Crawley man charged after search which led to police car crash

April 5, 2013, 3:02 am

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A MAN has been charged with theft from a motor vehicle, possession of a cannabis and criminal damage. Harry Brackpool, 21, was arrested on Wednesday following a police search the previous day during which a police car collided with another vehicle. A man wanted by police had been spotted in Bewbush at 6pm and while responding to a call the police car was involved in an accident in Bewbush Drive. A woman was cut free from her car after the accident and it has since emerged that she was taken...

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April 5, 2013, 7:19 am

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Crawley police are investigating reports of a dispute between a man and woman in the car park of Ifield Medical Centre. A man and woman in a parked green Vauxhall Corsa were seen to be involved in a dispute with each other in the car park of the Ifield Medical Centre, in Lady Margarets Road, Ifield, on Friday, March 22. The 32-year old local woman then got out of the car and the man drove off. A 22-year old local man was arrested nearby on suspicion of assault by beating and after being...

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April 6, 2013, 1:00 am

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As crimes go it isn't exactly worthy of an investigation by Inspector Morse or Hercule Poirot. But a teenager has nonetheless appeared in court and convicted of stealing a piece of jewellery - worth just £2. Shoplifter Jordan Fitzgerald, from West Street, Southgate, appeared in court on Tuesday to face justice for pinching a metal cross and chain from Primark in Crawley town centre. He appeared at Horsham Magistrates' Court charged with theft from a shop. The 19-year-old was due to...

Priest is one of two Sussex men guilty of child sex abuse

April 6, 2013, 1:22 am

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A PRIEST and another man, both from Sussex, have been convicted of a string of child sex abuse offences, which happened more than 25 years ago.  Church of England Priest Keith Wilkie Denford, 78, of Broad Reach Mews, Shoreham, West Sussex, and Michael Mytton, 69, of South Road, East Chiltington, East Sussex, known locally as Mark, were found guilty on Friday at Hove Crown Court after a three-week trial. Denford was convicted of two indecent assaults on a boy then under 16, in or near...

Brighton man jailed for raping teenager

April 6, 2013, 1:50 am

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A MAN from Brighton has been jailed for eight years for raping and indecently assaulting a young teenager.  Graham Wheatley, of Birdham Road, admitted indecently assaulting a 14 year old girl in Portslade in 2003-2004 and raping the same girl, then aged 13, in Thetford, Norfolk, in 2003.He was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty at a previous hearing to the two sexual offences.Wheatley was also required to register as a sex offender for life on his release, and...

Second body found in Copthorne cottage fire

April 7, 2013, 2:18 pm

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The body of man has been discovered in the debris of a fire at a Copthorne cottage. Firefighters battled for hours to put out the blaze at a property off the A264 in Snow Hill, Copthorne, in the early hours of Saturday morning. The body of an elderly woman, believed to be that of the 83-year-old occupant, was discovered inside the building on Saturday morning. Police scene of crime officers, detectives and fire investigators have since been examining the scene and this afternoon (Sunday) a...

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April 7, 2013, 8:00 pm

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A GUTSY pensioner scared off a would-be burglar by threatening to "thump him" while wearing only his dressing gown.Dave Phillips was taking a shower at his Three Bridges home on March 4 when he heard banging coming from downstairs.The 69-year-old ran downstairs in the dressing gown to find an intruder with black gloves and a black hat trying to force his way through the back door.The burglar tried to intimidate Mr Phillips but the spirited ex-publican fought back. Mr Phillips, who...

Gold and jewellery thieves target Asian families in Crawley

April 8, 2013, 8:04 am

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A NEW spate of gold thefts has targeted Asian families across Crawley. Three houses were raided in Bewbush, West Green and Broadfield last week. A house in Argus Walk, Bewbush, was broken into through a backdoor between 10.30pm on April 2 and 4pm on April 3. An untidy search was done of the property and items of jewellery were taken. A man, living in Sunnymead, West Green, left his home at 4.25pm and returned at 4.39pm on April 3. As he arrived he saw a man near his house and a suspicious...

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Burglars steal jewellery worth £200,000 from a single...

April 8, 2013, 9:11 am

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Crawley police are investigating a burglary at a Bewbush house where gold jewellery valued at £200,000 and thousands of pounds in cash were stolen. A property in Letchworth Court was broken into and as well as the valuable jewellery £10,000 in cash was taken last Friday (April 5) between 5.30pm and 6.30pm. Three men were seen leaving the house. These included a white man, aged about 22, approximately 5ft 5in tall, of stocky build, wearing blue jeans and a black sweatshirt with a...

Man in hospital after assault in Worthing

April 9, 2013, 7:08 am

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Sussex Police are urging witnesses to come forward who might have seen a serious assault that took place in Worthing in the early hours of Sunday.A 37-year-old man was hospitalised after being found semi-conscious by passers-by on the corner of Park Road and Brighton Road.Police think he had been walking from Warwick Street into Brighton Road when he was attacked.He suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Worthing Hospital, but has now been transferred to Hurstwood Park Hospital in...

