A 36-year-old local man lost his mobile telephone near to Tesco on Southend Road at 8pm on Monday, November 25. The HTC has a security app installed and so, when the handset’s PIN was entered incorrectly a number of times, it took photographs of a man who was in possession of it.
"I WOULD like to respond to the concerns raised in recent articles published on the Your Thurrock (YT) website in relation to the solving of burglary offences in the Borough. The first point to mention is that the figures quoted from YT combine all types of burglary, including attempts. This includes everything from people’s homes, to sheds, allotment buildings, staff locker rooms, and commercial/leisure premises etc. The figures for “solving” a burglary of something other than someone’s home has always been much lower due to the fact most of these are reported overnight, in places where there is often little in the way of witnesses, CCTV or forensic enquires.
COUNCILLOR Angie Gaywood, Thurrock Council’s portfolio holder for public protection, said: "The scourge that is domestic violence has to be stamped out and Thurrock Council is committed to working closely with Essex Police to help achieve this. Protecting vulnerable people is something that doesn’t often hit the headlines unless things go wrong and it is important people realise it is a top priority.”
ONLY 6% of burglaries in Thurrock were solved last year.
EVERY year, since 2006, YT has (through a Freedom of Information request) published findings into crime and detection rates in Thurrock. Last year, we noted that 90% of burglaries remained unsolved. Many thought that it could not get any worse. It appears it just has.
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after more than £1000 of fire damage was caused to children’s play equipment. The damage was caused at Little Roos pre-school, in Dock Road, Grays, after play equipment and rubber matting was burned and melted.
TWO men from West Essex have this morning been arrested as part of a cross-channel investigation into drug trafficking and money laundering. On Thursday, November 14, detectives and financial investigators from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU), officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA), Essex Police and the French Judicial Police, executed search warrants at two addresses on Rollason Way in Brentwood and The Green in South Ockendon.
LEONARD Willsher, aged 41 from Basildon, has today pleaded guilty to several offences that left a 58 year old delivery driver fighting for his life.
David Fletcher from Upminster was making deliveries in Wood Avenue, Purfleet on July 9, 2013 when two men jumped into his lorry and attempted to drive off. Mr Fletcher chased after the lorry, but was pushed in the face by the driver, and fell to the ground. His lorry then drove over him, leaving him with serious multiple injuries.
THE theft took place at 12.20pm on Monday September 16. A woman had entered the Cash Generator store, in Clarence Road, in Grays, picked up a remote control toy helicopter from the display and walked out of the store without making any attempt to pay for it. The suspect is described as white, aged 35 to 40 with brown hair.
CLLR Gaywood said: “During the first four months of the car’s six-month trial it made 578 visits to Thurrock’s 50-odd schools during the morning and afternoon school runs and recorded 153 school-related parking contraventions. “There is no need to park thoughtlessly or dangerously when dropping off or picking up children at schools, indeed because of the large number of young people close to busy roads at this time, it is all the more important people park sensibly and safely.
POLICE are warning people in Thurrock to be aware of a variation of a telephone fraud scam after a number of people reported dubious phone calls yesterday (Fri Nov 8). Four people, in Leigh on Sea, have contacted police after they were called by men claiming to be from the Metropolitan Police or a company running a competition.
YT understands that Essex Police has been called into to investigate a possible criminal offence in relation to the Stifford Clays by-election. The investigation may well be centred on an allegation that during campaigning in October, Labour distributed cakes to residents of the ward of Stifford Clays.
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a burglary in Chadwell St Mary where two watches were stolen. The back door of the house in Newnham Place was jemmied open between midnight and 6.45pm on Sunday, November 3. A ‘Police’ branded watch with a silver chain and a ‘Tag’ branded watch with a silver frame and black face were stolen.
POLICE are appealing for information after a girl was offered sweets by an unknown man in Grays. The ten-year-old local girl was approached by a man while in Belmont Road just before 3.15pm on October 22.
A TEENAGER is due to appear in court later this month after having been charged with a number of firearm and drugs offences following a robbery in Grays. A pizza delivery man had been attending a residential address on Mill Road at 10pm on Tuesday, April 16 when he was approached by several men who threatened him with a firearm, before stealing the pizza bag and its food contents.
A MAN has been arrested following an assault in Grays which left the victim with a cut to his eyebrow area. The 24-year-old man from Grays has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a 31-year-old local man in Orsett Road at about 4.30am on Sunday, October 6.
