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Defiant Gloucestershire police and crime commissioner Martin Surl has said that criticisms of the elected role nationally do not apply in the county. Police commissioners are 'on probation' because of a failure to cut through to the public, a powerful committee of MPs has concluded. The Home Affairs Select Committee said in a report the case for police and crime commissioners has yet to be made, after low election turnouts and the failure of some commissioners – known as PCCs – to...

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May 6, 2014, 8:01 am

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May 6, 2014, 2:08 am

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A Facebook campaign has been launched to keep notorious Gloucester criminal Barry Chambers out of the city when he is next released from prison. A page has been set up called "Let's keep Barry Chambers out of Gloucester" and has so far received 65 'likes' on the social network. On the Facebook page information section the creator says: "This is a dirty criminal who ruins peoples life's he's had over 100 offences so let's get him out." Chambers, 35, of Brook Street, Gloucester...

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May 7, 2014, 4:27 am

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TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of a Cinderford man last week. A 43-year-old from the town and a 48-year-old man from Stonehouse were arrested by police last night. Ryan Probert, 31, was airlifted to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol where he died of a suspected heart attack in the early hours of Wednesday, April 30. Police were called by the ambulance service to a flat in Market Street at about 7pm on Tuesday, April 29. A police spokesman said: "The...

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May 7, 2014, 9:12 am

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Irishman, Joseph Brazil, who told a judge in December "you will never see me again," was back before the court after hitting a friend over the head with a cricket bat. The 24-year-old was jailed for 15 months on Wednesday after pleading guilty to the assault which left Lee Silsby needing eight stiches in his head. Gloucester Crown Court heard the pair had got into a drunken row in the early hours of April 12, this year, before Brazil of Beacon Road in Matson grabbed a knife from the...

Two men from Gloucestershire have been released on bail in...

May 8, 2014, 5:59 am

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TWO men arrested in connection with the death of a Cinderford man have been released on bail. A 43-year-old from the town and a 48-year-old from Stonehouse have been questioned by police over the death of Ryan Probert, 31. They were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and must return to Gloucester Police Station on Friday, May 30. A police spokesman said further enquiries are being made. The ambulance service called police to a flat in Market Street at about 7pm on Tuesday, April 29. Mr...

Prime Minister David Cameron condemns Gloucester knife crime

May 8, 2014, 8:49 am

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Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned knife crime in Gloucester in the wake of three alleged murders. Speaking to the Citizen's public affairs reporter Mike Wilkinson today during a visit to engineering firm Renishaw, at Woodchester, near Nailsworth, he said: "The crimes in Gloucester are appalling and should be condemned. "Nationwide knife crime is falling and in Gloucestershire crime is falling overall and we have already toughened the approach on knife crime. "We have changed the rules...

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May 9, 2014, 4:55 am

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The ex-boyfriend of Gloucester hairdresser Hollie Gazzard appeared at Bristol Crown Court this morning accused of murdering her. Asher Thomas Maslin was due to enter a plea to the charge, but instead made an application to change his legal defence team. The 22-year-old, of Benhall Gardens in Cheltenham, is alleged to have stabbed Hollie to death as she worked at a city centre salon on February 18 this year. Dressed in a black and yellow Ralph Lauren Polo shirt, dark blue jeans and grey...

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May 10, 2014, 1:50 am

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A WHOPPING £16,000 has already been raised by a trust set up in memory of Churchdown hairdresser, Hollie Gazzard. The 20-year-old was killed as she worked in a Gloucester salon in February this year. The Hollie Gazzard Trust was formally set up just weeks ago and has already raised an incredible amount of cash. Its first major fundraiser saw around 700 people walked from Gloucester to Cheltenham last month. It proved such a success, her family want to make Hollie's Walk an annual...

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May 11, 2014, 11:35 pm

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Coroner Alan Crickmore who swindled the estates of dead clients, is appealing his jail sentence for fraud. The solicitor, who was Gloucestershire's coroner, pilfered almost £2 million from his clients between 1999 and 2011. The Court of Appeal confirmed the 57-year-old of East Approach Drive in Cheltenham was appealing against his eight-year term. A date is yet to be fixed for the London hearing. It is understood Crickmore will argue his sentence was too long and he wants it reduced by...

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May 1, 2014, 8:17 am

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MEMBERS of a drugs gang who could have flooded the streets of Gloucester with £1.25million of cocaine have been jailed for more than 55 years. Rodney Brissett headed up the Gloucester end of the organisation, which was bringing in high purity cocaine from Leicester, before cutting it down and selling it on. The gang of 10, who were part of a "professional and sophisticated" set up, were said to be brought down by elaborate police surveillance and meticulous searches of their phone...

