OPERATION CAPTURA POLICE NET CLOSES IN ON COSTA VILLIANS

British expats living in Spain have been urged to help as investigators launched the latest hunt for criminals on the run in Spain, among them a "high-risk" paedophile, a drug trafficker and several alleged murderers.

FROM   SPAIN   DIAL

FREEFONE:  900 555 111 

SOCA and Crimestoppers are jointly appealing
for help in finding 10 suspects.



The first, Dominic Stephen Powell, 48, from Coventry is a high-risk sex offender, wanted in relation to a string of allegations of child abuse attacks and making indecent images. Powell, who has been jailed in the past for paedophile offences, is wanted by South Wales Police. STOP PRESS POWELL ARRESTED ON OCTOBER 20th IN SPAIN 

Simon Dutton, 34, from Bolton is a suspected drug trafficker linked to the importation of cocaine from Spain for sale in north west England - drugs with a street value in excess of £1,600,000 have been seized as part of the operation. Dutton is wanted following a joint operation between Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and Soca.

Andrew Terrence Moran, 29, from Salford, Manchester fled the country in 2009 as he went on trial for carrying out a £25,000 armed robbery of Royal Mail guards. He was convicted in his absence for the cash in transit theft in 2005 in Colne, Lancashire.

Kirk Bradley, 26, and Tony Downes, 25, both from Liverpool, escaped a prison van in Manchester en route to a trial at Liverpool Crown Court for conspiracy to possess firearms to endanger life and conspiracy to damage property with intent to endanger life. They are both wanted by Merseyside Police and said to be "dangerous and violent".

Derek McGraw Ferguson - also known as William Murdoch Henderson - 47, from Glasgow, is wanted over the murder of Thomas Cameron in 2007 at the Auchinairn Tavern, Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow. Ferguson has a string of distinguishing marks including tattoos of an arrow and a dagger and a chunk missing in his left ear - Strathclyde Police say he is considered dangerous.

It is alleged that Allan James Foster - also known as Shaun Michael Wilkinson - 39, from South Shields murdered David "Noddy" Rice in Marsden Bay car park in May 2006.

Meanwhile William "Buff" Thomas Robert Paterson, 32, from Glasgow is wanted over the murder of Kevin Carroll, who was repeatedly shot in the car park of an Asda supermarket in Robroyston, Glasgow. He too is said to be considered dangerous and violent.

Kevin Thomas Parle, 31, from Liverpool is wanted in connection with the murders of 16-year-old Liam Kelly in Liverpool in 2004 and Lucy Hargreaves the following year - Ms Hargreaves was shot then set on fire. Also wanted is Christopher Guest More, 34, from Cheshire, who was part of a gang who killed a man who refused to hand over cash after they travelled to a remote farmhouse in Cheshire. He is also wanted for the attempted murder of a second man and for the false imprisonment and assault of other victims present during the incident.

Callers from Spain can contact a special freephone Spanish 900 555 111 telephone number which will be answered in the UK by Crimestoppers call agents. Information on crime can also be passed on anonymously in the UK via the Crimestoppers number 0800 555 111.

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Tactical Fireams and Dog Units deployed in Park Farm Police Operation

As witnessed by PFNW, who just happened to be posting a letter, the Local Neighbourhood Policing Team executed  two warrants under Section 23 of The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, during the morning of Friday 23rd September 2011, at addresses located in Shamrock Close, Stanground and Delph Court, Park Farm.


Both properties were then searched through the day by a specialist Police search team. Also involved were the Tactical Firearms Unit, the Dog Unit, Crime Scene Investigation, the Crime Investigation Team and the Stanground/Park Farm Local Neighbourhood Policing Team.

Many high value items were seized and two arrests were made for the theft of a motor vehicle and possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply.


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Police to hold Stanground Open Air Neighbourhood Surgery on 23rd October!

