Crime

HATCH END: Hatch End Safer Neighbourhood Team ward panel is looking for new members to help have a say on community policing matters.

Interested parties should contact the team's Sergeant Pete Carruthers on 020 8721 2998 or email HatchEnd.SNT@met.police.uk

A WOMAN caught two burglars in her home after she heard noises downstairs.

Two men fled from the property on Albury Drive, Pinner, just after 10pm on Tuesday April 17 when the 34-year-old woman came out of her bedroom and saw the burglars coming up the stairs.

A woman appeared in court accused of breaking a non-molestation order.

Zarina Ilyas, of Hazeldene Drive, Pinner, appeared at Hendon Magistrates' Court on April 10 after allegedly contacting her ex-boyfriend.

A 26-year-old man has admitted threatening to kill Anna Machlanksa at their home in Pinner.

Slawek Machlanski, of High Street, appeared at Harrow Crown Court on Tuesday and will be sentenced on May 14 at Harrow Crown Court.

The incident happened on February 16.

A bookmakers was robbed on Sunday by two armed men.

The incident happened just before 10pm at Coral Racing, Uxbridge Road, Hatch End.

A man from Pinner who is suspected of cannabis production has denied the charges.

Linesh Lukha, 30, of Buckland Rise, Pinner, appeared with Daniel Bruce, 19, of Field Way, Hoddeson, Hertfordshire, and Ashwin Zadafiya, 32, of Stanley Avenue, Wembley, at Aylesbury Crown Court on Monday.

A WOMAN in her 30s is believed to have been the victim of rape in Pinner last weekend.

Police are investigating an allegation of rape at Montesoles Playing Fields, Pinner, at 3am on Saturday April 7.

The jury in the three week long trial of two women accused of killing retired betting shop manager Don Banfield, who disappeared from his Locket Road home in May 2001 aged 63, was sworn in yesterday (Wednesday) at the Old Bailey.

His ex-wife Shirley Banfield, 64, and daughter Lynette Banfield, 41, both of Canterbury, Kent, and on conditional bail, deny murdering him between between May 10 and May 16 2001, and the prosecution was expected to open its case today (Thursday).

The pair also deny conspiracy to defraud William Hill, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice between August 12 2009 and July 6 2011, and making a false instrument, namely submitting a forged application form for disability living allowance to the Department of Work and Pensions.

Mrs Banfield denies a further charge with dishonestly retaining wrongful credit of £34,382.

A FORMER Pinner resident and Nigerian state governor has admitted embezzling millions of US dollars of public funds from the oil-rich state.

James Ibori, 49, lived in Nower Hill during the late 1980s, when he was working as a cashier at a hardware shop in Ruislip.

A LOCAL accountant will stand trial for a second time over his involvement in a £4.5m fraud this September.

After a marathon 10-week trial which ended in January, jurors were unable to agree on a verdict for Barnhill resident Roy Faichney, 53.