CATCH THE BAIL BANDITS: TODAY the Gazette and Herald continues its campaign alongside Wiltshire Constabulary to bring to justice some of the 130 or so criminals that have failed to turn up to court.

Already, through the Gazette campaign, two people are in prison awaiting trial and the net is closing on another five, while more information is coming in all the time on the rest of the nine pictured in our July 14 edition.

Jamie Kitchen, 18, wanted for theft, was arrested after a caller rang the hotline number and Ashley Roberts, 26, wanted for assault, gave himself up after his picture appeared in the paper. One further arrest is expected imminently.

Flushed with the success of the start of the campaign, Wiltshire Constabulary have issued another eight names and faces from the list of people who have not answered their bail.

The new list of bail bandits include:

n Lee Chalke, 22, wanted for criminal damage in Salisbury but last heard of in the Marlborough area.

n Marvin Morris, 34, wanted for deception in the Salisbury area.

n Kelly Ann McCarthy, 28, wanted for theft in the Kennet area.

n David Lane, 28, wanted for driving with excess alcohol in the Salisbury area.

n Dwaine Elliot, 27, wanted for driving with excess alcohol in the Salisbury area.

n Christopher O'Donovan, 41, wanted for assault occasioning actual bodily harm in the Devizes area.

n Robert Stringer, 23, wanted for driving with excess alcohol in the Devizes area.

n Stephen Tack, 36, wanted for a series of road traffic offences in the Salisbury area.

Detective Inspector Sean Memory is in charge of Operation Acquire, as the initiative has been dubbed, and he has expressed his satisfaction with the progress to date.

He said: "We are very pleased with the success so far achieved with the support of our local media.

"I have no doubt that, rather than have their pictures appear in the press, even more people will contact us to hand themselves in.

"If not, as the response to the first batch of pictures has shown, we will receive invaluable information from those around them to enable us to see justice prevail."

Those among the first batch that are still outstanding are John Byrne, 28, wanted for assault; Anesu Chimobe, 23, wanted for deception; Ian Duke, 55, wanted for possession of an offensive weapon; Alan Keenan, 54, wanted for assault; Stephen Beeks, 42, wanted for assault; Andrei Neale, 29, wanted for deception; and Ellen Wall, 21, wanted for assaulting a police officer.