Don't leave valuables on show in your vehicle, warn police

September 27, 2016, 11:36 pm

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Police are urging motorists to keep valuables out of sight after they linked two thefts which saw stolen credit cards used to top-up mobile phones.The first incident saw a white Vauxhall Mokka broken into in Ringmore Way, West Park, sometime between 8pm on Friday September 16 and 6.55am the following morning. The driver's front window was smashed and a wallet taken from the inside door panel.The wallet contained various credit, debit and membership cards along with £20 in cash.One of the...

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Thieves steal collection tin set for stroke charity

September 28, 2016, 1:01 am

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Thieves have stolen a collection tin holding around £200 set for a Stroke charity.The crooks struck The Meadows leisure centre in Tavistock sometime between 4pm on Sunday September 18 and 4pm the following day. Investigators say the collection tin was left on the counter top of the leisure centre. Tavistock police say they have arrested three individuals in the recent past for similar offences, "all of whom have problems with drugs."A police spokesman said: "Local businesses...

Prolific criminal escapes jail for 200 offences

September 28, 2016, 5:02 am

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An offender has racked up nearly 300 previous convictions but been jailed for just 60 of them.The criminal in the South West was the most prolific offender in the region given a non-custodial sentence in 2015, according to figures released following a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice..They had 276 previous convictions, including 128 for theft offences, 86 for summary offences excluding motoring, 32 public order offences, 10 miscellaneous crimes against society, two for...

Man tells Plymouth court: 'I did not murder my ex-partner'

September 28, 2016, 5:19 am

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A MAN has pleaded not guilty to murdering his ex-partner.Kostadin Kostov, aged 42, appeared at court to deny murdering mother-of-three Gergana Prodanova.He is set to face a judge and jury next February following her disappearance in Exeter on August 4.Kostov, of Mount Pleasant Road in Exeter, allegedly murdered his former partner sometime between August 4 and August 10.Ms Prodanova was reported missing on August 8 when she failed to turn up to work at the city's Great Western Hotel.The last CCTV...

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September 28, 2016, 5:39 am

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A Czech woman accused of trafficking compatriots into the country has decided not to give evidence in her own defence.Nela Dzurkova, aged 28, has chosen not to take to the stand in the long-running trial at Plymouth Crown Court.Martin Tancos, aged 36, is now giving evidence.They are among five defendants who are part of a Czech Roma family accused of trafficking men to Plymouth and housing them in poor conditions.The family then allegedly pocketed much of their benefits and wages.Dzurkova and...

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September 28, 2016, 5:47 am

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A six-year-old boy needed stitches to his ear after he was attacked by a dog on Bovisand beach, police say.Investigators are now hunting the owners of the alsatian dog which bit the youngster before running off. Witnesses say the boy was attacked at about 4.15pm on Sunday, September 18.The dog appeared to be without its owner and was not wearing a lead when it attacked. The boy was taken to Derriford Hospital by his family where he required stitches to his ear lobe.Police want to identify the...

Street robbers' attack on lone woman caught on camera

September 28, 2016, 5:56 am

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Police are hunting two men who attacked a 58-year-old woman as she walked alone through a Devon town.The 58-year-old woman was walking along Old Town, Bideford, at about 9pm on February 18 when she was assaulted by two men as she entered Honestone Street.The men grabbed at her handbag, causing her to fall to the ground. She bravely held on and they fled empty handed along Honestone Street.These images capture the men moments before the assault, walking along Old Town.One was wearing an Adidas...

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September 28, 2016, 7:43 am

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An elderly woman who died a few days after her mobility scooter was struck on a city centre crossing may have mistaken a stop signal because the sun was in her eyes.Coroner Philip Spinney noted the detailed forensic examination carried out by police at the puffin crossing at the junction of Notte Street and the Armada Way footpath. During the inquest into the death of Gwendoline Smith, the court heard how the 87-year-old was riding her red Rascal mobility scooter across the crossing at about...

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September 28, 2016, 8:11 am

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A supermarket worker took her own life seven years after causing the death of her girlfriend and half-brother in a car crash, an inquest has heard.Back in 2009 Joanne Taylor fell asleep at the wheel and drove into a tractor on the A38, killing partner Melissa Barnham, aged 23, and 14-year-old half-brother Daniel Lang.On January 2 this year Joanne, who was diabetic, was found dead at her flat in St Budeaux, having taken an overdose of insulin.An inquest heard the 32-year-old had recently split up...

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September 28, 2016, 8:14 am

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The wreckage of a burnt out car which has been left for 11 days at a Plymouth play park, is finally to be cleared says Councillor Nick Kelly. The incident at Estover park has sparked parents to become angry and worried for their children's safety as the car was left exposed and covered in shards of glass.Councillor Nick Kelly said that he was not made aware of the incident immediately and he believes that their newly adapted website will assist with this. The council have set up a new element to...

