Crime

ONE of the brothers standing trial over the murder of Lymington fisherman Max Maguire has been cleared.

HAMPSHIRE officers are gearing up for a week-long crackdown on knife crime.

BEING involved in the supply of around £32,500 of cannabis landed a New Forest man with a suspended prison sentence.

A TEAM of table tennis-playing pensioners fears they will have to disband after vandals wrecked their last remaining table at New Milton.

A VEHICLE rental company manager dramatically foiled a bid to steal a customer’s van from its New Milton yard by ramming the raiders' vehicle.

TWO boys will stand trial at Winchester Crown Court after they pleaded not guilty to murdering Walkford man Edward Reeve.

A NEW Milton man who attacked and threatened a woman at a takeaway must carry out unpaid work.

WOULD-be kidnappers snatched a two-year-old girl near Ringwood but were foiled when her mother’s dog bit one of them.

A STABBING victim told a jury of the moment he and friend Max Maguire were allegedly attacked by two brothers outside Lymington’s Royal British Legion

DRINK-driving and failing to stop for police cost a Burton motorist just under £1,300.

ATTACKING a woman cost a Ringwood man nearly £3,500 when he appeared before magistrates.

POLICE are seeking a woman whose dog bit a man as he tried to stop it attacking his son’s pet in Highcliffe.

A WOMAN who survived being knifed on the night Max Maguire was allegedly murdered told a jury she saw another friend being “sliced” across his back.

POLICE closed a New Milton road on Saturday night as they continued to investigate a hit-and-run crash which killed a retired nurse.

A MAN has been arrested in connection with a crash on the A326 Marchwood bypass which claimed the life of a mum-of-five.

THREE teens were arrested after robbers armed with a hammer stole cigarettes and tobacco in a raid on a Totton petrol station.

TENS of thousands of pounds of illegal drugs have been taken out of circulation, police have said, as part of a new crackdown on county lines dealing.

PEOPLE are urged to look out for a “reasonably unique” clock being offered for sale after burglars stole it from a Lyndhurst home.

A LYMINGTON man was fatally stabbed by two brothers he had met 20 minutes earlier, with one wielding a knife "like a wild animal", a jury heard.

CASH and dash cams were stolen when a thief targeted a number of vehicles parked in a Brockenhurst street in the early hours.