Essex News & Investigations

SCENE: Victim treated on a stretcher as onlookers watch police and paramedics (TWITTER/@nasirtanoliuk) POLICE will carry out stop and...

HEARING: The case was heard at Westminster (MoJ) TWO alleged members of the 'Rathkeale Rovers' Traveller gang are facing extradition to the Netherlands accused of being part of the criminal network. Richard Slattery, 34, and Daniel Sheridan, 26, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court this week. They are facing charges in the Netherlands of fraud, money laundering and participating in a criminal organisation. The pair were bailed under strict conditions including surrenderi

QUAINT: The sleepy town of Rathkeale is home to a huge population of travellers (YouTube) A POLICE corruption probe concerning the Irish...

WHODUNNIT? Intelligence has provided names to Essex Police but they still can't make arrests (Essex Police) DETECTIVES probing the murder of gangster John Palmer believe they may know who killed him but do not yet have enough evidence to make arrests. DS Stephen Jennings, who is leading the investigation for Essex Police, said the case now focussed on a few key suspects, but there is not yet enough evidence to arrest them. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has been drafted in t

THEORY: DCI Stephen Jennings Thinks the murder could have been linked to the trial (Essex Police) A FRAUD trial that was hoped to shed new light on the murder of gangster John "Goldfinger" Palmer has concluded with his right-hand man being jailed for 20 months. Richard Anthony Cashman, 52, originally from the north east was jailed by the Spanish National Court in Madrid on Friday for running Palmer's multi-million pound Tenerife timeshare scam while the kingpin was serving a

THEORY: DCI Stephen Jennings thinks the fraud trial holds the key to the murder (Essex Police/YouTube) ESSEX Police is refusing to give any updates on its investigation into the murder of John "Goldfinger" Palmer until a Spanish judge reaches his verdict over a major timeshare fraud trial linked to the Brink's Mat gangster. In January the trial of ten associates of Palmer, facing fraud charges in connection with his notorious timeshare scam thought to have netted him up to £3

GRISLY: The former East Coast Salvage scrapyard (Google) HUMAN bones have been dug up by workmen turning a former Essex scrapyard into a...

THEFT: Cook is accused of shoplifting from House of Fraser in Lakeside (Lakeside) A WOMAN has been charged with assaulting nine different...

ON CAMERA: Motorbike raiders break into a Harlow home (left) while burglar is filmed inside another house BRITS have become social media...

UNSOLVED: No one has been arrested over the murder of Ronald Fuller in 19 years (Essex Police) DETECTIVES have never arrested the gun...