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Residents left shocked by violent attack by masked men in...
RESIDENTS have told of their shock after a man suffered a fractured eye socket after being punched and kicked by a gang of masked men in an attempted street robbery in Maidenbower.Police are trying to...
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Drink-driver Christopher Wilberforce given 12-month ban
A MAN has been disqualified from driving for 12 months after admitting drink-driving.Christopher Wilberforce, 32, was found to have 52 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the...
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Man scarred and suffers broken tooth after being punched in face...
A MAN has been left with scars and suffered a broken tooth after being punched in the face on his way home from a night out in Crawley. Sussex Police are appealing for witnesses to the assault, in...
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Police investigate fight in Crawley between 10 Polish men and 2...
TWO victims were punched and hit with a blunt object in an attack by a gang of ten men as they walked home. Police are appealing for witnesses to the assault on the two men, aged 28 and 38, who were...
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Man pleads guilty to stalking Crawley woman after hiding tracking...
A MAN who stalked a woman by placing a tracking device in her car will be sentenced next month.Robert Nowak, 35, pleaded guilty to stalking Monkia Sikon-Nowak between February 28 and September 23 this...
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Burglar steals wedding ring and Persian rug from Crawley home
A WEDDING ring and a Persian rug have been stolen from a property on Radford Road, in Tinsley Green. A burglar struck at some point between 8am and 4.20pm on Tuesday, October 14. Having broken in...
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Father of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne found dead at home
THE father of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne, who was abducted and killed by former Crawley man Roy Whiting, has been found dead at his home in Kent. Michael Payne, 45, had struggled with depression...
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Man, 62, appears in court accused of performing sex act in front...
A MAN has appeared in court accused of performing a sex act in front of a child in public.Timothy Cawston is charged with engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a 12-year-old girl, in Dorsten...
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Pilot arrested on suspicion of being drunk as he was about to fly...
A PILOT who was due to fly to Gatwick was arrested on suspicion of being drunk before he got into the cockpit. The 48-year-old, from Crediton, Devon, was arrested on suspicion of being over the limit...
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Crawley shoplifter pleads guilty to stealing Nirvana T-shirts
A MAN has admitted stealing meat, T-shirts and electrical goods in Crawley.Michael King appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on October 16.King, 32, faced four charges and pleaded guilty to all of...
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NAMED AND SHAMED: Woman 5 times the drink drive limit when she...
A WOMAN has been jailed after she repeatedly crashed her vehicle into a parked car while more than five times the drink-drive limit. Police were called after residents saw Phillipa Jutton's Toyota Aygo...
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Police investigating third arson attack in same Southgate road
A THIRD arson attack has been carried out in the same street in the past six months where previous blazeS destroyed a garage and left one man badly burned. On Wednesday night a fire was started in...
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Ifield woman offers reward for safe return of rare tortoise...
VETS within a 60-mile radius of Crawley are on high alert and the Government has been informed after a rare tortoise was stolen from a garden in Ifield.The Hermann's tortoise was taken from a house in...
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Crawley woman appears in court accused of sending abusive text...
A WOMAN will face trial for allegedly sending abusive text messages.Elena Averina, from Feroners Close, Furnace Green, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on October 16.Between April 22 and May 11...
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Crawley cat killer who drowned pet in bucket of water spared jail
A MAN who killed his sick pet cat by drowning it in a bucket of water has been spared a jail term by magistrates. David Streeter was sentenced at Crawley Magistrates' Court today (Monday, November 3)...
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Police believe same gang are behind 40 burglaries
POLICE believe the same gang of burglars are responsible for 40 burglaries across Sussex over the past few weeks - 11 of which took place in Crawley and another eight of which took place in Copthorne....
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Youths steal house and car keys while trick-or-treating in...
THREE youths stole a set of house and car keys while trick or treating at a house in Furnace Green on Hallowe'en. The youths knocked on the door in Arden Road last Friday night at about 9.30pm and...
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Woman raped in Horsham Park
A WOMAN was raped in a park in Horsham by a man she knew and police are appealing for witnesses to help trace him. On October 28 at about 11am the victim, a 40-year-old woman from Horsham, was raped in...
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Charges dropped against woman accused of stealing boxer shorts...
THE case against a woman accused of stealing men's boxer shorts has been dismissed after the prosecution could offer no evidence. Nicola Anderson, 38, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on October...
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Sussex Police reveal why suspected paedophiles were not arrested...
POLICE have revealed for the first time why a number of suspected online paedophiles in Sussex were not arrested as part of a national operation earlier this year. Sussex Police and Surrey Police...
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