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November 28, 2014, 8:33 am

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THE FAMILY of a 22-year-old woman who was attacked by a group of women in a Crawley bar have offered a reward to try to identify her attackers. The victim was at LB1 Bar in Gales Drive, Three Bridges, when she was confronted by the women who struck her several times in the face in the smoking area outside. The attackers had to be restrained by other people who had been in the bar after the unprovoked attack between 11pm and 11.30pm on Friday, October 10. PC Adam Tidy said: "A number of...

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String of sheds at Crawley allotments broken into

November 29, 2014, 2:45 am

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SEVERAL sheds were broken into at an allotment in Gossops Green last weekend. Last Saturday a number of allotment holders at Dormans Allotments found their sheds had been entered. It is not known exactly what, if anything, was taken.

Teenager Noel Goode pleads guilty to possessing knife and drugs

December 1, 2014, 1:45 am

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AM 18-year-old has been given a community order after pleading guilty to possession of a knife and drugs in Dorsten Square, Bewbush.Noel Goode, of Carmen Walk, Pease Pottage, pleaded guilty to three offences when he appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on November 13.He was found with a lock knife and 3.6 grams of an unspecified Class B drug in Dorsten Square, Bewbush, on July 7.He was also found to be in possession of 1.8 grams of cannabis at the custody suite at Crawly Police Station on...

WANTED: Police release CCTV pictures of rape suspect

December 3, 2014, 1:54 am

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POLICE are asking for the public's help to trace a man who they believe could have been involved in the rape of a woman on Brighton's beach last month. In the early hours of Sunday, November 2, the victim, a 43-year-old Brighton woman, had been walking on the beach near to the pier. She met with two men, who she hadn't met before, and they began chatting and shared a drink and cigarettes on the beach under the pier at about 3am. One of the men sexually assaulted and then raped the woman. She...

Police arrest man after woman is followed into train toilet and...

December 3, 2014, 7:29 am

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DETECTIVES are appealing for the public's help after a woman was trapped in a train toilet by a man who made indecent remarks to her.British Transport Police (BTP) have been alerted to an incident on a train between Brighton and London. A woman was followed into a toilet on board the train by a man who started making indecent remarks and then grabbed her arm when she attempted to escape The incident happened on Saturday November 29 on the 3.50am Brighton to Victoria train as it...

Woman banned from keeping animals in court after letting son...

December 3, 2014, 8:15 am

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A BROADFIELD woman has been convicted of breaching an order banning her from keeping pets after she allowed her son to keep a kitten and budgie he had brought home because they calmed him down.Wendy Buksh had been prohibited from keeping animals for ten years in April 2010 after she was convicted of failing to get veterinary care for her dog when it had a fractured leg.When a council officer and a PCSO visited the 39-year-old's home in Samphire Close, Broadfield, on April 23 this year, they...

Man arrested on suspicion of drink-driving near Gatwick Airport

December 3, 2014, 9:27 am

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A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after police saw his car swerve near Gatwick Airport.Edward Henry, 62, was arrested at 10am yesterday (Tuesday) after officers saw his car swerve on a roundabout and stopped the vehicle in Perimeter Road North.Henry, of Portswood Road in Southampton, was charged with drink-driving and released on bail to appear at Crawley Magistrates' Court on 31 December.Sussex Police is running its annual Christmas campaign against drink-driving.For...

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December 3, 2014, 11:30 pm

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A MAN who slapped a security guard across the face at Asda and called him a "f****** Muslim" insists he is not racist.Adrian West was banned from the supermarket in Pegler Way, West Green, in April for shoplifting but returned when he was drunk on September 15.The security guard who had detained him in April recognised West and asked him to leave, at which point West became verbally abusive.He called Adriano Brito a "mother f*****" and told him: "You shouldn't be...

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Crawley man cleared of beating up his wife

December 4, 2014, 2:00 am

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A CRAWLEY man has been cleared of beating up his wife at their home.Wayne Poole, who now lives in Crawley High Street, was charged with three counts of assaulting Sandra Harker and one count of harassment, all of which he denied.The 43-year-old had been remanded in custody before his trial at Horsham Magistrates' Court last week but was acquitted of all four offences because Ms Harker produced inconclusive evidence.The court heard how the pair, who have a nine-year-old son together and have been...

Crawley dad "forced son to perform oral sex on him while...

December 4, 2014, 2:23 am

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A COURT was told yesterday (Wednesday) that a Crawley dad forced his son to perform oral sex on him while another man raped the boy. The allegations were heard at Lewes Crown Court where Arthur Blackman, 72 - who is claimed to have been friends with the dad - stands accused of historic sex offences in Crawley between January 1, 1961 and January 1, 1964. The victim, who is now 59, told the jury he suffered physical, mental and sexual abuse from the age of about two and-a-half and described...

