Police caught illegally leaving car in disabled bay for six hours

May 10, 2013, 1:30 am

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A POLICE officer left a seized car in a disabled bay for more than six hours despite there being other parking spaces next to it.The red Rover was left in a bay clearly marked "disabled" outside Crawley Police Station last Wednesday.A uniformed officer parked it there at about 11.50am after it had been seized from a man who had been arrested.The bays in Woodfield Road, Northgate are used by people visiting the police station, Crawley Magistrates' Court and the Home Care Service at...

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May 10, 2013, 9:29 am

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The arrest of an East Grinstead man on suspicion of stealing mobile phones came during part of the national Rogue Traders Week.Neighbourhood police officers joined with colleagues from West Sussex Trading Standards and held a day of action on Thursday, April 25.The day involved police and trading standard officers calling on 25 households across Mid Sussex to give advice about how rogue traders operate and what you can do in order to avoid being ripped off. Officers also used the day...

Is this the face of the man who sexually assaulted woman?

May 11, 2013, 4:30 am

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A YOUNG woman froze with fear when she spotted the man who she claims sexually assaulted her weeks previously, a court has heard.The victim went cold as she walked into a bar in Lingfield and recognised the alleged offender last August.Anthony Lottes, of Mount Pleasant Road in Lingfield, was charged with sexual assault following the incident in Holtye Road, East Grinstead.But the 44-year-old denies the offence and appeared for trial at Horsham Magistrates' Court on Wednesday last...

Conman faked pilot's license to fly passengers into Gatwick...

May 12, 2013, 2:45 am

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POLICE are searching for a conman who faked a pilots license and flew passengers into Gatwick on at least eight occasions. U.S national Michael Fay, who was living in Alton in Hampshire, forged medical certificates and a pilot's license to get a job flying passengers into the UK. The 59-year-old flew Airbus A320 aircraft for Libyan airline Afriqiyah Airways from June 2010 until he was arrested in February 2011. A fellow pilot became suspicious of Fay after chatting to him online and reported him...

Crawley man jailed for sexual assault and attempted rape of young...

May 14, 2013, 7:37 am

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A CRAWLEY man has begun a nine year prison sentence after being found guilty of indecently assaulting and attempting to rape a young girl. Ian Alan Ward, 49, of Tangmere Road, Ifield, was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on April 24, after a two week trial. He will also be required to register as a sex offender for life on his release from prison. He was sentenced over eight indecent assaults and the attempted rape of a girl when aged under 16, and one indecent assault on girl when aged under...

Sussex Police recruiting Eastern European language speakers

May 14, 2013, 11:42 pm

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SUSSEX Police want more Eastern European language speakers to be "the face of local policing" as that population grows in the area. The force is advertising for Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), and says it is "particularly looking for candidates in West Sussex who speak Eastern European languages". Candidates have until next Friday (May 24) to apply for the £18,343 - £20,020-a-year jobs supporting officers. The recruitment advert promises:...

Tackling Crawley yobs will be easier thanks to new radios

May 16, 2013, 10:15 am

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TACKLING fake bank notes and antisocial behaviour, and finding missing people will be easier thanks to new digital radios for some of the town's businesses.Crawley and Gatwick Business Watch has installed a new digital radio system and handed out the radios to its 125 members last Wednesday.They will replace the old analogue system used before.Members will be able to put out alerts for things like fake notes, unruly incidents and missing and wanted people.The new two-channel system also enables...

Man attempts to steal 13-year-old East Grinstead girl's iPod

April 30, 2013, 8:04 am

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A 13 year-old-girl was the victim of a failed robbery after a man tried to steal an iPod from her. The bungled theft happened at approximately 3.30pm on Friday when the girl was pushed over while walking home from school across East Court playing fields. It was only when the girl resisted that the would-be robber, who is believed to have been wearing a dark hooded top and jeans, ran off. The girl made her way home but a few days later received treatment at the nearby Queen Victoria Hospital...

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Tackling Crawley yobs will be easier thanks to new radios

May 16, 2013, 10:15 am

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TACKLING fake bank notes and antisocial behaviour, and finding missing people will be easier thanks to new digital radios for some of the town's businesses.Crawley and Gatwick Business Watch has installed a new digital radio system and handed out the radios to its 125 members last Wednesday.They will replace the old analogue system used before.Members will be able to put out alerts for things like fake notes, unruly incidents and missing and wanted people.The new two-channel system also enables...

Former top cop in the dock

May 16, 2013, 11:30 pm

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A RETIRED Metropolitan Police chief superintendent moved to Crowborough after his wife caught him naked with young men, a court has heard.Philip Gaisford, 64, of Old Lane, faces sex charges involving nine alleged victims, five of them underage.Speaking at the trial at Lewes Crown Court, his wife Susan said she had twice caught him with young men at their old home in Caterham.She said: "I lifted up the swimming pool cover and saw Philip naked in the water with a naked boy."Philip's...

