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Essex News & Investigations

CRIME INTERNATIONAL: Driver from Tajikstan held over guns and drugs worth millions found in Lithuanian lorry stopped at Dover
A haul of 20 firearms, 320 rounds of ammunition and 170kg of ketamine were recovered from a vehicle at Dover Port. National Crime Agency...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 28


Just day after Starmer's U-turn on grooming gangs Home Office announces NCA national probe - why didn't they launch this years ago?
JUST a day after the Labour Government's major U-turn on launching a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, it has today...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 15


EXCLUSIVE: Drug supplier asked to unmask EncroChat kingpin thetopsking in Old Bailey trial says 'no prison is a bad place for grasses'
A man accused of helping to arrange the murder of a drugs courier using an EncroChat mobile phone device refused in court to name the...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 4


END OF THE HUYTON FIRM? Francis Coggins - detailed as on the run during EncroChat trial - arrested in Dutch coastal town
Francis Coggins, the suspected joint head of the Liverpool 'Huyton Firm' has been arrested in a Dutch coastal town. Coggins, age 60, was...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 4


Alleged EncroChat 'drug boss' James Harding 'not biological father of girl he brought up' as court also hears of 'missing messages'
Alleged drug boss James Harding is not the biological father of a girl he was bringing up as his daughter, his trial heard today....
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 3


Moment asylum-seeking people smuggler arrested in UK to face 25-year jail term for getting migrants from Libya to EU
A man arrested by the National Crime Agency for masterminding the smuggling of thousands of people across the Mediterranean from north...
By JON AUSTIN
May 20


Woman filmed abuse of child she carried out with partner - sick pair get 23 years each
A couple from Wales have been jailed for 23 years each after footage was shared online of them sexually abusing a child. Jonathan...
By JON AUSTIN
May 19


EXCLUSIVE: 'NCA EncroChat data sets often incomplete' - says former technical officer Luke Shrimpton during trial
Mr Decou's statement said the NCA asked in September 2020 a series of questions about how messages had been captured and stored.
By JON AUSTIN
May 7


EXCLUSIVE: Man denies smuggling £1m of cocaine into UK found in his wheelchair
A man has denied smuggling nearly £1m of cocaine found hidden in an electric wheelchair at Manchester Airport. Portuguese national...
By JON AUSTIN
May 6


SENTENCING SCANDAL: Man linked to online crime group that blackmailed young girls dodges jail
A MAN who was found with indecent images of children and was linked to an online criminal group that blackmailed young teenaged girls has...
By JON AUSTIN
May 1









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