Category: Crime

Rye’s Own approaches Crime as a living magazine subject, bringing together news, personalities, photographs and stories from across the archive. Articles including “Rye Ballot Papers Stolen”, “Teenage Girl Attacked in St Leonards”, “’Gun’ Point Robberies in Hastings”, “Gunman Shoots Two at High Halden”, and “Two Women Shot Dead in St Leonards” give a flavour of the people, places and moments collected here. It is designed for browsing: one familiar name or remembered incident often opens the door to another.

Two Women Shot Dead in St Leonards

Police launch murder investigation after shooting in St Leonards

Police have launched a murder investigation after a two women were shot dead in a house in St Leonards.

Officers responded immediately to a report of a shooting at 7.43pm in Bexhill Road on Friday (16 March). Firearms officers were able to lead two other women from the house to safety and they were taken to hospital. Both were uninjured but suffering from shock. One of these women is pregnant. Continue reading Two Women Shot Dead in St Leonards

8 Years for Manslaughter

Men from Rye given eight years for Hastings manslaughter

Report from Sussex Police.

 

When brothers Brian and Andrew Hill went out together for their usual twice monthly drinks in their home town of Hastings, they didn’t know that evening would end in tragedy. Brian would end up with severe head injuries and pass away a few days later after being attacked by two young men.

Now read about the police investigation and how we traced the two men involved and brought them to justice for their involvement in Brian’s death. Continue reading 8 Years for Manslaughter

London Murderer was brought up in Rye

Masood Shot Dead at Westminster.

It was revealed yesterday that the London Murderer has been identified by police as Khalid Masood.

The Westminster attacker, Masood, 52, was born as Adrian Elms and it’s claimed by the “Mail”, that he lived in a £300,000 house in Rye when he was a boy. 

The so-called Islamic State group has claimed it was behind the attack.

According to the Metropolitan police, three women and five men were arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts following Wednesday’s attack. Continue reading London Murderer was brought up in Rye

Murder Suspect Arrested at St Leonards

Man found dead at St Leonards flat block


Emergency services were called to Marine Court on Marina, in St Leonards at around 9 am on Monday (March 13) to a report a man had fallen from a flat.

A 93-year-old man was sadly declared dead at the scene. His death is being treated as suspicious at this stage and one man, a 54-year-old, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. At this time we are not looking for any other parties being involved.

Officers remain on scene and enquiries are continuing. Anyone who saw what happened or has any information please contact police online or email [email protected]

Rye’s Own Bulletin Tuesday 14 March 2017

Five Year Sentences Each for Hastings Street Attack

Two sentenced to five years for Hastings street attack

Two 21-year old men have each been sentenced to five years imprisonment for a vicious late night street attack in Hastings town centre two years ago.

Conor Hodge (pictured left), unemployed, of Priory Road, Hastings, and Jason Easton (pictured right), a student, of Lullington Close, Bexhill, were sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday 3 March having been convicted of grievous bodily harm, at the same court on 16 January. Continue reading Five Year Sentences Each for Hastings Street Attack

Tobias is Home after Five Months

Finding Tobias

It was a very happy new year in the Rose household in Chichester as Tobias the Chihuahua was reunited with his family after five long months.

Owner Kayleigh Rose had all but given hope of ever seeing Tobias again when he disappeared in August, but just before Christmas, she received a strange telephone call suggesting that he was in Hertfordshire. The caller did not give any more information, but Sussex Police were able to establish that Tobias’s microchip had been scanned by a vet in Ware, Hertfordshire. Continue reading Tobias is Home after Five Months

Gunman Shoots Two at High Halden

Police and air ambulance called after two men shot in High Halden

A man was arrested at High Halden near Tenterden yesterday (Thursday 3 November) on suspicion of attempted murder after two men were shot near the village

Firearms officers,  police helicopters and an air ambulance were called to the scene near Martens Lane, High Halden yesterday morning. Two men who had suffered gunshot wounds were taken to hospital. Continue reading Gunman Shoots Two at High Halden

Is this the Tip of the Iceberg?

 

People Smuggling Across the English Channel

Immigration officials questioned twenty people, including two children, rescued from an inflatable boat off the Kent coast on Sunday 29 May.

RNLI
RNLI

Eighteen of those on board, proved to be Albanian migrants and two Englishmen, Robert Stillwell and Mark Stribling, who were later charged with immigration offences. Continue reading Is this the Tip of the Iceberg?