by Alan Morris | Mar 7, 2025 | Crime, News
A Sheffield man has been jailed for repeated shoplifting offences. Lee Gardener, 36, of White Thorns Drive, Sheffield appeared in Sheffield Magistrates Court on Monday (3 March) charged with 13 counts of theft. Retail Crime Officer Tony Nicholls, from the Sheffield...
by Will Atherton | Mar 7, 2025 | Community, Crime, News
South Yorkshire Police has announced that over 40 blank firing guns have been handed into the force during a one month amnesty period. The initiative, which took place over February, was part of a nationwide appeal led by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Detective...
by Samuel Juckes | Mar 6, 2025 | Charity, Crime, News
Sheffield-based young offenders education charity In2Change has welcomed the improving figures on reoffending in South Yorkshire. The latest statistics from the Ministry of Justice shows more than a quarter of convicted criminals in the region reoffend within a year....
by Rosie Wood | Mar 6, 2025 | Crime, Top Story - Home Page Lead
A former prison officer at HMP Doncaster has been jailed for 21 months for having an “intimate” relationship with an inmate. Mother-of-one Katie Evans, 26, was “manipulated” by “experienced criminal” Daniel Brownley and had a relationship with him in 2020,...
by Thomas Addley | Feb 27, 2025 | Crime, News, Top Story 2 - Home Page sub 1
More than 40,000 people have signed a petition to stop knife crime in schools. This comes after 15 year old Harvey Willgoose was stabbed and killed earlier this month. The petition, which was started by Rebecca Phillips calls upon the UK Government and the Education...
by Nathalia Santana Hernandez | Feb 21, 2025 | Community, Crime, News, Top Story 2 - Home Page sub 1
Police in Mexborough caught and arrested Adrian Nickson for shoplifting shortly after his release from prison for the same offence. Nickson was jailed for a spree of thefts at Poundland in Mexborough Last Month, following an investigation by Doncaster South...