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A NEWLY launched Sussex Police project to tackle the number of rapes and serious sexual assaults in and around pubs, bars and clubs in Crawley and other nightspots has been criticised by campaigners who argue it suggests women are responsible for their friends being attacked.The force announced the campaign yesterday (April 7) with the aim of highlighting how people can intervene to prevent sex attacks by looking out for people who could be at risk.Anti-rape campaigners, though, have claimed a...

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April 9, 2015, 5:48 am

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AN unemployed man has been charged with sex offences against nine young boys. Michael Cole, 29, from Newhaven, was charged, when he answered police bail on Sunday, with 13 sexual offences and appeared in custody at Brighton Magistrates' Court on Monday. He was then committed for trial, on conditional court bail, for an initial hearing at Lewes Crown Court on May 7. He is charged with 11 offences of inciting sexual activity with a total of nine local boys from the Seahaven area, and with two...

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April 9, 2015, 7:14 am

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THE man accused of murdering German student Janet Müller by setting fire to a car in Ifield with her locked in the boot intends to plead not guilty, a court has heard today. At a preliminary hearing at Guildford Crown Court this afternoon Christopher Raymond Jeffrey-Shaw's solicitor, Shuaib Saeed, told the court his client denies murdering the 21-year-old. He plans to plead not guilty at a plea and case management hearing, which has been set for June 4. Jeffrey-Shaw, from Lakeside, in...

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April 10, 2015, 3:48 am

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THREE German language students have been attacked outside a McDonald's by a group of teenage girls. On Wednesday at about 8.15pm the victims were outside the restaurant in Terminus Road, Eastbourne, when they were pushed and shoved. One student fell to the floor and was kicked in the head, drink was poured over another and the third was struck on the head. A bystander, a 59-year-old man, who tried to intervene was also assaulted, being pushed to the floor and struck in the face. Three...

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April 10, 2015, 8:42 am

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A MAN has admitted driving a car while nearly three times the drink-drive limit.Darren Betham, from Falcon Close, Langley Green, pleaded guilty to the offence, committed on Langley Drive on March 8, at Crawley Magistrates' Court on March 25.When tested by police the 40-year-old gave a reading of 100 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.Because of the high level of alcohol in his system, Betham was given a 12-month community order and ordered to...

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April 11, 2015, 3:17 am

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POLICE have apologised for any offence caused and announced a new poster designed to prevent rape in and around nightspots in Crawley and Sussex will be scrapped.Earlier this week Sussex Police launched a new campaign to prevent rape and serious sexual offences in and around pubs, bars and clubs in Crawley and other nightspots by highlighting how people can intervene to prevent sex attacks by looking out for people who could be at risk.As part of the part of this new oepration a poster was...

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April 12, 2015, 1:29 am

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A MUM of two who had recently found out her husband was having an affair, crashed her vehicle into a parked car following a day-long drinking session in which she consumed more than two bottles of wine. Crawley Magistrates' Court heard on April 1 how Cheryl Ward's car collided with another vehicle just 150 yards from the home of her friend in Lowdells Lane, East Grinstead, where she had been drinking. She was arrested after police were called to reports of a road traffic collision on the...

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April 12, 2015, 1:53 am

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A MAN threw his trousers at his wife after claiming that she wore too little to an appointment with a male osteopath. Kevin Holford was convicted of assaulting Sally Holford following the incident at their home. The 35-year-old appeared in the dock at Crawley Magistrates' Court on April 1, where he pleaded guilty to committing the offence at their home in Buckhurst Close, East Grinstead on March 10. The court heard how earlier that day, his wife had arranged a trip to the osteopath because she...

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April 12, 2015, 7:45 am

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A MAN has been given a 12-month conditional discharge after admitting three charges of sexual assault onboard an easyJet flight to Gatwick.Arni Helgason, 50, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual assault on a female, committed on the flight from Keflavik, the main airport in Iceland, on January 26.Helgason, who appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on March 25, was also ordered to pay £100 compensation for each offence and £85 costs.

Broadfield woman who fraudulently claimed £2,000 in...

April 13, 2015, 6:37 am

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A WOMAN who falsely claimed more than £2,200 in benefits will have to do 50 hours of unpaid work. Nicola Smith pleaded guilty at Crawley Magistrates' Court last Wednesday (April 8) to dishonestly failing to inform Crawley Borough Council that her husband had commenced employment, and obtaining discretionary housing payments when her partner was in employment. Smith, 27, of Broadwood Rise, Broadfield, claimed £2,026.62 housing benefit and £176.97 of discretionary housing...

