Crime

A WOMAN stole the tip jar from a restaurant where people with learning disabilities do work experience.

Harrow Police are appealing to the public to help trace the woman who struck at The Red Brick Café, in The Wealdstone Centre, High Street, Wealdstone, on Tuesday, February 12.

A 71-YEAR-OLD professor has been given a suspended jail sentence for sexually assaulting a stranger on the Tube.

Jalal Badakhchani, of Southfields Park, North Harrow, was witnessed by plain-clothes police officers inappropriately groping a woman at around 6.15pm on Tuesday June 12 2012 aboard an eastbound Central line train as it travelled between Holborn and St Paul's stations.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD will enter a plea in March to the charge he had three bullets with him at a community centre frequented by families with children.

Shyheim Riettie, of Hereford Court, Danes Gate, off Headstone Lane, Harrow, is accused of possessing ammunition for a firearm without a certificate.

A BUYER accused of defrauding more than £850,000 from his employer is to stand trial next year.

Hitesh Laloobhai, 28, of Sunnymead Road, Kingsbury, denied three counts of fraud by abuse of position when he appeared at Harrow Crown Court on Monday.

He is accused of "dishonestly abusing his position" as a buyer for Adlink, a plumbing supplies and reconditioning firm based in Alperton Lane, Wembley, in order to gain £434,492.97 while at STC Plumbing and Heating in Pinner Road, Ruislip, between January 1 2011 and September 1 2011.

The second count is similar but involves an electrical heating firm called SPD based in Springfield Road, Hayes, and the amount is lower at £72,048.98.

The third involves a company called APP Wholesale, a plumbing parts distributor in Romford, Essex, and the sum involved is £360,348.72.

Laloobhai was granted conditional bail until his trial, which starts at the crown court on April 15 2013 and is expected to last five days.

A Vietnamese couple were sentenced to eight months in prison for growing 500 cannabis plants at an address in Harrow.

Miss Pham Phi Phuong and Mr Sa Quene Son admitted the charge of producing a controlled drug of class B at Harrow Crown Court on Monday .

A female driver suffered neck injuries in a two car collision at the junction of Sheepcote Road and Gayton Road.
She was an occupant of a Vauxhall Corsa involved in the crash just before 10.30pm yesterday and was taken by paramedics to Northwick Park Hospital in Watford Road, Harrow.

GREENHILL Way in Harrow town centre has been closed since just before 9am this morning.

Police were called to the junction between Greenhill Way and Headstone Road at 8.50am to reports of a road traffic accidents.

THREE teenagers appeared in court after clothing went missing from a laundrette last July.

Rory Garvey, 19, of Merton Road, Harrow, Harry Hitchcock, 18, of Dudley Gardens, and Ryan Turner, 18, of Shaftesbury Avenue, were accused of stealing customers clothes from The Laundrama, Shaftesbury Circle on July 17 last year and causing criminal damage.

HARROW: Three teenagers have been charged with arson after a blaze at Belmont Service Centre.

The fire, on October 3 last year, caused huge disruption for the 3,000 people who were evacuated from their homes by police because gas canisters at the service station in Kenton Lane were exploding.

HARROW: Three teenagers have been charged with arson after a blaze at Belmont Service Centre.

The fire, on October 3 last year, caused huge disruption for the 3,000 people who were evacuated from their homes by police because gas canisters at the service station in Kenton Lane were exploding.