Crime

Residents in a Melton residential street have been talking about the ‘incredibly frightening’ experience of waking up to see a car on fire after being deliberately set alight.

Arsonists set fire to cars in nearby streets in Melton in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Numerous incidents of drug-taking and violence at a property in Melton town centre has prompted police officers to close it down.

Detectives are investigating after reports of a woman being assaulted near her Melton home by two men.

A 24-year-old Melton man has been fined after admitting assaulting a police officer while he was exercising his duty.

A van driver sustained serious injuries following a collision with a tractor on a Vale of Belvoir road yesterday afternoon (Monday).

Criminals cost rural businesses in Leicestershire £1million in 2017 - an increase of around a third on the previous year.

Motorists are being urged to avoid driving on a road which leads from Harby after a road traffic collision there this afternoon (Monday).

Melton residents who have concerns about policing issues in the borough are invited tomorrow (Tuesday) to meet Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Lord Willy Bach, at Twinlakes theme park near the town.

Emergency services were alerted yesterday (Sunday) when a car left the road at Bottesford and ended up in a ditch.

Police are investigating after reports of the front door of a Melton house being set alight while the occupants were away on holiday.

A fake Costa Coffee voucher scam is catching people out on Whatsapp and allowing criminals to steal personal data.

Recent changes to the law have now made psychological abuse within a relationship illegal.

Five people were sentenced by a judge today (Friday) after they defrauded Melton Council out of more than £200,000.

The mother of a 12-year-old boy says he is scared to return to Melton’s skatepark after a man forced him to smoke cannabis while he was there.

A Queniborough drug dealer was jailed for 12 years today (Thursday) after being part of a gang connected to the murder of a man in a deal which went wrong.

Two company directors have today (Monday) been handed suspended prison sentences after admitting keeping £55,000 from a VAT fraud.

A child was airlifted to hospital on Saturday after being in collision with a car on a Melton residential estate.

Police have expressed their disappointment that more than 100 motorists have been caught driving in Leicestershire this summer while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.