Police rule out black van pictured in CCTV as part of Surrey...
Police in Surrey have traced the owner of a black van, the picture of which was shared thousands of times on social media after reports of a child abduction, and ruled them out of the investigation....
View ArticleWoman had to swerve to avoid Copthorne man shortly before he was...
A woman who was driving along a road shortly before a Copthorne man was hit and killed by another car last year has told a jury she had to swerve to avoid him and his companion.Martin Standen-Grant...
View ArticleWARNING: Do not approach man with links to Crawley who is on run...
Police are warning people to stay away from a tattooed man who is on the run from prison and is known to have links to Crawley.Sussex Police officers are looking for Wayne Lawton, 40, who failed to...
View ArticleBernard Matthews found guilty of causing death of Copthorne man...
A driver who hit and killed a Copthorne man as he was walking along an unlit road at night has been found guilty of causing his death by careless driving.Martin Standen-Grant was walking with a friend...
View ArticleCrawley woman arrested in major police raid to stop drugs supply...
A young woman from Crawley has been arrested and appeared in court following a series of major police raids to crackdown on drug dealing in the west of the country.Dozens of officers have arrested 10...
View ArticleWanted robber who fled prison for 10 days hands himself in to...
A man with links to Crawley who was on the run from prison for 10 days has handed himself in to police.Sussex Police launched a public appeal yesterday (Thursday, September 1) for help in tracing Wayne...
View ArticleChild who was riding bike in Crawley grabbed by stranger wearing...
A child was grabbed by a stranger who was wearing "black gloves" and a "balaclava" near Ifield Mill Pond this afternoon. The ten-year-old boy was cycling by the pond at about 5.20pm, away from the...
View ArticleCrawley man charged with murdering man found unconscious in...
Detectives investigating the death of a man who was found lying unconscious in a busy street have charged a man from Crawley with murdering him.Reginald Ofei-Berko was discovered in the middle of the...
View ArticleTwo 12-year-olds arrested after youth seen acting aggressively...
Two 12-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon after a group of youths was seen outside County Mall, one of them carrying a baseball bat.Police were called at...
View ArticleCrawley duo arrested on suspicion of stealing £20,000...
A man and girl from Crawley have been arrested on suspicion of stealing a valuable statue from Nymans Gardens just outside Crawley.Sussex Police are appealing for the return of the 5 foot lead statue...
View ArticleBroadfield lorry driver charged with drug-driving following...
A lorry driver who was involved in a crash, following which a taxi driver from Bewbush died, has been charged with driving with more than 10 times the legal limit of a major substance which makes...
View ArticleDriver arrested after pedestrian taken to hospital following High...
A driver has been arrested following a collision in Crawley High Street where a pedestrian was knocked to the ground and had to be taken to hospital.Emergency services were called to the town centre at...
View ArticleToxic skin lightening products that could cause cancer seized at...
Nearly 300 skin lightening products with a banned chemical compound in them which is linked to cancer have been sized at Gatwick Airport.The consignment of approximately 280 cosmetic products,...
View ArticleCrawley teenager rebailed over serious crash which injured...
A Crawley teenager and a man from Haywards Heath have both been granted bail for the fourth time by police in connection with a major crash which caused a serious head injury to a nine-year-old boy.On...
View ArticleWhy was the police helicopter out over Crawley last night?
The police helicopter was out over Crawley in the early hours of this morning. The National Police Air Service (NPAS) aircraft was reported over the town at around 3am with some residents saying thy...
View ArticleGatwick flight to Orlando diverted to Boston over 'unruly'...
A flight from Gatwick to Orlando had to be diverted to Boston due to an "unruly" passenger. The British Airways flight 2039 was diverted to make an unscheduled landing at Logan Airport in Boston at...
View ArticlePolice searching for man with links to Crawley who allegedly...
Police are searching for a man with links to Crawley who allegedly threatened to kill a person.Joshua Maguire is believed to also have links to Horsham as well as Crawley.Maguire is described as being...
View ArticleNearly £70,000 has been spent on paying for translators at...
The Ministry of Justice has spent nearly £70,000 on translators at Crawley Magistrates' Court over the last five financial years.They were used on a total of 716 occasions, at a combined cost of...
View ArticleMan charged with trying to smuggle £100,000 of cocaine...
A man has appeared in court charged with trying to smuggle cocaine worth £100,000 through the North Terminal at Gatwick Airport.Robert Morris, 27, was arrested at the airport last Wednesday (September...
View ArticleWorried mum of missing Crawley teenager makes desperate plea for...
The worried mother of a missing Crawley teenager has vowed not to turn her back on her daughter, despite her going missing for the sixth time in two months.Charley Harrison was reported missing over...
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