Essex News & Investigations

COCAINE with a street value of more than £20 million has been smuggled into the UK from the Netherlands concealed in frozen meat (pictured above).

The sophisticated smuggling attempt, which involved wrapping the packages in a meat pulp, before freezing it, was rumbled b...

GUILTY: Conman Robert Keogh has been sentenced to nine years in prison (NCA) 

AN IRISH national has been jailed for nine years after admitting smuggling 60 guns into the country in his car, in what is believed to be the largest seizure of lethal weapons at a UK port.

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SCENE:  Apostoleanu stole the luxury items outside world famous department store Harrods (Harrods)

A MAN has admitted stealing more than £400,000 worth of watches and designer bags from a businessman.

Romanian national Alin-Alexandru Apostoleanu, 31, yesterday admit...

GRADUATE trainee detectives, with no policing experience, are queue jumping police officers to get jobs, it is claimed.

Detectives from Greater Manchester Police said serving police officers, who applied to the force to become detectives, had been snubbed in favour of d...

A MAN extradited from the UK to Ireland has been charged with being involved in a gangland murder suspected to have been ordered by the Kinahan Cartel.
David Hunter, 41, (above) is the second man to be charged with the murder of dissident republican Michael Barr who wa...

ROMANIA'S most wanted alleged crime boss claims he has been fitted up with "false charges" by a political party because he once helped to rig the country's presidential elections on the promise of a 1.5 million euros bung.
"Badass" gangster Florin Ghinea, 44, (above) i...

APPEAL: Nick Freeman said the prosecution could possibly be overturned (BBC/Twitter) 

A MAN who was prosecuted after coming into possession of a memory stick that contained sensitive Ministry of Defence files should be able to overturn the conviction, one of the country...

A CHINESE national, who was responsible for operating a network of properties used by organised crime groups for prostitution or cannabis farms, has pleaded guilty to 22 fraud, false ID and money laundering offences.

Feng Xu, 43, (pictured) today changed his pleas to th...

A SUSPECTED gangland killer for the Kinahan Cartel has agreed to be extradited from the UK back to Ireland.
David Hunter, 41, (pictured above) is wanted in Ireland for questioning over the murder of dissident republican Michael Barr, 34, at Sunset House pub in Dublin’s...

A DRUG dealer caught with cannabis, cocaine, a large hunting knife and criminal cash has been spared jail so he can go to university despite the supposed crackdown on drugs and bladed weapons.
Jordan Onyemaenu, 20, from Ickenham, north-west London, received a suspended...