Wisbech Castle been continuously inhabited for nearly a thousand years. Mr and Mrs Gordon Fendick bought the property and, in the 1960s, passed ownership to Isle of Ely County Council this became the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council, then Cambridgeshire County Council. The Castle was used as a Professional Development Centre, providing a venue for meetings and training. School visits took place and the property is licensed for Civil Weddings. It has been registered as an asset of community value. In February 2018, Wisbech Town council took over the running of the site. The Wisbech Castle Project is run by
Wisbech activities. Then on 20 February 2008 "The Fenland Citizen" contained an article opposing the "Daily Express" article. In January 2012 the "Daily Mail" ran a story following the murder of Alisa Dmitrijeva, a Latvian teenager and resident of Wisbech, whose body was found on the Queen's Sandringham estate. The article alleged that the quintessentially English town had been taken over by a sinister Eastern European drug and crimes ring nicknamed the "Baltic Mafia" who were terrifying local residents. The article reported that there had been five murders within the Eastern European community from Wisbech within the last two years. In