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Read Time:17 Second Two fire engines were sent to the scene and on arrival crews found a man in his 30s trapped inside. Using heavy rescue equipment, crews removed the side of the vehicle to gain access to the man who was carefully transferred into...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 26 Second Information is sought following allegations a woman was pushed to the floor during an attempted robbery in Tunbridge Wells. Detectives are investigating an incident which took place on Saturday 18 December 2021, as the...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 7 Second Xhovan Pepaj, aged 25, was found fatally injured in Caley Road, at around 3.15am on Saturday 4 December 2021. He had sustained multiple injuries consistent with stab wounds. On 7 December, an investigation by the Kent...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 5 Second On Wednesday 8 December 2021, police attended a car park in Hastings Road, Flimwell, following reports of suspicious activity. It is alleged a Range Rover was then deliberately driven at three police vehicles. A number...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 0 Second Xhovan Pepaj, aged 25, was found fatally injured in Caley Road, at around 3.15am on Saturday 4 December 2021. He had sustained multiple injuries consistent with stab wounds. A post-mortem examination has taken place and...
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Read Time:56 Second Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate have charged two people with a murder in Tunbridge Wells. A police investigation commenced after a man was found fatally injured in Caley Road, at around 3.15am on...
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Read Time:56 Second Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate have charged two people with a murder in Tunbridge Wells. A police investigation commenced after a man was found fatally injured in Caley Road, at around 3.15am on...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 3 Second The 25-year-old man from Romford, Essex was detained on Monday 6 December 2021 and taken into custody. The investigation by officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate commenced after a man was found...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 6 Second Five arrests have been made in connection with a murder in Tunbridge Wells. Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating after a man was found fatally injured in Caley Road at around 3...
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Read Time:43 Second Officers have launched a murder investigation after a man was fatally injured in Caley Road, Tunbridge Wells at about 3.15am on Saturday 4 December 2021. The investigation is ongoing, and officers are carrying out a number of...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 1 Second Kent Police applied for the closure order at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court following concerns raised by residents about the home in Kibbles Lane, Southborough. Officers were called to the address on a number of occasions...
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Read Time:6 Minute, 17 Second David Fuller, aged 67, previously from Heathfield, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on 4 November 2021 and admitted murdering Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in 1987. He will be sentenced at a later date. He has also...
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Read Time:3 Minute, 56 Second Fuller had previously also pleaded guilty to 51 further charges relating to sexual offences, including section 70 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 26 Second Sonny Lucas, 30, of Silverdale Road, Royal Tunbridge Wells, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply drugs when he appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 4 Second The incident happened in St John’s Road on Saturday 2 October 2021, as a taxi was travelling towards Southborough with four passengers. At around 7pm, it is alleged one of the passengers who was sitting in...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 19 Second Detectives are reviewing CCTV and making enquiries after a woman was assaulted in Tunbridge Wells. The incident is reported to have happened at 7.35pm on Saturday 16 October 2021 in Major York’s Road...
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Read Time:32 Second Ms Nessa was killed as she walked through Cator Park in Kidbrooke, southeast London, on her way to meet a friend on September 17. Officers from the Met Specialiasst Polsar teams have spent the past three days on ...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 19 Second It is hoped the technology will help tackle crimes including thefts and burglaries and also assist officers in detecting criminals operating in rural communities, around towns such as Edenbridge and areas close to the...
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Read Time:44 Second Officers are investigating a town centre disturbance during the early hours of Sunday 22 August 2021, when it is alleged the victim was kicked in the head. It is reported that at around 1.20am the man had been walking with...
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Read Time:45 Second The victim, who is in his 20s, was walking along Mount Pleasant Road when he was approached and verbally abused by three young men at around 11.35pm on Sunday 15 August 2021. He was then followed into Calverley Grounds...
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Read Time:7 Second Firefighters stabilised the vehicle and used battery-powered cutting equipment to create space allowing paramedics to assess the casualty’s condition, before transferring to a waiting ambulance Share Facebook Twitter...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 3 Second Soufyan Yahyaoui has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after subjecting the victim to a violent ordeal, which left her suffering injuries including a bleed to the brain. Yahyaoui, aged 41...
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Read Time:42 Second A man and a woman have been arrested after the drugs were recovered as part of an investigation by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate. Officers searched an address in Marlowe Close, Maldon, Essex during the...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 17 Second On Thursday 10 June 2021, officers from the town’s Community Policing Team saw a VW Golf they suspected was being used in connection with the supply of drugs. They stopped the car in Common View, Rusthall and after...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 9 Second Sergjo Rica was part of an organised criminal gang which arranged delivery of drugs into the town through dedicated ‘customer’ phone lines. Rica played a key role in the operation and between May 2019 and...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 11 Second The cadets attended a number of locations highlighted as areas of concern, to carry out checks in conjunction with local Speedwatch groups. The initiatives took place over Tuesday 27 July and Tuesday 4 August and were...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 41 Second Laptops, speakers and smart watches were among hundreds of high value items stolen by Ionel Stoian during targeted raids in 2020. Stoian, aged 51, was part of a criminal gang which broke into branches in...
