Following a spate of vicious late night attacks in and around St James Street targeting members of the LGBT+ communities – the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum cancelled their scheduled AGM to have an emergency public meeting to allow people to ask questions of the police.
Police officers will attend a public meeting tonight to discuss the recent violent attacks in the St James Street area.
In the early hours of Saturday morning March 23, a local man was brutally attacked on St James’ Street outside The Zone, one of the area’s most popular weekend cabaret haunts. As he left the bar at closing time around 1am his mobile phone was snatched from him and as he gave chase, he was set upon by four men who punched and kicked him repeatedly in the face.
Top ten LGBT inclusive employers in Stonewall Top 100 Employers list, 2019 include MI5, Lloyds Banking Group and Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service with nearly a fifth of the Top 100 ranked employers coming from the higher education sector.
Sussex Police are appealing for witnesses after a man reported being raped by another man at Dukes Mound, Brighton. The 20-year-victim was approached by a man who started talking to him before pushing him to the ground and raping him sometime between 5am and 7am on Saturday, November 3.
A persistent caller has been jailed after ignoring a ban to dial 999 or the non-emergency police number 101 and biting the police officer who went to arrest him. David Peapell, 51, of Dyke Road, Hove, was found guilty on June 11 following a trial at Lewes Crown Court of breaching his Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) and assaulting a police officer.
Sussex Police donate £500 from the Police Property Act Fund to the Sussex Beacon. The Police Property Act Fund is made up of monies received by the police from the sale of found property and from property confiscated by order of the court and then sold.
A man who set out to deliberately infect men in Brighton with HIV is jailed for life. Rowe, 27, was found guilty by a jury at Lewes Crown Court on November 15, 2017 of five counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and five counts of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent by deliberately infecting his victims with HIV in the Sussex area between October 1, 2015 and January 31, 2016. At least four of the men have since contracted HIV.
PC Sarah Laker, the LGBT Liaison officer at Sussex Police for the last few years, has stood down after working tirelessly in the role and achieving some great results. Following the introduction of Sussex Police’s new Local Policing Plan, the role of LGBT Liaison Officer remains, with the post for Brighton & Hove being filled by PC James Breeds who began work at the start of 2018 and has been quick to learn about the role.
Sussex Police is establishing a Stop and Search public scrutiny panel, to enable independent assessment in their use of this police power. Sussex residents are being invited to participate in this new initiative; you do not need any prior knowledge or experience of police powers, just a desire to help improve the quality of the service the Police provide.
