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March 25, 2015, 11:09 am

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Pillar of the community Paul Mathurin who was known for years for tirelessly campaigning to improve the lives of others in Gloucester has been jailed for raping a girl under 16.The 66-year-old, of Barton Street, was found guilty of one count of indecent assault and one count of raping a child.The assault took place in the 1990s when the child was lured back to a home Mathurin was staying at.At the end of evening, the victim had missed transport home and Mathurin said she could stay with him.The...

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March 26, 2015, 12:58 am

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The victim of Britain's "most sadistic mother" Eunice Spry has written about her terrifying ordeal.The court case which heard how Spry, who was born in Gloucester, tortured her foster children was one which shocked the entire nation.And the oldest of her victims Victoria, who lives in Cheltenham, has now put pen to paper in her first book Tortured, which will be released on April 9.It details her trauma while living with Spry and her descent into despair.During those 18 years, Spry...

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March 27, 2015, 12:46 am

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Former soldier Wensdale Johnson, who acted as second in command to a Gloucester drug gang leader, benefited from his crimes by £68,000 - but has assets of only £510 available for confiscation.Johnson, 35, of Diamond Jubilee Close, Gloucester, was jailed for six years last August after being convicted of conspiring with gang leader Delroy McFarlane, 47, of Melbourne street east, Gloucester, and others to supply heroin and crack cocaine in the city.Johnson was also convicted of...

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March 27, 2015, 9:09 am

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Lavish shopping trips are a thing of the past for cannabis dealer Leanne Ovens and her partner-in-crime Jack Friis.Within days of Ovens stepping up to be a wholesaler of the drug as Friis's helper, she sent a friend a message describing how he treated her to a day of retail therapy at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol."He's taken me to Cribbs – I built a bear, called him Jack," she said, referring to the Build-a-Bear shop on the Mall. "He bought me a massive bottle of Paco Rabanne...

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March 28, 2015, 1:17 am

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A Polish man was dragged into an alleyway and assaulted by two men during a drunken late night incident in Stroud town centre, a court heard.Ladislav Hubinsky hit his head on a metal bollard in the alleway in Merrywalks as he was thrown to the ground during the attack, said prosecutor Julian Kesner.In the dock at Gloucester crown court were Ryan McGeary, 23, of Parliament Street, Stroud, and Jack Thomas, 21, of Bellevue Close, Stroud, who both admitted assaulting Mr Hubinsky causing him actual...

Woman, 19, raped near nightclub in Cheltenham

March 28, 2015, 2:22 am

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Police are hunting a man of Mediterranean appearance, after a 19-year-old woman was raped in Cheltenham in the early hours of Friday morning.The attack is understood to have happened between 1am and 2am on Friday in Regent Street, close to Fever and Moo Moo's clubs.A spokesman for Gloucestershire Police said: "Police are appealing for information about a serious sexual assault which is alleged to have occurred in Regent Street, Cheltenham, between the hours of 1am and 2am on Friday 27...

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March 28, 2015, 6:56 am

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Predatory Gloucestershire PC Darren Heath jailed for 45 months

March 30, 2015, 5:11 am

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A predatory PC has been jailed for 45 months after havin sex with three vulnerable women while on duty – bedding one of them shortly after attending a fatal road crash.Disgraced Darren Heath, 44, abused his position of power over an 11-year-period in which he had sexual relations with three women and harassed another. The father-of-two would turn up at the women's houses in full uniform before stripping off for sex sessions. He would often turn up between call-outs, telling the women he...

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March 30, 2015, 8:49 am

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Darren Heath has been jailed for three years and nine months today after 11 years spent abusing his position as a PC at Gloucestershire Constabulary to sleep with and harrass vulnerable women. READ MORE: Predatory Gloucester PC jailed for 45 months after manipulating women into sex on duty Two of his victims have bravely spoken out about what he put them through. Jessica Several women have reported incidents involving Darren Heath to the police. In light of his sentencing, two of them have...

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March 30, 2015, 10:02 am

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Gloucester Park has seen yet another assault which left one man unconscious with cuts to his face when thieves robbed his wallet and phone.The victim was approached by two men between 4.45am and 5.45am on Saturday, March 28, after a night out.They asked him for a cigarette but then attacked him, repeatedly hitting him in the head before stealing his iPhone and wallet.The unlit park has seen a series of nasty attacks in recent years, with a number of robberies and sexual assaults recorded in the...

