Plans to electronically tag burglars, robbers and thieves will see just 1,500 crooks monitored – despite 1.5 million offences last year Plans to electronically tag serious burglars will see just 1,500 crooks monitored The flagship scheme was announced byPrime Minister Boris Johnson last week Sources said scheme would apply to criminals sentenced to 12 months … Read more
Keep your outbuilding safe from crooks: £30m-worth of gear has been nicked from garages and ‘shoffices’ in the last three years – so here’s eight tips to get secure Over 70,000 outbuilding thefts reported in England and Wales since 2018 Spike in sheds and the ‘shoffice’ during lockdown has exacerbated problem Take some simple steps and … Read more
Record low number of foreign crooks are being kicked out of UK after deportations slumped by 34% last year, figures reveal Just 3,374 were booted out – a third fewer than 2019 and lowest figure for decade The Home Office has struggled amid coronavirus-related travel restrictions Numbers have been falling for four years from peak … Read more
Sneaky cyber crooks are targeting more victims but stealing smaller sums of cash to avoid detection, report warns Online thieves are taking as little as £10 from thousands of accounts unnoticed Method dubbed ‘silent stealing’ and involves fewer risks than large amounts The UK has reached ‘epidemic levels’ with estimate cost at £190billion a year By … Read more
TONY HETHERINGTON: How ‘rescue’ crooks are preying on victims of Quinshaw liquidation By Tony Hetherington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 22:16 GMT, 20 February 2021 Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories … Read more
Crooks con £55,000 a day out of lonely hearts during an online dating boom in lockdown By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 9 February 2021 Romance fraudsters are stealing more than £50,000 a day during an online dating boom in lockdown. There was a … Read more
BBC pundit Garth Crooks is ridiculed by fans for including Liverpool’s Joel Matip in his team of the week after he ‘survived one or two scary moments’ against Tottenham – even though he didn’t even PLAY! Joel Matip made it into BBC pundit Garth Crooks’ Premier League team of week But fans were quick to … Read more
Complaints over cold call crooks DOUBLE as the scammers cash in on coronavirus lockdown By Laura Shannon, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 5 December 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 5 December 2020 Telephone pests are stepping up their efforts to harass, pressurise and steal money from the elderly with a deluge of ‘nuisance’ … Read more
The convicted cocaine dealer father of a Premier League academy footballer was among criminals set for deportation to Jamaica on the flight challenged by Labour MPs and celebrities. Courts have ruled the crook – whose identity cannot be reported under a restriction order – should be transported to the country after serving three years for … Read more
Covid road closure chaos ‘helps crooks flee police’: Measures brought in to make way for low traffic neighbourhoods fuel crime and hold up ambulances, report claims Hundreds of roads across the country are being closed to make way for LTNs Officials say that the Government schemes have cut pollution on busy streets Schemes have also … Read more