The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Merseyside Police to charge three men in connection with the murder of Ashley Dale in Old Swan in Liverpool in August 2022.

Ashley Dale was found with gunshot wounds at an address in Leinster Road at 12.40am on Sunday, 21 August 2022. She sadly died shortly afterwards.

James Witham, 40, of Ashbury Road, Huyton and Joseph Peers, 28, of Woodlands Road, Roby, have been charged with murder and possession of a firearm with intent.

A chef and a delivery driver have each been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 71-year-old woman after a plan to plunder her life savings went wrong.

The body of Louise Kam had been concealed in a wheelie bin and was found at an address in Barnet on 1 August 2021.

Mohamed El Abboud, 28, from Barnet, and Kusai Al-Jundi, 24, from Harrow, were today handed life sentences with a minimum term of 35 years after being unanimously found guilty of her murder by a jury at the Central Criminal Court on 19 January. 

A Fareham man has been sentenced today (27 January 2023) at Swindon Crown Court after he launched an attack on two ambulance crew workers who were there to give him medical attention.

Paul Searle, 59, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for intending to cause grievous bodily harm, assaulting an emergency worker and for threatening a person with a meat cleaver.

The ambulance crew attended Searle’s home in the early hours of 11 February 2021. He became verbally abusive towards them, so much so that they returned to their ambulance.

A chef and a delivery driver have been convicted of murdering a 71-year-old woman after a plan to plunder her life savings went wrong.

The body of Louise Kam had been concealed in a wheelie bin and was found at an address in Barnet on August 1 2021. 

Mohamed El Abboud, 28, from Barnet, and Kusai Al-Jundi, 24, from Harrow, were today unanimously found guilty of her murder by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.