Devon & Cornwall Police officers will be present in Exeter City Centre today, Saturday 4 April, to police two protest marches. We have been engaging with organisers, local partners and businesses, to balance the right to protest, with the impact of th...
Release date: 04/04/2026
Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a road rage incident in Truro. Two drivers were involved in a confrontation at traffic lights at Newquay Road Retail Park around 9.20am on 20 March. The incident began earlier with a silver BM...
Release date: 03/04/2026
Policing teams carrying out proactive patrols in Torquay, Paignton, Newton Abbot and Kingsbridge last week arrested ten people in relation to Fatal Five driving offences. The Fatal Five are: Driving while distracted Speeding Driving without a seatbelt Dr...
Release date: 03/04/2026
A rapist has been jailed for 26 years for despicable crimes relating to women and children spanning three decades. Christopher Welch, aged 66 of Westlands, Wrafton in Braunton, was convicted at Exeter Crown Court on 25th February of four counts of rape, o...
Release date: 02/04/2026
A man has been jailed for three years for a terrifying sex attack on a teenage girl in a Launceston alleyway. Bulgarian national Yordan Stanchev, 26, of no fixed abode, appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentence on Thursday 2 April having pleaded guilty t...
Release date: 02/04/2026
A convicted child rapist who fled police and attempted to start a new life at the other end of the country is back behind bars. Stephen Pennington, 38, from Botlon Road, Blackburn, evaded police in Lancashire for a number of weeks before being tracked to ...
Release date: 02/04/2026
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