A SENIOR Northumbria Police officer has praised an off-duty detective who bravely detained a suspected shoplifter accused of threatening staff with a knife. Shortly after 3pm on Saturday (November 7) police were alerted to a disturbance in Sunderland city centre. It was reported that a shopper had stolen items […]
Northumbria Police have released an image of a man they wish to speak to after a robbery in Newcastle. The incident happened on March 17 when the man approached a female student near to the Claude Gibb Hall student accommodation. He asked to use her phone but after she refused, […]
Two men have been jailed after a knife-point robbery in Newcastle. On September 7, 2015, Thomas Paul Keenan, 20, and Steven Smith, 22, and both of no fixed abode, threatened two homeless men who were sleeping in a car park in Lisle Street in the city centre. They were armed […]