Here are five of the biggest crime stories that have featured in the SNJ, Gazette Series or Wilts Glos Standard over the past few days.

Police are investigating after a man hurled a brick through the window of an autistic pensioner's Gloucestershire home.

The incident was captured on camera by a doorbell device and has left the victim scared to leave the house.

FULL STORY: Autistic pensioner scared to leave home after brick hurled through window

Police have charged one of the main speakers at the Freedom Rally held in Stroud last weekend.

Debbie Hicks, 45, of Stratford Road, Stroud, has been charged with failing to comply with a direction to leave an event or gathering in order to control coronavirus.

She is due to appear at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on February 22.

FULL STORY: Stroud Freedom Rally: Speaker Debbie Hicks charged with coronavirus offence

Police are appealing for the public’s help to identify those responsible for numerous offences committed against a Thornbury couple.

They have been sent threatening letters and their property has been repeatedly damaged over the last fifteen years.

FULL STORY: 'Why are they doing this to us?' - victimised Thornbury couple desperate for answers

Avon and Somerset’s police chief has promised to hunt down everyone who attacked officers as they shut down an illegal rave in Yate.

Chief constable Andy Marsh said a second organiser of the event on October 31 has now been slapped with a £10,000 fine and the force has many hours of footage to identify anyone who was violent.

FULL STORY: 'We will hunt down everyone who attacked officers', says police chief

A Malmesbury woman says she has been been left feeling “hopeless” after a police investigation into a shooting failed to yield any arrests.

Julie Parsons was hit with pellet bullets while out on her mobility scooter with her father and dog.

The pair had seen two men with shotguns leave their vehicle and walk into nearby fields but the police investigation has now been closed.

FULL STORY: Woman left ‘terrified’ after alleged shooting in Malmesbury