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Former pub landlord accused of teen killing has five murder convictions, court told

A former Norwich pub landlord accused of murdering 17-year-old Victoria Hall more than 25 years ago has previous convictions for murdering five other...

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Norwich Evening News

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Ticket tout couple ordered to pay back £3 million or face MORE years in jail

A Norfolk couple who profited from ticket touting have been ordered to pay back nearly £3 million or face jail.

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Norwich Evening News

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Former pub landlord accused of teen killing has five murder convictions, court told

A former Norwich pub landlord accused of murdering 17-year-old Victoria Hall more than 25 years ago has previous convictions for murdering five other...

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Eastern Daily Press

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Ticket tout couple ordered to pay back £3 million or face MORE years in jail

A Norfolk couple who profited from ticket touting have been ordered to pay back nearly £3 million or face jail.

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Eastern Daily Press

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Police hunt other men who may have abused woman forced into sex with strangers

Police are investigating whether any other men can be prosecuted over a woman who was forced into having sex with multiple strangers.

11.01.2026 4

Norwich Evening News

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Police hunt other men who may have abused woman forced into sex with strangers

Police are investigating whether any other men can be prosecuted over a woman who was forced into having sex with multiple strangers.

11.01.2026 7

Eastern Daily Press

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'Monster' who forced woman to have sex with up to 1,000 men jailed for life

An obsessive pervert who forced a woman into having sex with up to 1,000 men against her will has been jailed for life.

10.01.2026 4

Norwich Evening News

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'Monster' who forced woman to have sex with up to 1,000 men jailed for life

An obsessive pervert who forced a woman into having sex with up to 1,000 men against her will has been jailed for life.

10.01.2026 4

Eastern Daily Press

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Man who wielded Rambo knife guilty of murdering teenager in city flat

A man has been found guilty of the murder of a teenage dealer as part of a turf war between the rival drug gangs.

09.01.2026 9

Norwich Evening News

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Man who wielded Rambo knife guilty of murdering teenager in city flat

A man has been found guilty of the murder of a teenage dealer as part of a turf war between the rival drug gangs.

09.01.2026 20

Eastern Daily Press

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Woman jailed for money laundering over £63k designer goods haul

A woman has been jailed for more than two years after financial data linked her to a drug dealing enterprise.

09.01.2026 6

Eastern Daily Press

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90-year-old woman in court accused of making threats to neighbour

A 90-year-old woman who has faced months in prison for a series of offences must now answer new allegations of threatening her neighbour.

09.01.2026 30

Eastern Daily Press

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Police hunt man accused of stealing £6k jewellery from Norwich shop

Police are hunting a man accused of stealing thousands of pounds of jewellery from a Norwich store after he failed to appear in court.

08.01.2026 4

Norwich Evening News

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New Year party knifeman told stabbing victim ‘I’ll kill you’

A man found armed with a knife three times in as many months has been jailed after a New Year’s Eve party that left a man seriously injured.

08.01.2026 6

Norwich Evening News

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New Year party knifeman told stabbing victim ‘I’ll kill you’

A man found armed with a knife three times in as many months has been jailed after a New Year’s Eve party that left a man seriously injured.

08.01.2026 10

Eastern Daily Press

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Police hunt man accused of stealing £6k jewellery from Norwich shop

Police are hunting a man accused of stealing thousands of pounds of jewellery from a Norwich store after he failed to appear in court.

08.01.2026 4

Eastern Daily Press

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Van driver ‘failed to report crash’ at 75mph railway level crossing

A van driver has been accused of failing to report a crash that seriously damaged gates at a railway level crossing.

08.01.2026 4

Eastern Daily Press

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Transwoman accused of being behind £100,000 firebomb blackmail plot

A transwoman could have to stand trial outside Norfolk over an alleged £100,000 blackmail plot to firebomb a legal firm.

07.01.2026 10

Norwich Evening News

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Transwoman accused of being behind £100,000 firebomb blackmail plot

A transwoman could have to stand trial outside Norfolk over an alleged £100,000 blackmail plot to firebomb a legal firm.

07.01.2026 6

Eastern Daily Press

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Man who fled farm to escape machete-wielding gang denies cocaine dealing

A man has denied large-scale cocaine dealing after four men broke into a farmhouse armed with machetes and knives.

07.01.2026 5

Eastern Daily Press

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Man accused of blackmail over £100,000 firebomb threat to solicitors' firm

A man has been accused of threatening to firebomb the offices of a firm of solicitors unless he received £100,000.

06.01.2026 8

Norwich Evening News

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Benefits cheat who scammed £28,000 sentenced to just 150 hours unpaid work

A benefits cheat who dishonestly claimed tens of thousands of pounds over more than two years has been ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work.

06.01.2026 8

Norwich Evening News

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Online sex predator who pretended to be teenage girls is spared jail

An online sexual predator who posed as teenage girls to lure boys into sending him explicit pictures has been spared jail.

06.01.2026 6

Eastern Daily Press

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Prolific shoplifter jailed for THIRD time in four months for Christmas crime spree

One of Norfolk’s most prolific shoplifters has been jailed for the third time in less than four months after stealing hundreds of pounds worth of...

06.01.2026 5

Eastern Daily Press

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Man, 30, dishonestly claimed benefits by failing to declare he was student

A man has admitted cheating the benefits system by dishonestly claiming low income payments while actually a full-time student.