Stanground Residents can informally discuss local crime issues as Cambridgeshire Police are holding the latest of their popular neighbourhood surgery events outside St. Michael’s Church in Mace Road, Stanground on Sunday, October 23rd between 3pm and 5pm, all invited.  Visit http://www.cambs.police.co.uk/  for further information and dates of other events.

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Could Dale Farm happen here?

STOP PRESS THURSDAY 20 OCT SKYNEWS REPORTS: TRAVELLERS SPOKESWOMAN: "ONCE EVICTED TRAVELLERS WILL FORM CONVOY TO TRAVEL TO NORFOLK AND OTHER REGIONAL SITES"



The long awaited eviction of residents and 'freelance ' demonstrators at Dale Farm, nr Basildon, Essex  started this morning with a classic distraction ploy of keeping the target audience talking at the front door whilst the bulk of the action took place at the other end of the plot.

Hopefully now that the protests have been seen worldwide through non stop TV news coverage, for personal safety reasons everyone will now climb down from the scaffolds and life will carry on... It won't happen of course, as some will carry on until the bitter end, but what concerns our neighbourhood is that Basildon Council have apparently given the travellers a comprehensive list of other 'authorised' sites and apparently Cambridgeshire features high on that list.  To clarify we have now seen a copy of the list which has been handed out to a number of former 'residents' of Dale Farm. Sources tell us that Basidon Council is now denying any such list has been circulated.   

Given that travellers do have rights, one has to wonder why they see the need to put down permanent roots in one particular place, and many of the structures are mobile homes in name only, but more the type of chalet homes you find on upmarket parks. Simply those semi-permanent structures are not designed to move once the initial jockey wheels have positioned the unit in the first place.

In the case of Dale Farm, legal action has been dragging on for ten years - mainly at taxpayers expense and hopefully this will see the end of the current activity.  We can only hope PCC are watching the videos and will not fall into the legal mess and public relations disaster that has surrounded the flawed Basildon Council approach, to say nothing of the estimated £15 million plus budget to be picked up by local ratepayers.

Clearly Cllr Tony Ball, leader of Basildon Council, needs a substantial amount of professional media presentational training and perhaps our own leader Cllr Cereste to give him a few pointers in how to sell impossible situations to the media?  Clearly a massive fail on Basildons part, hopefully never to be repeated here.

Supt Roe from Essex Police had a far more relaxed and polished view of the situation, in a businesslike press conference address (without notes) he revealed that advance intelligence stated  that 'weapons, fluids, objects and materials' were being stored ready to be deployed against police and bailiffs. One person had been tasered,  two officers injured. Three arrests had been made.  The majority of the violence was from the [imported] protestors rather than the travellers (many choosing to leave before today) he claimed.

It will not have escaped your notice that with the old folks home in our neighbourhood being knocked down, an earthworks and chain linked fence has appeared all around the extensive island site and other open spaces have recently seen the addition of fences, gates and bollards to prevent access by 'travellers'.

This does not really tackle the problem. Perhaps some of the abandoned / redundant RAF airfields and other mothballed MOD property could  be harnessed to provide hard standing  and a selection of sites for those who feel the need to roam?

Simply the days of the friendly traveller in a traditional horse drawn caravan selling clothes pegs and bunches of lucky heather, has long gone as the current generation seem to rely on metal recycling, jobbing building, driveway block paving and tarmac black topping. One enterprising family in this neighbourhood has even taken to cleaning and spray washing wheeliebins!

However the Dale Farm situation plays out, we can only hope that 'lessons have been learned' and that should the situation arise here then a far more balanced approach, with all agencies equally involved, will be taken...


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Your City ~ Your Council, Meeting 12th October

Full Council Meeting 12th October



The meeting began with a statement from Cllr Irene Walsh in her role as chair of the War Memorial Fund. Clr Walsh explained the fund had not yet reached the halfway mark. (The majority of the money already raised, comes we understand, from Cllr Sharps term as Mayor).

