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73-year-old Gloucester woman admits stealing £3,400 from...
A 'considerable abuse of trust' saw a 73-year-old Matson woman steal £3,400 from an elderly friend.Carol Stroud, of Prinknash Road, admitted defrauding Barbara Baldwin of the cash over more than four...
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Nailsworth babysitter jailed for abusing children
A babysitter who abused two children over a period of eight years has been sent to jail. James King, 32, was sent down for seven-and-a-half years after being found guilty of a string of serious sex...
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Suspended jail sentence for Forest of Dean man who threatened...
When two passers-by went to the aid of a boy being harangued in the street by angry Shaun Dickinson he brandished an array of weapons at them and threatened to burn their homes down, a court...
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Man sentenced for drug offence after police were told of...
Police visiting Grant Thorpe's Gloucester home were surprised when he made an out of the blue admission that he had a stash of mephedrone – the drug also known as Miaow-Miaow, a court heard.Thorpe, 22,...
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Mums' 'nightmare' seeing Gloucester man commit lewd act outside...
"A parent's worst nightmare" was what faced two mothers when they spotted a Matson man exposing himself outside their children's school in Tredworth.William Orpin, 35, of Bazeley Road, was found...
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A man has admitted trying to kill his former partner's ex-husband...
A Brockworth man has today admitted trying to kill his former partner's ex-husband by stabbing him in the chest and stomach and then driving his car into him.At Gloucester Crown Court Mark Dodd, 49, of...
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Churchdown child abductor jailed for six years after meeting...
A 30 year-old man has been sentenced to six years imprisonment after being convicted of sexual activity with a child and child abduction.Davinder Singh, of Coriander Drive, Churchdown, Gloucester,...
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Cowardly trio jailed for night-time robbery on frail elderly man...
Three young 'thugs' who robbed a frail 75 year old man of more than £1,500 after bursting into his bed-sit as he slept were jailed for 18 years between them on Friday.Victim Alex Rainsford was asleep...
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Four Gloucester men accused of catalogue of sex offences against...
Four Gloucester men are to stand trial later this year on a catalogue of sex charges.At the city crown court yesterday the men, in their 50s and 60s, were accused of numerous charges, including...
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'Please send my client to jail', defence lawyer urges Gloucester...
A defence lawyer took the unusual step of asking a Gloucester Crown Court judge to pass a jail term on his client, 37-year-old Paul Virgo of Cinderford.Virgo was given a community order and tagged...
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High value tools taken in Gloucester building site burglary,...
High value power tools have been stolen from a building site in Gloucester, police say.Officers are appealing for information after the site on Churchdown Lane, Hucclecote, was broken into just after...
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Jurors will be asked if Forest's Eddie Belson is 'stalwart or...
A community stalwart protecting his family or self-professed "major" of his estate handing out punishment?That is the decision jurors must now make in the trial of accused murderer Eddie Belson.The...
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Police use stinger to stop car in late night pursuit in...
This is the vehicle that was stopped by police using a 'stinger' during a pursuit in Gloucestershire last night.Officers in the county used the spiked device after the driver allegedly failed to stop...
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Stranger danger warnings double in Gloucestershire
STRANGER danger alerts have doubled since 2010, the Citizen can reveal.A request under the Freedom of Information Act revealed warnings about children being approached by adults who may want to harm...
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Illegal Iraqi immigrant to be deported after jail sentence for...
Cannabis dealer Walid Rostum will be deported to his native Iraq after serving a year in jail for selling drugs in Gloucester Park.Rostum, 31, has been in Britain illiegally for 11 years, Gloucester...
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Violent attack on students leads to pair being locked up at...
A pair of street robbers who violently waylaid two students as they set off for a night out were locked up for two years each at Gloucester Crown Court.The shocking attack was caught on a CCTV camera...
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Eddie Belson jailed for six years after killing Berry Hill...
Eddie Belson has been jailed for six years for manslaughter after beating his Berry Hill neighbour Chris Cooling with a hockey stick in the Forest of Dean.Sentencing Belson, judge recorder Neil Ford QC...
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'Man's car smashed up with axe by ex-girlfriend from Dursley',...
Two ex-girlfriends found out a man was seeing another woman and drove 130 miles to confront him, with one allegedly smashing up his car with an axe, a court heard.Elizabeth Scarrott, 28, and Shereene...
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Two families devastated and a community rocked by Christopher...
Two families have been left devastated by the sequence of events which led to Chris Cooling's death and his neighbour Eddie Belson ending up behind bars. Both were fathers and described as...
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Man charged with robbery after victim allegedly punched and...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a street robbery and assault that took place in Central Road, Gloucester. It happened at about 8.40pm on Wednesday February 4.The victim was walking home from work...
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