Police Stock A BRIGHTON man has been charged with a string of serious offences including making indecent images of children. Lloyd Collins of Montpelier Road was charged following a Operation Oakgrove, an investigation by detectives from the Brighton Safeguarding Unit. Following the operation, the unemployed 29-year-old will also face trial on charges alleging sexual activity with a teenage girl, being concerned in the supply of cannabis, assaulting an emergency worker, and racially aggravated threatening behaviour against another police officer. He appeared at Brighton Magistrates Court last Friday where he was remanded in custody to make an initial appearance at Lewes Crown Court on February 26.
11:44 EDT, 3 February 2021
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Police have raided an absolutely ridiculous house party as 30 revellers breached coronavirus restrictions for a birthday bash.
Officers were called to Ormskirk in Lancashire at 2.45am on Sunday to break up the rave allegedly hosted by bored Edge Hill University students.
Some escaped by climbing out a window but the organiser - a 20-year-old woman - was given a £10,000 fixed penalty notice and nine others were fined £800.
One man - Sam Taiwo, 23, from Sheffield - is due in court in April after he was arrested and later charged for shoving an officer.
It comes as a barbershop owner was left red faced when he answered a call from a customer while talking to police and officers shut down an unofficial football match.
The elderly man was arrested at Forest Row for failing to give his details to officers. He appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday and was given a £50 for obstructing a PC . He also pleaded guilty to breaching Covid-19 regulations. It comes as Sussex Police revealed the outrageous excuses given by rule-breakers to avoid a ticket. Superintendent Julia Pope, who is leading the policing operation for the pandemic, said: “In the last week we have had to issue 192 fixed penalty notices which, considering we have been in a pandemic for almost a year now, is completely unacceptable – and some people are making light of their reasons for being out and about.
Hastings woman fined after breaching lockdown on St Leonards seafront
A Hastings woman has been fined after pleading guilty to breaching an order to control coronavirus, Sussex Police have confirmed.
Tuesday, 2nd February 2021, 3:47 pm
Deborah Cutting, 54, was arrested on January 5 by officers responding to reports of a group of people gathering daily to exercise together on St Leonards seafront.
Police said officers attempted to engage with Cutting – the organiser of the group – but she ‘failed to comply with their requests’, a police spokesman added.
She was charged and released with bail conditions. She was further arrested on January 14 for breaching those bail conditions, according to police, and was remanded in custody to appear in court the following day.