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Read Time:39 Second Two men are reported to have approached the address in Bounds Oak Way, Southborough, at around 3.40am on Tuesday 13 July 2021 before running away when they heard a dog barking from inside. Detective Sergeant Jim Farley of...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 26 Second Patrols in the town continue to clampdown on issues including ongoing concerns over noise, criminal damage, alcohol misuse, and complaints around threatening behaviour and harassment. Breaches of the warnings can lead...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 27 Second An uninsured driver consumed whiskey and smoked cannabis before causing a collision near Tunbridge Wells that claimed the lives of a married couple in their 80s. Kristiyan Trendafilov has now been sentenced to more than...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 12 Second Investigations by the Tunbridge Wells Community Policing Team identified that Josiah Roberts had been sending texts to residents near to his home offering cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis for sale. A search warrant...
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Read Time:33 Second Ethan Dunmall is last known to have been in the Lodge Oak Lane area at around 1pm on Thursday 13 May 2021. The 16-year-old is described as being around five feet and nine inches tall, of slim build and with short blond hair...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 17 Second On Monday 3 May, marked and unmarked patrols carried out speed and traffic checks along various parts of the A21 following concerns over excess speed and anti-social behaviour. Officers from the force’s Roads...
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Read Time:38 Second Doug’s vehicle was located on the Ridgeway, close to Starveall, near Aldworth and Compton. Thames Valley Police now has new information as to what Doug was wearing when he was last seen. He was wearing a black hooded top, a...
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Read Time:37 Second Doug Carroll was last seen on Tuesday 20 April 2021. He is described as being five feet and five inches tall, of slim build, with brown hair and brown eyes. It is not known what he was wearing when he went missing. Doug has...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 55 Second People living in the area are urged to continue to book rapid tests at the centre in the town’s Crescent Road up until this weekend, including Sunday. From Thursday 15th April residents will be able to book symptom...
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Read Time:9 Second Three fire engines were sent to the incident and crews wearing breathing apparatus used hose reel jets to extinguish the fire. The cause is believed to be accidental. Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Happy 0 0 % Sad 0 0...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 9 Second Jack Davis was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court, after phone evidence also proved he had been orchestrating a supply network to multiple users. Davis was a passenger in a car which was stopped by patrols on 29 September...
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Read Time:38 Second A woman arrested in connection with a serious assault at a property in Tunbridge Wells has been charged. Kent Police was called at 1.05pm on Friday 12 March 2021 to a report that a man had been stabbed at an address in Dudley...
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Read Time:42 Second On Sunday 28 February 2021, a woman in her 70s was at Marks and Spencer in Dowding Way when she was approached by a man who asked her a question about one of the products on the shelf. Following this incident, which happened...
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Read Time:30 Second Kent Police was called at 1.05pm on Friday 12 March 2021 to a report that a man had been injured at the residential address, in Dudley Road. Officers and South East Coast Ambulance Service attended and the man was airlifted to a...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 18 Second On 15 November 2019, a police patrol stopped a Mercedes C250 travelling on London Road, Southborough. Suspecting the driver, Karl Pennington, was involved in the supply of drugs, the officers completed a search and...
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Read Time:34 Second On Tuesday 16 February 2021, search warrants were executed at two addresses in London and Tunbridge Wells At the London address, officers seized a mobile phone, two wraps of cocaine and a quantity of cash. At the premises...
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Read Time:30 Second On Saturday 13 February 2021, a search warrant issued under the Misuse of Drugs Act was executed at an address in Medway Drive. Officers seized a quantity of cocaine, some herbal cannabis and electronic scales. They also...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 9 Second Sales totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds were organised by the gang, which set up 24-hour phone lines to receive orders and courier drugs to local users. Customers ordered cocaine using the dedicated phone...
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Read Time:36 Second The weapons were discovered along with a cannabis cultivation, when police executed a search warrant at a property in Holmewood Road. Officers from the Tunbridge Wells Community Policing Team entered the address at 6.30am on...
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Read Time:33 Second It is reported that at around 12pm on 11 October 2020, the victim was in Victoria Road when she asked a man who she did not know to move away, as she felt he was walking too close to her. It is alleged the suspect responded by...
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Read Time:23 Second The incident happened on 7 December 2020, when it is alleged a man damaged a barrier at an underground car park in Culverden Park Road. Having made a number of enquiries into the incident, officers are now able to issue a...
