Mark Wynne, 39 of Parsonage Road, Grays was stopped by the police in Orsett Road, Grays on September 24th after driving through a red light. He provided a positive specimen. The court heard that on the way to the police station, he was told by the officers that "They were about to go off shift and he meant that they now had loads of paperwork."
A PURFLEET MAN was jailed today at Basildon Magistrates Court (Thursday) for an assault on a terminally ill man that also left a wheelchair-bound man hurt. John Hicks, 49, of Marine Court, Purfleet aka locally as "Tattoo John" pled guilty to the assault which occurred at 4.30pm on August 22nd in Orsett Road, Grays.
A 26-YEAR-OLD GRAYS man remains on bail as part of an inquiry by Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC) into an alleged £5.5 million pound money laundering fraud. The man was arrested along with a 55-year-old man from Hornchurch and a 35-year-old man from Ongar in April in a dawn raid by dozens of officers.
Chief Superintendent Glenn Caton, divisional commander for South Western Division said: "This is an exciting time for our officers, staff and the community. It’s a chance for us to put the new ‘Blueprint’ into action and to see what works well, and to retune any areas that don’t.
"It’s vital that the ‘Blueprint’ is tried and tested before being rolled out across the county, and I’m proud that Basildon and Thurrock will be leading the way for the rest of the force,” he added.
The pending closure of the station to the residents of Corringham and Stanford is not something that should be taken lightly. I have also heard that the numbers of police that will be available to serve the residents of Thurrock will be cut with numbers of 100 plus being mentioned.
The victim was told the loan would be in her account within two hours. Further monies were requested to pay into paypoint vouchers and further phonecalls stating there were complications over the vouchers. The man on the phone requested the victim place more money in as lump sum and then to phone the company with a code to redeem the previous vouchers/monies. To date no refund or loan has been received by the victim.
Pc Nick May, part of the Thurrock CID target team, said: "We believe this may have been stolen from the Thurrock, Basildon or Southend area, and so far our enquiries to find its rightful owner have been fruitless. If you think this may belong to you, or you know someone that has recently been burgled and had a red laptop stolen, please get in touch.”
Although the defendant, Lee Fenwick, of Whitehall Lane, did not appear in court on Thursday (22 September) the magistrates found the case proved in his absence and he was fined £250, and ordered to pay £350 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge. The court heard that Fenwick had been a persistent offender with loud amplified music that has disturbed his neighbours.
On Thursday (22 September) she was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment, suspended for nine months by Basildon Magistrates. The court was told the mother had been prosecuted at Grays Magistrates’ Court last year for failing to send the children to school. Following the previous prosecution, the mother failed to engage with Thurrock Council’s Education Welfare Service despite repeated requests to do so.
The violent encounter came at the climax of a confrontation between Mr Coventry and his former girlfriend, Anna Rollings, who had just picked up the Treetops teacher from a pub where he had been drinking. Mr Coventry, 25, of Crouch Road, Chadwell St Mary, had broken up a 15 month relationship with Miss Rollings, 22, a couple of weeks before the encounter which happened on 11 April this year after Mr Coventry spotted the couple in her car and followed them.
Between around 9:30pm and 11pm on Saturday September 24, a man in his mid-twenties was hit several times on the head with an unknown object. It is believed that the assault happened in High Street, Aveley, and the man then went inside the Old Ship public house where police and paramedics attended. The man suffered a one-inch cut above his left eye, and a half-inch cut to the back of his head, and was taken to hospital for treatment.
But now, under Operation Wagtail, cruiser events have been considerably reduced thanks to changes to road layouts, speed humps on roads, improved security measures on car parks and increased police patrols. The measures were introduced after discussions between police, Highways Agency, Thurrock Council, community safety workers, Essex Fire and Rescue Service and businesses whose car parks were used for cruiser gatherings.
At around 9pm on Friday September 23, two unidentified suspects gained entry to the same property, through a door, causing no damage. The suspects confronted the resident in his living room, and then stole cash. The suspects are described as a white man, aged between 21 and 40 years old, wearing a dark blue coat, dark trousers and shoes, and a white woman aged between 40 and 60 years old, wearing a hooded fleece with the hood drawn up.
Chief tells assembled councillors: "This is not apocalypse now" in a confident presentation of his Operation Blueprint. The report stressed that the new vogue would be for "borderless policing" away from the culture where divisions and stations lived in their own "bubbles" or that reports would get "lost" as the complainer that was robbed in Lakeside lived in Clacton. The chief made a commitment to response times and pledged that Grays would become one of nine "response hubs".
