Driver Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Fatal Head-on Crash in North Shropshire
A driver has been handed an 11-year prison sentence following a head-on collision that resulted in the death of a motorist in north Shropshire. Damien Roberts, 27, was behind the wheel of a Nissan Qashqai when he crashed into a Nissan Juke on a bridge over the River Ceiriog along the A5 near Chirk on […]
Burglar beginning jail term after he is caught fleeing from the scene of the crime by members of the public
Arnold Rickerby has been sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court after taking the items from his victim’s home Quick-thinking members of the public have been praised by police for helping to apprehend a prolific offender who burgled a woman’s home. Arnold Rickerby, 47, broke into a house in the Gateshead area on the evening of […]
County Lines drug dealer jailed for six years
Ashan Senior, aged 22, of Stockwell, London, has today been sentenced to six years for ‘county lines’ drug dealing in Hull. He has been convicted of being concerned in the supply of cocaine into Hull following work by Humberside Police’s Organised Crime Team in conjunction with officers from The Metropolitan Police.Between September and December 2022, […]
A Corby drug dealer has been jailed for 12 years and five months after pleading guilty to a number of firearms offences
Jack Sikora, 22, previously of Thoresby Court, Corby, was given a second chance by the courts after an offence in April 2021 when he fired a starting pistol at a crowd of pub-goers outside The Phoenix in Beanfield Avenue. However, just six days after being handed the suspended sentence, he was back online – ordering […]
Canterbury man has been jailed for drug offences in Newbury
Fatjon Lata, aged 24, of Wife of Bath Hill, Canterbury, was sentenced to five years and six months in prison at Reading Crown Court on 28 June. At the same hearing, Lata pleaded guilty to one count each of being concerned in supplying a controlled drug of class A, namely cocaine and two counts each […]
A prolific burglar who stole from families and even children in Sutton Coldfield has been jailed
Artur Purawiec was jailed on 28 June after being found guilty of seven burglaries in Birmingham and Staffordshire in 2022. One of the burglaries saw him steal jewellery, cash and other valuables, including those of young children, from a family in Sutton Coldfield. In this burglary, which took place in April 2022, Purawiec broke in […]
A man and a woman have been jailed for a combined total of five years following the discovery of a cannabis factory
Thirty-five-year-old Joanna Kozera and 45-year-old Nicholas Adams, formerly of Lower Crescent in Barham, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court on Thursday 29 June where they were both sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment. The pair had pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis and possession with intent to supply cannabis at an earlier hearing. […]
A man who stole a car and then repeatedly rammed a police car in a desperate bid to get away has been jailed.
Thomas Smiley, 33, was driving the Renault Kadjar along Whittlesey Road, in Stanground, Peterborough, at about 10.15pm on 5 April this year when traffic officers got behind it and followed it to Hankey Street in Millfield. Smiley had stolen the vehicle from the driveway of a house in Milton Road, Cambridge, on 2 April. Officers […]
Police have vowed to relentlessly pursue persistent serious criminals – after a convicted murderer was caught conspiring to commit arson
Kane Hull, 30, who was jailed for life last year for a fatal stabbing in Carlisle, was back before the city’s crown court today ( July 5 ) to be sentenced for another offence. Last year, while remanded in prison awaiting trial for the murder, Hull conspired with another man, Steven Kidd, 25, to set […]
A man has been jailed for more than two years after he was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray.
On 4 February this year, the victim, a woman aged in her twenties, was attacked in the presence of her young child. She received several injuries, had her clothes ripped and also had a knife held to her throat by Clark, who made a threat to kill her. She sustained multiple bruises around her body. […]