A MAN instigated online “grooming exercises” with what he thought were underage girls, a court was told.In reality, John Taylor, then 59, fell for decoy social media profiles posted by different paedophile-hunting groups and the “girls”, “Natalie”, 14,…
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estlé UK has been fined more than £600,000 after an employee was dragged into the production machine for one of its most popular chocolates.
A court heard how the technical operator placed his right hand close to a gap in the After Eight machine on…
Moment ‘confused’ pensioner, 76, drives five MILES up the wrong side of busy dual carriageway before smashing into car carrying a toddler – as he avoids jail and vows never to drive againEdward Burman, 76, from North Tyneside, drove in wrong direction …
An uninsured HGV driver whose licence had been revoked has been jailed for more than three years after his vehicle struck and killed a cyclist in Derby. Herbert Wyatt, 65, had lost his licence 12 weeks before the fatal collision in January with …
A lorry driver has been jailed after he caused more than £21,000 worth of damage to the Tyne Tunnel on Great North Run day.
Altaf Hussain was in a 44-tonne HGV and went through the tunnel on September 8, 2019, heading northbound to make a delivery in N…
Traffic Commissioner said that the company was “irredeemably tainted” by its falsification of maintenance records and deserved to go out of business.
Pembrokeshire operator Mansel Davies & Son Ltd has had its licence revoked at a public inquiry aft…
Nigel Smith, 58, was made the subject of a sexual risk order in 2017, after being cleared of a sex offence allegation the previous year.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the five-year order, which was imposed by Hastings and Eastbourne Magistrates’ at t…
A lorry driver who killed a woman by causing a six-vehicle pile-up on the A14 has been jailed.
David Reid, 58, was driving an HGV along the A14 westbound near Girton at around 5pm on January 4, 2018, when he failed to notice that traffic had stopped up…
A pair of drug couriers loaded half a million pounds of high-strength cannabis into the back of a lorry on the A50 near Derby.
A court heard how corrupt Louis McPhillips met fellow dealer Ben Kelly on the M1 near Chesterfield before travelling in convo…
A corrupt truck driver from Armagh and a courier from west London have been convicted for attempting to smuggle cannabis from the UK to Ireland.
The criminal conspiracy was uncovered after National Crime Agency officers tracked down CCTV of the…
A man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison after going a rampage with a 25-tonne digger and smashing up a truck and his boss’s £100,000 Range Rover.
Darren Verity, 53 who lives in Bradford was put away at Bradford Crown Court after a guilty plea t…
A man was crushed between a van and a lorry and is “lucky to be alive” following a road rage incident in Nottinghamshire.
The victim was driving along the A610 Kimberley bypass, near Junction 26 of the M1, before a lorry approached his van from the rea…
The mum of Harry Dunn says Joe Biden’s victory has given her new hope in her fight for justice over her son’s death – because the new US President lost his own child in a tragic road accident.
Charlotte Charles admitted her spirits went “off the edge o…
A MAN who stabbed a truck driver during a road rage confrontation has been jailed for two years.Conor Jagodzinksi, 28, from Accrington, slashed at John Fitzpatrick’s stomach during a confrontation on the A49 near Whitchurch in Cheshire on Friday, Augus…
THIS was the moment a HGV driver swerved his tanker at another road user in a moment of “rage”.Yesterday the Leader reported on the sentencing of Alan Crabtree, aged 53 and of The Parklands in Penrith, Carlisle, at Mold Crown Court.
He received a 12 mo…