Gloucester housing association boss jailed for fraud only has...
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...
View ArticlePolice seek information after car is damaged in Cinderford
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...
View Article'Wrecked' workshop educating 4,000 young drivers in Gloucestershi...
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...
View ArticleMan reclaims pyjamas after spate of thefts at Barn in the Farm in...
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...
View ArticleGloucestershire domestic abuse charities open to £3.2m...
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...
View ArticleFormer Newent Community School teacher in court for 21 sex...
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...
View ArticleCinderford man admits drugs charges after having 28 cocaine wraps...
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...
View ArticleSouth African carer terrified of returning home has been jailed...
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...
View ArticleFormer Newent teacher Ceri Boothe admits sex offences including...
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...
View ArticleAttacker fled on bike after stabbing man in Gloucester Cathedral...
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...
View ArticleFormer owner of Barton Street store faces illegal tobacco charges
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...
View ArticlePolice posed as drug addicts to catch Gloucester dealer in...
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...
View ArticleFull-time dad got so drunk he tried to eat police mattress in...
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...
View ArticlePolice say man with mobility issues was distressed after being...
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,...
View ArticleWoman drove into the back of a van in Cirencester "while...
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...
View ArticleCourt is shown disturbing footage of builder who suffocated deer...
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...
View ArticleGloucestershire man Asa Martin has handed himself in to police...
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...
View ArticleTesco cashier scanned PS4 games, clothes and electrical items but...
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...
View ArticlePolice investigating theft of 'high value' mountain bike in...
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...
View ArticleCurfew for Stroud bigamist who suffered from anxiety when he...
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...
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