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March 30, 2015, 10:11 am

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A man lying on his living room floor in the grip of an epileptic fit was attacked and robbed by a couple who kicked down his front door and burst into his flat.David Vernon, 54, of High Street, Cheltenham, was punched, kicked and hit with a hammer and lost consciousness during the ordeal, Gloucester Crown Court was told. He suffered a cut to the lip which needed 11 stitches.One of his attackers, Cassie Alsop, knew Mr Vernon and had been in touch with him on the day of the attack.Mr Vernon told...

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March 31, 2015, 12:02 am

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Teenager Jack Smith is now too scared to leave his home after being knocked through the air by a vehicle when he went to post a letter.The 18-year-old has learning difficulties and the confidence he developed in order to live a normal life has been shattered by the incident on Estcourt Road on Friday. Police say Jack was walking to post a letter to his aunt when he was hit by a black 4x4 with tinted windows only 100 yards from his home.The former Gloucestershire College student was thrown...

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March 31, 2015, 8:02 am

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CCTV images of a man police want to identify after an alleged assault and attempted shoplifting have been released.It happened in the Co-op store in Hillview, Hucclecote on March 7 at about 7.40pm but police are still looking for the suspect. A male wearing a wig was challenged and he knocked over an elderly member of staff while trying to escape. She suffered a broken coccyx as a result. He also attempted to steal some bottles of spirits, one of which smashed. A member of the public tried to...

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March 31, 2015, 10:38 am

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Police have arrested a man in Gloucestershire on suspicion of murder.It relates to a man found dead at a travellers' site in Buckinghamshire, according to the BBC.Adam Fanelli, 31, of Dunstable in Bedfordshire was found dead at the caravan park in Nash on March 17.Police arrested a 30-year-old man in Gloucestershire on Tuesday and he is being questioned by Thames Valley Police. He is the second man arrested in connection with the case.Addy McAllister, 33, of Bolsover, Derbyshire, has been...

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April 1, 2015, 7:53 am

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'Brutal' teenager Kirsty Findlater left a young woman traumatised and fearful after launching a three-day campaign of hate against her, a court heard.Leanne Mills' ordeal of violence and bullying began when she returned to her flat in Stroud on January 10 this year to find Findlater and a group of other young people there, Gloucester Crown Court was told.Findlater, of Epney, intimidated Ms Mills and kept demanding her trainers from her, said prosecutor Janine Wood."When Miss Mills tried to...

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April 1, 2015, 4:28 am

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Police are warning people to stay vigilant against fraudsters tricking vulnerable people at bank cashpoints.Three fraudsters managed to trick an elderly man to swap his bank card for a fake one at the cashpoint machine at Barclays Bank in Southgate Street, Gloucester on March 27 at around 10.30am. They then used his real card to steal money from his account at another cashpoint. Two women, one in a red coat and one in a dark coat, and a man wearing a black puffa jacket, stood around the man...

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April 2, 2015, 5:09 am

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An elderly woman has been left in a potentially life threatening condition after she was robbed in Quedgeley yesterday afternoon. A man is believed to have approached the 82-year-old victim from behind in Giles Cox and pushed her to the ground as he grabbed her handbag at about 4.15pm yesterday (Wednesday 1 April). The woman was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital with a head injury, broken shoulder and broken collar bone. The injuries are considered potentially life threatening but the...

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April 2, 2015, 5:56 am

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Three men have been arrested by police investigating a spate of lead thefts. After at least eight properties were stripped of the roofing material in Nailsworth and one in Wotton-under-Edge last week, officers arrested three Bristol men this morning. "We were called by a member of the public just after 12.50am today, reporting a group of men on the roof of a business in the Inchbrook Trading Estate on Bath Road and then getting down and driving off towards Nailsworth in a white van," said a...

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April 2, 2015, 9:18 am

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Police are searching for a "cowardly" young thug who attacked a pensioner from behind in broad daylight leaving her clinging to life.The 82-year-old suffered a head injury, broken shoulder and broken collar bone after being pushed from behind and robbed her of her handbag on a footpath in Quedegely.She was rushed to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where her injuries were described as "potentially life-threatening" and is now in a stable condition.The attack happened in Giles...

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April 2, 2015, 11:44 pm

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THE chance to soak up some sun after weeks of chemotherapy treatment was cruelly snatched away from a pensioner by a vicious thug.Retired engineer and leukaemia patient John Jukes was battered across the face in a sickening attack which left him with five fractures to his skull and 3,000 Euros poorer.He was attacked in broad daylight in Cheltenham town centre and robbed of his holiday spending money.Doctors have described his injuries as consistent with those sustained by boxers.Such was the...