Whitminster thug launched hooligan style headbutt on innocent V...

May 13, 2014, 9:12 am

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A THUG has escaped a jail sentence after he unleashed a "football hooligan" style head-butt during an unprovoked attack outside a Cheltenham nightclub. Thomas Harry Thornes, 21, of Uptons Garden, Whitminster, Gloucester, attacked a passer-by as he was being escorted from V Nightclub following a fight at the venue in the early hours of Christmas Day. Thornes, who was serving a community order at the time for a previous incident of battery, said he could not remember the altercation because he...

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May 13, 2014, 10:49 pm

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AN engineering worker accused of rape told a jury yesterday he did not have one night stands because of the unusual shape of his manhood. Paul Lee, 32, of Millers Dyke, Quedgeley, also said the woman he is alleged to have raped had been touching him intimately on the night of the incident. He had met the woman earlier that night and had gone back with her to her friend's home where they both fell drunkenly asleep, Gloucester Crown Court heard. Later, he said, he woke to find she was touching...

Violent Gloucester man jailed for five years after tormenting...

May 14, 2014, 7:46 am

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Violent Andrew Knott has been jailed for five years after tormenting a woman for four days, beating her, threatening her with a knife and hammer and sexually assaulting her. The 44-year-old inflicted the vicious attack just nine days after he was given a restraining order not to contact her. Gloucester Crown Court heard he sexually assaulted her with a sex toy, sliced her face with a knife and beat her unconscious at his Gloucester home between February 27 and March 3, this year. Prosecutor...

Quedgeley rapist, Paul Lee, jailed for eight years

May 14, 2014, 7:57 am

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A rapist who violently attacked a woman while she slept was jailed for eight year. Paul Lee was found guilty of raping the 23-year-old as she slept on a sofa at her friend's home. She told Gloucester Crown Court she had woken up to find naked Lee, 31 of Millers Dyke in Quedgeley, straddling her on November 18, 2012. She had been left with a nose bleed, a head ache and bruises on her legs and buttocks following the attack. In a victim impact statement read to the court, the woman said she had to...

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Gloucester burglar avoids jail after leaving fingerprints on a...

May 14, 2014, 5:12 am

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Lookout Jordan Ryland has avoided jail after being part of a team of burglars, who raided a house under renovation and stole £7,000 worth of goods - including baby clothes. The unsophisticated criminal, described as a fool by the judge, was caught by police after he left a can of Coke with his fingerprints on in the Stroud home. Gloucester Crown Court heard the 20-year-old refused to name his accomplices to the break in where electrical goods, including televisions and a camera, a Combi...

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May 14, 2014, 10:00 pm

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PROLIFIC burglar Richard Stokes is a "coward" who targeted schools to "avoid confrontation". A day after being released from a prison term he received for burgling a city school, Stokes went back and raided it again, Gloucester Crown Court was told. Stokes, 35, was jailed for a total of 40 months on Tuesday after admitting two burglaries at schools, robbing a woman of her handbag and receiving goods stolen in a Gloucester house burglary. PC Aimee John, who was in charge of the case said:...

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May 15, 2014, 1:25 am

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Teenage burglar, Star Sallis, who walked into a 96-year-old's home and stole whisky and his wallet, has appeared in court after breaching her sentence. The 18-year-old of Marsh Lane in St Paul's, Cheltenham was given an 18 month community order with supervision and had to carry out 60 hours unpaid work in October last year. But Gloucester Crown Court heard Sallis had been suffering from problems and failed to attend two of her supervision sessions. Sian Worrall from the probation service said:...

Forest of Dean cannabis growing couple terrified of going to jail

May 15, 2014, 6:28 am

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A couple growing and selling cannabis appeared at court terrified at the prospect of going to prison. Emma Blunt, 20, and her boyfriend, George Davis, 28, both admitted being concerned in the production of the drug and possession of cannabis with intent to supply. Prosecutor Julian Kesner told Gloucester Crown Court police raided their Dark Cottage home in Allsopp Close, Newnham on October 7, last year. Officers found five cannabis plants growing in their home, worth a potential street value of...

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May 16, 2014, 10:00 pm

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A football fan stabbed a friend when he woke to find his head had been shaved as a prank. Grandad Ian Norfolk was landed with a seven-and-a-half year jail sentence after he attacked his friend Peter Wynn with a kitchen knife. The two had been watching European Cup football on TV when Norfolk fell asleep on June 14, 2012. Norfolk, formerly of Stroud, but now of Johnston close, Staunton, denied wounding Mr Wynn with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm but was convicted by a jury last...