£1 million of cocaine hidden in cakes seized at Gatwick

May 17, 2013, 4:50 am

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Two people have been charged after 10 kilos of cocaine was found hidden inside cakes at Gatwick Airport. Kris Millwood, 29, from West Bromwich, and Sherelle Burke, 22, from Bilston, were arrested by Border Force officers at the airport's South Terminal at about midday on Thursday, May 16. They had just arrived on a flight from Jamaica and between them are charged with attempting to import a class A drug. An estimated 10 kilos of cocaine with a potential street value of £1 million were...

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May 17, 2013, 7:00 am

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A FORMER council employee who stole more than £5,000 of taxpayers' money has been jailed.Farrah Spencer made four payments totalling £5,027 to herself or somebody she knew when she worked for Crawley Borough Council's Rent Deposit Scheme between May 1 and August 15, 2011.She was known as Shannon Francis when she worked there.The 27-year-old was dismissed from her position when the fraud was discovered and a council spokesman said additional checks have since been put in place to...

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May 20, 2013, 5:25 am

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UPDATE:A former priest and curate at a Southgate church has been jailed for 10 years after being found guilty of 36 charges of sexual abuse, including two attempted rapes. Gordon Rideout was found guilty by the jury at Lewes Crown Court of two attempted rapes and 34 indecent assaults on boys and girls as young as five years old. He was acquitted of one charge of indecent assault. Rideout was the assistant curate at St. Mary's Church in Southgate from September 1962 to September 1965. During...

Sentencing of Crawley bomb hoaxer adjourned again

May 20, 2013, 6:00 am

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THE sentencing of a man who has admitted making two false bomb threats has been adjourned again.Peter Flynn was due to be sentenced at Crawley Magistrates' Court on May 10 for the hoax calls to police on December 27 and 28 last year.But the case was adjourned to allow more time for probation reports to be compiled.Magistrates agreed to adjourn the sentencing previously so a report could be carried out because Flynn had failed to turn up for an appointment with the Probation Service.Flynn, 47,...

Copthorne cigarette thieves use crowbar

May 20, 2013, 10:00 am

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Crooks stole a stash of cigarettes after breaking into a petrol station's convenience store with a crowbar. Police are appealing for information to help track the two thieves who broke into N&D Stores, at the Texaco garage, on Copthorne Road, while dressed in motorcycle leathers and helmets in the early hours of Friday morning. The criminals used a crowbar to smash their way through the glass front door before taking off with an unknown quantity of cigarettes. Information should be given...

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Broadfield to get more CCTV cameras to make it safer

May 21, 2013, 4:30 am

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STAFF from a community centre who are hoping to make Broadfield Barton a safer place have been given a cash boost towards new CCTV cameras.Crawley Police handed over £200 to help fund the extra security measure.Broadfield PCSO Ross Fletcher made the donation on behalf of the town's police last Thursday.Tracy Frake, the community centre's development officer, said the cash would go into a pot as more still needs to be raised.She said: "The last camera we bought cost about £1,100...

Crawley is domestic abuse capital of West Sussex

May 21, 2013, 7:53 am

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ONE in every four domestic abuse calls received by a service that helps victims in the county comes from Crawley. Worth Services is a body based in the town that was set up to support sufferers across West Sussex. But between January and March 2013, 27 per cent of the calls it received were from Crawley. Team leader Corina Gibson said: "It's right to say that Crawley tends to spike in terms of the amount of referrals and that is pretty consistent throughout the year. "There could be a lot of...

How jailed priest Gordon Rideout preyed on the sick

May 21, 2013, 11:30 pm

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A FORMER priest has been jailed for ten years for historic sexual abuse at an Ifield children's home.Gordon Rideout abused boys and girls as young as five at Ifield Hall, a Barnardo's children's home which has since been demolished.It was during his time as assistant curate at St Mary's Church in Southgate between 1962 and 1965 that he would visit the home and carry out the abuse.Rideout, 74, from Polegate, East Sussex, was found guilty on Monday of 34 indecent assaults and two attempted rapes...

IRA bomb suspect arrested at Gatwick

May 22, 2013, 4:06 am

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A MAN suspected of murdering four soldiers in the 1982 IRA bombing in Hyde Park was arrested at Gatwick on Sunday. John Anthony Downey, of County Donegal in Ireland was arrested at the airport and subsequently charged with intending to cause an explosion likely to endanger life. The explosion killed Roy John Bright, Dennis Richard Anthony Daly, Simon Andrew Tipper and Geoffrey Vernon Young - members of the Royal Household Cavalry as they travelled to Buckingham Palace on July 20,...

IRA bomb suspect arrested at Gatwick Airport

May 22, 2013, 4:06 am

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A MAN suspected of murdering four soldiers in the 1982 IRA bombing in Hyde Park was arrested at Gatwick on Sunday. John Anthony Downey, of County Donegal in Ireland was arrested at the airport and subsequently charged with intending to cause an explosion likely to endanger life. The explosion killed Roy John Bright, Dennis Richard Anthony Daly, Simon Andrew Tipper and Geoffrey Vernon Young - members of the Royal Household Cavalry as they travelled to Buckingham Palace on July 20,...