Money was now being raised from school children (£200 from a group visiting Ieper [YPRES] in Belgium ). Cllr Walsh suggested more money could be raised by asking OAP’s to contribute....
Cllr Walsh then not content with raiding childrens pocket money and OAP Pension books then distributed large brown envelopes to the assembled council requesting a cash contribution from councillors at the meeting, and to top it all, further asked Councillors to seriously consider donating money from their CLF funds (this is the £10k money pot given to councillors to spend in their wards; however as we have previously reported much of Stanground’s fund has been spent in Dogsthorpe and other areas).

All councillors agreed to co-operate in organising a jobs fair for young people. Cllr Sandford made the point that by contracting out council services to Enterprise, Serco and Vivacity, many jobs had been lost within PCC. Cllr Cereste (leader) said that contrary to newspaper headlines, there had been a small improvement in the jobless levels level in the City ie they had fallen.

It emerged Bridge Street Police Station faces closure, with the front desk being moved to Baynard Place, but some administration offices inside the buidling would still function. Th new desk at Bayard Place would be manned by Police civilian staff.

The decision to cancel the fireworks fiesta on road safety grounds was discussed. Councillors expressed anger they had to read the final decision in the ET and had not been informed in advance of the outcome. Cllr. Walsh admitted she ‘could do better on communications’.

Cllr Scott (Cabinet member responsible for childrens services) faced questions following the recent OFSTED findings. Labour councillors queried why she had not fallen on her sword and resigned as had John Richards. Cllr Scott appeared flustered and answered she did not know how many OFSTED reports had been completed over her time in the role, if it was 4 or 5; all had berated her department, and said she viewed OFSTED as ‘only a snapshot’.

Cllr Scott continued: She thought resigning would be ‘the easy thing to do’ and thanked her collegues for their support, some councillors thought that Cllr Scott somewhat missing the point that she is there to protect the disenfranchised children and that she was not the victim. Again councillors expressed anger they had heard of key decision in the ET and had not been advised personally. Cllr Scott held out little hope of an immediate improvement, darkly suggesting this would only be achieved over a period of time specifically twelve to eighteeen months ....


The issue of verge parking was debated at length, with political point scoring batting across the chamber. Various ways of combatting the city wide problem were discussed such tree planting on verges to stop anti social parking problems. Presentations were to be made City wide at Neighbourhood Councils, explaining the legal/civil problems PCC had in controlling this issue but some pilot schemes had been carried out in Dogsthorpe but for some reason the trail although successful had not been continued.

Section 106 money was the focus of a question to Cllr Hiller. he explained the money was divided 65/35. 65% of the money was spent by the council on long term plans, with a strategy already in place. The remaining 35% (called POISE) was allocated to neighbourhoods. Neighbourhoods would decide where the money went with reference to neighbourhood committees, and a long term plan which the committee would themselves draw up.(Section 106 is the money paid over to tghe council by a builder when a new development of new homes/ factories/ warehouses etc  is built).

New 'No Drinking Zones' were voted though, covering swathes of Millfield. Confusingly perhaps, they only become ‘no drinking zones’ when alcohol drunk in public is physically confiscated by a Police Officer. The scheme had party wide support however and may cover much more of the city in the near future.

And finally, you will have read councillors have been issued with new fully expensed I-Phones. Not everyone has taken up the offer or is happy with the deal.  That aside, we could not help noticing that the council member for Barnack. Cllr David Over, played constantly (i.e. not putting it down or turning it off) with his new acquistion thoughout the formal meeting. Should have all the apps loaded by now!

(My thanks to Alex and all at the Beadles office).

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iphone or I don't phone?

iPhone or I don't phone?

Following our earlier story today (see below) of all councillors being offered iphones, we have submitted a Freedom of Information request asking for a list of councillors in receipt of iphones. Requests (if accepted) normally take a few weeks for a reply.
(The illustration is a gold dipped iphone, not suggesting any of our councillors have one of these, but.......)
Morag Irving

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George Orwell Blog Competition

I am very proud to announce we have been entered for the prestigious George Orwell Blog competition. More details to follow. In the meantime thank you for all your support and kind comments

Morag Irving/Julian Bray.

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