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IT’S been quite a year for crime in Berkshire with a number of court cases hitting national headlines.

IT’S been quite a year for crime in Berkshire with a number of court cases hitting national headlines.

IT’S been quite a year for crime in Berkshire with a number of court cases hitting national headlines.

Roy and Pat Coxhead pictured at Diana Thompsons wedding Coxheads father was in the army, and as a result he was born in Quetta Cantonment, Balochistan, Pakistan.  He went on to be educated in the UK and started his career on local newspapers, followed by a stint in Australia during his early married life. He later returned to the UK overland with his wife Pat in a VW. His career included communications roles for Reed International and then the British Printing Company where he worked for ten y...

The pedophiles and sexual predators jailed in Berkshire this year THE courts have been busy so far this year locking up dangerous paedophiles and sexual predators from Berkshire. A variety of offenders were given jail time, with the News reporting on their cases at Reading Crown Court. Dozens were put behind bars, but perhaps the worst to be sentenced are the sex offenders, paedophiles and rapists. Their stories are not pleasant, but thanks to the excellent work of Thames Valley poli...

Patrick Cassidy Last month, a man who threatened an elderly couple with a knife in their Slough home  had his appeal to overturn his 15-year prison sentence thrown out. Patrick Cassidy, formerly of Stanborough Avenue, Borhamwood, told the man and woman to hand over money and gold when he broke into their house in November 2019. Despite this, Cassidy left empty-handed and fled, but police caught him a short distance away from the property. The crook had been in prison prior to this,...

Patrick Cassidy Last month, a man who threatened an elderly couple with a knife in their Slough home  had his appeal to overturn his 15-year prison sentence thrown out. Patrick Cassidy, formerly of Stanborough Avenue, Borhamwood, told the man and woman to hand over money and gold when he broke into their house in November 2019. Despite this, Cassidy left empty-handed and fled, but police caught him a short distance away from the property. The crook had been in prison prior to this,...

Patrick Cassidy Last month, a man who threatened an elderly couple with a knife in their Slough home  had his appeal to overturn his 15-year prison sentence thrown out. Patrick Cassidy, formerly of Stanborough Avenue, Borhamwood, told the man and woman to hand over money and gold when he broke into their house in November 2019. Despite this, Cassidy left empty-handed and fled, but police caught him a short distance away from the property. The crook had been in prison prior to this,...

The man was sentenced to years behind bars earlier this month

Roy Coxhead. Image via Thames Valley Police A PAEDOPHILE banged up for more than a dozen years tried to destroy evidence related to his abuse after being arrested by police. Roy Coxhead, formerly of Erleigh Road, Reading, was sentenced to 18 years behind bars last week after he sexually abused two boys between 2002 and 2017. After he was arrested in June 2017, the 66-year-old tried to “destroy the evidence that related to his offending”, culminating in a “long and complicated” polic...