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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Yahoo
14 arrested in domestic abuse operation
Fourteen people have been arrested during a two-day operation to target domestic abuse perpetrators. Thames Valley Police officers and detectives across Oxfordshire joined forces on Thursday and Friday to visit addresses and arrest suspects. They detained and questioned people wanted for domestic violence or threats, controlling and coercive behaviour, breaching bail conditions, or economic, psychological or emotional abuse. Temporary Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) Olly Wright said he would encourage domestic abuse victims to contact the police and "take every opportunity to break the cycle". The operation started at 4am on Thursday and seventeen attempts were made resulting in 14 arrests. That included one Domestic Violence Protection Order (DVPO) breach, where the suspect was found hiding in a cupboard at the victim's address. The force said they had also seized "multiple mobile phones" and booked suspects into custody at Abingdon Police Station before questioning them. TVP reported that two of them had been charged and remanded, one to prison and the other bailed by the courts. Eleven were released on bail with "robust conditions", or given a DVPO. Staff also interviewed two further suspects voluntarily on Friday. Ch Insp Jamie Cuthbertson, of the Oxfordshire Local Command Unit, said the days of action "demonstrate our ongoing commitment to protecting vulnerable individuals and holding offenders to account". "We want victims to know they are not alone," he said. The force said that Chief Constable Jason Hogg and ACC Wright had "stopped by to give their support to the operation". Mr Wright said TVP "will always treat domestic abuse as a priority", adding that the "adverse impact on children witnessing a parent being abused must never be underestimated". He said he "was really heartened by the determined team work I saw". "Abuse often continues behind closed doors for years, and we need to take every opportunity to break the cycle." TVP also signposted people to charities and organisations such as Victims First. If you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story, support and advice is available via the BBC Action Line. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram. Police arrest 65 suspected of domestic abuse Domestic abuse makes up a third of January arrests Domestic abuse: Force makes 244 arrests Thames Valley Police Victims First
BBC News
3 days ago
- BBC News
Oxfordshire police make 14 arrests in domestic abuse operation
Fourteen people have been arrested during a two-day operation to target domestic abuse Valley Police officers and detectives across Oxfordshire joined forces on Thursday and Friday to visit addresses and arrest detained and questioned people wanted for domestic violence or threats, controlling and coercive behaviour, breaching bail conditions, or economic, psychological or emotional Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) Olly Wright said he would encourage domestic abuse victims to contact the police and "take every opportunity to break the cycle". The operation started at 4am on Thursday and seventeen attempts were made resulting in 14 included one Domestic Violence Protection Order (DVPO) breach, where the suspect was found hiding in a cupboard at the victim's force said they had also seized "multiple mobile phones" and booked suspects into custody at Abingdon Police Station before questioning reported that two of them had been charged and remanded, one to prison and the other bailed by the courts. Eleven were released on bail with "robust conditions", or given a also interviewed two further suspects voluntarily on Insp Jamie Cuthbertson, of the Oxfordshire Local Command Unit, said the days of action "demonstrate our ongoing commitment to protecting vulnerable individuals and holding offenders to account"."We want victims to know they are not alone," he said. The force said that Chief Constable Jason Hogg and ACC Wright had "stopped by to give their support to the operation".Mr Wright said TVP "will always treat domestic abuse as a priority", adding that the "adverse impact on children witnessing a parent being abused must never be underestimated".He said he "was really heartened by the determined team work I saw"."Abuse often continues behind closed doors for years, and we need to take every opportunity to break the cycle."TVP also signposted people to charities and organisations such as Victims you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story, support and advice is available via the BBC Action Line. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
Leader Live
7 days ago
- Leader Live
COURT: Connah's Quay man breached domestic violence order
Owain Hughes-Lewis, of Garratt Close in Connah's Quay, appeared at Mold Magistrates Court on Thursday. The 27-year-old admitted that on Wednesday (June 4) he breached a domestic violence protection order (DVPO) by attending an address in Northop Hall. Sue Rees, prosecuting on behalf of North Wales Police, told the court that the order, which was granted by Llandudno Magistrates Court on May 21, remains in place until a minute to midnight on June 17. When Hughes-Lewis was released from custody on Wednesday, police carried out a welfare check on the associated person protected by the DVPO. At her property, they found the defendant hiding under a mattress in a bedroom. Gary Harvey, defending, told the court: "It's quite straight forward. "He is released from prison, this lady picks him up outside prison and he doesn't know where he's going to go. "His thoughts were to go immediately to the local authority and seek accommodation, but it didn't work out that way because of the time he was released - so he goes to this lady's house. MORE COURT NEWS "There's then the welfare check and he's at the address which unfortunately means he is in breach of the order. "The order itself was put in place at Llandudno in his absence and he wasn't aware of it at the time, but he does accept the breach and he knows he shouldn't have been there." The Magistrates handed down a £50 fine and warned the defendant that while he'd been "quite lucky" in not receiving a custodial sentence for the breach, a second one may well have a different outcome.
