Life sentences for pair who murdered Piotr Lacheta in Cowgate Cemetery in Dover
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Updated: 16:21, 25 February 2021
The mother of the homeless man brutally murdered by two killers in a Dover cemetery has has told of losing her treasure .
Janine Lacheta wrote: I wish I could look straight into the eyes of the murderers and ask them why they were tormenting and abusing my son in such a cruel way?
Justin Burnett and Claire Lunn have been convicted of murder. Picture: Kent Police I think they are people without a heart who do not understand human feelings in a mother s heart. They have deprived me of the meaning of my life in such a brutal way, taking away my biggest treasure.
Twelve people have been arrested after a extensive two-day operation which saw police raid homes in Woolwich and Kent linked to the exploitation of sex workers. Police say they were targeting what were believed to be make-shift call centres, and detectives have since charged three Londoners with controlling prostitution and acquiring criminal property. Eight pre-planned warrants were executed by Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate on February 16 and 17 in Woolwich, Canterbury and Maidstone, recovering phones, paperwork and more than £35,000 in cash. This included police storming a property in Woolwich, south east London, on Tuesday, February 16, by battering down the door and smashing glass as they tracked down a fleeing person.
Twelve arrested after raids over exploitation of sex workers in Kent and London
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Updated: 22:35, 19 February 2021
Twelve people have been arrested after properties in Kent were raided as part of an investigation into the exploitation of sex workers.
Eight raids were carried out across areas including Canterbury,Medway and Maidstone, as part of the two-day operation this week.
Body-worn camera footage shows police storming a property in Woolwich as part of the investigation
Kent Police detectives, supported by officers from local policing teams, also recovered more than £35,000 in cash, along with phones and paperwork while executing the search warrants.
On Tuesday, a raid in Canterbury led to the arrest of a 37-year-old local man and two people from Folkestone; a 59-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman.
Five men have been jailed after police busted their lucrative cocaine home-delivery racket in Tunbridge Wells.
Sales totalling nearly half a million pounds were organised by the gang, which set up 24-hour phone lines to take orders and courier the drugs.
Customers ordered cocaine via the hotlines, giving their postcodes for delivery to their doorsteps.
Detectives found between March and December 2019, the drugs network was being run by an Albanian organised crime group headed by 35-year-old Drini Dosku.
Dosku was assisted by Mark Gjeci, and together they used couriers, Elvis Shehu Eldjort Ajazi, and Endrit Tobli.
Six other drugs couriers working for the gang were jailed at previous hearings.
A criminal gang from Orpington have been jailed. An organised Orpington crime group who ran a Deliveroo style cocaine delivery service in Kent have been jailed for a total of over 25 years. The leader of the Albanian gang, a father of two, was described as the leading light in the professional drug delivery service, but the group were taken down by a series of raids across Orpington, south east London. Sales totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds were regularly organised by the gang, who had set up a 24-hour phone line to receive order and drug couriers to local users as part of their major drugs supply network.