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April 13, 2015, 8:53 am

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TRANSPORT police are appealing for help in tracking down a woman believed to have walked off a train with a bag containing nearly £1,000 for charity.British Transport Police (BTP) detectives want to speak to the woman photographed above after a bag, with £999 inside, was taken from a train travelling between Horsham and London Bridge at about 4.30pm on 17 March. Detective Constable Vanessa Cottington said: "A worker for the charity Furni-Aid left a bag containing donations,...

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April 14, 2015, 2:16 am

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A THIEF has bizarrely stolen a bag of rubbish from a car after breaking its rear window to gain entry. The crime happened in Langley Lane, in Ifield, at some point last Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Nothing else is believed to have been stolen from the vehicle and police are investigating the crime.

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April 14, 2015, 3:21 am

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A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of exposing himself and carrying out an indecent act in the toilets of a Crawley bar.Sussex Police were called after a woman made a complaint about an older man behaving in an indecent manner at the weekend.Officers were called to Bar 7, in Pegler Way, at 12.30am on Sunday (April 12) after a 22-year-old woman from the town raised the alarm.She reported witnessing a man commit an indecent act in the unisex toilets at the bar.A 48-year old man from Cressing, in...

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April 14, 2015, 10:08 pm

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TAXI drivers across the town are being urged not to leave cash or valuables in their cars following a series of thefts.Police have called every taxi firm in Crawley to warn them of the crime spree and advise them to take evasive action.Money, credit cards, sat-navs and smaller items from hats to sweets have been stolen in the spate of break-ins, which are being linked.Taxis in Broadfield, Bewbush and Ifield have all been broken into during the mini crimewave.A Sussex Police spokesman said:...

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Ifield man admits possessing cocaine

April 19, 2015, 2:15 am

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AN Ifield man has appeared at Lewes Crown Court charged with being in possession of criminal property, possessing a class B drug and possessing a class A drug with the intent to supply.The 25-year-old pleaded guilty to possessing 4.57 grams of cannabis at an address in Black Swan Close, Pease Pottage, on October 9, 2013. He also admitted being in possession of 7.81 grams of cocaine but denied having any intention to supply it. Robson, from Ifield Drive, also pleaded not guilty to having...

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April 20, 2015, 12:34 am

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FIREFIGHTERS were called out last night (Sunday) to extinguish burning newspaper at a bin store in Southgate. A fire crew used buckets of water to put out the blaze at Clitherow Gardens at around 7pm, having arrived in one appliance from Crawley Fire Station. No damage was caused to the bin store and there were no reports of injuries. It is unclear at this stage as to whether the fire had been started deliberately. But this area of Southgate has suffered in the last year from a series of...

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April 21, 2015, 4:36 am

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UP TO £10,000 worth of cannabis has been discovered in drug raids after a man was found with cannabis plants in the car they were driving yesterday (Monday). On Monday morning (April 20), road policing officers on routine patrol stopped a car driver in Pelham Place, Broadfield, for not wearing a seat belt. In the car they found a small quantity of cannabis plants. In subsequent searches of a business unit in Newdigate Road, Rusper, and a residential address in Caburn Heights,...

3 cats have to be put down after being poisoned with antifreeze

April 21, 2015, 8:27 am

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FEARS are spreading that cats are being poisoned again in Broadfield after three pets had to be put down after being rushed to the vets at the weekend. This follows at least five cats in Broadfield being poisoned in the space of a week last September, with two dying as a result. Each incident occurred in the same area of the neighbourhood and the poison, thought to be antifreeze, caused kidney failure and neurological damage to the animals. Coco Thaddeus, from Finsbury Close, took her pet...

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April 22, 2015, 8:05 pm

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THE number of hate crimes committed in Crawley over the past year has fallen despite the figure rising sharply across the rest of the county.Figures released by Sussex Police show 166 hate crimes were reported in the town in the 2014/15 financial year compared to 173 in the previous 12 months.The majority of this year's crimes were race-related (126), while there were 17 homophobic crimes, nine against disabled people, three transphobic crimes and 11 related to religion.A police spokesman said...