Police investigating several vehicle break-ins in Crawley

December 4, 2014, 8:05 am

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SEVERAL vehicles were broken into in different locations across Crawley last night and this morning (Thursday). Crawley Police are investigating the break-ins in Pound Hill, Three Bridges and Broadfield. Cash and satellite navigation systems were among items stolen. Incidents included a black Fiat left with broken windows in Hobbs Road, Broadfield, though it is not known if anything was stolen. And in Davis Close, Broadfield, a handbag was stolen from a white Nissan Qashqai. A spokesman...

Is this Sussex's most irresponsible driver? Shameless driver...

December 5, 2014, 5:48 am

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A DRIVER has been jailed after Crawley Magistrates' Court heard how he had been caught drink-driving for a third time in two years. Arunas Abromavicius, 30, was already banned from driving when officers spotted him behind the wheel of a Volkswagen Golf been driven erratically in Hillsborough Road, Bognor Regis, at 2am on Tuesday (December 2). He was sent to prison after magistrates were told he had already been convicted of drink-driving in both 2012 and 2013. Abromavicius was first convicted...

Man appears in court accused of harassing two women in Bewbush

December 6, 2014, 9:52 am

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A MAN has denied harassing two women at the Bewbush Centre.Gary Rankin appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on November 19 facing two charges of harassment.Rankin, from Staplecross Court, in Salvington Road, Bewbush, is alleged to have harassed the women at the community centre by using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.The alleged incidents are both said to have happened on August 27.Rankin, 41, pleaded not guilty to both counts. Magistrates released him on conditional...

Man caught at train station with heroin, cocaine and cannabis

December 6, 2014, 11:23 am

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A MAN has been sentenced in court after being found with heroin, cocaine and cannabis at a train station.Lawrence James appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on November 20 to answer three charges.James, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to being in possession of Class A drug heroin, Class A drug cocaine and Class B drug cannabis.The 21-year-old was stopped at Gatwick Airport station on August 28 and was discovered to have the drugs on him.Magistrates sentenced James to a 12-month supervision...

Case dropped against Ifield man accused of using pool ball in...

December 7, 2014, 2:45 am

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A MAN accused of using a pool ball inside a sock as a weapon has had the case against him dropped.Dean Allen, from Coolham Court, off Ifield Drive, in Ifield, appeared for trial at Horsham Magistrates' Court on November 20.The 41-year-old had previously denied a charge of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.On June 7 he was accused of using a pool ball inside a sock as a weapon in Victoria Road, West Green.The case against him was dismissed by magistrates.

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Footballer punched man in face when asked to keep noise down at...

December 7, 2014, 10:15 pm

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A SEMI-PROFESSIONAL footballer punched a man in the face after he went to confront him because he thought he was making too much noise in his flat.Ben Davies hit Kyle Daden after the latter knocked on the door of his flat to complain about noise, which he believed was coming from the home in Crabbett Park, Worth on January 21.Davies, 30, claims he was acting in self defence and that Mr Daden had been acting aggressively.However, Davies failed to attend a trial at Horsham Magistrates' Court on...

Man undergoes surgery in hospital after fight in kebab shop

December 8, 2014, 3:40 am

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A MAN has had to undergo surgery in hospital after a late-night fight in a Crawley kebab shop. At about 12.30am on Friday (December 5) there was a fight between two men and two other men in Troy Kebab, on Crawley High Street, during which one of the men, a 39-year-old from Wickford, in Essex, sustained a serious injury to his jaw. The victim was treated at East Surrey Hospital and then went to Queen Victoria Hospital, in East Grinstead, for surgery on his jaw. The man who left the victim...

Man refuses to go to hospital despite being stabbed in stomach

December 8, 2014, 9:45 am

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PARAMEDICS were called after a man was stabbed in the stomach on Saturday (December 6) - but he refused to go to hospital. Police were called by paramedics to the incident at 12.20am at Lancing Close, in Ifield. A police spokesman said a 24-year-old man had been treated for a "stabbing cut to the side of his stomach". He added: "He declined to go to hospital. Police are looking into the circumstances. No arrests have been made at this time." South East Coast Ambulance...

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December 8, 2014, 11:30 pm

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A PAEDOPHILE living opposite a 14-year-old girl he sexually assaulted was allowed to move back in to his home because a judge ruled that he would otherwise suffer "hardship".The reasons behind the judge's decision to lift an order banning the man from living near his victim have been revealed after a transcript of a Court of Appeal hearing was released to the Crawley News.It has also been revealed that Crawley Borough Council gave the sex attacker a £75,000 discount when he...

Girl, 11, raped as she walked home from school in Crawley

December 9, 2014, 6:46 am

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A GIRL, 11, has been raped in Crawley as she walked home from school, police have revealed. Officers are appealing for witnesses after the girl revealed that she had been raped in Pound Hill in September. The 11-year-old was walking home from school along Balcombe Road at about 3pm. She was taken by a man onto a footpath between Blackwater Lane and Balcombe Road. He pushed her into the bushes where he raped her. She has only reported what happened recently. Detective Inspector James...