Crime news from across Hampshire

Arrests after drugs found following bungalow fire

Fire rips through Hampshire home

5:20pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

THREE men have been arrested after police found cannabis growing equipment in a Hampshire home gutted by fire.

Investigation continues after violence at festival

A man injured at the Wickham Horse Fair

12:21pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

ALL six men who were arrested after a brawl in a Hampshire village yesterday are still in custody this morning.

Gang member spared jail

Gang member spared jail

11:50am Friday 17th May 2013

THE final member of a crime gang that plundered £160,000 in property from a string of shops across the south has been spared further jail time.

Live webchat with Police Commissioner

Simon Hayes

4:39pm Thursday 16th May 2013

LOG ON tomorrow morning for your chance to quiz the man in charge of policing in Hampshire.

Couple lie about driving offences

Southern Daily Echo

2:30pm Thursday 16th May 2013

A COUPLE from Southampton admitted lying about who was behind the wheel when the husband was caught speeding and jumping a red light.

Digger stolen

Southern Daily Echo

2:25pm Thursday 16th May 2013

THIEVES have stolen a digger worth £16,000 from a hire company in Hampshire.

Illegal immigrants caught at Hampshire ferry port

Illegal immigrants caught at Hampshire ferry port

1:43pm Thursday 16th May 2013

Two illegal immigrants have been found hiding in a lorry at a Hampshire ferry port.

Water leaks blight new £30m police station

Police station water leaks 'an embarrassment'

4:00am Thursday 16th May 2013

A MAJOR Hampshire police station virtually closed down and earmarked to be sold looks set to be given a new lease of life – due to Southampton’s iconic new station being riddled with water leaks, the Daily Echo can reveal.

Police car rammed during dramatic high-speed chase across Hampshire

Hunt as robber strikes in shopping precinct

2:11pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

A police car was rammed during a high speed chase across the Hampshire countryside today.

Man tasered for threatening police

Cops to train 200 more officers with Tasers

12:04pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

A MAN was tasered by police last night when he became violent and threatening to officers who were trying to arrest him in a supermarket car park in Hampshire.

Is this property yours?

Property recovered by police

6:10pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

TAKE a good look at this array of jewellery and electrical goods, as police are trying to trace its rightful owners.

Refusal to leave cell to face GBH charge

Southern Daily Echo

6:00am Wednesday 15th May 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON man accused of violence refused to leave the cells at Winchester Crown Court and attend his hearing.

£3.3m seized from criminals

Part of a £58,000 seizure made by Hampshire police officers

11:36am Tuesday 14th May 2013

IT is the dirty money made by those who heap misery on the people of Hampshire.

Officer in court charged with disclosing intelligence to criminals

Rebecca Swanston arriving a Basingstoke Magistrates Court this morning.

11:50am Tuesday 14th May 2013

A former Southampton police constable appeared in court today charged with disclosing information and intelligence to alleged criminals.

Great Britain athlete has 30 pairs of Nike trainers stolen in burglary

Runner Charlotte Purdue in action

3:42pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

The kit belonging to an international athlete from Hampshire has been stolen in a burglary.

Madam must pay back £50K

Brothel boss Suzanna Symington.

11:50am Tuesday 14th May 2013

SHE benefited by more than £50,000 from her crime, and now she’s facing losing everything she’s got as police take the money back.

Man charged with murder

Southern Daily Echo

5:32pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

A MAN has been charged with murder, following the discovery of a body.

Police clamp down on illegal raves

Southern Daily Echo

1:11pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

POLICE chiefs are set to launch a campaign aimed at stamping out illegal raves across Hampshire – ten days after hundreds of youths brought chaos to a village.

Fundraiser's bike stolen weeks before charity challenge

VICTIM OF THEFT: Kim Haddaway's trip is now under threat

1:00pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

SHE has raised thousands of pounds for charities, supporting the country’s most vulnerable and impoverished adults and children.

Police launch race hate app

Police launch race hate app

10:53am Tuesday 14th May 2013

IT's the new tool that police hope will help stamp out hate crime in Hampshire.

Gang 'tried to con taxman of £2m'

Ruslanas Bobrovas

9:43am Tuesday 14th May 2013

A CRIME gang operating in Southampton tried to con £2m of taxpayers’ money from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), a court heard.

Madam netted £51,000 running brothel

Suzanna Symington

4:46pm Monday 13th May 2013

A WOMAN who ran a high-class brothel from penthouse flats in Southampton made £51,000, it has been revealed.

Prison 'a sobering experience' says Huhne

Chris Huhne faces the press today

1:28pm Monday 13th May 2013

Disgraced former Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne repeated apologies for his wrongdoing today, saying that prison had been a ''humbling and sobering experience''.

Pryce to publish prison diaries

Vicky Pryce

4:43pm Monday 13th May 2013

Chris Huhne's ex-wife is to publish a book based on the diaries she kept during her recent two months in prison, her publisher announced today.

Police given more time to question murder suspect

Southern Daily Echo

3:29pm Monday 13th May 2013

Detectives from Hampshire Constabulary’s Major Investigation Team (HMIT) have been granted more time by magistrates to question a 39-year-old man on suspicion of murder.

Disgraced MP's ex-wife speaks on release from prison

Call for Prime MInister to strip Vicky Pryce of honour

9:53am Monday 13th May 2013

THE EX-WIFE of disgraced former Eastleigh MP, Chris Huhne, has spoken publically after the pair were released early from prison today.

