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Essex News & Investigations

Former lawyer accused of plotting blood feud Turkish gang murder linked to shooting of nine-year-old girl in Hackney can be extradited
A FORMER lawyer accused of helping to plan the gangland murder of the leader of a north London Turkish crime gang in Moldova as part of a...
By JON AUSTIN
3 days ago


'DO NOT LOOK AT THEM' Drug supplier who collected £4m of coke from plane warned by armed officers to stop raising head
THIS is the moment a man, who picked up about £4m (street value) of cocaine from a light aircraft, was warned to stop looking at armed...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 19


Nearly 2,000 arrests as police target 'county lines' drug gangs over one week - what are they doing the rest of the year?
Criminal gangs who exploit children and vulnerable adults to supply drugs across the country were targeted last week in a national police...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 3


Two arrested over statue thefts from stately home used as backdrop for David Attenborough's Wild Isles series
Two people have been arrested after several statues were stolen from a stately home that has been used as a location for David...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 29


EXCLUSIVE: The key players in John Palmer case Essex Police 'has never spoken to' ten years after his unsolved murder a decade ago today
A "police informant" who worked for murdered John "Goldfinger" Palmer's former head of security claims police investigating the cold case...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 23


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


Drugs gang saw eastern Europeans work with British criminals to supply class As
A criminal gang made up of eastern Europeans and Brits, who conspired to supply drugs across the region from a Newcastle flat, have been...
By JON AUSTIN
May 30


John 'Goldfinger' Palmer's former head of security Mohamed Jamil Derbah is arrested in corruption probe on Tenerife
The former head of security for one of Britain's most notorious gangsters has been arrested as part of a major corruption investigation...
By JON AUSTIN
May 10


Three Uzbekistan men in court over 'cash smuggling out of UK' including 'notes found in washing powder'
Three men have been charged as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into attempts to smuggle millions of pounds out of the...
By JON AUSTIN
May 9


EXCLUSIVE: Petition calls for inquiry into why MI5 'did not act on 7/7 Bomber intel it was handed a year before terror strike killed 52 people'
A FORMER accountant who passed intelligence on the 7/7 Bombers to MI5 before they carried out the terror atrocities has launched a...
By JON AUSTIN
May 1









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