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Gang who targeted ATMs jailed

By on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 | No Comments

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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Teesside man accused of concert tickets scam

By on Sunday, February 12th, 2012 | No Comments

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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Teesside care worker who stole £9,500 avoids jail

By on Monday, February 6th, 2012 | No Comments

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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Courts seize Newcastle brothel owner’s profits

By on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 | No Comments

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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Pig pong repels anti-social youths

By on Thursday, December 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Youths have turned their noses up at a woodland drink and drugs den after it was spread with pig dung. Middlesbrough Council came up with the cheap but effective method of combating anti-social behaviour in woods at Coulby Newham. It said residents had complained about young people smoking drugs in the area and, although there [...]

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Four deny bid to murder Middlesbrough ex-boxer

By on Monday, November 28th, 2011 | No Comments

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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Middlesbrough man avoids jail for witness intimidation

By on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 | No Comments

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 [...]

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Severed head of stolen pet pony found in Spennymoor wood

By on Friday, November 18th, 2011 | No Comments

The owner of a stolen pet pony spoke of her devastation last night after discovering the animal’s severed head. Trigger, a seven-year-old Shetland Pony, was last seen in his paddock in Spennymoor, County Durham, at 5.30pm last Tuesday. His owner, Patricia Lister, launched a search for him, but he could not be found. On Wednesday afternoon [...]

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Man charged over MP egg pelting

By on Monday, November 14th, 2011 | No Comments

A man has been charged after an MP was pelted with eggs at the end of a Remembrance Day parade. Middlesbrough’s mayor, former police officer Ray ”Robocop” Mallon, stepped in to make a citizen’s arrest when the town’s Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell came under attack on Sunday. Cleveland Police said a 54-year-old man was [...]

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Lover who snapped spared jail

By on Saturday, November 12th, 2011 | No Comments

A woman who bit a hole in her boyfriend’s scrotum during a row has been spared jail. Maria Topp, 44, from Wrekenton, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm at Newcastle Crown Court. Recorder Robin Mairs said: “This relationship is over, I think both of you accept that.” Ms Topp attacked her [...]

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