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[email protected] The conclusion was reached THE POLICE watchdog has upheld after IPCC investigators went to a complaint against Essex Police for the scene and CCTV footage, air- wrongly accusing two dead teens of wave recordings and witness state- possessing class A drugs. ments were obtained and analysed The Independent Police alongside relevant policies. Complaints Commission (IPCC) An Essex Police spokesman gave its conclusions following a said: “We accept the findings of complaint from the families of the report and note that the IPCC Reigan Knight and Liam Phillips, has not asked for any further both 17, who died after a collision action. in Leigh at 1am on December 27, “The error was that a Police IT 2016. COLLISION: Liam Phillips (left) and Reigan Knight system used by us said that pas- Reigan, from Westcliff and drugs, which was corrected once vehicle’s details on the Police sengers were arrested at the scene Liam, from Great Wakering, were the error was realised. 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He was one of the 1,000 child Chris Hebden, 68, was made survivors to come to the UK, an MBE in the Queen’s New before he went on to marry and Year’s Honours list for services settle in Canada, having two to people with disabilities. children. He later returned to Chris is chairman of the UK. Southend Mencap, which aims His citation said: “He has to serve the interests and needs made a particular impact in his of children and adults with local area of Southend, where learning disabilities, as well as he is well known for speaking their parents and carers, in at local schools, events and is a south east Essex. key part of the community.” He told the YAthat he started Phyllis, 90, from volunteering with Mencap in Thundersley, was honoured for 1968 as his sister had Down’s services to Basildon Hospital, syndrome. where she has volunteered for He found out through a letter 40 years. that he had received the award She started volunteering in and described it as “terrific”. 1976, and her citation said her Chris, from Great Wakering, work included helping nurses revealed he was nominated by and talking with patients, par- the committee and staff at ticularly those without visitors. Mencap. Phyllis has also knitted 2,000 His citation said that he has teddy bears for disadvantaged initiated and actively supported children. social clubs for the learning Dawn Patience, director of disabled such as a Tuesday club nursing at Basildon and which he began in 1968. Thurrock University Hospitals He has also campaigned to NHS Trust, said: “On behalf of raise £1.3million for St the trust, I would like to send Christopher’s Cottage DISABILITY CAMPAIGNER: Chris Hebden, MBE EDUCATION: Leslie Kleinman, BEM Photos by Martin Dalton our congratulations to Phyllis Children’s Respite Centre, now mostly committee-based nate than himself and we at Others recognised in the hon- sharing his experiences at for this exceptional award for including an initial £20,000 but said he was still “hands- Southend Mencap are delight- ours list include Leslie schools and colleges across the her dedication over the past contribution to the fund. on”. ed that his long service to peo- Kleinman and Phyllis Reeve, country with the Holocaust four decades. 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Police hunt fraudster after a four-figure High tide at Southend Pier (BST): Thur: 0135 6.00 1400 6.20 Fri: 0223 6.00 1451 6.10 sum of cash is taken Sat: 0310 5.90 1541 6.00 Sun: 0356 5.70 1631 5.70 Mon: 0444 5.50 1721 5.40 from bank account Tue: 0535 5.20 1814 5.20 Wed: 0632 5.00 1912 5.00 High tide at Tilbury: POLICE are appealing for help to trace PC Kelly Smith at Southend Police Thur: 0209 6.70 1435 7.00 a man in connection with a suspected Station on 101, quoting reference num- Fri: 0257 6.70 1525 6.90 fraud in Leigh. ber 42/159617/17. Sat: 0344 6.50 1615 6.70 The incident happened on Tuesday, They can also report information Sun: 0430 6.30 1704 6.40 November 7, when a four-figure sum online at www.essex.police.uk/do-it- Mon: 0517 6.10 1754 6.10 of cash was stolen from a person’s bank online or contact Crimestoppers anony- Tues: 0607 5.80 1845 5.80 account. Anyone who recognises the mously on 0800 555 111 or at MAN IN A HAT: Police man in the picture is asked to contact www.crimestoppers-uk.org. want to trace him Wed: 0702 5.60 1940 5.60 Friday, 5th January 2018 5 yellowad.co.uk NEWS Bike rider stabs man in Handprint on window helps to the face as he sat in car nail attacker A MANhas pleaded guilty to an assault which left a man in hospital with serious Victim treated in hospital for deep cut above eye as police hunt for knifeman injuries. A man in his 20s was punched in London Road, A MAN was hospitalised after near to Ceylon Road, at 7pm The knifeman then rode off He had a tattoo on his neck The victim was taken to hospi- Westcliff, at 3.50am on being stabbed