Drugs gang kidnapped Plymouth man and tortured him in sex dungeon

September 28, 2016, 8:41 am

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A violent drugs gang has been jailed for a total of 28 years for kidnapping a man and torturing him in a sex dungeon.The victim was manacled, stripped from the waist down, hit across the buttocks and threatened with rape, a court heard.Gary Jones, aged 27, later told police that he thought he was going to die.Four men seized Mr Jones from his Mutley home and repeatedly beat him – sometimes using metal tubes from a vacuum cleaner.Mr Jones was masked and driven about 40 miles to the fetish...

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September 28, 2016, 8:58 am

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A SERIAL burglar who stole a string of mobile phones and other valuables from more than a dozen city businesses has been jailed.Sneak thief Daniel Fry, aged 32, targeted high-value iPhones and other devices from shops, restaurants and a hotel.But the heroin addict also took charity tins and even fire blankets on one occasion, Plymouth Crown Court heard.Fry admitted two non-domestic burglaries, two thefts and one fraud within the space of five days to feed his drug habit.He asked for 25 other...

Plymouth man jailed for having indecent child images

September 28, 2016, 9:43 am

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A MAN caught with indecent images of children has been jailed more than 18 months later after breaching his suspended prison sentence.Michael Cooper, aged 37, stole from a car and was caught with shotgun cartridges.His life went off the rails and he drifted into drugs and crime after splitting with his wife and losing his job as a store manager, Plymouth Crown Court heard.Judge Paul Darlow activated 14 months of his suspended term and added a month consecutive for each of the new offences,...

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September 28, 2016, 12:06 pm

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A Plymouth woman who dodged a £7.35 train fare has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 by magistrates.23 fare dodgers have been fined more than £15,000 in the latest south Devon blitz.They were taken to court by First Great Western (now Great Western Railway) for the fare dodging offences which took place around South Devon and had to pay combined fines of £15,541.65.The worst hit was Annie Copper, of Vaughan Close, Plymouth, who having failed to pay a fare of...

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September 29, 2016, 1:35 am

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Eight people in the Plymouth region have been slapped with 'sex bans' which even bar them from using Facebook, it has been revealed.The court orders ban people from things such as using Facebook, deleting their internet history or even being in the same house as someone under 16 without express permission from social services.According to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Devon and Cornwall Police have issued more 'sex banning' orders than nearly any other English or Welsh...

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September 29, 2016, 3:20 am

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Criminals who have admitted their crimes or been convicted after trials, sometimes for serious or multiple offences, don't always go to prison.Suspended sentences, fines and community punishments are sometimes handed out to those who appear before our courts.This is some of those who have walked 'free' from plymouth Crown Court in September.Plymouth man blames his drink driving on ex-partner who poisoned his childShane Cruickshank had told his solicitor that the stress he has suffered because of...

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September 29, 2016, 5:47 am

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A CZECH man accused of trafficking compatriots into the country has told a jury he treated one alleged victim like "one of the family".Martin Tancos, aged 36, said that he never took any money from Frantisek Kuchar without his consent.Mr Kuchar, aged 55, was one of several Czech men allegedly brought to Plymouth by an extended Roma family.They were then housed in poor conditions while the family took much of their wages and benefits.Mr Kuchar has told Plymouth Crown Court that he slept...

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September 29, 2016, 7:55 am

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A growing number of worried people in the South West are calling a children's charity about homes plagued by domestic abuse.The NSPCC say it has launched a new TV campaign after a sharp rise in the number of adults worried about children suffering or witnessing physical violence and emotional abuse in their own home.Figures revealed by the NSPCC show that over the past five years in the South West, there has been a 68 percent increase in adults being concerned about domestic abuse –...

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September 29, 2016, 8:18 am

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A real-life Basil Fawlty and star of a reality television show has gone on the run after stealing £13,500 from a holiday camp. Former hotel worker Christian Taylor, 50, is now the subject of a nationwide manhunt after jumping bail on the morning of his trial. He was found guilty of theft in his absence and a warrant has now been issued for his arrest. The defendant found fame under his previous name of Christian Scott-Lee in the fly-on-the-wall Channel 4 series The Hotel, filmed...

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September 29, 2016, 9:03 am

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A FORMER fisherman who narrowly avoided jail for stealing boxes of Dover sole has been fined for breaching his curfew.Andrew Hart, aged 34, was handed a suspended prison sentence for taking the fish from the market on the Barbican.Hart and an accomplice stole two boxes containing 35 kilograms of the delicacy belonging to Plymouth Trawler Agents, a jury at Plymouth Crown Court ruled.Hart, of Harwell Street, Stonehouse, denied theft of the fish on July 4, 2014. But he was found guilty after a...