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Essex sex offence suspect Liam Cann sent nude photos to under-age...

October 7, 2015, 7:36 am
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ALLEGATIONS of "uncomfortable" meetings, nude photos and overhearing sex noises all emerged as the first witness gave evidence in the trial of a 22-year-old man accused of a string of sex offences.Liam Cann, from Goldhanger, denies 24 counts relating to the sexual abuse of under-age boys over a period of eight years from 2006 to 2014.In a police interview from November 2014, one of the alleged victims, now 16, told an officer about a meeting between himself and Cann in a Burger King....

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Chelmsford City Council under fire over taxi driver safety...

October 7, 2015, 10:00 pm
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CHELMSFORD City Council could be putting the public at risk by not properly checking the criminal records of all taxi drivers.There is concern foreign nationals can work in the city on student visas and are being issued taxi licences by the authority without the usual checks.Normally, would-be drivers have to provide criminal record checks, a driving licence, pass a "knowledge" test, and to not have any driving convictions.Ian Vernon, who as chairman of the Chelmsford Taxi Association...

Chelmsford City Council under fire over taxi driver safety...

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Chris Spivey, Essex man convicted of harassing the family of Lee...

October 8, 2015, 6:18 am
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A high-profile blogger who was found guilty of harassing the family of Woolwich murder victim Lee Rigby earlier this year has launched his appeal in Chelmsford Crown Court.Christopher Spivey, 52, from Rochford, who runs his own website, made a number of accusations, claiming that the family of Fusilier Rigby were involved in a conspiracy theory with MI5 and even arguing that the solider had never existed.He was found guilty of harassing the dead fusilier's mum, Lyn and half-sister, Sara McClure,...

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Sex abuse suspect threatened to harm infant boy in exchange for...

October 8, 2015, 8:34 am
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A TEENAGER who claimed he had been sexually abused since the age of eight engaged in sexual activity with suspect Liam Cann because the defendant threatened to harm his infant brother, a court heard.Cann, aged 22 from Goldhanger, denies 24 counts relating to the sexual abuse of under-age boys over a period of eight years from 2006 to 2014.In a series of police interviews, the boy, now 16, claimed that he had given in to Cann's demands for naked photographs and the performance of sexual acts...

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Former Essex Police worker, Ian Black, avoids jail after being...

October 9, 2015, 6:31 am
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A DISGRACED former Boys' Brigade volunteer who downloaded child pornography for years has been spared jail by a judge who condemned his dark secret as "shameful and ghastly".Ian Black, 54, of Yare Avenue in Witham, was found guilty of possessing nearly 8,000 indecent images of girls as young as two "within minutes" at his two-day trial last month.Returning to Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday last week, Judge David Turner QC told the court that Black had shown true and honest...

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'We are not closing' says Maldon's Blue Boar Hotel owner before...

October 9, 2015, 9:30 pm
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THE owner of a popular Maldon pub and hotel has quashed rumours of closure, despite announcing a sale of more than 600 items from the hotel's weird and wonderful antiques collection.Fears had been raised that the Blue Boar, which recently underwent renovation work, would be shutting with the mass auction, but owner John Wilsdon has reassured concerned townspeople.Mr Wilsdon instead claimed the auction is simply a way of thinning out the hotel's extravagant collection of items."I'm just...

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Heybridge teen admits to causing crash that claimed the life of a...

October 13, 2015, 2:30 am
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An 18-year-old has pleaded guilty to death by careless driving after a tragic crash in October 2014 that claimed the life of a 67-year-old father.Lewis Cross, of Scraley Road, Heybridge, admitted the offence in Chelmsford Crown Court this morning (October 13) after his Renault Clio was involved in a crash with a blue BMW 320 driven by Michael Post on the A414 Maldon bypass.Mr Post died in Broomfield Hospital just after 10.30pm on the night of October 9, 2014, while his wife Annette, in the...

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Fleurtations owner Yolande Turgoose says flower shop will not be...

October 13, 2015, 5:30 am
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A BRAINTREE florist whose business was torn apart by a teenage arsonist will not return to her former High Street base of 18 years despite impending restoration work. Yolande Turgoose, 55, who operated Fleurtations from the grade two-listed building at 106 High Street before a ferocious fire in February forced her to relocate to George Yard, is moving on.Permission to start repair work on the former fire-damaged flower shop comes two months after engineers began restoring the night shelter's...

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Murder-accused Chelmsford taxi boss Nasser Rezaie 'ran over...

October 14, 2015, 4:26 am
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A BITTER taxi boss tracked his ex-wife's boyfriend down using GPS before running him over six times and murdering him in a culmination of jealous rage, a court heard.Nasser Rezaie, owner of Chelmsford firm Ali's Taxis, sat in the Chelmsford Crown Court dock today (October 14) on the first day of his trial accused of murdering Allan Frampton.The jury heard how Rezaie issued gruesome threats and letters plotting Mr Frampton's death after discovering the affair with Jane Rezaie, his...

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25-year-old man jailed after police find cocaine and heroin stash...

October 14, 2015, 7:44 am
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A 25-year-old man has been jailed after police recovered 256 wraps of class A drugs following a stop check on the M11, near Stansted Airport.Officers stopped Edvinas Masilionis and his 17-year-old passenger near Stansted in the early hours of April 17 after they became suspicious about the manner of his driving.During a search of the green BMW 3 series, they discovered a number of wraps of heroin and crack cocaine and a used needle containing traces of both drugs concealed in the steering wheel...

25-year-old man jailed after police find cocaine and heroin stash...

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Construction boss Wayne Mixture's alleged Sandon cannabis factory...

