Avon and Somerset Police report this afternoon that Steven Vice has been convicted of the murder of Wayne Brown. In the early hours of Sunday 9th January 2011, police received reports that a man had suffered serious injuries to his chest in an assault in Rodway Road, Patchway. The victim, Wayne Brown, 25, was taken to Frenchay Hospital but died
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Police and ambulance units have been in action in Patchway this morning, responding to an incident at the Highwood Park gypsy and traveller site in Highwood Lane. Four vehicles from the Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS), including a ‘major incident response vehicle’ were seen parked at the bottom of Highwood Road, near Patchway Roundabout. The police helicopter was seen circling
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after an attempted robbery in Patchway. The incident occurred on Sunday 13th November 2011 at around 1:20pm. The 18-year-old female victim was walking along a footpath from Coniston Road towards Gorse Covert. She was approached by two men. The first man grabbed her shoulder bag and attempted to pull it away, but was
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Residents in Patchway are being invited to attend a public exhibition to find out about detailed plans for a proposed new police complex in the town. Located at 90 Gloucester Road (the former Bensons site), the complex will contain a 48-cell Custody and Crime Investigation Centre together with a police station to replace the existing one at Elm Park, Filton.
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A Patchway man who was fatally stabbed in an incident in Rodway Road in January was killed by the jealous ex-boyfriend of the woman he was seeing, Bristol Crown Court has heard. Steven Vice, 22, denies murdering 25-year-old Wayne Brown, claiming instead that Mr Brown attacked him and he acted in self-defence. The court was told that on the evening
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after an arson in Patchway. The incident occurred on Tuesday 25th October 2011 at Durban House, Durban Road, just before midnight. A communal shed was set on fire, causing the shed to be completely burnt out, and causing heat damage to a vehicle parked nearby and a block of flats. Anyone in the
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Police are appealing for information about an assault in Patchway last Tuesday night (4th October 2011). The incident occurred between 8pm and 9pm. The victim, a man in his 50s, was at a kebab van in Callicroft Road. He saw a younger man being assaulted and when he stepped in to stop the assault he was struck with a metal
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a 15-year-old boy was assaulted in Coniston Road, Patchway. The incident occurred on Thursday 15th September 2011 at around 9pm. As the victim walked past the green area opposite the Parade Shopping Centre, he was approached by three males. The first male dressed in a pair of grey jogging bottoms and a
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A woman who stole more than £13,000 from Patchway Labour Club has been ordered by a judge to do 56 hours of unpaid work by 7th October or face jail, reports the Evening Post. Hayley Wilkins, who was employed as a bookkeeper at the club in Coniston Road, was convicted of the theft in October 2009 and ordered to repay
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a theft from a First Group bus on Friday 2nd September. The incident occurred at around 1:30pm and the offender is believed to have been a passenger on a number 75 bus which had just arrived at The Mall bus depot (Cribbs Causeway, Bristol). The offender is described as a black man,
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