Essex News & Investigations

HAUL: Huge packets of cocaine found hidden behind the driver's seat (NCA) TWO gangsters who tried to get £2.6 million worth of cocaine...

SOFT JUSTICE? Khan could be out in 18 months despite a year of organised crime (Met Police) A DRUG supply middleman from south-east...

DEADLY: A Smith and Wesson handgun seized in the raids FOUR firearms were seized after police raided a suspected cannabis factory on...

RAIDS: Police up and down the country raided suspected county lines drug dens (NCA) NEARLY 600 members of suspected 'county lines' drug...

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

RAID: NCA officers raid the home of Feng Xu in Birmingham on Tuesday (NCA) A STRING of properties across the country have been raided as...

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

WANTED: Kevin Parle (left) and how he might look now (Merseyside Police) A FORMER undercover detective, who was vowed to track down...

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