Police - teams on patrol in Chalkwell Park. Inset: Some of the exclusion zones TEENAGERS from gangs which police believe could possibly be linked to two murder investigations, have been banned from entering parts of Southend, Rayleigh and Leigh. The fifteen yobs - five boys from the Leigh Lot and ten boys from O Block - are part of gangs which have been linked to drug dealing, violence and anti-social behaviour. Police are also investigating possible links between the gangs, based in Southend and Rayleigh, and a violent incident in which a man died and another suffered life-changing injuries after a disturbance in Southend in August last year.
Zone B While these gangs generally aim their violent behaviour at each other, members of the public have also been victims of crime and impacted by their anti-social behaviour. Essex Police has arrested and prosecuted a number of individuals, some of whom are currently going through the courts or are being investigated. The individuals are banned from: 1) Associating with each other, and other named people within the order who are part of the Leigh Lot, O Block and Gutless Gang, in a public place, or place to which the public have access, save for any court appearances together, appointments with outside agencies at the same time, or whilst attending any school/college (but even then must not associate together off the premises) or when detained in custody or with prior authorisation of the police (which will be provided in writing)
Martin Retail Group has been fined more than £60,000
- Credit: Babergh District Council
A national retailer has been fined more than £60,000 after hygiene inspectors discovered a pest infestation and a sewage leak at a Sudbury store.
Martin Retail Group was sentenced for multiple food hygiene offences at its McColl s store on Market Hill in Sudbury.
The retail group must now pay a total of £60,000 in addition to £5,589 costs awarded to the council, for the offences which date back to January, 8 2020.
After a complaint about rats at the Sudbury store, inspectors from Babergh District Council paid a visit.
On inspection they found evidence of pest infestation, as well as sewage leaking all over the toilet floor.
THE crown courts will always get a lot of coverage for having the most serious criminal cases come through them. But along with the crown courts, magistrates courts have been continuing to process the other types of crimes throughout the pandemic. While some of these cases are not as serious as the ones in crown court, they still require punishment and in places prison sentences. Here is a list of people sentenced at Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend Magistrates Courts between March 26 and now.
Carl Churchley, 32, of Chancellor Road, Southend appeared at Basildon Magistrates Court where he admitted breaching his community order by failing to comply with his curfew or give a valid reason for doing so. His order was continued to last until September this year.
THE crown courts will always get a lot of coverage for having the most serious criminal cases come through them. But along with the crown courts, magistrates courts have been continuing to process the other types of crimes throughout the pandemic. While some of these cases are not as serious as the ones in crown court, they still require punishment and in places prison sentences. Here is a list of people sentenced at Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend Magistrates Courts between March 26 and now.
Carl Churchley, 32, of Chancellor Road, Southend appeared at Basildon Magistrates Court where he admitted breaching his community order by failing to comply with his curfew or give a valid reason for doing so. His order was continued to last until September this year.