Uninsured driver caught doing 97mph on M5 near Stroud has car...
Police stopped a driver caught doing 97mph on the M5 this morning. The motorist, from Coventry, was pulled over close to junction 13 northbound, at Stroud. They were subsequently found to be uninsured...
View Article'Jekyll and Hyde' addict facing life jail term for vicious...
A 'Jekyll and Hyde' drug addict who subjected a friend to a prolonged beating with weapons including a spiked broomstick, bicycle chain and golf club after making him strip naked is facing a life jail...
View ArticleDespicable Gloucester conman fleeces 84-year-old woman of...
An 'unscrupulous parasite' who was jailed for cheating an elderly woman started preying on her again when he was released from prison - and stole her entire £50,000 savings, a court heard.Despicable...
View ArticleViolent and abusive man attacks Stroud family in the dead of...
Woken by a violent and abusive young man in the dead of night, a Stroud family has warned others that it could happen to them. The victims believe the attacker in his early 20s may have been high on...
View ArticleGloucestershire family woken in dead of night by violent and...
Woken by a violent and abusive young man in the dead of night, a Stroud family has warned others that it could happen to them.The victims believe the attacker in his early 20s may have been high on...
View ArticleConman starts change argument in shop - and walks off with...
Police are appealing for information after a customer conned money from a shop cashier in Stroud. The incident happened at around 5.50pm yesterday(May 11) at the convenience store in the High Street....
View ArticleLonglevens man behind bars for trying to rob gambler of roulette...
Gloucester man Thomas George-Pain has been jailed for trying to rob a fellow gambler of his £1,000 roulette win outside a city bookmakers.Judge William Hart said he had no alternative but to put the...
View ArticlePolice search for suspected illegal immigrant missing in...
Police are searching for a suspected illegal immigrant who has gone missing in Cinderford this afternoon.A lorry driver, who recently returned from Holland, opened the sealed units on his vehicle and...
View ArticleForest Green Rovers fan must pay new charge for being drunk and...
NEW legislation means an unemployed man with limited mental capacity has been slapped with an extra £150 charge by magistrates after he admitted being drunk and disorderly at Forest Green Rovers FC's...
View ArticleJail for Quedgeley man who caused crash when he saw pregnant ex...
Angry David Newman crashed into another man's car and then attacked him after spotting his pregnant ex-partner in the passenger seat, a court was told.Newman, 29, swerved across the path of Paul...
View ArticleJoanna Parrish's parents want French police to question known...
The parents of murdered student Joanna Parrish are continuing the fight to find her killer 25 years after she was found dead in a river in France.Joanna, from Newnham, was abducted after placing an...
View ArticleLeigh Boucher appears in court for 'supplying drugs which caused...
A 27-year-old Gloucester woman has been accused of supplying drugs which caused a man's death last summer.Leigh Boucher, of Cromwell Street, appeared at Gloucester Crown Court yesterday charged with...
View ArticleRussian and American authorities combine to help snare Birdwood...
Russian and American law enforcement agencies were involved in bringing David Perry to justice, Gloucester Crown Court heard.Thanks to the international co-operation, Gloucestershire police were made...
View ArticlePictures: Balaclava-clad gang targets tree firm near Stroud
A balaclava-clad gang broke a gate and disabled an alarm before escaping with chainsaws in the dead of night. Police have released CCTV images of suspects in a burglary at a tree maintenance firm near...
View ArticleVulnerable adults defrauded of £14k by Gloucester care...
VULNERABLE adults with disabilities were defrauded of more than £14,000 by their care worker, a court heard. Mum-of-four Tanya Daniels was warned by magistrates in Stroud she could be put behind bars,...
View ArticleHusband and wife will stand trial on alleged sex offences against...
A husband and wife will stand trial on a catalogue of alleged sex offences against children.David and Pauline Williams will stand trial at Exeter Crown Court, along with Herman Sims in September this...
View ArticleShaun James murder inquiry: Five men arrested have had bail...
All five men arrested in connection with the murder of Cinderford man Shaun James have had their police bail extended until June. A 60-year-old man from Cinderford detained on suspicion of murder and...
View ArticleSex attacker 'pinned in headlock until he went limp' by martial...
Sex attacker Mark Willis got his comeuppance after he picked on the wrong woman.The 39-year-old, of Pirton Lane, Churchdown, punched his victim in the face, pushed her over a garden wall, got on top of...
View ArticleJail for violent Gloucester man who beat and burned partner who...
Violent James Bryant's partner kept going back to him despite being subjected to drink and drug-fuelled violence which included being burnt with a cigarette and having a cable tie pulled tight around...
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