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July 18, 2014, 9:02 am

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A SCHIZOPHRENIC university graduate who tried to stab a police officer outside his Quedgeley home has been found guilty of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent. A jury of eight men and four women took just under five hours to reach a majority 10-2 verdict against Christopher Leyshon at Gloucester Crown Court yesterday. The 29-year-old Cambridge University computer design graduate, who lived with his mother and brother at Field Court Gardens, remained impassive as the foreman of...

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Trainee plumber Michael Payne jailed for causing the death by...

July 21, 2014, 5:25 am

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A trainee plumber whose 'impetuous' decision to overtake a bus on double white lines killed a 49-year-old man and badly injured his fiancee was jailed for 27 months today. Forgiving members of victim Stephen Grice's family had asked the judge at Gloucester Crown Court not to jail 23-year-old driver Michael Payne but to send him on an advanced driving course. But Judge Jamie Tabor QC told remorseful Payne, of Rowan close, Ross-on-Wye, that he was duty bound to pass a jail term. He also banned...

Apple iPad security system snares career criminal James Beard

July 21, 2014, 10:49 pm

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Heroin addict James Beard inflicted misery on no fewer than 64 households in a burglary spree lasting just a few months. But the 47-year-old career criminal was finally foiled by an iPad security system and is now at the beginning of yet another jail term. In just two months earlier this year, Beard, of Cromwell Street, Gloucester, was "busy most days of the week", according to prosecuting barrister Mark Hollier. The drug addict would walk up and down residential streets in the dead of night...

Gloucestershire Police have lowest stun gun use in south west

July 22, 2014, 1:09 am

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE Police has the lowest rate of taser gun usage in the south west, according to a new report. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has published an analysis of use following nationwide complaints relating to taser use from 2004 to 2013. According to the figures for 2013 some of the 1,218 police officers in the county drew, aimed or fired their tasers 91 times in the year - the equivalent of seven uses per 100 officers. Wiltshire had the highest rate with its 1,062...

Tony Poole, accused of murdering Gloucester's Martin Stokes,...

July 22, 2014, 2:04 am

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TONY Poole, who stands accused of murdering a Gloucester man, will be remanded in prison until November. Poole, 51, of Melbourne Street East was due to stand trial at Bristol Crown Court yesterday following Martin Stokes death in January this year. But a judge agreed to his custody time limit being extended until November 14. Poole is alleged to have stabbed two men at an address in Nettleton Road in Gloucester on Monday, January 13. He was originally charged with causing both Mr Stokes, 30, and...

Thieves 'dressed like commandos' seen 'waving to eyewitness'...

July 22, 2014, 4:32 am

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THIEVES 'dressed like commandos' are said to have broken in to a community project, making off with a top of the range bike, cash and wheels before cheerfully waving to an eyewitness while walking down the street. Police are appealing for information following the break-in at a bike repair shop run by Gloucestershire Bike Project on Francis Woodcock Trading estate between 6.30pm on Saturday and 8am on Sunday. Goods worth hundreds of pounds were taken from the project, which last year helped 60...

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July 22, 2014, 4:55 am

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A nine-year-old boy was attacked by a teenager in a Gloucester Park. The boy was in the playground in Gloucester Park between 5pm and 5.30pm on Sunday July 20 when he was attacked. The victim, from Gloucester, was playing on a swing when he was pushed off it by an older boy, thought to be around 17, and assaulted. He suffered facial injuries and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment. The offender is described as being around 17-years old and of mixed heritage . He had...

Appeal following Gloucester serious sexual assault

July 23, 2014, 1:48 am

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Police in Gloucester are investigating a serious sexual assault in the city. The incident happened at an address on Alvin Street in the early hours on Sunday July 13 after the victim, a woman, met the man at Registry nightclub. The offender is described as white, aged between 30 and 40 years old and was wearing a long sleeved shirt with blue and white vertical stripes, black trousers and tatty brown shoes. Anyone who may have information on this incident or recognises the man in the image...

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Hardwicke man, 21, assaulted in Tuffley

July 23, 2014, 2:58 am

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Police are seeking information about an incident on Sunday July 6 in Stroud Road, Tuffley, when a man was assaulted and robbed. The incident occurred sometime between 10.30pm and 11.30pm when the victim, 21, from Hardwicke, was assaulted by three males and received a cut to his face at the hairline and a swollen cheek, and his wallet (colour white) was stolen. The assailants are described as being in their early 20s, white, about 5ft 8ins tall, with their hoods up, and one had a Birmingham...

Hollie Gazzard murder: Parents appear on ITV's This Morning

July 23, 2014, 4:42 am

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THE family of murdered hairdresser Hollie Gazzard have appeared on ITV's This Morning show to raise awareness of the trust they have set up following the attack. The attack happened in front of colleagues and customers at Fringe Benefits and La Bella Beauty salon in Gloucester on February 18. Ex-boyfriend Asher Maslin, 22, from Cheltenham has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for stabbing beautiful redhead Hollie at her workplace. The former Churchdown School pupil, who has nine previous...

