WARNING: Crawley residents being targeted in PayPal e-mails scam

August 4, 2015, 11:01 pm

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POLICE in Crawley are urging residents to be on the lookout for scams which involve PayPal accounts being compromised by fraudsters.The warning follows several incidents in and around Crawley recently where the popular online payment system's name has been used in order to scam people out of money.A Sussex police spokesman said: "Various methods have been used in attempts to steal cash or goods, including false emails purporting to come from PayPal."Officers are advising people who use...

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August 5, 2015, 2:07 am

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BRITISH Transport Police (BTP) is investigating a report that a man was knocked unconscious in an alleged homophobic assault on a train travelling through Crawley. The incident happened on a train travelling from Brighton following the Pride celebrations on Saturday shortly before midnight. It is alleged two men used abusive and threatening language towards two other men on the train before the assault, which left one of the men, in his 50s, with injuries to his face. Detectives are currently...

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August 5, 2015, 3:21 am

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AN opium dealer has been jailed, after he was caught at Gatwick Airport trying to smuggle the drug into the UK in his underpants. Officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) began investigating Adam Ibrahim, 43, after the French authorities seized a parcel addressed to him containing around a kilo of the drug hidden within cotton reels, and notified the NCA.Ibrahim, of Willowfield Road, Eastbourne, was out of the country at the time but was arrested as he arrived into Gatwick on a flight from...

Man and woman arrested after phone theft from Costa in County...

August 6, 2015, 2:20 am

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A MOBILE phone has been stolen from the staff room of one of the Costa Coffee branches in County Mall. It was taken last Monday (July 27) just after 6pm. A man and woman were arrested in connection with the theft and are now on police bail pending further investigations. The phone in question has been recovered.

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August 6, 2015, 7:33 am

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A MAN who was arrested at Gatwick Airport has been jailed for attacking his former friend with an axe outside a nightclub. Joshua Streeks, 22, hit Liam O'Brien, 27, over the head with the wooden ornamental axe outside the Bad Apple nightclub in Croydon at about 1am on February 4, in what was described by the Recorder of Croydon Warwick McKinnon as a "revenge attack". Streeks, of Morland Road, Addiscombe, was jailed for three years and nine months at Croydon Crown Court on Tuesday, after...

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August 6, 2015, 8:07 am

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AN investigation into a brutal hammer attack in broad daylight is continuing after three men arrested over it answered bail. The trio, two of whom are from Crawley, were arrested following the assault in which a 30-year-old man from East Grinstead sustained head injuries and broken ribs. The incident occurred in the car park of The Haven Centre in Hophurst Lane, Crawley Down, just before 4pm on Tuesday, June 16. A 28-year-old from Copthorne, a 22-year-old from Crawley and a 25-year-old from...

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August 6, 2015, 11:30 pm

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MONEY has been stolen from a sandwich shop in Crawley after thieves used an angle grinder to break into two safes.The Subway branch on Gatwick Road, Manor Royal was broken into at about 11.40pm on Saturday night and about £2,000 in cash was stolen.An alarm at the store was activated and when store manager Mark Goddard arrived he found a rear window had been smashed and safes had been damaged by a power tool.Mr Goddard, who has been in charge at the shop for four years, said: "I...

Car stolen from outside home in Gossops Green

August 7, 2015, 5:00 am

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A RENAULT Clio was stolen at some point on Sunday from outside a home in Buckswood Drive, in Gossops Green. The full numberplate of the 2006 plate black Renault is FY06 0BV. Anyone who spots the car is asked to call police immediately on 101.

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SCAM: Dealers jailed after selling hundreds of cars that were...

August 8, 2015, 10:28 pm

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TWO rogue car dealers who ran a massive £100,000 scam have been jailed.Lucien Munn and Linda Attrell advertised and sold hundreds of cars that had been written off by insurance companies to unsuspecting customers, putting their lives "in danger".The vehicles were sold via Autotrader and Gumtree under a range of different trading names and led to one of the biggest Trading Standards investigations in recent years.Both were convicted in June of charges under the Fraud, Forgery and...

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August 10, 2015, 11:15 pm

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A MAN has admitted harassing a woman in Ifield by sending her 36 Facebook messages and beeping a car horn outside her home.John Chapman appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on July 16 to be sentenced after changing his plea to admit a charge of harassment.Between April 14 and October 11 last year the 40-year-old harassed a woman living in Ifield Drive by sending her the 36 Facebook messages.He also admitted to beeping his car horn and waving at her outside her home address on July 29,...

WANTED: Police trying to trace suspect after woman is raped

August 11, 2015, 8:09 am

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POLICE have arrested a man over the rape of a vulnerable woman in Horsham. The 32-year-old victim was drinking in The Kings Arms pub in Bishopric on Sunday, July 12 but left at about 9.30pm that evening with two men. One of the men - who were both white, had Irish accents and said they were brothers - then raped her behind the Sainsbury's store in Worthing Road, Horsham. A 47-year-old man from London has been arrested and questioned on suspicion of rape. He was released on bail until October...

