Essex News & Investigations

A TOP Met Police officer has kept his job despite being found guilty of misconduct after failing to declare he was in a relationship with a WPC who he was mentoring while she was promoted within the force.

Chief Superintendent Robert Atkin MBE (pictured above) has been...

RUSSIAN oligarchs are too rich and powerful to be hit with a so-called McMafia orders to explain the source of their wealth, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has admitted.

After the Novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March 2018, then Prime Minister Theresa...

A TRANSGENDER former beautician has admitted assaulting a woman and a police officer after being arested on Oxfrod Street on Thursday.

Paris Bregazzi, 32, (pictured above: PA) who was born male, but identifies as female, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today...

A TOP Met Police officer, who was awarded an MBE and led the force's ongoing major recruitment drive, has been accused of giving preferential treatment to a love interest to get her promoted up the ranks of the force.

A police misconduct probe into allegations about Chi...

A CAR garage boss has been charged with drug supply and keeping a firearm and ammunition at his business premises following the Encrochat hack.

Robert Wiggins, 42, boss (pictured above) of Wiggins Autos in Notting Hill, London, is alleged to have conspired between March...

NEARLY 40 suspected major drugs traffickers, including men accused of belonging to some of Europe's biggest mafia organisations, have been caught hiding in the UK.
Italy and Poland are each separately seeking the extradition of 12 fugitives from the UK who are alr...

A police sergeant secretly tried to record a colleague in the shower and had a sick video of a woman receiving oral sex from a dog, a court heard.

Detective Sergent Benjamin McNish, 29, (above) tried to film a female officer with his phone camera as she showered in Febr...

A MET Police detective has been charged with posessing extreme pornography involving a sex act with a dog.

Detective Sergeant Benjamin McNish of the East Area Command Unit, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, July 17.

He is charged with possessing on...

A CANNABIS growing ring across Essex and east London was today hit as ten people were arrested in a series of eight morning raids. 

It was part of an investigation by Essex Police into organised crime groups exploiting vulnerable people by forcing them to grow and guard...

A MAN convicted of killing a Romanian athletics champion has given up his battle to stop being extradited to face justice.
Vasilica-Viorel Baciu, 35, became one of Romania's most wanted fugitives after coming to the UK after he was freed on licence after the death of c...