Crawley man charged after search which led to police car crash
A MAN has been charged with theft from a motor vehicle, possession of a cannabis and criminal damage. Harry Brackpool, 21, was arrested on Wednesday following a police search the previous day during...
View ArticleCrawley police appeal for witnesses to argument in Ifield Medical...
Crawley police are investigating reports of a dispute between a man and woman in the car park of Ifield Medical Centre. A man and woman in a parked green Vauxhall Corsa were seen to be involved in a...
View ArticleIs this the most pointless crime of the year? Man in court for...
As crimes go it isn't exactly worthy of an investigation by Inspector Morse or Hercule Poirot. But a teenager has nonetheless appeared in court and convicted of stealing a piece of jewellery - worth...
View ArticlePriest is one of two Sussex men guilty of child sex abuse
A PRIEST and another man, both from Sussex, have been convicted of a string of child sex abuse offences, which happened more than 25 years ago. Church of England Priest Keith Wilkie Denford, 78, of...
View ArticleBrighton man jailed for raping teenager
A MAN from Brighton has been jailed for eight years for raping and indecently assaulting a young teenager. Graham Wheatley, of Birdham Road, admitted indecently assaulting a 14 year old girl in...
View ArticleSecond body found in Copthorne cottage fire
The body of man has been discovered in the debris of a fire at a Copthorne cottage. Firefighters battled for hours to put out the blaze at a property off the A264 in Snow Hill, Copthorne, in the early...
View ArticleThree Bridges pensioner tells of how he fought off would-be...
A GUTSY pensioner scared off a would-be burglar by threatening to "thump him" while wearing only his dressing gown.Dave Phillips was taking a shower at his Three Bridges home on March 4 when he heard...
View ArticleGold and jewellery thieves target Asian families in Crawley
A NEW spate of gold thefts has targeted Asian families across Crawley. Three houses were raided in Bewbush, West Green and Broadfield last week. A house in Argus Walk, Bewbush, was broken into through...
View ArticleBurglars steal jewellery worth £200,000 from a single...
Crawley police are investigating a burglary at a Bewbush house where gold jewellery valued at £200,000 and thousands of pounds in cash were stolen. A property in Letchworth Court was broken into and as...
View ArticleMan in hospital after assault in Worthing
Sussex Police are urging witnesses to come forward who might have seen a serious assault that took place in Worthing in the early hours of Sunday.A 37-year-old man was hospitalised after being found...
View ArticleTravellers who set up home in Crawley car park move on
A group of travellers who had set up camp in a Crawley car park have moved on this afternoon. Six caravans and several other vehicles managed to get into the locked car park, close to County Oak Retail...
View ArticleCrawley priest carried out sex attacks at children's home, court...
A former Crawley priest carried out a string of sex attacks at a children's home, a court has heard. Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, is accused of abusing more than a dozen girls and boys at the home over a...
View ArticleSecond man arrested over murder of Lea Williams
Sussex Police have arrested a second man in connection with the murder of homeless man Lea Williams.Mr Williams, 45, was found dead near the pitch-and-putt course at the Western Esplanade at Hove...
View ArticleCrawley Down teenager injured after bitten by dog
A teenager was left with minor injuries after he was bitten by a dog. The 13-year-old boy received scratches and bruises after he was bitten by the dog in Crawley Down in the afternoon on Wednesday...
View ArticleWANTED: E-fit of man who is linked to Asian family burglaries
Crawley Police have issued an E-fit of a man who was seen near a property which was burgled in West Green. A witness saw the man in Sunnymead at around 4pm on April 3 and then leave at high speed in a...
View ArticleWoman's nose bitten off at Butlins
A WOMAN had part of her nose bitten off while watching Jack and the Beanstalk at Butlins, Bognor. Police were called to the holiday camp after reports that the 47-year-old guest from Aylesbury had...
View ArticleIs this Sussex's most ungrateful son? Teenage thief raids his own...
A TEENAGE thief has been banned from going to his parents' house after admitting stealing from their home.John Currie was serving a suspended sentence for theft and burglary when he committed the...
View ArticlePolice release CCTV image after 88-year-old man robbed
Sussex Police have released CCTV footage of two men they want to talk to who were seen close to the scene of a crime in which an 88-year-old man had two watches stolen from him.The man answered his...
View ArticleDistinctive jewellery stolen from Langley Green home
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after bespoke jewellery was stolen from a home in Langley Green. The burglary happened on March 23 at a house in Stafford Road. The couple left their address at...
View ArticleStolen Crawley jewellery may have been recovered
POLICE are looking to reunite jewellery taken during a raid on a shop with its owners, who could be from Crawley. A large quantity of jewellery, clocks, silverware and other items were seized from the...
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