Essex News & Investigations

TWO men are being hunted by police after the car they were in crashed into a tyre business.

The blue Honda CR-V was followed by police to Colchester Road, Heybridge, after it was seen being driven erratically on Monday.

An Essex Police spokeswoman said: "We are investiga...

SEVERAL defendants were due to appear in court today for a Boxing Day hearing, accused of behaving badly over the Christmas period.

Fifteen people appeared on the "overnights list" at Westminster Magistrates' Court today, meaning they were arrested on Christmas Eve or C...

A PREGNANT police officer went on the run to France after failing to turn up to three court hearings after she was charged with assaulting the son she previously allegedly left alone in a New York hotel room.
Louise Fielden, 46, (pictured above with the new-born child)...

A MAN is facing 21 historic sex abuse charges concerning eight underage girls, with the alleged attacks said to have taken place over 44 years.

Colin Disney, 68, from Stambridge Road, Rochford, will appear at Southend Magistrates' Court (above) on Monday.

The girls he al...

COCAINE with a street value of more than £20 million has been smuggled into the UK from the Netherlands concealed in frozen meat (pictured above).

The sophisticated smuggling attempt, which involved wrapping the packages in a meat pulp, before freezing it, was rumbled b...

GANGLAND criminal Jimmy Holmes describes how he rose to be one of the country's most feared criminals in this remarkable video interview that has surfaced online.
Holmes, who wrote the shocking Judas Pig book about his organised crime network under the pen Horace Silve...

A corrupt dock worker at the Port of Tilbury helped a drugs gang import cocaine from South America.

Michael Fowler, 60, from Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, was yesterday jailed for 14 years and five months after pleading guilty to assisting offenders to import or supply cocai...

WOWIE: The slimming clinic closed after the prosecution was launched (Classytrade)

A SLIMMING and beauty clinic run from the heart of TOWIE Essex illegally prescribed weight loss medication for nearly two years, it has emerged.

The Saint James Slimming and Beauty Clinic...

MYSTERIOUS: Lee's body was found trapped in the mixer after 1am (Family pic)

BRITAIN'S top forensic pathologist has suggested a man found dead wedged in a cement mixer 17 years ago today may not have died in an accident.

Home Office pathologist Richard Shepherd, who work...

APPEAL: Sheridan (left) with Corin and Vanessa Redgrave (EN&I)

THE former leader of the Dale Farm travellers, who was backed by actress Vanessa Redgrave, is facing a different sort of High Court battle after Home Secretary Sajid Javid ordered his extradition to the US.
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