Author: Fraser Pithie

Two people were arrested in and near Kenilworth over the Christmas period on suspicion of Drink/Drug Driving offences. One person has been charged with drink driving and other offences with investigations continuing concerning the other individual.

A 32-year-old man from Kenilworth allegedly punched a man at a property in St. John’s Avenue, Kenilworth on Christmas Eve before driving off under the influence of alcohol. He was arrested and later charged with drink driving, driving without insurance, driving without a licence and assault. He will appear at Warwickshire Magistrates’ Court on 26 February 2021. 

A 34-year-old man from Coventry was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of cocaine after officers stopped a car for committing a moving traffic offence in Kenilworth Road, near Kenilworth on Saturday evening. He has been released under investigation while enquiries continue.

The arrests over Christmas are part of county wide focus by Warwickshire Police designed to make roads across Warwickshire safer. In all total some 15 people have been arrested as part of the focus across the county.

For those interested details of the other arrests and incidents are shown below.

A 30-year-old man from Coventry was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and driving without insurance after officers stopped his car on the M69 on Christmas Eve. He was released under investigation while enquiries continue.

A 39-year-old man from Witney, Oxfordshire was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after officers stopped his car in Newbold Street, Leamington in the early hours of Christmas morning.kA 37-year-old man from Bulkington was arrested and charged with drink driving, driving without insurance and driving without a licence after officers stopped a car in St. David’s Way, Nuneaton on Christmas Eve. He will appear at Warwickshire Magistrates’ Court on 26 February 2021.

A 41-year-old woman from Bedworth was arrested and charged with drink driving after officers stopped a car for jumping a red light in Newtown Road, Bedworth on Saturday evening. She will appear at Warwickshire Magistrates’ Court on 26 February 2021.

A 41-year-old woman from Rugby was arrested and charged with failing to provide a specimen after a car collided with a bollard in Hillmorton Road, Rugby in the early hours of Sunday morning. She will appear at Warwickshire Magistrates’ Court on 26 February 2021.

A 35-year-old man from the Warwick area was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of cannabis after officers stopped a car with a rear light out on the B4100, Gaydon on Sunday night. He has been released under investigation while enquiries continue.

A 20-year-old man from Lye, West Midlands was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of cannabis after a car failed to stop for police in Europa Way, Leamington on Monday night. Officers attempted to stop the car because it had defective lights. The car eventually came to a stop after colliding with a police car near junction 3 of the M42. He has been released under investigation while enquiries continue.

A 50-year-old man from Warwick was arrested and charged with drink driving after officers stopped him in Goggbridge Lane, Warwick in the early hours of Tuesday morning. He will appear at Warwickshire Magistrates’ Court on 12 February 2021.

A 42-year-old woman from Nuneaton was charged with failing to provide a specimen after officers arrested her in Black-a-Tree Road, Nuneaton in the early hours of Christmas morning. She will appear at Warwickshire Magistrates’ Court on 26 February 2020.

A 35-year-old man from Coventry was arrested and charged with drink driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance after officers stopped his car near junction 1 of the M6 on Friday afternoon. He appeared at Coventry Magistrates’ Court on Saturday where he was banned from driving for five years, ordered to pay £880 in costs and fines, ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work, and given a community order and rehabilitation order.

A 39-year-old man from Whitnash was arrested and charged with drink driving after officers stopped his car in Bartlett Close, Warwick on Friday evening. He will appear at Warwickshire Magistrates’ Court on 5 February.

A 19-year-old man from Atherstone was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of cannabis after officers stopped his car in Weddington road, Nuneaton on Friday night. He has been released under investigation while enquiries continue.

A 25-year-old man from Leamington was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs after officers stopped a car for a driving offence in Baker Drive, Stratford on Saturday afternoon.

Please be aware that overnight between Monday 28 December and Tuesday 29 December 2020 offenders have removed and stolen both black door mirrors from a grey BMW Mini Clubman motor vehicle that was parked at Avenue Road, Kenilworth.

This is incident 198 of 29 December 2020

If you think you may have seen or heard anything suspicious or have any information concerning the above incident then please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111

We are pleased at Kenilworth Watch to confirm that we now have over 1,100 residents who have signed up to receive our automatic 24/7 crime alerts to their personal email address. It’s a free service operated by volunteers and the alerts we send out are with recipients by email within one minute of them being transmitted.

Available on your smartphone, tablet or computer and also tweeted out too the service seeks to keep Kenilworth residents informed of what is going on and what to keep an eye out for. The service also is designed to support the Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers of our Safer Neighbourhood Team.

Kenilworth Watch started many years ago as Crown Watch looking after the northern end of Windy Arbour but as time and technology moved on Crown Watch disbanded and it was decided to provide crime and community alerts to the whole of Kenilworth. Our website has grown ever since in terms of those that have signed up to receive our automatic alerts. We have also successfully started a CCTV register with nearly 60 households now listed and who can help the police in pursuing enquiries.

A spokesperson for Kenilworth Watch said “We believe such a high level of engagement by the community makes a real difference in terms of having a vigilant and caring community. The scale of coverage and support has been achieved by the community and volunteers working together. We are really pleased that we look forward to 2021 with over 1,100 people who have signed up and we’d encourage others to join them so they too can keep informed and up to date, a massive thanks is due to all those in our community that care.

If you’d like to receive the automatic crime alerts then just enter your email address in the subscribe box on our website. There’s no charge, advertising or passing or use of your personal data and we are registered with the ICO ensuring full compliance with GDPR.

A Hyundai i20 motor vehicle parked on the frontage of a property at Rouncil Lane, Kenilworth was entered overnight between Wednesday 23 December and Thursday (Christmas Eve) 24 December 2020. Once inside the motor vehicle offenders made an untidy search, there were no valuable items in the vehicle and it appears nothing was stolen.

This is incident 61 of 26 December 2020

Please ensure that you do not leave any valuable items in unattended motor vehicles, even if they are parked on your private drive. It takes only seconds to break in and damage a motor vehicle to obtain items that criminals can see have been left inside.

If you believe you may have seen or heard anything or have any information about this incident then please contact Warwickshire Police on 101. Alternatively you can call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Vehicle owners are reminded to ensure that they avoid leaving any valuable items in unattended motor vehicles, even if they are parked on a private drive. It takes only seconds to break in and damage a motor vehicle to obtain items that criminals can see have been left inside

The December 2020 Update from Kenilworth’s Safer Neighbourhood Team has been published and is available here…..