Dad to be deported after high-speed police chase through Crawley

August 12, 2015, 1:30 am

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A DAD who led police on a high-speed chase through Crawley, after fleeing from a Frankie and Benny's restaurant without paying, is going to be deported once he is released from prison.Amit Naithani, of Ash Road, Three Bridges, appeared at Lewes Crown Court on Monday in relation to the police pursuit, which ended up with a stolen Mercedes crashing in Three Bridges last month.Driving at up to 40mph above the speed limit, Naithani attempted to escape from police by driving through red...

Sexual predator Lloyd Breach jailed for raping 15-year-old girl...

August 12, 2015, 3:32 am

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FORMER nightclub doorman Lloyd Breach has been jailed for eight years for raping an underage girl three times after adding her as a friend on Facebook. The 23-year-old former Hazelwick School student admitted raping the victim three times on the same night between October 1 and November 30, 2012. The victim only came forward about a year after it happened after seeing news coverage of a court case involving separate sexual offences committed by Breach. Breach, of The Old Stables in Ifield Wood,...

Teeanger girl and boy arrested after Pound Hill drug raids bailed

August 12, 2015, 11:00 pm

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TWO teenagers arrested following drug raids on homes where cannabis and cash were recovered have been bailed again.Sussex Police officers executed two warrants in Pound Hill on June 4.The first property was in Clive Way where a number of cannabis plants were seized.The second warrant was carried out in Eridge Close.A quantity of cannabis, including an amount of the drug which had been prepared for sale, was found. Cannabis paraphernalia and cash were also found.A 17-year-old girl and a...

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August 13, 2015, 12:30 am

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A DRINK-DRIVER who knocked down and fatally injured a popular pensioner has been spared a prison sentence and could apply for a driving licence again in just 18 months.Alan Wilsdon had already admitted drink-driving after hitting Mohamed Shamim as he crossed London Road after leaving Langley Green Mosque on May 18, 2014.He was handed a year's ban and fined £110 ten days later but two weeks after this Mr Shamim, 80, died from his injuries and the case was reopened.On Monday, Wilsdon,...

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WANTED: Crawley criminal who jumped out of wheelchair to escape...

August 13, 2015, 3:28 am

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A CRAWLEY man who jumped out of a wheelchair and ran off when in court is on the run again. Police have revealed this morning (Thursday) that they are searching for 36-year old Robert Conn, from St Joan Close in Langley Green, who should be in prison. He has breached the terms of his prison release licence. Conn is described as white, 6ft 2in tall, slim, with light brown hair and hazel eyes. He had been on a prison release licence and was part way through a 21-week sentence for theft....

Police reveal why helicopter was flying over Crawley at weekend

August 13, 2015, 9:18 am

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POLICE have announced why a helicopter was dispatched over Crawley at the weekend.Sussex Police called for support from the National Police Air Service (NPAS) at 7.15pm on Sunday.The air coverage was needed in the hunt of a missing teenage girl who had last been seen in Three Bridges.A Sussex Police spokeswoman said: "We received reports that a teenage girl, 13, had gone missing in the Three Bridges area of Crawley."By 8pm she had returned home safe and well."

Man appears in court in Crawley accused of attempted murder

August 14, 2015, 7:45 am

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A MAN has appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court today (Friday) charged with attempted murder, after a woman was stabbed multiple times. Peter Cooper, 46, unemployed, of Fletcher Way, Angmering, appeared before magistrates in Crawley charged with attempting to murder Olivia Shirley at a property in Fletcher Way on Wednesday evening. He was remanded in custody to appear before Lewes Crown Court on August 28. The victim, 41, who suffered multiple stab wounds, remains in hospital and is in a...

Member of public finds gun and bullets in Crawley woodland

August 14, 2015, 9:46 am

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POLICE are asking for the public's help to work out how a handgun came to be in a wooded area in Crawley. A member of the public found the gun in woodland close to Lundy Close, in Broadfield. The weapon is an Automatic Victoria and was found together with a magazine and five live bullets, wrapped in a couple of bin bags. Police do not know how the weapon came to be there. It has not been revealed when the gun was found. It may have been dropped by someone, or hidden and disturbed by...

I've lost my trust in people says Crawley dad who had £20,0...

August 16, 2015, 9:05 pm

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A NORTHGATE dad says he has lost his trust in people – after having £20,000 in cash stolen from his home.The parent-of-two, who has asked to remain anonymous, returned home at 9pm on July 28 to that find two hidden cash boxes containing the money had been stolen.The Northgate Road resident had been working down on the coast for the day when his home was burgled.He said: "I came in from work to find that the money had gone."I rang my cleaner and she said when she had been in...