October 14, 2015, 8:55 am
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The trial of a construction boss accused of taking part in the running of a cannabis factory has been postponed.Acorn Developments director Wayne Mixture, 45, of Hall Lane, Sandon, is charged, and pleads not guilty to, one count of being concerned in the supply of a Class B drug and one count of abstracting electricity illegally.Police claim they found some 268 plants hidden beneath a trap door underneath Rumbolds Farm in Hammonds Road, in Sandon, where Mixture's firm was partly based, in...

Construction boss Wayne Mixture's alleged Sandon cannabis factory...

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£100k Chelmsford drugs gang pair ordered to pay back just...

October 14, 2015, 8:16 pm
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A convicted money launderer and cocaine dealer have been ordered to pay just £1,000 each in the fallout from a gang's failed drugs conspiracy.Rachel Croudace, 28, of Heycroft Way, Chelmsford, and Stephen Waite, 45, of Braemar Walk, Pitsea, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday for a "seizure of cash" hearing.They were two of six who were found guilty back in February for their parts in a conspiracy to supply at least 50kg in cocaine, produce cannabis in a Margaretting Tye...

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Teen claims he suffered sexual abuse from age eight at trial of...

October 17, 2015, 10:00 pm
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A BOY submitted to sexual abuse from the age of eight because of threats made to his younger brother, the jury at the trial of Liam Cann heard last Thursday.Cann, aged 22 from Goldhanger, denies 24 counts relating to the sexual abuse of underage boys over a period of eight years from 2006 to 2014.In a series of police interviews shown to the court, the boy, now 16, claimed that he had given in to Cann's demands for naked photographs and the performance of sexual acts because of threats...

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Witham mother, 31, banned from going out at night or taking a...

October 18, 2015, 10:00 pm
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AN ESSEX mum banned from going out at night or taking a holiday for a year as punishment for a £15,000 benefits con has failed to get the curfew lifted.Rossann Kimp, 31, was handed a four-month suspended sentence at Chelmsford Crown Court in May after she admitted four counts of dishonestly making false representations. Kimp, of Church Street, Witham, also pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to notify a change in circumstances.Her crimes related to being overpaid £14,782 in...

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'We were kindred spirits': Estranged wife Jane Rezaie speaks at...

October 19, 2015, 9:57 am
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A mother-of-three and her new boyfriend were like "kindred spirits" before her estranged husband ran him over six times and murdered him, a court heard.Jane Rezaie, 57, took to the stand today as the first witness in the Chelmsford Crown Court murder trial surrounding taxi boss Nasser Rezaie, 63 and victim Allan Frampton, 60.She told how she had been unhappily married to Rezaie since 1990 and had thought about killing herself.She also described the dramatic day Rezaie discovered she...

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Cabbie's murder trial hears of £70k debts and forgery at...

October 19, 2015, 10:25 am
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The estranged wife of the taxi boss who allegedly murdered her new boyfriend today admitted buying a car with their firm's credit card.Jane Rezaie, 57, was giving evidence in the trial where Nasser Rezaie is accused of running over Allan Frampton at least six times in May this year.Defence barrister Patrick Upward QC, in re-examining the prosecution witness, focused on the Rezaies' struggle to fund and run their Ali's Taxis business. Jane was first forced to reveal that the pair briefly...

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Goldhanger sex offender Liam Cann should expect lengthy prison...

October 28, 2015, 10:04 am
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Convicted sex offender Liam Cann has been warned he should expect a lengthy custodial sentence, after being found guilty of 23 counts relating to the sexual abuse of boys as young as eight at Chelmsford Crown Court this afternoon.After more than a day of deliberations, the jury returned guilty verdicts to all 23 counts, which occured over an eight-year period between 2006 and 2014, with six different under-age boys.The counts include attempted rape, sexual activity with children under the age of...

Goldhanger sex offender Liam Cann should expect lengthy prison...

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Shop of horrors: Dogs harmed on 'industrial scale'

October 28, 2015, 11:00 pm
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A TEENAGER shipped dogs over from Hungary before keeping them in a "semi-industrial" pet shop that was ridden with faeces and urine.Tibor Baranyi, 19, of Rotten End, Wethersfield, near Braintree, admitted at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court last week to running an illegal pet shop in a Shalford Green home and to causing unnecessary suffering to animals.The court heard Baranyi was selling Dobermans with ears cropped and splinted so they would grow unnaturally upwards."It was on a...

Shop of horrors: Dogs harmed on 'industrial scale'

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Hollywood treatment for Shire Hall plans

October 29, 2015, 11:00 pm
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A CONSORTIUM in the running to turn Chelmsford's Shire Hall into a boutique cinema used a DeLorean car to remind residents of its bid for the grade II listed building.The car, complete with special effects, was in Chelmsford High Street to celebrate Back to the Future day on Wednesday last week, and showcase what the cinema bid could bring to the city.Tom Butler, 33, one of three members of the Shire Hall Consortium, said: "It's been a bit of a whirlwind."We always joke about Shire...

Hollywood treatment for Shire Hall plans

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Birthday card cash stolen by long-serving Chelmsford postman

October 31, 2015, 11:04 pm
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A POSTMAN stole up to £1,000 in birthday money, gift cards and DVDs by pocketing letters over nine months.Michael Redmond, 57, of Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, who worked at the Montrose Road Royal Mail sorting office near Boreham, admitted three counts of theft of mail at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court.Natalie McNamee, prosecuting, said: "He worked for Royal Mail for 25 years but they noticed there was an unusually high volume of post going missing from the Chelmsford delivery office...

Birthday card cash stolen by long-serving Chelmsford postman

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