Essex News & Investigations

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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JAILED: But street dealer Rahman Hassan could be out of prison in under two years 

A WOMAN who hid two bags of drugs in an intimate area during an Essex Police crackdown on 'county lines' drug gangs is facing jail for dealing.

Street dealer Maureen Doyle, 60, from Broomf...

JEALOUS: Joshua Berenger carried out daily checks on Elle Griffin's phone (Essex Police) 

A DOMESTIC abuser who put his girlfriend in hospital when she refused to unlock her phone for him has been jailed for four years for controlling, manipulating and attacking her.
In...

DEADLY: A Smith and Wesson handgun seized in the raids 

FOUR firearms were seized after police raided a suspected cannabis factory on Canvey Island and a home in Westcliff-on-Sea.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said armed officers had been involved in the searches of th...

SCENE: Victim treated on a stretcher as onlookers watch police and paramedics (TWITTER/@nasirtanoliuk)

POLICE will carry out stop and search into the early hours of tomorrow in Harlow after a man was stabbed near the Essex new town's bus station tonight.

The man, believe...