above the eye in on December 20 when a man on a bicycle towards the Plough and was wearing a dark tal with a deep cut above his eye. Friday, December 22. Westcliff days before approached the vehicle and pub, in the direction of Leigh. coloured hooded top with Witnesses or anyone with infor- Police did not specify what Christmas. asked him a question. He is described by the victim tracksuit bottoms. mation can call Southend CID injuries he sustained, but said The 26-year-old victim, from The man then attacked the as being mixed race, 5ft 8ins, of An Essex Police spokesman on 101, quoting reference they would potentially affect Westcliff, was sitting in a victim with a knife, causing a larger build and between the said the force believe it was an 42/183648/17, or Crimestoppers him for decades and he is still parked car on London Road, serious injuries to his face. age of 19 and 25. isolated incident. anonymously on 0800 555 111. receiving treatment at the Royal London Hospital. James Hyde, 21, of Brothers deliver gifts Wenham Drive, Westcliff, was arrested later that after- noon after CCTV viewed by and donate £5,000 a detective showed the person responsible placed his hands on a window before the man was hit. to ‘magical’ hospice Police said that forensic examinations identified the prints belonged to Hyde. He was arrested and TWO brothers who run a donated more than £71,000 charged with GBH and at Basildon company visited a since 2008 to the charity, which Chelmsford Magistrates’ children’s hospice before cares for children with life-lim- Court on December 23 he Christmas to donate £5,000 iting conditions from across entered a guilty plea and will and give out gifts to children. Essex, and their families. be sentenced this year. Michael and Steven Lewis, Michael said going to the DCI Neil Pudney said: joint directors of The hospice was “a fantastic expe- “Thanks to some brilliant Underfloor Heating Store, rience”. detective work Hyde was made the donation to Little He added: “Just taking an quickly identified and arrest- Havens Hospice in hour out of our day to come ed. Thundersley on December 19. visit the children and make “With the weight of the evi- A hospice spokesman said their day a little more special; dence we had gathered in the money will go towards pay- the atmosphere at Little front of him he had no other GIFTS: Steven and Michael Lewis, far left and far right, ing for equipment. Havens is magical and the care option than to admit assault- with children, parents and staff at Little Havens Hospice The Lewis brothers have team are amazing.” ing the victim.” 6 Friday, 5th January 2018 GHOST STORY WINNERS Like us on Facebook - facebook.com/YellowAdvertiser Follow us on Twitter - @SouthendYA THE Yellow Advertiser has chosen the winners of its ghost story competition. Writers of all ages sent in their 350-word stories. Over the Christmas break, YA staff read and scored the tales. The points were totted up and entries awarded the highest number were declared the winners. Victorious in the adult category was LYNN GALE from Westcliff-on-Sea. PAUL STRANGE from Wickford took second place and DEAN NEWMAN from Southend was third. HARRY HURSHAM, 13, from Southend, won the junior prize. DON’T PICK THE FLOWERS Wrapping another unsuccessful UNTITLED by Lynn Gale effort in a newspaper the by Harry Hursham headline stating, “Another myste- THE heady aroma of the rious disappearance.” MY sanity is slipping, slipping, strange but beautiful Mavis threw it into the bin. slipping. The man, he is flowers filled the air as Eduardo Fillino had moved into psychologically torturing me. they swayed and danced in the the old Marquis house three years I can’t see him. I can’t hear him. breeze. Mesmerised she walked ago. Yet he eerily makes his way through the amongst the towering blooms, The large house was in black matter of my brain. breathing in the unusual sweet disrepair, the rambling garden I’m not insane… for now. It’s only a smell. overgrown and secluded. matter of time before I wake up in a Removing a small knife from Mavis knew the secret to his straitjacket. her bag she grabbed a stem and success was somewhere in that He is the one making me question my own began to cut. garden, she just had to find out. existence. It follows me. The scream was deafening, a Fillino was invited to judge a Everywhere. Every second of every day, high pitched squeal of rage and flower competition in a my mental state is being shattered. pain. neighbouring village. I don’t know how long I have left before he Mavis Jackson had lived in the Despite being incensed as she drives me to commit suicide. small village of Tolhampton, all would normally have that honour, He’s writing on the wall. He’s scratching it of her life. Mavis saw an opportunity. out. “REMEMBER ME.” Head of the village council, Waiting until his car was out of I don’t know what’s making me want to slit busybody, gossip and winner in sight she checked no one