Crime

A MOTHER-OF-ONE narrowly escaped jail after admitting trying to pass off fake £20 notes in Brentford, writes Robert Cumber.

Danielle Eales bought a toothbrush at Butts dental practice on September 24 using the counterfeit cash and then attempted to exchange another note for two £10 notes at Watermans art centre on October 10.

The 30-year-old, of Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, admitted two charges of passing fake notes when she appeared at Feltham Magistrates Court last Friday (January 15).

She received a suspended four-month prison sentence for each count and was also given a three-month curfew order.

Shop owners across Brentford are being asked to remain vigilant by police as a wave of counterfeit money hits the town.

Police have made one arrest following a high number of reports of counterfeit £20 notes being presented at shops in Brentford.

A 45-year-old Brentford man was arrested after a police raid on his houseboat uncovered £5,000 worth of stolen solar panels.

The Marine Policing Unit (MPU) led the operation to recover the five panels, after the Environment agency reported them stolen from a barge in February and March of this year.

Claims that Brentford is the sixth burgled location in the country are 'utter nonsense', according to a top Hounslow cop.

Supt Simon Phipps insisted the results of a survey, which suggested almost five per cent of the town's homes had made claims for theft or burglary in the past year, were not true.

"I don't know where they are getting this information from," he said. "But I can only suggest if insurers believe that many people are being burgled they speak to their fraud team because it's utter nonsense.

Brentford has been named the 6th most burgled location in the UK.

A survey has revealed that almost five per cent of Brentford households have made a claim for theft or burglary in the last 12 months.

To help Brentford remain a safer place, Police officers from all four Brentford Safer Neighbourhood Teams were involved in a two-day joint Operation held on Monday 15 & Tuesday 16 September along with Traffic Police Officers from Hampton Traffic garage.

A large number of vehicles were stopped and checked for driving documents, Insurance and illegal loads of scrap metal.

While the hedonists of the King's Road were preoccupied with the swinging sixties, a grim orgy of killing was taking place just a few kilometres to the west.

A serial killer obsessed with prostitutes murdered six, possibly eight, young women between 1964 and 1965, dumping their naked and mutilated bodies on the banks of the River Thames. His heinous acts, with victims from Brentford and Chiswick, earned him the moniker Jack the Stripper - but he was never caught.

Now the dormant investigation has been given a boost after the name of a notorious Welsh double-child murderer was put in the frame for the killings.

A would-be peacemaker was left with a fractured skull after trying to break up a fight in a Brentford pub.

The 33-year-old man was hit from behind following the brawl at the Rose and Crown pub, in London Road, last Saturday.

He was knocked unconscious at around 10.30pm and later taken to hospital for treatment.

His attacker is a slim, white or mixed race man, aged between 18 and 25 years, with short dark hair, who wore a black jacket which may have white trim around the hood.

Anyone with information about any of the crimes above should call Hounslow CID on 020 8247 6160 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Police have addressed the public's concerns about aggressive dogs in St Paul's Rec, as the Chronicle exclusively revealed last week.

Sergeant Nathan Fane from the Brentford Safer Neighbourhoods Team said: "Police have previously been informed of concerns regarding dog owners apparently training their dogs to fight in St Paul's Rec.

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Animal welfare chiefs have blasted cruel dog owners who use Brentford's parks to groom their pets for dog fighting.

Dog walkers in St Paul's recreation ground have witnessed young men encouraging their Staffordshire Bull Terriers to attack trees, with some even hung from branches by their mouths to strengthen their jaws for the brutal and illegal 'sport'.