Fatal accident - Twickenham
13th Sept 2004 at 22.07hrs an accident occurred Richmond Road junction with Stafford Road. The London Ambulance Service (LAS) notified police and it was believed that two elderly people had been knocked down. Police arrived at the scene at 22.11hrs where they found two casualties. The motor vehicle involved was a silver Peugeot 206 belonging to a company. LAS arrived on scene at 2212hrs. One of the casualties 70 year-old white male was believed to have serious injuries where he later died.

Acid attacks in Barnes
On Tuesday 7th September 2004, just after 6pm, three youths called on a 17yr old male in Verdun Road, Barnes. The victim realised that he was going to be assaulted and started to run off, but was sprayed with acid as he tried to get away. On realising that he had been hit with the acid he went to Charing Cross hospital, after having treatment by the London Ambulance Service at the scene. His injuries were two acid splashes /burns to his left arm.

A second incident happened three mins later in Nowell Road, Barnes where apparently the victim of this attack was surrounded by the three youths as he was walking along Nowell Road. There was a short altercation and then one of the youths sprayed the victim in the face with some sort of acid, possibly similar to battery acid. The acid was sprayed from a water bottle of the type that is used on racing bikes. The youths then made off to Hammersmith Bridge.

A member of the public took the victim at speed to Hospital. (POLICE HAVE NO DETAILS OF THIS PERSON AND WOULD LIKE HIM/HER TO COME FORWARD) He was later transferred to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital burns unit. His injuries were acid burns to face, eyes, chest and back,and they were serious.

At this stage police do not know why these attacks happened enquiries are on going. It's believed that the youths came from Hammersmith Bridge on bikes before the first attack. Suspects described as;
1) male, white 17yrs, 5'10tall, short dark blond hair, wearing a gray T-shirt.
2) Male, black, 5'10tall, all blue tracksuit, short black hair.
3) Male, black, 6'tall, short black hair with a gray jumper around his shoulders.

ANOTHER WARNING ON LETTERBOX BURGLARIES
Over the past few weeks there have been more letterbox burglaries leading to the theft of expensive cars. Leaving keys on hooks, tables chests, just about anywhere in the hall of your homes, is inviting the letterbox burglars to help themselves. It takes only a few minutes to put some sort of hook through the door and lift the keys out. A lot of the time this is done with the occupiers of the house are at home in bed and the first they know of it is the car starting up, which wakes them up in time to see the tail lights of the vehicle disappearing out of sight, or, in the morning they open their doors to go out to the car and find its gone.

This sort of crime can be easily stopped. KEEP YOUR KEYS WELL AWAY FROM YOUR LETTERBOX.

On Monday 06th September 2004 between the hours of 11pm and 8.30am in Shalstone Road, SW14, a Subaru Legacy Estate, silver gray had gone. This was discovered when the owner woke in the morning. When she phoned police she admitted that her keys had been on the top of a wooden chest in her hall 5/6ft from the letterbox.

Beware of intruders at home
On Wednesday 8th September 2004 at about 6pm a retired 88 year-old blind lady found a male on the patio of her home in Stanborough Close, Hampton. He asked her the way to a Crescent that she did not know. He then asked her if she could let him have 10p to make a phone call. She said that he could use her phone to make the call, but he insisted that 10p would be fine. She then reached down for her bag and as she did so the male grabbed her bag and ran away. Unfortunately there is no description of this male.

On Friday 27th August at 1.15pm 2 white males, (one was Irish) called at an address in Buckingham Rd, Hampton to ask if the occupiers required any building work etc that needed doing. The occupier declined, they left.

The next day the same males came back to the address and said that next door was having a fence built by them could they come in and measure from their garden. The occupier could not see a problem with that and asked where the measure was; the reply was that he used his feet. On the face of it these two men seemed very friendly so the occupier let one of them into the back to measure the fence line.

Whilst he was in the garden the other male knocked on the door again and asked to speak to his mate, he was let through. The two men spoke for a while then the second man went off to get the measure. He went through the house to the front door. The lady of the house heard the front door close but then heard foot steps going upstairs, She then ran up the stairs to see the male going just out of sight, she shouted at him to come down, the man said he had urgently needed to go to the toilet. Both men were then asked to leave. Both men left.

Descriptions of the men: white, 20yrs, wearing a blue t-shirt, muscular build. White, 24yrs, 5'11tall,light blue t-shirt, thin face, slim build, Irish accent.

Tea and cricket
On Friday 10th September between the hours of 1700hrs- 1030hrs intruders kicked a large hole in the side door to the Cricket Pavilion, Broom Road Recreation Ground, Trowlock Way, Teddington. Once inside they had smashed the payphone and taken out the cash tray, other items of property had been put in both of the sinks in the kitchen and the water left running.

They then decided to make themselves a cup of tea or coffee and have a little sit down at the seats used by the nursery school that uses the pavilion Monday to Friday to drink the drink and smoke a cigarette. They then opened the fire doors that lead onto the park. There was also fresh graffiti on the main wall.

If anyone heard or saw anything please contact Kathy Fenwick 0208 247 7042.

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

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