Police investigating a spate of distraction burglaries in the county are appealing for witnesses and urging the public to remain vigilant. Three offences occurred on Wednesday 30 March along Albert Road in Corfe Mullen and one incident at Hill View in Charminster, Dorchester. Two further offences took place on Thursday 31 March at Sandringham Court…
Officers in Bournemouth have released a CCTV image of a suspect in connection with a theft in the town. The incident happened at around 11.35am on Monday 11 April in the Post Office on Christchurch Road. The victim, a local man aged in his 80s, was withdrawing money in the post office when a man…
A man has been jailed for 12 years for raping a woman in the grounds of a Bournemouth church. Jason Robert Rogers, 26 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced yesterday, Monday 11 April, at Bournemouth Crown Court for one count of rape. Rogers had also been charged with robbery but was found not guilty at a trial in January. He was found guilty of rape following a retrial at the same court in March.
Detectives have launched a murder investigation following the death of a baby boy from Boscombe – with one man being arrested. At around 3.30pm on Friday 8 April, police received a report from the ambulance service that a baby had been taken seriously ill at a flat along Carysfort Road. A three-month-old boy had sustained…
Police are warning motorists, in particular tradespeople, to be vigilant following a number of thefts from unattended motor vehicles. Criminals are predominantly targeting commercial vehicles which are parked up in Poole and Bournemouth at any time of the day and night. Over 30 vans have been broken into over a two-month period. Power tools have…
A man has been jailed for four years for killing his friend with one punch at a Dorset holiday park. Jason James, 41 and of Torquay, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court today, Friday 8 April, after pleading guilty to manslaughter at the same court on 15 March 2016.
Officers from Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire Special Constabularies have joined forces to tackle crime in rural communities. Operation Seashell involved 20 Special officers who worked with Dorset Police colleagues to patrol parts of the Dorset countryside between 7pm on Saturday 02 April and 3am on Sunday 03 April.
Police are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward following an arson attack in Weymouth. At around 4am on Saturday 2 April, police were called to reports of a car on fire on Hillbourne Playing Field, between Hillbourne Road and Fairview road. The vehicle involved was a black Ford Focus. Following investigations,…
A man has been jailed for a total of four years for committing a string of burglaries at student houses in Bournemouth. Paul Oluyemi, 26 and of Bournemouth, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Wednesday 30 March 2016, after pleading guilty at the same court on 3 March to seven burglaries and…
Police in Wareham are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward after a commercial burglary in Wareham and have issued photographs of the missing model aircraft. The burglary occurred at a unit at Admiralty Park sometime between Friday 25 March and Monday 28 March 2016. The storage unit and workshop houses model…
