Crime

More than eighty knives, including seven machetes, have been taken off the county’s streets following an amnesty.

Police will use all powers including seizing vehicles to try to deter illegal hare coursing across the county as a landowners’ organisation warns now is the time for a rise in the crime.

A mother, daughter and a friend had a lucky escape after a red car veered across the road and hit the car they were travelling in before driving off at speed.

A police chase ended with a van upside down in a waterfilled ditch in an orchard on the outskirts of Wisbech on Saturday night.
Posting on the Policing Wisbech Facebook page a police spokesman said: “At 02:50 hours this morning (Saturday) local officers attempted to stop a Ford Transit van on Churchill Road.

A woman who had eight miniature horses stolen from her farm in Christchurch has launched a campaign calling for more police in rural areas after suffering continuing attempted raids at her farm.

Police have released CCTV images of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a number of incidents in the Lynn Road area of Wisbech.

Two men have been jailed for three years for a ‘nasty’ attack on a March man in which they hit him with a beer bottle and stamped on his head.

A man who raped a defenceless five-year-old girl and instructed her to carry out vile sex acts on him has been sent to prison for 16 years.

A 50-year-old man from Wisbech has been charged after a fatal crash on the A140 at Mendlesham on Tuesday.

Levels of self-harm among prisoners at Whitemoor jail in March is relatively high and too many men who were being assessed for suicide and self-harm risk were being held in the segregation unit.

Five horses stolen from Christchurch were recovered by their owners with the help of police on Wednesday afternoon from a travellers site at Beck Row, Suffolk.

Cambridgeshire Chief Constable Alec Wood has raised his concerns around the level of demand facing policing and explained the work his force is doing to create a sustainable policing model.

Owners of eight stolen horses from Christchurch are celebrating the return of two of them found dumped in a field less than two miles from where they were taken.

Police in Wisbech have released CCTV images of three people they would like to speak to in connection with a fuel theft in the town.

Fenland police have arrested two drivers in separate incidents on suspicion of drink driving one was five times over the limit.

Witnesses are being sought after motocross equipment was stolen with a burglary in Walpole St Andrew.

Police are appealing for information following a theft in Wisbech.

Police believe that two burglaries in Sutton St Edmund and Sutton St James, overnight on Tuesday, where a total four items were stolen may be linked.

Owners of eight stolen Falabella horses have made an emotional appeal for their return and are desperately worried about the survival of a three month old foal who was among those taken.