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A MAN has denied stealing sunglasses from a shop at Gatwick Airport, claiming an identical pair found in his bag belonged to him.Mohamed El-Mahdi Sbaai allegedly took the glasses, worth £212.50, from World Duty Free in the departures lounge at the South Terminal on March 22.The 26-year-old, from Stanmore, in Middlesex, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Wednesday last week, where he pleaded not guilty to theft from a shop.He will now face trial at Horsham Magistrates' Court on July...

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May 22, 2015, 4:00 am

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A MAN who posted naked pictures of a woman on the internet has received a suspended prison sentence. Anton Lanni was charged with harassing the complainant at an address in Crawley on July 26 and 27 last year. Specifically, he sent her numerous unwanted text messages, posted naked photographs of her on the internet and sent her picture text messages. The 34-year-old, from Church Road, Worth, originally denied the offence but changed his plea to guilty at Crawley Magistrates' Court on...

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May 23, 2015, 3:00 am

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A MAN has admitted fraudulently attempting to take the driving theory test on behalf of someone else.Hermano Pascoal appeared at Lewes Crown Court May 8 charged with four counts of fraud. Three of the counts related to allegations of attempting to take driving theory tests booked in the name of Wilson Soares Da Graca.The fourth charge was in relation to having in his possession a driving licence under someone else's name.He was accused of attempting to take the test in Crawley, in Croydon and in...

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May 25, 2015, 10:30 pm

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A REWARD of £1,000 has been put up for help in catching thieves who carried out the audacious theft of a safe from a golf club.Late at night on May 4 a group of thieves smashed two large windows at Tilgate Forest Golf Centre's clubhouse.They then stole a large safe with "a substantial amount of money" in it, thought to be in the thousands, and loaded it onto a stolen golf buggy and drove it to a waiting van before making their escape.Dan Lucking, manager of the club off Titmus...

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May 26, 2015, 12:30 am

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A FURNACE Green dad has appeared in court accused of raping a seven-year-old girl twice and sexually assaulting her on four other occasions.Kowsor Ahmed appeared in the dock at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, May 13 alongside an interpreter.The father nodded his understanding as the interpreter began to explain the first charge – one of two counts of rape – then shook his head when the charge had been fully explained to him in Urdu.The court heard that he is alleged to have...

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May 26, 2015, 4:44 am

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POLICE have released CCTV images of a man and woman suspected of stealing a purse from an elderly woman in Crawley town centre and take thousands of pounds out of her bank account.An 86-year-old victim was shopping on April 2 when she was followed into the bank by a man and woman.Sussex Police officers believe they watched her enter her PIN and then followed her across town without her knowledge. She was then approached in Savers on Queens Square and asked her for help choosing items in a shop...

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May 27, 2015, 2:12 am

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MAGISTRATES have fined two Crawley women in separate cases of benefit fraud where they each claimed money they weren't entitled to by pretending their partners didn't live with them.Zoe Clark and Tane Hersey separately appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court last Wednesday (May 20) where they admitted benefit fraud totalling more than £15,000.Clark, of Abrahams Road, in Broadfield, pleaded guilty to two counts and Hersey, of Thirlmere Road, in Ifield, pleaded guilty to one charge.Clark, 42,...

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May 27, 2015, 7:46 am

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DETAILS of the funeral for German student Janet Müller, whose body was found in a burning car in Ifield, have been announced. The 21-year-old was discovered in a quiet lane just off Rusper Road, in Ifield, on March 13. Her funeral is going to take place in Berlin, Germany, on Friday (May 29). Detective Chief Inspector Karen Mizzi, from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team, who is leading the murder investigation, said: "Our thoughts and sympathy are with Janet's family and friends...

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May 27, 2015, 11:00 pm

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THERE was not a single arrest or ejection among Crawley Town's fans at home games this season.Although the season ended in disappointment with relegation to League 2, fans managed not to let their frustrations turn into bad behaviour.There were four ejections from the Checkatrade.com Stadium and one arrest – and they were all away fans.PC Darren Balkham, a football liaison officer for Sussex and Surrey Police, said: "It's been a pleasure working with the club and especially its...

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May 28, 2015, 7:06 am

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A " PREDATORY" man has been jailed for 15 years, after being found guilty of a host of child sex attacks and having indecent images of children.Andrew Hocking was sent to prison after being found guilty of seven counts of sexual assault on four child victims, all known to him, over a period of almost 40 years. He had also previously admitted separate offences relating to indecent images of children.The 57-year-old, of Gorse Close in Copthorne, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court today...

