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Don't leave valuables on show in your vehicle, warn police
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...
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Thieves steal collection tin set for stroke charity
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...
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Prolific criminal escapes jail for 200 offences
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...
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Man tells Plymouth court: 'I did not murder my ex-partner'
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...
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Czech woman chooses not to give evidence in Plymouth trafficking...
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...
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Boy, 6, needs stitches after being attacked by Alsatian dog on...
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...
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Street robbers' attack on lone woman caught on camera
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...
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Elderly woman on mobility scooter 'blinded by sunlight' was hit...
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...
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Woman took her own life seven years after causing horror A38...
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...
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Wreckage of burnt out car in playground to be removed says...
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...
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Drugs gang kidnapped Plymouth man and tortured him in sex dungeon
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...
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Sneak thief who stole from more than a dozen Plymouth businesses...
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...
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Plymouth man jailed for having indecent child images
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...
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Plymouth woman who dodged £7.35 train fare ordered to pay...
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...
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'Sex ban' and Facebook block for 8 worrying people around...
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,...
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NOT locked up in Plymouth: Criminals who have walked free from...
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...
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Czech man tells Plymouth trafficking trial that alleged victim...
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...
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Rise in calls about children suffering from domestic abuse in the...
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...
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Manhunt for 'The Hotel' TV star found guilty of stealing...
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...
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Hart and sole: Plymouth man fined for breaching fish theft...
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...
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