Crime

Police have launched an appeal after a bank card was used fraudulently. Transfers worth £255 were made in numerous places over two days after the card was lost alongside a mobile phone on Commercial Road in Spalding on September 12. They’ve released two images of a person they would like to speak to in relation to the fraud. A police ...

Parts of Sheep Market in Spalding are cordoned off after reports of an incident involving a gun. Police were called after reports a man was threatening people with a gun shortly after1.15pm this afternoon (Thursday, September 29). A 49-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm that was recovered at the scene. There were no serious injuries, ...

Lincolnshire is the police force area in England and Wales with the highest number of speeding offences per capita. That’s according to research from Forbes Advisor, the price comparison and financial guidance website. The study analysed the latest police force data from 2010 to 2020 on speeding offences for each region in England and Wales to establish where the speediest ...

Three Spalding homes have been raided as part of an investigation into ‘serious and organised crime’. Six people have been arrested following the raids yesterday (Wednesday, August 17) on those homes and also on a property in Peterborough. It was instigated by Northamptonshire Police who said it followed an investigation into the theft of £300,000 of tools from a stolen ...

A Sutton Bridge woman says she’s been left frustrated at what she says is a lack of police action following an alleged assault of her and her pet dog. Janet Lowe (69) says she knows the person who she claims kicked the pet and punched her on May 21 but Lincolnshire Police have been slow in doing anything. The police ...

Police have launched a new road safety campaign in the county urging road-users to ‘have a little patience.’ The initiative comes as 45 people have been killed on Lincolnshire’s roads over the last year. A further 450 people have been seriously injured during the year. The ‘Just have a little patience’ campaign was launched on Wednesday in a bid to ...

Lincolnshire police are urging residents to report non-emergency situations via the force’s website. “We have improved the way people can report online, and this is the preferred option to report crime or pass information in a non-emergency,” said a statement from the force. “We receive more than 123,000 calls to the 999 line, and 171,000 calls to the 101 number ...

Rural crime hit Lincolnshire hard last year, with more than £2.4m put on the cost of thefts. It was the worst-affected county in the year. And the cost of theft in the UK rose by 40 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to a recent report. Thieves returned to the countryside and farm vehicles remain a ...

Police are on the lookout for a vehicle that was reportedly stolen near Holbeach. The owner of the silver Skoda Fabia, GM26 HDL was nearby when the vehicle was taken from a field off Boston Road North at around 1pm. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “The owner was not far away and quickly realised their car was missing. “Anyone ...

A host of new ‘intelligent’ CCTV cameras are to be installed in Spalding in a bid to create ‘safe zone areas’. The cameras will be placed in areas where there’s no current coverage between pubs and clubs and transport links such as taxi ranks. A network of volunteers is also to be created to monitor the cameras which are currently ...

Volunteers looking after a Spalding nature reserve have hit out at vandals for racist graffiti – and police for an apparent lack of interest. Vernatt’s Drain Nature Reserve was hit over the weekend with highly racist language sprayed; seats and signs defaced and trees also sprayed. But three other sites, including a play area at Woolram Wygate were also defaced ...

The family of a young man with learning disabilities who was injured in an assault last week have said how devastated they are at what happened. The victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was taken to hospital with injuries including bruises to his neck and arms and loosened teeth after the incident in a Holbeach park. Police were ...

A Holbeach man on the run from the law was arrested in the town last night. Connor Tierney, 26, of Langwith Drive has today (Monday, July 11) appeared in court charged with escaping from lawful custody and of assaulting an emergency worker. It follows Lincolnshire Police last night (Sunday) searching around Langwith Gardens, using a drone as part of the ...

A 16-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of causing ABH and sexual assault on a man with learning difficulties. It follows reports a group confronted the man in his 20s while walking in Carter’s Park, Holbeach around 7pm on Tuesday, July 5. Following an appeal issued yesterday (Thursday), today police announced one person has been arrested. A police spokesman said: ...

Police say a gang’s physical and sexual assault of a man who has learning difficulties in a Holbeach park is being treated as a hate crime. The incident happened in Carter’s Park at 7pm on Tuesday, July 5. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “We are investigating a hate crime incident in Holbeach. “At around 7 pm on Tuesday (5 ...

A 38-year-old man with a number of previous convictions, many of them for driving while disqualified and without insurance, has appeared in court after being arrested again for driving while disqualified, just days before his most recent ban was due to end. Daniel Horgan, of Station Road, Gedney Hill, admitted failing to stop for the police, driving while disqualified and ...

A man who made ‘numerous unwanted telephone calls’, including threats to burn her house down, to his former partner, has been ordered to undergo rehabilitation days and be electronically tagged by magistrates in Boston. Leigh Squance (47), of Glenside North, Pinchbeck, admitted harassment when he appeared in court in June and was appearing for sentence following a probation service report. ...

A commercial burglar who stole thousands of pounds worth of property during a crime spree in South Lincolnshire was jailed for two years. Jake Boyton, 32, used “Bags for Life” to remove computer equipment and cash valued at £1,700 during an overnight burglary at the premises of Welland Print in Spalding. Lincoln Crown Court heard the business was forced to close ...

An elderly man was assaulted and had his walking stick stolen on his doorstep, Lincolnshire Police have said. The force has released an image of a man they would like to question in relation to the incident which happened around 1.25pm on The Parkway in Spalding on Saturday, June 18. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “Around 1:25pm on Saturday ...

Lincolnshire Trading Standards is investigating after reports of a company touting for business by claiming to be working for the county’s highways team. Lincolnshire County Council say there’s been reports of scammers offering to carry out work on private land because they claim to have tarmac leftover from other jobs. They then send what the authority said was a large ...