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May 29, 2015, 3:00 am

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TWO people have appeared in court accused of possessing animal porn which featured humans performing sex acts with a dog, horses and snakes.Richard Diamond and Julia Diamond, both 48, face four charges of possession of images and videos of an extreme or grossly offensive nature.One charge relates to a video which portrays either sexual intercourse or oral sex between a man and a horse.Another relates to 246 videos which depict intercourse or oral sex between humans and pigs, horses, dogs and...

Music teacher jailed for sex attacks on boys at Sussex school

May 29, 2015, 4:42 am

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A RETIRED music teacher has been jailed for four years for sex offences against young boys he was teaching in West Sussex. At Hove Crown Court yesterday (Thursday) Roger Francis Lunn, 76, of High Street, Soham, Cambridgeshire, was sentenced to a total of four years' imprisonment, having pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to 10 counts of indecent assault on two boys. The offences occurred between 1982 and 1986 at Great Walstead School, in Lindfield. Lunn went to the school to teach music, and...

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May 29, 2015, 6:56 am

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A FORMER Scout leader has been charged with historic sexual offences against boys - some of which are alleged to have been committed in Crawley and Charlwood. Taffy Mark Evans, 54, from Old Shoreham Road, Lancing has been charged with 27 offences, 20 of which relate to historic child sex offences and seven that relate to indecent photographs of children. The alleged historic child sex offences all involve boys under the age of 14 and include 16 of indecent assault, one of gross indecency and...

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May 29, 2015, 11:00 pm

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A DRIVER has been fined £375 for getting behind the wheel while over the drink-drive limit. Sebastian Stasiuk gave a reading of 66 micrograms of alcohol in 10 millilitres of breath when he was stopped by police on April 26 in Ifield Road, West Green.The legal limit is 35 micrograms. Satsiuk, 34, of Albany Road, West Green, pleaded guilty to drink-driving when he appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on May 15.He was ordered to pay costs of £235 on top of the fine as well as a...

Homeless shoplifter sentenced for County Mall aftershave theft

May 30, 2015, 10:15 pm

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A MAN who stole aftershave from a shop has been ordered to pay court costs and charges totalling more than three times the value of the goods he took. Danny Johnson, 22, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on May 14 to be sentenced for shoplifting at Debenhams in County Mall. Magistrates gave Johnson, of no fixed abode, a 12-month conditional discharge. He must pay court costs and charges totalling £200 and a £15 victim surcharge.

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May 31, 2015, 4:32 am

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A NURSE has been sentenced at Crawley Magistrates' Court after crashing her car into the front garden of a home, when she hit the accelerator instead of the brake. Rose Akinsemoyin managed to escape unscathed from the mangled Renault Megane after it skidded on black ice, collided with a tree and then flipped onto its roof. The 57-year-old nurse had been on her way to church when the collision occurred in Garden Wood Road, in East Grinstead, on the morning of Sunday, January 25. Police initially...

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May 31, 2015, 9:25 pm

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POLICE have been given a further six months to hold onto £4,000 in cash, found in a bedroom, to determine how it was gained.A hearing was held at Crawley Magistrates' Court on May 11 where Sussex Police applied for an extension to the money's detention.Officers seized £4,000 from Arran Khan on June 24 last year.It was found during a search of a bedroom at his home address in West Way, Three Bridges.Magistrates granted the extension.

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June 1, 2015, 5:25 am

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DETECTIVES investigating the rape of an 18-year-old woman in Crawley last month have named a man who they want to talk to in connection with the crime. The teenager was walking home when she was attacked by a man on a cyclepath off Haslett Avenue East, in Three Bridges, at about 11pm on May 9. The man raped her on the path, which meets the main road between Sutherland House and the BMW dealership, and then left. The victim was found staggering along Haslett Avenue East by a member of the public...

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June 2, 2015, 4:24 am

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A DRIVER who knocked down and killed a cyclist has been jailed after admitting he has never had a driving licence. Zisi Lushi struck cyclist Michael Dixon in Kerves Lane, Horsham, after taking his brother's silver Citroen C2 despite having no licence or insurance. Mr Dixon, 65, from Trundle Mead, Horsham, died at the scene. The victim was cycling south in Kerves Lane shortly before 11am on December 8 when Lushi, who was heading north, lost control of the Citroen and swerved across the...

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June 2, 2015, 10:43 pm

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A MAN has been fined for drug-driving after being caught behind the wheel with 152 micrograms of cocaine per litre of blood and 2.8 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood in his system.Zac Young, 23, was stopped by police while driving an Audi TT, on Ifield Avenue, in Crawley, on March 22. Young, from Horsham, pleaded guilty to the offence.He was fined £400, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £40 and court costs of £80 and has been disqualified from driving for 15 months....