06.01.2026 6

Eastern Daily Press

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Man accused of blackmail over £100,000 firebomb threat to solicitors' firm

A man has been accused of threatening to firebomb the offices of a firm of solicitors unless he received £100,000.

06.01.2026 5

Eastern Daily Press

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Benefits cheat who scammed £28,000 sentenced to just 150 hours unpaid work

A benefits cheat who dishonestly claimed tens of thousands of pounds over more than two years has been ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work.

06.01.2026 5

Eastern Daily Press

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Former boxer Herbie Hide accused of punching plain clothes policeman

Former world champion boxer Herbie Hide has been accused of punching a plain clothes policeman.

04.01.2026 6

Norwich Evening News

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Former boxer Herbie Hide accused of punching plain clothes policeman

Former world champion boxer Herbie Hide has been accused of punching a plain clothes policeman.

04.01.2026 9

Eastern Daily Press

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Ex-Premier League football rapist accused of having secret phone in prison cell

A former Premier League footballer jailed for raping a woman as she slept is accused of having a secret phone in his prison cell in Norfolk.

03.01.2026 4

Norwich Evening News

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Ex-Premier League football rapist accused of having secret phone in prison cell

A former Premier League footballer jailed for raping a woman as she slept is accused of having a secret phone in his prison cell in Norfolk.

03.01.2026 7

Eastern Daily Press

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Migrant drug dealer spared deportation despite sexually assaulting two women

A migrant drug dealer was spared being deported back to Pakistan despite sexually assaulting two women in Norwich, it has emerged.

01.01.2026 10

Norwich Evening News

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Man accused of stealing £20k while acting as carer for his mother

A man has been remanded to remain in prison after being accused of stealing more than £20,000 from his own mother. 

01.01.2026 10

Eastern Daily Press

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Migrant drug dealer spared deportation despite sexually assaulting two women

A migrant drug dealer was spared being deported back to Pakistan despite sexually assaulting two women in Norwich, it has emerged.

01.01.2026 8

Eastern Daily Press

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Paedophile who groomed and abused children over decades dies in prison

A Norfolk paedophile jailed for abusing six children before he moved to Spain has died while serving more than 14 years prison.

01.01.2026 30

Eastern Daily Press

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Dopey burglar caught on dashcam stealing van full of first aid dummies

A man caught on dashcam stealing a van full of first aid dummies spent Christmas behind bars.

01.01.2026 5

Eastern Daily Press

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Three police officers accused of misconduct over ‘deliberate’ crash into cyclist

Three police officers are facing a raft of misconduct charges following an incident in which one of them is said to have deliberately driven his...

23.12.2025 5

Norwich Evening News

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Police called to 3,500 noisy neighbour complaints in last four years

Police have been called to complaints about noisy neighbours on more than 3,500 occasions in the last five years.

23.12.2025 20

Norwich Evening News

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Three police officers accused of misconduct over ‘deliberate’ crash into cyclist

Three police officers are facing a raft of misconduct charges following an incident in which one of them is said to have deliberately driven his...

23.12.2025 5

Eastern Daily Press

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Police called to 3,500 noisy neighbour complaints in last four years

Police have been called to complaints about noisy neighbours on more than 3,500 occasions in the last five years.

23.12.2025 4

Eastern Daily Press

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Hundreds of criminals get out-of-court disposals in just three months

More than a thousand criminals in Norfolk received punishment without their offences going to court over a three month period, figures have revealed.

22.12.2025 4

Norwich Evening News

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Hundreds of criminals get out-of-court disposals in just three months

More than a thousand criminals in Norfolk received punishment without their offences going to court over a three month period, figures have revealed.

22.12.2025 4

Eastern Daily Press

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Binman who masturbated outside house placed on sex offender register

A Norwich binman has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught on CCTV exposing himself and masturbating.

21.12.2025 8

Norwich Evening News

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Binman who masturbated outside house placed on sex offender register

A Norwich binman has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught on CCTV exposing himself and masturbating.

21.12.2025 10

Eastern Daily Press

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Motocross rider accused of running red light before hitting women

A man is accused of dangerous driving and failing to stop after a motocross bike mounted the pavement and hit two women.

20.12.2025 3

Eastern Daily Press

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Man attacked father in caravan despite 10 year ban on contacting his parents

A man banned from contacting his own parents has been warned he faces jail after an attack on his father.

20.12.2025 3

Eastern Daily Press

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Porn addict claims ‘curiosity’ led him to 9,000 child sex images

A man found to have downloaded thousands of indecent images of children claimed it had been driven by "curiosity" rather than sexual interest.

19.12.2025 6

Norwich Evening News

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Man accused of music festival drug dealing fails to appear in court for THIRD time

A man accused of selling drugs at a Norfolk music festival has failed to appear in court for a third time.

19.12.2025 3

Norwich Evening News

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Porn addict claims ‘curiosity’ led him to 9,000 child sex images

A man found to have downloaded thousands of indecent images of children claimed it had been driven by "curiosity" rather than sexual interest.

19.12.2025 8

Eastern Daily Press

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Online bingo addicted woman stole £30k from brother’s garage

A woman has been spared jail after stealing more than £30,000 from the family business to fund her online gambling addiction.

19.12.2025 6

Eastern Daily Press

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