An 81-year-old found dead in his terraced house after he failed to turn up at his favourite club was murdered, police said today. Officers were called to an address in Leven Street, Gresham, Middlesbrough, just after 10.50pm on Monday where they discovered the pensioner’s battered body. A post-mortem examination revealed he died as a result of [...]
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Apr 2012
Man found dead in Middlesbrough home was murdered, say police
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Apr 2012
Appeal for calm after ten-year-old girl attacked
April 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
POLICE last night appealed for calm after tensions ran high on a housing estate where a ten-year-old girl was found with serious head injuries. A huge police search operation was launched after the youngster went missing from her home in Stockton on Tees on Saturday. A 16-year-old boy was arrested yesterday in connection with the attack. The [...]
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Apr 2012
Appeal date set in Melsonby murder case
April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A POSTMASTER’S appeal against his conviction for murdering his wife will be heard next month. Robin Garbutt, 46, formerly of York and Haxby, was found guilty last April of bludgeoning his wife, former Selby woman Diana Garbutt, to death at their home at Melsonby Post Office, near Richmond, in 2010. He was told he must serve a minimum [...]
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Feb 2012
Gang who targeted ATMs jailed
February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A gang who trawled the country doing smash and grab ATM burglaries have been jailed for a total of nearly 20 years. David Owens, 35, Shaun Ennis, 41, and Kevin Caveney, 26, disabled the alarm systems at colleges, service stations, amusement parks and caravan sites before attacking the bank machines to steal the cash inside. [...]
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Feb 2012
Teesside man accused of concert tickets scam
February 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
An alleged ticket tout is accused of conning thousands of music fans in a £3m concert scam. Along with two others, Andrew Lagan, 43, of Northcliffe Street, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, allegedly sold non-existent tickets to about 16,000 people. The tickets were allegedly offered via their company Good Time Entertainments for concerts in London’s Hyde Park [...]
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Feb 2012
Teesside care worker who stole £9,500 avoids jail
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A CARE supervisor who stole more than £9,500 from adults with learning difficulties and sank it into gambling has walked free from court. Andrew Charlton took advantage of his job to siphon thousands of pounds from his vulnerable victims’ accounts. Now – in a sentence criticised by leading learning disability charity Mencap – his punishment [...]
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Feb 2012
Courts seize Newcastle brothel owner’s profits
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
JUST £42,000 has been seized from a brothel “madame” who is estimated to have made £500,000 from the sex trade. Hai Hong Liu ran a seedy brothel empire around the North East for which she was jailed two years ago. Now she has been hauled back to court as the authorities try to claw back [...]
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Nov 2011
Four deny bid to murder Middlesbrough ex-boxer
November 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
AN EX-BOXER was mown down by a taxi before being stabbed with a sword in a brutal attack, a court heard. Kevin Harland was crushed between a gate and pillar outside his sister’s Grangetown home before being set upon with the blade, Newcastle Crown Court heard yesterday. His injuries were described as so horrific his left [...]
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Nov 2011
Middlesbrough man avoids jail for witness intimidation
November 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A Drunken house caller who unnerved the 12-year-old son of a court case witness has narrowly avoided prison. A Teesside Crown Court judge said Glen Aungiers, 37, turned up at the home of a witness intent on upsetting her. Her son answered the door. Aungiers persisted in asking for the mother, saying it was “something [...]
