Plenty of candidates to become police officers with Gloucestershi...
POLICE are whittling down more than 1,500 hopefuls who applied to get one of 24 new officer posts at Gloucestershire Constabulary. The force is on the look-out for new recruits for the first time in...
View ArticleNailed by forensics: How police work put Clive Dixon, 32, behind...
The work of Gloucestershire Police officers in preserving the scene of a crime in Gloucester was key in the conviction of a London man who robbed women at knifepoint in the city and committed two...
View ArticlePolice hunt for two BMX riders after a gun and knife pulled on...
TWO robbers pulled a handgun and a knife on four terrified teenagers, then stole their mobile phones and wallets. The frightening incident happened just after 11pm in Abbeymead, Gloucester. Police have...
View ArticleParcel delivery driver attacked at Gloucester traffic lights
Police are appealing for witnesses after a parcel delivery driver was attacked by another motorist at a set of traffic lights in Gloucester. The incident happened at the junction of Churchdown Lane and...
View ArticleGang responsible for three raids on Barclays bank in Gloucester...
A gang of robbers responsible for raiding the same Gloucester bank on three occasions has been jailed. The gang of four, from south London, targeted security guards picking up cash from banks across...
View ArticleMan admits to selling tools stolen from his boss on eBay
AN employee has admitted stealing £3,000 worth of tools from his boss and selling them on eBay under the username of "mybossisanumpty".Kevin Smith has been charged with the theft of £16,213.59 of goods...
View ArticleGloucester's top judge vows to get tough on knife crime villains
A SPATE of alleged knife attacks in Gloucestershire during the last year has prompted a tough warning from the county's top judge. People who use knives in crime can expect long jail terms – and those...
View ArticleDriving ban and jail for Gloucester 'lunatic' after leading armed...
DANGEROUS driver David Holford sped through country roads in a stolen M-registration Rover Metro at 76mph while being chased by an armed police van. Gloucester Crown Court heard the 26-year-old drove...
View ArticleJail for Kingsway man who got into stranger's bed, threatened...
AN 'out of control single man crimewave' has been jailed for three years following a string of bizarre drunken offences. Ralph Dube left Hannah Dowding terrified when he walked into her Podsmead home,...
View Article'We are so proud of our daughter': Hollie Gazzard's family pay...
'She made people smile and laugh and she was just a person you were proud to call your daughter.' Those were the words of dad Nick Gazzard, whose 20-year-old daughter Hollie was killed in Gloucester...
View ArticleForest of Dean man appears at court charged with trying to murder...
Christopher Leyshon from Cinderford has appeared at court charged with trying to murder a Gloucestershire police officer. The 28-year-old has been remanded in custody to await trial after he pleaded...
View ArticleJailed: Gloucester woman who wouldn't stop making abusive 999...
A Gloucester woman has been sentenced to 14 weeks in prison after admitting to abusing the 999 call system. Christine Cornish, 31 and of Weston Road, Gloucester appeared at Gloucester Magistrates'...
View ArticleArsonist started £7,000 fire at Gloucester recycling centre...
ARSONIST Daniel Impey started a £7,000 blaze at a recycling centre because he wanted to be arrested and locked up, a court heard. The 23-year-old chose the Gloucester City Council recycling depot in...
View ArticleLegal eagles in Gloucestershire to miss court over legal aid cuts
SOLICITORS and barristers may not be turning out to Gloucestershire's courts tomorrow as a day of action takes place protesting against government cuts to criminal legal aid. Severe disruption is...
View ArticleMan arrested in connection with Abbeymead gunpoint robbery
A man has been arrested in connection with a knifepoint robbery in Abbeymead at the end of February. The 18-year-old was arrested on suspicion of robbery and bailed to return to Gloucester police...
View ArticleHardwicke carer found with lock knife and cannabis in his car
WHEN police found a lock knife in a car glove box it landed a Hardwicke man in trouble. Although it had been used to fix his car, Alexander John Graham Campbell-Harris was breaking the law by having...
View ArticlePoliceman hit during fight at Tewkesbury wedding party
WHEN fighting broke out at a wedding, police were called and an officer was set upon too, a court heard. Shaun Lee saw his son involved in a fracas at Gupshill Manor but ended up hitting a policeman,...
View ArticleTwo strikes and you're out of Gloucester, troublemakers are...
'TWO strikes and you're out' is the warning anti-social people in Gloucester city centre are being given. A yellow card system is being introduced from May 1 which will see troublemakers banned after...
View ArticleKingsway ASDA crash mum was four-and-a-half times the drink drive...
MAGISTRATES have warned a mum-of-five she risks going to jail after being caught drink driving at a whopping four-and-half times the legal drink-drive limit. Saffron Poole was so drunk after necking...
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