Crime

POLICE will be carrying out spot-checks on repeat domestic abuse perpetrators as part of a move to tackle violence against women.

THERE will be no verdict this week in the trial of the alleged murder of Max Maguire in Lymington after the jury was sent home.

VANDALS snatched wheels from one of two goals recently bought for Bransgore Youth Football Club.

A SEX offender has been jailed for more than 13 years for crimes in the New Forest including the rape of a child under 13.

TWO teenagers have been arrested after New Forest Ice Cream in Lymington was burgled last night (Wednesday).

POLICE seized a van suspected to be linked to a series of flytippings, including about 40 bags of loft insulation dumped on Hythe conservation land.

AN axe and a sword stick were seized when police raided a Christchurch property.

TWO alleged shoplifters got more than they bargained for when a Brockenhurst store owner gave chase after they raided twice within hours.

POLICE swooped on New Milton Rugby Club’s Ashley field following reports of a group armed with baseball bats.

A DRUG dealer struck a man with a baseball bat before pulling out a knife and telling another that he would "skin him alive".

A BROCKENHURST pensioner’s lifelong hobby could be “out of the window” after thieves smashed into his car and stole £5,000 of fishing gear.

ATTACKING a police constable landed a Lymington woman with a £100 fine.

OFFICERS found a haul of cannabis, drug gear and ball bearings in a car which they seized in Christchurch.

NEW research suggests non-white children in Hampshire are up to five times more likely to be stopped and searched compared with white children.

POLICE are urging people to beware of courier fraud which has claimed hundreds of thousands of pounds in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

TWO teenagers were arrested after a man was hospitalised following an attack at Christchurch railway station.

VANDALISING a police cell cost an Ashley woman £135 when she appeared before magistrates.

TWO people were arrested after police seized a stash of class A and B drugs in a raid on a Pennington property in the early hours of this morning.

A MAN accused of stabbing to death Max Maguire in Lymington claimed he acted in self-defence when his brother was attacked, a jury was told.

THREE people were arrested after a hit-and-run collision involving a car that hurt a cyclist and brought down power lines in Twiggs Lane, Marchwood.