Police launch Hampshire murder investigation

Southern Daily Echo

8:59am Sunday 12th May 2013

The death of a man in Hampshire is being treated as murder by detectives from Hampshire Constabulary’s Major Investigation Team.

Gang jailed for spree of burglaries across Hampshire

the gang caught on CCTV during a raid at Co-op in Bransgore

4:30pm Friday 10th May 2013

A GANG has this afternoon been jailed for more than 13 years for carrying out smash and grab raids at stores across Hampshire and the south of England.

Fake pilot on the run after flying passenger jets

Michael Fay

5:12pm Friday 10th May 2013

A HAMPSHIRE conman who faked pilot’s qualifications to get a job flying holiday makers to the UK is on the run after failing to appear before the courts for sentencing.

Naked Rambler fined again

Stephen Gough, the Naked Rambler

4:23pm Friday 10th May 2013

HAMPSHIRE'S Naked Rambler' has been fined after he was found guilty of nine public order offences for walking nude in public places including outside a primary school.

Charged with murder

Police want to speak to Ricardo Pisano

6:27pm Friday 10th May 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON man has been charged with murder.

Jim Davidson bailed in sex offence investigation

Jim Davidson

2:46pm Friday 10th May 2013

Comedian Jim Davidson has been rebailed over alleged sex offences by police investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal.

City youth at heart of anti-crime initiative

The forum aims to deal with crime issues affecting youth, such as knife violence

12:20pm Friday 10th May 2013

SOUTHAMPTON youngsters are set to be at the heart of a groundbreaking new project aimed at reducing youth crime and offending.

Murder detectives are given extra time to question suspect

WANTED: Ricardo Pisano

11:32am Friday 10th May 2013

DETECTIVES have been given an extra 36 hours to question a murder suspect arrested in Southampton after an international manhunt.

‘Sleeping’ would be burglars arrested at store

Southern Daily Echo

11:29am Friday 10th May 2013

POLICE have arrested two men following a break-in at a furnishing shop.

Police to pay £150k for officer's cut thumb

A Hampshire Constabulary helmet

11:05am Thursday 9th May 2013

Hampshire police will have to pay £150,000 of public money to lawyers after losing a legal appeal today against compensation given to an officer who cut her thumb while dismantling a cannabis factory.

Men approaching children prompts police investigation

Stock image of Hampshire police officers

6:27pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

POLICE are investigating after a number of 'suspicious' incidents involving men approaching children.

Murder suspect arrested in city

WANTED: Ricardo Pisano

5:59pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

AN ESCAPED convict who was wanted on suspicion of murder has been arrested in Southampton.

Thieves steal boilers worth £7,000

Southern Daily Echo

2:13pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

BURGLARS have taken boilers worth more than £7,000 from a nearly completed block of flats.

Wedding wrecked by drink driver

Annabelle Cooper

10:00am Tuesday 7th May 2013

THESE are the horrific injuries that wrecked the wedding plans of a Hampshire bride-to-be after a drink driver ploughed into her family’s car.

Arsonist spared jail after attempt to take his own life

Southern Daily Echo

6:00pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON man, who started two fires in his flat in a fit of depression because he wanted to commit suicide, was spared a prison sentence after his girl friend told a judge how she had seen a massive change in his personality since he had been receiving treatment on four months remand.

Vandals strike at city cafe

ParkLife Cafe: Sam Corneby and Paul Salmon

5:45pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

POLICE have questioned a 12-year-old boy after the window of a popular cafe at the heart of a revamped park in Southampton was smashed.

Hampshire Police must improve health care in custody, says report

Hunt as robber strikes in shopping precinct

11:20am Tuesday 7th May 2013

HEALTH care in police custody provision in Hampshire is in need of attention, according to a government report.

Lapdancers accused of 'kidnapping' club boss

Mandy-Laura Cool

8:53am Monday 6th May 2013

TWO lap dancers from Southampton have been accused of helping to kidnap a club boss who owed them £42,000 for their services during a horse racing festival.

Second death linked to 'rogue' batch of heroin

Heroin

4:10pm Friday 3rd May 2013

ANOTHER man has died following warnings of a 'rogue' batch of heroin in Hampshire.

Couple spared jail after being drunk and in charge of a child

Deborah Hambrook and Karl Hayden leaving Southampton Magistrates’ Court.

1:22pm Friday 3rd May 2013

A COUPLE found to be drunk while in charge of a young child have been spared an immediate jail sentence.

Illegal workers found at restaurant

Aroma Indian and Bangladeshi Cuisine in Long Lane, Holbury

4:35pm Friday 3rd May 2013

IMMIGRATION officers have swooped to arrest three illegal workers at a Hampshire restaurant.

Murder accused in court

Police step up hunt for Jamal's killers - VIDEO

10:43am Friday 3rd May 2013

A MAN has appeared in court charged with the murder of Southampton dad Jahmel Jones.

Man made 'bomb detectors' in his garden shed

Southern Daily Echo

4:03pm Friday 3rd May 2013

An unemployed man has been convicted of making fake bomb detectors in his garden shed.

Efit released following city centre sex attack

This efit is the face of a man wanted over a sex assault in a Southampton park.

10:37am Friday 3rd May 2013

THIS is the face of a man wanted over a sex assault in a Southampton park.



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