MORE offenders are getting caught - that was the message from a top cop after figures revealed a rise in drug crimes. A Freedom of Information request by Newsquest Cumbria has revealed a rise in reported incidents of possession of drugs but other crimes are falling in number. The figures from Cumbria police revealed the number of reported cases of drug possession had risen from 782 in 2019 to 898 in 2020. Detective Chief Superintendent Dean Holden from Cumbria Constabulary explained that the rise resulted from more offenders being caught. He said: “The Constabulary works hard to identify drugs supply and use within the county. The result of pro-active policing activity and dedicated operations means more offenders are being caught, and that is the reason behind the increase in recorded possession crimes.
The baby at the centre of a murder probe was from Whitehaven. Emergency services were called to a property in Barrow on January 6, where they discovered a one-year-old little boy with a head injury. Leiland Corkill was initially taken by the North West Ambulance Service to Furness General Hospital with a head injury, before being transferred to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. He died the following day. Paramedics called police after concerns were raised over the baby’s injuries, and a murder investigation was subsequently launched. Leiland’s grandmother Yvonne Corkill, from Whitehaven, told a national newspaper that the boy had been taken into the care of social services when he was just 48-hours-old.
09:10 EDT, 15 February 2021
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A couple have been arrested in connection with the murder of a baby boy they were trying to adopt.
One-year-old Leiland Corkill was taken into care soon after his birth in December 2019.
He later lived with prospective adoptive parents in Barrow-in-Furness, but on January 6 paramedics were called to a property amid reports a baby had suffered a serious head injury.
Leiland was taken to Alder Hey Children s Hospital in Liverpool but died the following day.
A 34-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of murder, assault, ill-treatment and neglect, police said on Saturday.