Officers from the Devon & Cornwall Police Rural Affairs Team spent time at Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary this week as part of a national push to highlight equine issues – and they were not horsing around. Between 28 April and 4 May Devon &...
Release date: 30/04/2025
A plain clothes police operation to tackle the anti-social use of e-bikes in Torbay saw bikes seized and a number of irresponsible cyclists stopped. E-bikes, including an e-bike and an e-scooter, were seized following their careless use in busy pede...
Release date: 30/04/2025
We are investigating a fatal road traffic collision near Otterton on Tuesday 29 April and are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. Officers were called to reports of a single-vehicle road traffic collision involving a car on Pinn Lane, near Ottert...
Release date: 30/04/2025
We are appealing for witnesses and information following an assault in Plymouth. The incident took place on Plymouth Hoe next to the Naval memorial at around 4.50pm on Monday 31 March. It was reported the suspect used racist language towards the victim be...
Release date: 29/04/2025
A motorcyclist has been sentenced to 20 months in prison and disqualified from holding a licence for four years for causing a collision which resulted in the amputation of a fellow biker’s leg. Kathryn Goff, 52, of Milton Road in Exeter, appeared at Exete...
Release date: 28/04/2025
A closure order has been put in place on a property in Newton Abbot to disrupt antisocial behaviour (ASB) and suspected drug dealing taking place at the address. On Wednesday 23 April, a full closure order was served at an address on Newton Road in Kingsk...
Release date: 28/04/2025
We are appealing for witnesses and information following a serious road traffic collision in Plymouth on Sunday 27 April. Emergency services were called at around 6.35am to Hyde Park Road where it was reported that a collision had occurred involving a Suz...
Release date: 28/04/2025
A man has been charged with the murder of a 22-year-old woman in Kingsbridge. Rowan Sutton, 30, from West Charleton Court, Kingsbridge, has been charged with murder. He is due to appear before Plymouth Magistrates’ Court on Monday 28 April and remains in ...
Release date: 27/04/2025
A 53-year-old Plymouth man has today, Friday 25 April, been jailed for life for the murder of his former partner. Paul Butler attacked 48-year-old Claire Chick outside her home in West Hoe Road in Plymouth on the evening of 22 January this year. She was s...
Release date: 25/04/2025
We are appealing for information to locate 33-year-old Steven Coundley, from Camborne, who is wanted on recall to prison. Coundley, who was originally convicted of possession of an offensive weapon, has had his licence revoked. Numerous enquiries have bee...
Release date: 25/04/2025
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