Mobile phones, cash and bank cards have been stolen from...

July 23, 2014, 6:15 am

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OPPORTUNIST thieves are stealing mobile phones, bank cards and cash from cars in Gloucester which have been left unlocked. Police say there have been 27 thefts in the last week alone and vehicle owners have been urged to remain vigilant during the heatwave. A number of items have allegedly been stolen after sunroofs and windows have been left open. Dave McFarlane, Senior Harm Reduction Advisor at Gloucestershire Police, said: "It's vital people lock vehicle doors at all times and ensure during...

Apple Mac geek suspected of stealing magazines in Stroud

July 23, 2014, 8:17 am

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A COMPUTER geek has been stealing hundreds of pounds-worth of magazines from the same newsagent for three years, it is believed. Police officers believe specialist Apple Mac computer magazines worth a total of £600 have been stolen from the WH Smith store in King Street, Stroud by the same man since 2011. In the latest incident, shortly after 10am on Wednesday, July 9, a man picked up a copy of iCreate, ripped the barcode off and walked out without paying. Investigating police have...

Husband and wife found dead at Kingsway home after man's guilty...

July 23, 2014, 9:05 am

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A COUPLE have been found dead after the husband failed to attend court on charges of making and possessing indecent images of children. Robert and Ellen Griffiths, both aged 36, were discovered at their home in Shawbury Avenue, Kingsway, last Thursday when police forced their way into the house. Their deaths are not being treated as suspicious. Two days before they were found, a warrant had been issued for Mr Griffiths' arrest when he failed to attend Gloucester Crown Court to be...

Gloucester MP Richard Graham welcomes new measures against FGM

July 23, 2014, 2:37 am

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MP Richard Graham has welcomed measures announced by the Prime Minister David Cameron against female genital mutilation. The Prime Minister made the announcements at the government's 'Girl Summit' yesterday. The new measures include funding to help care for survivors; new legislation which means parents can be prosecuted if they fail to prevent female genital mutilation of their daughter and guaranteed anonymity for victims. There will also be an international charter calling for the...

Former Gloucester school cleaner jailed for eight years for...

July 25, 2014, 2:48 am

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FORMER school cleaner Robert Sulc has been jailed for eight years after sexually abusing a young girl for nearly five years. Slovakian-born Sulc gave the vulnerable girl cigarettes and alcohol when he abused her at his home between May 2004 and March 2009, when she was aged between seven and 11. The 62-year-old denied three charges of sexual activity with a child under 13, three of assaulting the same girl and six counts of inciting her to engage in sexual activity with him, but was found guilty...

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July 25, 2014, 12:40 am

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Football hooligan Aaron Cawley has been jailed after stealing more than £1,000 of petrol. He drove in other people's cars stealing petrol from garages between July 2011 and October 2013. The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and asked for another 12 offences to be taken into consideration. Gloucester Crown Court heard dad-to-be Cawley, who hit the headlines when he ran onto a football pitch and slapped Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland in a 2012 clash...

PC World paedophile flouted sexual offences prevention order

July 25, 2014, 8:02 am

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PAEDOPHILE Daniel Powell, who took an up-the-skirt photo of a six-year-old girl, is back behind bars. The 33-year-old has appeared in court and admitted flouting his sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) and making indecent photographs of children. Powell was sparred jail in August 2013 after he took a picture of the young girl at his then workplace in PC World in Cheltenham. Instead he was ordered to go on an intensive rehabilitation programme. But he failed to take advantage of the chance...

20 years in jail for man found guilty of historic sex crimes...

July 25, 2014, 8:55 am

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TWENTY years behind bars is the punishment Stephen Smith will serve for historic sex crimes against children. The 61-year-old, formerly of Nailsworth and now of Ty Mawr, Llanbydder, near Carmarthen, Wales, repeatedly raped and sexually abused two young girls and indecently assaulted a boy. He preyed on one of the girls over a six year period from 1976 to 1982. It was during the same time scale that he indecently assaulted an 11-year-old boy. Then between 1992 and 1996 he committed a similar...

Wotton-under-Edge street dealer jailed

July 25, 2014, 9:55 am

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DRUGS, cash, scales and dealers' lists with 29 names on it were found by police when they raided a Wotton-under-Edge street dealer's home. Shannon Wilkins was jailed for 10 months after he admitted possessing a class B designer drug with intent to supply. Gloucester Crown Court heard police discovered 41 grams of the cathinone derivative amphetamine drug, worth an estimated £820 on the streets, at the 25-year-old's Bearland home following a raid on January 11, last year. A further...

Four man gang 'dealt cocaine and heroin from All Nations Club in...

July 28, 2014, 7:58 am

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COCAINE and heroin was dealt by a four-man gang centred at Gloucester's All Nations Club, a jury was told today. The group ran the drug dealing operation and frequently supplied customers in the area around the club in Chase Lane, alleged prosecutor Robin Shellard. Much of the dealing was covertly filmed because police had set up secret surveillance cameras in several locations. Later when police searched the All Nations Club they found a tube full of more than five grams of crack cocaine in...