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July 7, 2015, 11:27 pm

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A housing association official jailed for a £150,000 fraud has no assets that can be confiscated by the State - except a Skoda Fabia car worth no more than £2,000, a court heard.In January Christopher Winter, 43, of Trenchard Road, Bream, received a 32-month jail term after he admitted defrauding the Oxbode Housing Association.Yesterday his case was back before Gloucester Crown Court for a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act.The prosecution say his car, his only...

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Police seek information after car is damaged in Cinderford

July 8, 2015, 6:11 am

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Police are seeking information or witnesses to a Road Traffic Collision which took place in Cinderford on 3 July, in which a parked Ford Fiesta was damaged sometime between 08.45 and 17.30.A woman returned to her parked car, a white Ford Fiesta Zetec, in Heywood Road Council car park at approximately 17.30 on Friday 3 July and discovered damage to the rear quarter of the offside, with black paint left where the damage had been caused.Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101...

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July 9, 2015, 2:06 am

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A new workshop is educating more than four thousand 17-24-year-olds across the county to be aware of the dangers of drink and drug driving.The event, aimed at young pre and novice drivers and their passengers, has been developed by the Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership and Gloucestershire Engineering Training to support their anti drink drug driving campaign.By working together these agencies want to prevent incidents from happening by teaching young people about the emotional and physical...

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July 9, 2015, 8:41 am

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Festival-goers were targeted in Over as more than a dozen tents were burgled and valuables taken – including someone's pyjamas.Thieves targeted the tents at last weekend's Barn on the Farm and stole a number of items, many while the occupants were sleeping inside.Police are appealing for witnesses to the spate of thefts after several incidents were reported on the first night of the three-day country folk festival.The burglars entered several tents during the night of Friday July 3 and...

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July 10, 2015, 1:43 am

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Victims of domestic violence and abuse could find relief as a £3.2 million funding boost is announced to help ensure nobody is turned away from help.The fund will be open to proposals from local partnerships including those in Gloucestershire that demonstrate how the needs of victims could be met in innovative ways.This announcement builds on the £10 million funding for refuges announced in March 2015.The Summer Budget 2015 also announced a review of the full range of services...

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July 10, 2015, 1:52 am

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A former teacher at Newent Community School may enter pleas in court today for 21 sex offences.Art teacher Ceri Boothe, 57, faces charges dating between 1990 and 2014 including taking indecent images of children and sexual activity with a mentally disordered man.The alleged offences are alleged to have taken place in Gloucester, at public toilets in Cirencester, at the Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, and at a hotel in Torquay.There are seven charges of taking indecent images of children and...

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July 10, 2015, 3:38 am

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A Forest of Dean man who hid 28 wraps of crack cocaine up his bottom has admitted conspiring to supply the Class A drug.Joshua Derbyshire-Moore, 24, formerly of Victoria Street, Cinderford but now living in Sheffield, denied possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply but admitted possessing the drug.At Gloucester Crown Court he also admitted conspiring with Gareth Morgan to supply Class A drugs on June 17.Morgan had been jailed for 12 months at a separate hearing.Defending lawyer Jason...

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July 10, 2015, 3:39 am

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A South African mother who is terrified of returning to her homeland after a gangland shooting in her former flat has been jailed at Gloucester Crown Court today for having forged immigration papers.Qualified carer Hlengiwe Sithole, whose brother witnessed the shooting some years ago in Johannesburg and has not been seen since, fears for her life if she is sent back, the court heard.Sithole, 34, of Park Road, Gloucester was jailed for six months after admitting possessing a false UK resident's...

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July 10, 2015, 5:26 am

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A comprehensive school teacher has today admitted a catalogue of 20 sex offences including taking photographs of boys in a public changing room and abusing a man with the mental age of a child.Thomas Ceri Boothe, 58, who worked at Newent Community School, pleaded guilty at Gloucester Crown Court to indecently assaulting the man on four occasions between January, 2002, and April 2004.He also admitted four offences of having sexual activity with the same man knowing he had a mental disorder making...

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July 10, 2015, 9:11 am

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Police are on the hunt for a knifeman who fled on a bike after stabbing someone in Gloucester Cathedral's grounds.The 28-year-old victim suffered 'superficial' wounds to his arm and was chased by his attacker, who then rode off on a bike.He is yet to be apprehended.Paramedics took the victim to hospital where he was treated and police have asked any witnesses to the assault to contact them.It is understood the victim ran into the Cathedral after being stabbed and was helped by vergers inside.The...