Travellers who set up home in Crawley car park move on

April 9, 2013, 9:54 am

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A group of travellers who had set up camp in a Crawley car park have moved on this afternoon. Six caravans and several other vehicles managed to get into the locked car park, close to County Oak Retail Park on Sunday night. The car park, in Amberley Court, off Whitworth Road, is normally used by employees of nearby businesses. A witness told the News he saw a female traveller urinating in a bush on Monday. The vehicles moved in at 9.10pm on Sunday. Children were riding bicycles around...

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April 10, 2013, 1:12 am

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A former Crawley priest carried out a string of sex attacks at a children's home, a court has heard. Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, is accused of abusing more than a dozen girls and boys at the home over a four-year period. He is also accused of indecently assaulting a boy at a home in Essex, and two girls in Hampshire. The retired Church Of England priest denies 35 counts of indecent assault on 17 children as young as five, and two counts of attempted rape, between January 1962 and January...

Second man arrested over murder of Lea Williams

April 12, 2013, 5:11 am

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Sussex Police have arrested a second man in connection with the murder of homeless man Lea Williams.Mr Williams, 45, was found dead near the pitch-and-putt course at the Western Esplanade at Hove seafront on February 11th.He was found dead by community workers from a local homeless project after receiving severe head and facial injuries. It is believed he had been living in the area for about a year.Police believe that Mr Williams may have known his attacker or attackers. Local people say that...

Crawley Down teenager injured after bitten by dog

April 12, 2013, 7:15 am

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A teenager was left with minor injuries after he was bitten by a dog. The 13-year-old boy received scratches and bruises after he was bitten by the dog in Crawley Down in the afternoon on Wednesday April 10. The incident happened as the teenager, who lives locally, played football with a friend on the playing field next to The Haven Centre in Hophurst Lane. The dog is described as being brown and white in colour with long ears, a long body and may have been a Bassethound or similar. The...

WANTED: E-fit of man who is linked to Asian family burglaries

April 12, 2013, 7:18 am

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Crawley Police have issued an E-fit of a man who was seen near a property which was burgled in West Green. A witness saw the man in Sunnymead at around 4pm on April 3 and then leave at high speed in a Mercedes car which was found to be using false number plates. The occupant returned home to find the back door to his home insecure and one of the bedrooms had been searched. However, nothing had been stolen. This burglary is also being connected to the burglary in Argus Walk in Bewbush between...

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Woman's nose bitten off at Butlins

April 13, 2013, 5:59 am

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A WOMAN had part of her nose bitten off while watching Jack and the Beanstalk at Butlins, Bognor.   Police were called to the holiday camp after reports that the 47-year-old guest from Aylesbury had been assaulted during the performance. She also suffered head and facial injuries during the alleged assault, which happened at around 6.30pm on April 11.   Doctors tried to replace a piece of her nose at St Richards Hospital, Chichester and she is now recuperating after...

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April 15, 2013, 4:30 am

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A TEENAGE thief has been banned from going to his parents' house after admitting stealing from their home.John Currie was serving a suspended sentence for theft and burglary when he committed the offence in January.He pleaded guilty to the theft of electronic equipment and a bike between January 12 and 15 from his parents' home in Oakfields, Worth.Nineteen-year-old Currie, of Ashurst Wood, East Grinstead, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court last Wednesday.Magistrates decided not to...

Police release CCTV image after 88-year-old man robbed

April 15, 2013, 7:30 am

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Sussex Police have released CCTV footage of two men they want to talk to who were seen close to the scene of a crime in which an 88-year-old man had two watches stolen from him.The man answered his door at his home in Lower South Road, St Leonards at lunchtime on Wednesday 27th March to a man who said he was selling domestic cleaning products.Whilst the two men were speaking a second man appeared, asking if he could use the toilet. Both men then entered the man's home and shortly after they left...

Distinctive jewellery stolen from Langley Green home

April 16, 2013, 8:17 am

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POLICE are appealing for witnesses after bespoke jewellery was stolen from a home in Langley Green. The burglary happened on March 23 at a house in Stafford Road. The couple left their address at around 6.30pm and when they returned at 10.30pm they found that their bedroom had been ransacked and a large quantity of jewellery, to the value of £15,000 had been stolen. Many of the items were unique, including a wedding ring which was custom made. The ring is a white platinum wedding band...

Stolen Crawley jewellery may have been recovered

April 18, 2013, 4:41 am

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POLICE are looking to reunite jewellery taken during a raid on a shop with its owners, who could be from Crawley. A large quantity of jewellery, clocks, silverware and other items were seized from the shop in Chichester on April 6. Police executed a search warrant at Ebonys Jewellers Chichester looking for suspected stolen property. Most of the stock of the shop was seized during Saturday and Sunday, and is being examined in order to establish where it has come from. No arrests have been made...