Italian man, 43, admits role in £25m jewellery raid at F1 heiress Tamara Ecclestone’s Kensington mansion Alessandro Donati admitted his role in £25m raid at Tamara Ecclestone’s house Italian national, 43, was taken from custody at HMP Wandsworth to court today Donati spoke only to confirm his identity before entering the guilty plea Charge relates … Read more
Caught blue-handed! Thieves get nabbed with large sacks full of 8,000 wild bluebell bulbs after raid on beauty spot Police discovered large sacks and mail bags filled with the wild flowers They received a call about strangers acting suspiciously on the property The owner of the wood near Fakenham, Norfolk, is now replanting the bulbs … Read more
A grandmother has been jailed after her secret double life cooking drugs in her kitchen then smuggling them into prison soaked into pen pal letters was exposed. Cleaning manager Gail Cotton, 55, brewed zombie drug Spice in her house before impregnating it into sheets of paper as gangland ‘Mrs Big’. The drug-drenched documents were then mocked … Read more
Burglary gang beat French billionaire tycoon Bernard Tapie, 78, and his 70-year-old wife and tie them up in ‘extremely violent’ raid on their luxury estate near Paris Bernard Tapie, 78, and wife Dominique, 70, attacked in luxury home near Paris The burglars evaded security outside the estate in Combs-La-Ville last night They hit the billionaire repeatedly over … Read more
Police raid 29 homes from Devon to Scotland making 16 arrests and seizing £150,000 in cash, a gun and 20kg of heroin, cocaine, crack and cannabis in blitz on drugs gang making £1m a year The raids were the result of a year-long investigation into London drug dealing Police from six forces carried out the … Read more
Masked gang pretending to be police complete with caps, handcuffs and warrant cards steal £20,000 cash in terrifying home raid Three men posing as cops raided home in Croydon, south London, last October They claimed to be investigating tax evasion and money laundering allegations Men, who carried handcuffs and fake warrant cards, then stole £20,000 … Read more
Masked gang pretending to be police complete with caps, handcuffs and warrant cards steal £20,000 cash in terrifying home raid Three men posing as cops raided home in Croydon, south London, last October They claimed to be investigating tax evasion and money laundering allegations Men, who carried handcuffs and fake warrant cards, then stole £20,000 … Read more
Scores of villagers have been killed by motorbike-riding gunmen in the deadliest jihadist massacre ever to hit Niger. Government spokesman Zakaria Abdourahamane said 137 people had died in Sunday’s raids in villages in the Tahoua region, near Niger’s border with Mali. Gunmen arriving on motorbikes attacked the villages of Intazayene, Bakorat and Wistane on Sunday, … Read more
Police seize 83 dogs and arrest six people during raid on suspected puppy-stealing gang – as operation to return them to their owners begins The animals were found during a search of a travellers’ site near Ipswich Suffolk Constabulary are now working to reunite the dogs with their owners Is your dog missing in Suffolk? Send … Read more
The shocking damage caused by Nazi air attacks on Britain during the Second World War has been laid bare in newly revealed colour footage. The historic footage was recorded in 1942 following a Luftwaffe attack on Bristol which saw multiple buildings and buses completely destroyed. Recorded just an hour after the German air force dropped … Read more