Former owner of Barton Street store faces illegal tobacco charges

July 10, 2015, 1:50 pm

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County-wide investigations by officers from Gloucestershire County Council's trading standards team have lead to seizures of £4,000 of illegal tobacco and cigarettes.Earlier this month Ibrahim Jaffar Awllah pleaded guilty to four offences of selling illegal tobacco from Polski Sklep, Barton Street, Gloucester, over a two month period in 2014. He was fined £150 and ordered to pay £100 towards legal costs and a further £20 victim surcharge. Having failed to attend a court...

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July 11, 2015, 6:50 am

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Undercover police caught drug dealer Michael Hibbert by posing as addicts in a cemetery in Tredworth.Hibbert, a 24-year-old father-of-two from Savernake Road in Gloucester, was jailed this week for three years.He pleaded guilty at Gloucester Crown Court to five charges of supplying Class A drugs and one charge of possession of cannabis.Posing as drug addicts police officers had bought heroin and crack cocaine from Hibbert in a cemetery at Tredworth on a number of occasions, said prosecuting...

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July 12, 2015, 1:51 am

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A 35-year-old dad got so drunk that when police arrested him and put him in a cell to sober up he tried to eat the mattress.Shamefaced Joseph Girvan told Cheltenham Magistrates he had no memory at all of his behaviour and it was the last time he would ever mix his drinks.He blamed his drinking binge on the stress of becoming a full-time father while his partner went out to work.Girvan, of Green Street, Stonehouse, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Stonehouse on June 25 and...

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July 13, 2015, 4:23 am

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Police are appealing for witnesses after a man allegedly verbally abused his victim who suffers from mobility issues.Officers say the incident happened outside Boots, in Eastgate Street, on Friday, June 26.A Gloucestershire Constabulary spokesman said: "Police are appealing for information following an incident when a male shouted abuse towards a man walking through town towards the cross. "The suspect shouted abusive and threatening language towards the victim, who has mobility...

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July 13, 2015, 7:21 am

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A female driver reportedly smashed into the back of a van - while pleasuring herself with a sex toy.The woman, described as in her 30s, was static in traffic when her Mini suddenly lurched forward and hit the back of the stationary fish van. She swapped details with the van driver whose bosses proceeded to check footage from the vehicle's rear camera.To M&J Seafood's surprise, the video showed a woman holding a Rampant Rabbit-style sex toy and doing up her trousers.The driver was working for...

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July 13, 2015, 10:38 pm

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Shocking mobile phone footage showing a builder suffocating a deer with his bare hands was played to a court.Elwyn Wayne Ingram, 45, of The Willows Caravan Park, Sandhurst Lane, Longford, can be seen straddling the Roe deer and covering its mouth with his hands until it suffocated to death.The footage also shows the animal kicking and struggling as Ingram's companions laugh, joke and jeer. Cheltenham Magistrates' Court heard Ingram was arrested along with nine other men in Oxfordshire in...

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July 14, 2015, 5:21 am

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Gloucestershire man Asa Martin has handed himself in to police after a wanted appeal.The 29-year-old, from Cheltenham, handed himself into officers at Compass House custody suite in Quedgeley last night. He was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving in connection with a collision in Hester's Way on Sunday 4 July.Two other people have been arrested and bailed in connection with the incident.Police said Martin has been given technical bail until 23 July but will remain in custody as he has...

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July 14, 2015, 11:33 pm

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A Tesco cashier in Brockworth scanned more than £600 worth of goods through her till and only charged her customers £7.23.Deborah Elizabeth Greenslade, of John Lamb House, Shurdington, admitted one charge of theft at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court.The court heard that the 50-year-old, with previous convictions for theft dating back to 2007, had been under investigation by Tesco for some time and was being monitored as she carried out her work at the Brockworth store.She was observed...

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July 15, 2015, 5:31 am

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Police are appealing for information after a high-valued bike was stolen from a garage in Gloucester.The break-in happened at about 12.30am last Friday morning at a home in Sandhurst Road, Kingsholm.It is believed the distinctive custom-made mountain bike, which is made up of a mixture of brands and worth several hundred pounds, was specifically targeted by the thieves.The machine is described as matt black which black wheels bearing the word Maxxis in yellow lettering. It has a tan-coloured...

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July 16, 2015, 2:57 am

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Bigamist David Lewis has been placed on a curfew after a judge heard he was suffering from depression and anxiety when he married a friend even though he was not divorced.Lewis, 48, who lives in Stroud, and his former wife Anne had been granted a decree nisi after they split in 2007, but a decree absolute had never been obtained, St Albans Crown Court heard.Despite still being legally married, Lewis said he was a bachelor when he married Angela Spencer at Hatfield Registry Office in September...