESSEX Police are appealing for witness following reports of an assault in London Road, Stanford-Le-Hope. A spokesperson said: “We were called at around 6.30pm on Tuesday 1 September, to an altercation...
View ArticleMan who died in fatal collision on Tilbury Dock Road named
ESSEX Police can provisionally name a man who died following a collision in Tilbury on Monday 21 September. A blue Volkswagen Crafter van was in collision with a stationary HGV on the A1089 Dock...
View ArticleGrays man jailed for second time after victim dies years after brutal attack
A MAN, jailed five years ago for leaving a man brain damaged after beating him over a cigarette, has been found guilty of murder and jailed for life after his victim died from complications related to...
View ArticlePolice issue message of reassurance to parents, carers and guardians
OVER the last fortnight Essex Police has received a number of reports of people acting suspiciously around young people. This has coincided with posts circulating on social media which has caused...
View ArticleC17 Gang: Carlito’s way is straight to jail
A GANG member who breached an injunction six times has been jailed for 20-weeks. Carlito Hall, 21, is a member of the so-called C17 gang in Thurrock who were made the subject of a gang injunction....
View ArticleJail for Grays rapist who locked woman in car
A MAN who locked a woman he’d met on a night out in a car and repeatedly raped her has been jailed for 10 years. Olawale Hassan had met the woman on a night out in Southend on 25 February 2017. The...
View ArticleTribute to popular taxi driver killed in A128 crash as police continue to...
WORK colleagues of a Thurrock taxi driver killed in an early morning crash yesterday have paid tribute to him. And the widow of 65-year-old Norman Bullock, Moira, says he was ‘her best friend and soul...
View ArticleArrests after dawn raids in Grays
OFFICERS carrying out a series of early morning raids targeting organised crime have arrested nine people and seized a five figure sum of cash and Class B drugs. In total, seven warrants were executed...
View ArticleChafford Hundred drug dealer jailed for three years
A DRUG dealer attracted police attention because of his suspicious driving, resulting in searches that uncovered drugs and a large amount of cash. Shaquille Parchment was arrested on 15 August this...
View ArticleGrays lorry deaths: Gheorghe Nica admits people-smuggling role
A lorry container became a “tomb” as 39 desperate men, women and children suffocated inside, a court has heard reports the BBC. The bodies were discovered in the lorry in the early hours of 23 October...
View ArticleChadwell St Mary man charged after early morning raids
SIX men have been charged following a series of early morning warrants in south and west Essex and London yesterday. In total, seven warrants were executed simultaneously including in Grays, Wickford,...
View ArticleGrays lorry deaths: Accused ‘attempted two loads in one’
THIRTY-nine people may have died in the back of a lorry because people smugglers got “greedy” and attempted “two loads in one”, a court has heard reports the BBC. The Vietnamese nationals, aged...
View ArticleA13 shut in Grays after serious collision
1000 hrs Details of diversions are below. 0830 hrs Statement from Essex Police WE are currently at the scene of a serious collision on the Southend-bound track of the A13 at Thurrock just before the...
View ArticleEssex Police issue warning to rubberneckers who filmed collision on A13
ESSEX Police has warned 20 ‘rubberneckers’ they will be fined after filming the aftermath of a horror crash on their mobiles while driving by. Cops have slammed the drivers after they spotted...
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