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Archive of Crime Stories in Eastleigh News area from December 2009 including burglary, robbery, assault and ASB.
Police at Eastleigh have confirmed that two missing 14-year-old girls have returned safely to their homes. The two youngsters -one from Velmore, Chandler’s Ford – were unaware they had sparked a massive social media campaign while they were staying with friends at Shirley Southampton. Police were concerned that they had not been seen since...
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A plant hire firm in Chandler’s Ford has had a £16,000 mini- digger stolen in broad daylight. Two thieves, who were both wearing ‘hi-vis’ jackets, were spotted brazenly loading Takeuchi mini-digger onto the back of a white van from a site in Sutherlands Court, at 0630 hrs on Friday, May 10. The first suspect...
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A talented Barton Peveril ‘A’ level music student has lost her prized flute while travelling to college and fears it may have been stolen. The student boarded a Blue Star college bus from Warsash Rd (Campion Close area) on Friday at 07.45 to travel to College. She had her Trevor James Virtuoso flute...
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Bungling burglars who stole gas boilers from an Eastleigh building on Bank Holiday Monday may have received more than they bargained for when they cut through live electricity cables while stealing over £7,000 worth of new Combi gas boilers The Thieves struck at the new ‘Sirocco Park’ estate on Passfield Avenue opposite Fleming Park...
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A 73 year–old-woman from Chandler’s Ford has become the victim of distraction thieves while shopping at Waitrose. On Wednesday, March 27 the OAP went shopping at Waitrose in Chandlers Ford and paid for items using her bank card. After she put her shopping bags in her car and just before she got in her...
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Over £20,000 worth of computer equipment has been stolen from Barton Peveril College. Staff walking into the first-floor IT suite on Monday morning were shocked to discover that no less than 21 Apple iMac (2012) all-in-one desktop computers, worth £1,100 each, were missing. The expensive high-end computers are standard in many media and IT industries...
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Southampton Police are appealing for information and witnesses after a man exposed himself to a woman walker. Between 5.15 and 7pm Saturday, April 20, a 39-year-old Southampton woman was walking on a footpath leading to Victoria Country Park when she saw a man urinating in public. The man left on a mountain bike, but...
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Police at Eastleigh are warning people who broke into an Eastleigh decontamination chamber that they are at risk and should seek medical advice. Overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, April 16 to 17, someone forced the doors of a locked caravan at Prysmian House, Dew Lane, Eastleigh. Once inside, they damaged walls and an expensive...
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Police at Eastleigh are warning the public to be wary, if they are offered prescription drugs. The warning comes after £500 worth of medication was reported stolen from a flat in Newtown Road, Eastleigh, on Tuesday, April 16. The occupier of the flat, a 44-year-old man, told police he left his premises for an...
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Eastleigh residents will be shocked to discover that the town’s landmark bandstand, so often the centre of community events, has been extensively vandalised. The Victorian edifice which stands proudly in the Town Centre recreation ground was only renovated two years ago but now faces further repairs after mindless yobs left almost every panel of...
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A missing 80-year-old man has been found alive and safe in the Eastleigh area this afternoon following a search and appeals to the public via Social Media. Eastleigh police would like to thank those who assisted by sharing information and remaining vigilant in the search for 80 year-old John Knight who was reported...
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Missing 80-year-old man has been found alive and safe in the Eastleigh area this afternoon Thanks 4 RTs eastleighnews.co.uk/2013/03/help-f… — Eastleigh News (@Eastleigh_news) March 31, 2013 Police are renewing an appeal for information about a vulnerable missing man. Officers are increasingly concerned for the welfare of John Knight, aged 80, from Chandlers Ford in...
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A 17 year-old youth accused of robbery appeared at Southampton Youth Court on Monday to answer the allegation of an attempted robbery of a 40 year-old man on the Archers Road/Beaulieu Road railway footbridge. During the incident it is alleged a group of youths carrying a case of lager approached the intended victim...
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A leading penal reform charity has described an independent report into conditions at Winchester Prison as “exceptionally disturbing”. Responding to the HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ report on Winchester Prison published today (20 March), Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: “It is exceptionally disturbing to see a prison with a previously good...
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Police at Eastleigh are seeking information about two men who twice broke windows in a Fair Oak house. Large rocks were thrown through the windows of a house in Strawberry Mead on the late afternoon of Wednesday, February 27. The following night, just before 9pm, the front windows again were hit by large rocks,...
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