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CRIME hotspots across Colchester have been revealed in new data which shows more than 200 incidents were reported from the town centre - in one…

A young woman has warned others not to go out alone in the evenings after she was assaulted by a group of men while jogging in a park near her home. Cait Smith, 23, was running alone in Castle Park, Colchester when she was grabbed from behind by three men and had her head smashed into the ground.  The Essex admin assistant was left with a swollen black eye and scrapes and bruises covering her arms, as she warned fellow women not to venture out alone in the dark. After posting a warning message...

Colchester murder probe: The answers to this crime lie within the community Colchesters district commander has said the answers behind the fatal stabbing of a man in Greenstead "lie somewhere within the community." Police are continuing a murder investigation into the death of the man, aged in his 20s, after an attack was launched at an address in Affleck Road, Colchester. Officers were called at around 12.15am this morning and the man was pronounced dead at the scene. A teenager, who w...