Essex News & Investigations

EXCLUSIVE: MICHAEL Barrymore's lover tried to cover up the fact the star had been at the house when Stuart Lubbock died there.

Jonathan Kenney, 49, lied to police in his first statement made on the morning Stuart died saying Barrymore was not there.

Nineteen years on fro...

MICHAEL Barrymore has been told to "come clean" about what he knows about the death of Stuart Lubbock at his Essex home nearly 19 years ago, as police have put up a £20,000 reward for information.

Stuart’s body was found next to the swimming pool of the home in Roydon,...

POLICE are examining a report from one of the country's top forensic pathologists that has concluded that the mysterious death of a man said to have been working in a cement mixer in the dead of night nearly 18 years ago was "a murder staged to look like an accident....

THE father of a man found dead with horrific internal injuries at Michael Barrymore's home nearly 19 years ago said fighting for the truth about the unexplained death has almost killed him.
Stuart Lubbock, 31, died at Barrymore's home in Roydon, Essex, in the early hou...

PERVERT: Disney will be sentenced for the crimes at Basildon Crown Court 

A PAEDOPHILE is facing a lengthy spell behind bars after he admitted to several counts of sex attacks on underage girls over a 44-year-period.

Colin Disney, 68, from Stambridge Road, Rochford, admi...

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...