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Police on the scene in Rock Park in Barnstaple on Saturday April 10
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A knifeman who wore a Scream mask left children and families terrified when he walked into a Barnstaple play park and started stabbing a bench.
A neighbour alerted police and followed Kieran Wale after seeing him walking towards Rock Park in Barnstaple which includes a busy children’s play area.
It was packed with families on a sunny Saturday afternoon in April and an eight-year-old boy was seen sobbing in terror after seeing Wale with the mask and knife.
He sat down on a wooden bench 50 metres from the play area and stabbed it so violently that the five-inch serrated blade broke in half.
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Police issued CCTV image of Smith at the leisure centre
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A Peeping Tom left a 15-year-old swimmer terrified of getting changed when he used a mobile phone to film her over the top of a cubicle.
Edward Smith locked himself in a neighbouring cubicle in the mixed gender changing area as a group of swimmers aged ten to 17 were ending a training session.
He waited for the swimmers to get out and then held his hand up to take photos of the naked girl, who screamed in horror when she spotted his phone.
Smith fled the changing room at the Exe Valley Leisure Centre in Tiverton but police released a grainy CCTV image which led to the 40-year-old farmer being identified and arrested.
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Callum Pillman
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A pair of masked robbers have been jailed for a knife attack which left the victim with horrific life-threatening injuries.
Callum Pillman and Shaun Taylor attacked 19-year-old Marcus Goold in a public park at Ilfracombe in January after arranging to meet to buy cocaine from him.
He suffered five deep knife wounds and only survived because the first policeman at the scene cleared his airway and used chest compressions to bring him back to life.
He lost consciousness and was sure he was going to die.
He was airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where surgeons removed his spleen and part of his bowel in a life-saving emergency operation.
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Exeter Crown Court. Picture: Archant
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A drug driver has been banned after he crashed his car during a police chase in North Devon.
James Brogan was so high on cannabis that he lit a cigarette in the wreckage of his vehicle as police tried to free him and giggled while he was being treated in hospital.
He had been celebrating his 24th birthday the night before the crash last July and drove so erratically on the North Devon link road that other drivers alerted the police.
He almost caused one accident by stopping dead and then weaved across the road randomly, causing oncoming cars to swerve away.