Essex News & Investigations

JAILED: Sam Vinden was sentenced to 12 years in prison A FORMER freemason, who broke a woman’s arm and a leg with a crowbar during an...

MISSING: Linda Millard and her car that was found at Battery Point (Avon & Somerset Police) POLICE have said they cannot rule out foul...

DIED: Bradley Wernham was found dead five days after going missing (Facebook) THE death of a former prolific burglar whose body was found...

MURDERED: Viktorija Sokolova who was raped and battered to death (Family Picture) A SICK teen who lured a 14-year-old friend to a park...

REST OF THE GANG: (L-R) Michael, Patsy and Tommy Adams FORMER gang boss Terry was today jailed for after refusing to pay £46,000 of outstanding court costs amid claims he is on the breadline. The sentence at Westminster Magistrates Court came after it emerged on Sunday he was now living in a council flat in north London. Adams, 64, told the court he survived on benefits and could afford only to pay about £15 a week towards the debt. He said: "I am living on handouts. I will p

MURDERED: John Palmer from CCTV in his back garden the day of his murder (Essex Police) MURDERED gangster John 'Goldfinger' Palmer was aided by an Essex stockbroker who had his own network of "corrupt" police officers, it is claimed in a secret Met Police report. The unnamed police officers may never have been identified by the Met Police Anti Corruption Command, we can reveal. Palmer, 65, was shot dead at his home in South Weald, near Brentwood, Essex, in June 2015. A number

County lines boss Mohamed Hassan, 36, got 16 years jail in 2014 for dealing in Basildon (Essex Police) COUNTY lines drug dealing has been...

RAID: Police move in on a suspected drug dealer (Thames Valley Police) GANGS in more than half of police force areas are selling drugs...

SPECIALIST: The judge will consider a psychiatric report on Vinden (above) (Pic: Jon Austin) THE sentencing of a former freemason who...

HOPE: Youth crime dropped 10 months after Young Mayor William Awomoyi vowed to tackle it (CroydonBC) COUNCIL staff snooping on social...