UK News & Investigations

POLICE are appealing for information about a road collision  in which a woman and a child were injured in Maldon High Street as revellers hit the town for the last Friday before Christmas. Officers were seen in a sealed off area near All Saints Church at about 10pm on December 19 2025. The High Street was closed between Market Hill and Coach Lane while an investigation was underway. According to comments on a post on a local Facebook group paramedics had also been in attendan

THIRTY years ago today the bloodied bodies of three drug dealers were found in a Range Rover on an isolated snowy farm track near Basildon. Pat Tate, 37, Tony Tucker, 38, and Craig Rolfe, 26, (below left to right) had been lured to the location in Rettendon before they were ambushed and shot dead with pump action shotguns. The grisly executions on December 6 1995 put Essex on the map again for all the wrong reasons less than three weeks after headlines about the death of 18-y

THERE is no audio recording or full written transcript of the trial of Jack Whomes and Michael Steele for the infamous "Essex Boys" triple murders, despite it being designated a case for which records can never be destroyed, UK News and Investigations can reveal. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has 131 boxes of evidence left over and gathering dust from the 1997/98 prosecution of Whomes and Steele, which have to be retained indefinitely, but the files do not contain a com

A DAD of five and his stepson have been sentenced after they each strangled cops who tried to arrest them after the older man attacked a stranger on a drunken night out. Special Inspector Mark Barham feared he could have died at the hands of Sam Minter, 39, (above left in custody image and right from police body worn camera on the night) as he throttled him on a pitch black river bank. He was saved by colleagues who used PAVA spray to subdue Minter who had drunk five pints an

A MAN and his stepson have admitted strangling police officers who arrived at the scene of a reported assault in Colchester. The Essex Police officers were called to reports of Sam Minter, 38, and his stepson Taylor Oliver, 18, attacking a third man in North Station Road, Colchester, shortly after 10.30pm on Saturday, February 17 2024. After they arrived at the scene Police Sergeant Scott Lewis and Special Inspector Mark Barham were threatened and then each strangled by the p

ANTI-migrant protests have broken out in Loughton after police released on bail an asylum seeker who entered the grounds of a school,...

Police seized nine supercars, including included a Rolls Royce, McLaren and Audi R8, in a single night after receiving multiple reports...

A WOMAN was safely found last night after a dramatic helicopter search over Maldon. A police helicopter was seen circling and hovering...

Convicted 'Essex Boys' triple killer Michael Steele (top right) has finally been released from prison after a failed bid by the Justice...

Police and ambulance crews have been dealing with a serious incident in Chelmsford City Centre. There was a large police presence as...