Between 1.30pm on Wednesday, December 28 and 12pm the next day, suspects gained entry through a rear window, causing £3,000 damage. An estimated £1,000 worth of items were stolen, including a solid silver Georgian-style teapot with four legs, a solid silver sugar bowl, solid silver sugar tongs, solid silver cutlery and a gold Swiss mantle clock (pictured).
At 7pm on Monday, December 26, the man received injuries to his head, requiring hospital treatment following the incident outside Sportsworld, near the new Topman shop in the centre.
Thurrock Council Portfolio Holder for Community, Culture and Leisure Councillor Lynn Worrall, said: “It is not unusual following such weather that unscrupulous traders trawl up and down streets looking for signs of damage and then call offering to do repair work. They often particularly prey on elderly and vulnerable people and once they have a ‘victim’, they will invariably cultivate the work and charge huge sums for minor corrective work.
John Dawson, Semple Court, Chadwell St Mary was sentenced to a domestic violence programme in May 2011 after an assault which he head-butted his partner and threatened her with a baseball bat whilst her children were in the flat.
"The dog was out with its handler after reports of someone calling for help from the fields," said a spokesman at Orsett Fire Station. "It's not clear how the manhole cover came away but the animal went down and ended up in a dark pit.
Clifford, of the Sorrells, Corringham, admitted misconduct in a public office while Jamie Tewma of Mill Lane, Fobbing, admitted aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office. Both were given five-month jail terms suspended for 18 months and were ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.
A MAN escaped jail despite refusing to provide a specimen of breath for a breath test on what led to be his third conviction for drinking and driving. Andrius Malciauskas, 30, Jetty Walk, Grays was stopped by police in Grays on the 18th December, last year.
Adetikunbo Oredein, 19, Pugh Place, Stanford-le-Hope appeared from custody at Basildon magistrates to answer charges of possession of an offensive weapon and public order offences.
Police were called to the main shopping precinct following reports of clashes between Tilbury and Corringham youths. Adetikunbo Oredein, 18, Pugh Place, Stanford-le-Hope was arrested and charged with possession of an offensive weapon and public order offences.
Charlene Pigeon, 22, Godman Road, Chadwell St Mary pleaded guilty to five thefts from stores in Grays as well as the assault of a shopkeeper at the One Stop Shop in Grays on the 2nd October, last year.
Reports of burglaries were up by 38 per cent last month, after 71 were reported to police in Thurrock, compared to 55 in December 2010. Of these burglaries, nearly 40 per cent occurred after the front door was forced, which could mean that people are not securing their uPVC doors properly.
David Kerr, 45, Marine Court, Purfleet was sentenced to sixteen weeks in prison at Basildon magistrates court today (Wednesday). Kerr had been seriously assaulted back in 1991 as part of the now infamous "Ealing vicarage rapes".
Ayo Adeoti had made the complaint after it was alleged that on August 21st, last year, Richard Chapman, 35, Chestnut Avenue, Grays had threatened and assaulted her, whilst she was alone in her vehicle in Grays.
Blackshots councillor Joy Redsell was the subject of a report submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in October over an allegation of the theft of a framed photograph of the Gull lightship from the council offices in New Road, Grays.
