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Police have launched an appeal after a teenager was 'touched inappropriately' during a sexual assault in St Albans. The female victim had been walking on Hatfield Road towards St Albans rail station from the town centre on Saturday, February 16, when she was approached from behind by a man who then touched her inappropriately. The teenage victim managed to get away, and the man walked off in the direction of the station. The offence...

Photos of stolen jewellery and other items which have been recovered have been made available in an album at St Albans police station to try and reunite them with their owners. Detectives are urging burglary victims in Hertfordshire to go online or to their local police station to view hundreds of pictures of unclaimed stolen property seized recently. Photos of jewellery, silverware and other unidentified items recovered in anti-burgl...

Police are releasing CCTV images of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the theft of meat at Sainsburys petrol station in Marshalswick Lane. £100 worth of meat was stolen between 5.50pm and 6.10pm on Wednesday, January 30. A member of the public challenged the man. £200 worth of meat was stolen between 6.12pm and 6.19pm on Thursday January 24, 2013. £23 worth of meat was stolen between 2.30pm and...

A prolific criminal from St Albans has been given a five year anti-social behaviour order to prevent him from entering St Albans City and District Local Authority Area. Gary Gibson, 34, was served with the order on Friday after officers from St Albans Community Safety Unit made an application to St Albans Magistrate's Court. The ASBO includes a location ban, which prevents Gibson from entering the St Albans City and District Local...

Do you recognise this E-fit of a man who exposed himself to a young woman in Clarence Park? Police investigating the incident, have released the computer-generated image of the man in the hope that the public will be able to help identify him. The incident took place on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 about 5.10pm. The victim, a 24 year old woman, was walking through Clarence Park from the junction with Verdis Restaurant. As she neared the...

CCTV photos have been released of two people police would like to speak to about debit card fraud offences in St Albans. As you may have heard through your community Neighbourhood Watch scheme, there has been a scam going on in St Albans, where victims have received a phone call from someone claiming to be from their bank. They have been informed a fraudulent transaction had taken place on their debit card and a courier would come and...

A man is being sought by police after he urinated in the St Albans branch of HMV. Police investigating the criminal damage, committed in the St Peter's Street music and game store, have released CCTV images of two men they would like to speak to in connection with the incident. It seems a man entered HMV on St Peters Street just before 10.30am on Wednesday 25 April 2012 and walked up to a display, which included DVDs and T-shirts. He...

A teen has been sentenced for the rape of a woman in St Albans. The 14 year-old boy, who can't be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of the rape of a woman at Batchwood Hall nightclub in December last year. Last Friday, 6th January  2012, he received a sentence of 30 months imprisonment for attacking the woman both inside and outside the nightclub on 5th December 20120.   Detective Inspector Steve Keating from the...

Police have released a CCTV image of two women they would like to talk to after a mobile phone was taken from the counter in New Look, St Albans. The phone's owner accidentally left it on the counter of the fashion store in The Maltings Shopping centre in St Albans on Thursday 15th September, whilst she was paying for items. This happened about 3.20pm and later a woman took it from the counter. Herts Police believe that the women...

A free crime mapping service gives local residents the opportunity to understand the levels and types of crimes being committed in their area. The service, Police UK, combines a nationwide crime database with mapping features. By putting in the St. Albans postcode AL1, it's possible to see all 305 crimes reported in January 2011. Those include: 118 for anti-social behaviour 28 violent crimes 18 burglaries 7 robberies 6 vehicle...