was my throat but it’s working. every flower competition she around and approached the fence Every attempt the knife gets closer to my ever entered apart from one, the surrounding his garden. throat. prestigious and popular Surprised how secure it was, I call him the invisible man. He haunts my Tolhampton New Bloom. she almost gave up, but finally crimson mind. Runner-up to the mysterious found a loose board and I don’t know whether I’m going to die of Eduardo Fillino again, his exotic squeezed through. suicide or sleep deprivation. flowers were the talk of the The secluded garden was very I can’t get rid of him. village. overgrown with sharp prickly Lynn Gale HE NEVER GOES AWAY. Mavis was determined that it shrubs. Mavis pushed her way He makes my mind dissolve. will be her next time. through and finally torn and Eduardo Fillino won the New My sanity is slipping further and further. Mavis spent hours in her green bloody found herself in a small Bloom competition again that My questions kill me as I try to answer house obsessively cutting, and clearing. year. them. splicing but despite all her That was when she saw them. The disappearance of Mavis I am afraid that if I sleep I will be forever endeavours she could not match “At last,” she smiled, heading Jackson was the talk of the trapped in a void of blood curdling Fillino’s winning creations. towards the flowers. village. madness. 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He didn’t pull any punches in his reviews, it was the lock, turned it, pushed Essex but Alec treated each the door and fell in a heap review as if it was Broadway in the hallway. or the West End. She laid there and Sure he’d made enemies, laughed at herself as the been spat at from the balcony ceiling started to spin and but he couldn’t care less as the wind blew against her long as he had the best seat in through her gaping coat. the house. She pulled herself After all sometimes the abuse was better written and together and stood up. delivered than the shambles on She looked at her jaded stage before him. And boy, had reflection in the mirror that last “production” been the and watched the sparkling worst. tinsel in her air. Quite possibly the worst am She dragged herself to dram panto version of A her bedroom and collapsed SECOND PLACE:Paul Strange Christmas Carol he’d ever seen. on the bed. A sudden light, a face, a A figure appeared to be Even the ghosts looked bored By the time Holly woke thud. dragging itself alongside he had noted – the whole pro- duction had an air of the ghosts the next day, it was already That dull, haunting thud her car. of Christmas past its sell by late afternoon. of bone against metal. She crawled back onto date about it. THIRD:Dean Newman She rubbed her eyes, car She shook her head. her bed. And they’d sat him with a himself wrapped up in the the cast and crew chanting: keys still in her hand. Surely it was a dream. Then from downstairs, restricted view. Five stars. various dangling ropes like a “He’s behind you, he’s behind “Car keys”, she thought. She looked at her car key, “Why?” It didn’t make him popular marionette. you.” Her stomach turned, but then the car. The door. In her but it sold papers, even if it Ripping himself free he Norstone looked to see the it wasn’t the alcohol she’d She fell back to her bed late-night stupor she didn’t sell tickets for his latest found himself on stage, daz- director with his hand firmly drunk the night before and curled into a ball. hadn’t closed the door. target. zled by the bright lights that placed on the trap door lever. causing it. The day soon turned to She heard slow, creeping Its director invited Norstone suddenly burst into life. He pulled it and Norstone Barely daring to look, dusk as she rocked silently thuds on the stairs which to another performance. He was now cold with fright dropped underneath the stage He turned up to humour the but sweating through fear and like a stone, breaking both his she pulled herself to the in her comfortless bed. moved towards her fellow. But the theatre was the sheer heat of the lights. legs, bones protruding. window to look at her car. As she lay there she bedroom. empty – like most performance White noise pumped through The trap door closed. She looked down and heard a voice outside: Then that awful, deathly nights he thought and the speakers disorientated him Unable to move he had to lis- saw it. There was a dent on “Why?” thud against her door. chuckled. and he stumbled onto the stage ten to the remaining 27 perfor- the front of the car. Almost too scared to The door opened. Then he heard a distant voice trap door. mances of the panto from hell. An image flashed look, she peered through Holly screamed. call him behind the stage, he The noise and lights ceased. All from the best seat in the through her mind. the window. “Why?” followed the noise and found Norstone was surrounded by house. 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