A young man who survived critical burns to 80 per cent of his body has been made an honorary police officer. Doctors said that Zaid Garcia. from Galveston in Texas. would never survive the fourth degree burns he experienced as a toddler. However he miraculously pulled through after countless operations and skin grafts. Zaid lost both his hands, eyes and right arm at the age of two after a fire broke out when a candle fell onto his blanket as he slept. From the age of ten, Zaid has had the dream of becoming a police officer. And now, officers…
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A knifeman broke into a house and threatened five children before stealing the family’s XL Bully puppy, leaving them “terrified”, a court heard. Anthony Brown, 24, let himself into the home in Derbyshire, threatening to stab everyone including five children – aged between two and 11 – who were in the house with their mum, as well as another dog, a Staffie. He then grabbed the young XL Bully from a cage and left with the pet, in order to blackmail the family into paying the money the woman’s sister owed him from a drug debt. In a later phone…
One crime family terrorised a sleepy rural village, slashing tyres and dealing drugs from an ice cream van. The head of the family crime gang, the mum, is now on the run from police. Lynne Leyson was described as the “dominant force” of a drug dealing operation run from a farm near Carmarthen. The family-based crime organisation supplied large quantities of drugs across the south west of Wales. Lynne Leyson has been sentenced in absence after she skipped bail and went on the run from the law. Just a few months earlier, Lynne Leyson’s husband, Steven, and son, Samson, were…
A man who believed he had scooped £50,000 on the National Lottery rang up everyone he knew before realising he had actually won just £6 of prizes. Dean Smethurst had his national lotto card checked in Tesco on May 8 and was told by the woman on the checkout he had won on the Saturday game. The supermarket worker told Dean the machine said she could not pay out his winnings and he would have to instead contact Camelot. This prompted Dean to check the terms and conditions of the Camelot website – where he realised this message was usually…
It’s a rare thing when you manage to upset ALL the guests at a party you’ve hosted. Yet one youngster’s parents has singlehandedly managed to do this to the kids who attended their daughter’s sixth birthday party. It seems their big mistake was not being clear about not covering all the costs of their young guests. One mum whose daughter was at the party described what went down. Venting on Reddit she wrote: “The party was being held at Build a Bear, but it wasn’t run by the employees. We had cake and pizza in the food court, then went…
A 90-year-old grandfather says he was reported to the police by his local council after clearing overgrown land behind his home. Keith Ramsell paid gardeners £1,300 to clear the area next to his home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, after falling and injuring his arm due to the overgrown vegetation. The pensioner claims he had already been asking the council to maintain the area for more than a year. But when he informed them that he had instead taken matters into his own hands, Keith was accused of committing criminal damage with the council even going so far as informing the police.…
A mum who watched her son die from a stabbing and has since dedicated her life to helping her community warns knife crime is the worst it’s ever been – but retains hope there are solutions. Pastor Lorraine Jones and her daughter Nequela Whittaker lost their son and brother Dwayne when he was just 20. He was stabbed in the heart trying to protect a friend in south London’s Angell Town estate in February 2014. The mum described racing to the scene of the stabbing, and seeing her mortally wounded boy, before kissing his forehead, and saying: “You’re not alone,…
According to his ex-girlfriend, the man suspected of abducting a 9-year-old from a park in upstate New York and keeping her for ransom was allegedly wanting her late grandfather’s inheritance. The young girl, Charlotte Sena, was discovered in a closet inside Craig Ross Jr.’s, 46, trailer after going missing on a bike ride while camping with her family. The man was charged earlier this week with kidnapping. Patrick Sena, Charlotte’s grandfather, won a $2.2 million settlement after successfully suing the small New York town of Greenfield over a sledding accident in 1998. He died in 2015. 33-year-old Amanda Preece, Ross’…
A journalist was shot dead by a teenager that he was “trying to help”. Josh Kruger was allegedly shot dead by the teen in his home earlier this week. It is reported that Josh knew the alleged gunman that Philadelphian police have named as Robert Davis, and was “trying to help him get through life”, police said on Friday. Davis allegedly shot Mr Kruger seven times in the chest and abdomen at his home in Point Breeze at around 1.30am on Monday. The teen reportedly left the area and Mr Kruger, 39, left his home in search of help before…
A group of thugs jumped a lone police officer on a back road and began viciously stabbing him with a box cutter. Thinking they had the upper hand, they were shocked when his patrol car door mysteriously opened. That’s when they realized they had made a huge mistake because this cruiser wasn’t like many others. Hancock County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Todd Frazier was traveling down a deserted road during his night shift when he came across a car parked near a rest stop in Pearlington, Mississippi. Noticing that a man was inside the parked car alone, sitting along the wooded…