Essex News & Investigations

POLICE have found "no evidence" of a gunman firing at three people after reports a bike-riding attacker blasted shots in the street. Armed Police were sent to Thames Street in Toxteth just before 3.55pm on Friday, December 12 2025, after reports a man on a bike shot at three people. A police cordon, from Kinglsey Road naer its junction with Beaconsfield Street and Thames Street was put in place while officers carried out CCTV, forensic and house-to-house enquiries. But after

TWO brothers alleged to be at the heart of a plot to supply Albanian crime gangs in the UK with deadly firearms brought a deadly "blood feud" with them when they fled to London, a court heard today. Albanians Alban Gjidaj, 29, and older brother Almir Gjidaj , 34, (above middle) were senior members of an organised crime group involved in smuggling guns hidden in standard deliveries from Albania to the UK, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard. Albania is seeking the extraditio

POLICE are appealing for information after another shooting in Huyton that has left a man with serious injuries last night Friday 28 November 2025. Just before 10.20pm we received a report that a man had been shot twice in his leg on the driveway of an address on Radway Road by two men on a Sur-Ron bike. The offenders made off in an unknown direction on the electric bike. Emergency services attended the scene and the victim was taken to hospital where he remains in a serious

DOORBELL camera footage shows the shocking moment a teenager was shot in a Liverpool street just five hours after a boy was stabbed. The video, which has been shared on social media, appears to have been filmed from a house in Manley Road, Huyton, where the attack happened on Friday evening. In the footage, a male is seen standing in the street, when a dark-coloured car pulls up from his right. The male appears to be pointing towards the car before a hooded male is then seen

POLICE are mobbing two areas of Liverpool after two teenagers were shot and stabbed five hours apart yesterday, Friday, November 7. At around 3.45pm, emergency services were called to Woodfarm Hey, Stockbridge Village to reports of a 15-year-old boy being stabbed. He was taken to hospital for assessment and is described as being in a serious but stable condition. At 8.50pm, police received a report that a 19-year-old man had sustained gunshot injuries to his back and leg outs

A CORONER has called for a proposed law banning information about homemade firearms to be urgently brought into force after a teenager ended his life with one. Owen Donnelly, 19, took his own life with a homemade improvised gun, at his Wigan home, Timothy Brennand, HM Senior Coroner, for Greater Manchester West, concluded after an inquest at Bolton Coroner’s Court this month. Yet, Mr Brennand highlighted that proposed legislation banning the possession and supply of informati

A BOY is in a critical condition after being shot in a busy high street. Met Police Detectives are appealing for information after the...

THE Manchester synagogue attacker was born in Syria and came to the UK 19 years ago, the Home Office has confirmed. British citizen of...

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A MURDER probe has been launched following a double shooting in Clapham in which one man died and another was injured. Police were called...