Family lawyer facing jail for showing video of child being raped...
A family lawyer is facing jail for a string of sex abuse offences - including showing a video of a child being raped to a Somerset paedophile and other members of a notorious gang.Police began...
View ArticleCCTV released after Taunton attack where man suffered facial...
Do you recognise this man? Police want to talk to him following an attack in Taunton which saw a man taken to Musgrove Park Hospital with facial injuries after being kicked while on the floor.Police...
View ArticleGlastonbury police respond as dog poo smeared on windows at The...
Police were called to a domestic disturbance at The Beckery in Glastonbury last night after what started out as an argument ended up with residents having dog poo smeared across their windows. A police...
View ArticleTaunton woman Stephanie King stole meat and dairy items from...
A woman who went thieving from a Yeovil supermarket told a court that there was no reason for the offence and she had no excuse for committing it.Stephanie King was seen in Morrisons with a group of...
View ArticleFormer naval Chief Petty Officer seen drink driving near...
An Ilchester man who was two and a half times over the drink drive limit when he was seen by police driving through a built up area as the village school was emptying at the end of the day has been...
View ArticleYeovil paedophile Keith Locke caught by police officer posing as...
A paedophile who thought he was encouraging a 12-year-old girl to have sex has been captured in an undercover police operation.The 54 year old carpenter, who had been married for 30 years, thought he...
View ArticlePrimary school bomb scares in Somerset and Dorset - here's...
Children at a school in Taunton have been evacuated following a bomb scare while several other institutions in the South West also received malicious hoax threats. Reports on the exact situation...
View ArticleDrunk Nigel Walford tried to fight disabled man, masturbated and...
A judge branded a man "the nuisance of Bridgwater" after he drank two LITRES of Martini and went on a spree of vile behaviour.Homeless Nigel Walford:challenged a disabled man to a fight; started...
View ArticleDorset police and fraud squad raid three addresses in ethical...
Police from the Serious Fraud Office carried out raids on three properties in the south of England. The director of the SFO has opened a criminal investigation into an alleged fraudulent investment...
View ArticleWash basins smashed and vintage buses vandalised in 'mindless...
Vintage buses and bathroom sinks were among the items vandalised in a case of "mindless damage" at a former Sherborne school. Dorset Police are investigating a break-in at the Newell House School on...
View ArticleTaunton sex creep snuck up to girls and stroked them on...
A Somerset sex creep who felt compelled to sneak up to girls on buses and start stroking them has had his jail term almost halved by senior judges. David James Best, 46, sat behind one victim on the...
View ArticleDorset Police no nearer to catching BMW driver who crashed into...
Dorset Police has said that they are no closer to apprehending the driver of a black BMW which crashed into an antiques centre in Sherborne. The female driver of the vehicle was caught on CCTV pulling...
View ArticleBath nail bar probe: Bath woman to face charges she exploited...
A 48 year-old woman from Somerset is due in court today (March 9) charged with human trafficking offences. Thu Huong Nguyen, of Southdown Road, is due before Cannock Magistrates' Court in Staffordshire...
View ArticlePolice appeal for help after woman has handbag stolen while...
Police have described a man they think pushed a woman from behind and grabbed her handbag as she walked through Bridgwater. A 44 year-old woman was walking along the East Quay at around 1:30pm on...
View ArticleGillingham business director pleads guilty to moving funds out of...
A Dorset business director will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to carry out misleading commercial practices. Paulina Kubicz, of Addison Close in Gillingham, was a director of the...
View ArticlePolice passed information about hit-and-run on B3151 between...
Police investigating a hit-and-run incident in Somerset have been passed information by the public. Officers from Avon and Somerset Constabulary issued an appeal on Tuesday (March 7) following the...
View ArticleAppeal to find driver who knocked boy, 14, off bike in Weston-sup...
An appeal has been made to find the driver of a car who knocked a 14-year-old boy off his bike in Weston-super-Mare on Tuesday (March 7).Mitchell Ogston was taken to hospital on Tuesday night after the...
View ArticleFacetime kill threats - Judge sentences Glastonbury man who said...
A Glastonbury man who threatened to kill his two-year-old son live on camera in a Facetime message to the child's mother has been spared jail by a judge. The 24-year-old defendant, who cannot be named...
View ArticleFrome removal man Robert Athey stole £15k engagement ring...
A removal man who swiped a £15,000 engagement ring and £2,000 silver watch from a house he was packing up in West Cranmore was spared jail by a judge today. Robert Athey, age 24, of Coronation Road,...
View ArticleCheltenham woman jailed for 'begging aggressively' and taking...
A woman from Cheltenham was sentenced to four weeks in prison after repeated anti-social behaviour, begging and drug use in Weston-super-Mare. Rhiannon Parrott had travelled all the way from Cheltenham...
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