Crime News

Crews called after rubbish set alight on Russel Street, in Peterborough city centre. 

A haulage company and its director have been ordered to pay £9,923 for moving waste in and out of an illegal waste site.

A man who walked onto a filling station forecourt near Boongate, Peterborough, and attempted to set a petrol nozzle alight has been jailed for three years.

A man has been ordered to carry out unpaid work for carrying a steak knife in a Wisbech street.

Charlie Spurrier, 20, assaulted two police officers and used threatening behaviour to a Good Samaritan who had stopped to check on him after seeing he had a head injury.

A woman who claimed almost £6,000 of benefits to which she was not entitled has been sentenced.

Kamran Ali, 34, of Gladstone Street, Peterborough, has been jailed for a year after he spat at a woman in the street for no reason and racially abused her.

Three men have been sentenced to a total of more than 17 years in prison for running a “professional” and “sophisticated” cannabis enterprise in Peterborough.

A Dogsthorpe man breached a suspended sentence order by assaulting two police officers.

A teenager whose hair was set on fire is recovering at home following treatment for her injuries.