Four years in prison for Sheffield stabbing

  A 27-year-old man has been jailed for four years after admitting stabbing another man in Sheffield earlier this year. Emmanuel Oni appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday 15 December where he was sentenced to four years in prison, after pleading guilty to Section 20 assault at an earlier hearing. At around 11.50pm on […]

Two men, who were part of a drugs network in Swindon, have been jailed for a total of 15-years for supplying cocaine to users in the town

  Ashley Hunt, aged 31, and Nicholas Bullock, also aged 31, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and possession of criminal property at a hearing at Swindon Crown Court in May 2019. Hunt, from Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire was sentenced to eight-years-and-two-months in prison; Bullock, from Kingswood, South Gloucestershire was given seven-years-and-four-months […]

A Cleckheaton man has been jailed for 30 years after using his car to deliberately run down six colleagues following an argument at a Christmas party

  Andrew Wrigglesworth (50) of Shirley Avenue, Birstall was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court  after previously being found guilty of six counts of attempted murder for the incident outside a Cleckheaton pub on December 22 last year. His actions were described as ‘horrendous’ and ‘barely conceivable’ by officers from the force’s Homicide and Major Enquiry […]

A man who placed a bottle of flammable liquid in the exhaust pipe of an Iranian diplomatic vehicle was convicted at the Old Bailey thanks to the alertness of a member of the public who spotted the device.

  Sam Parsa, 60 , of High Road, Tottenham, N15 was found guilty of one count of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981. Commander Richard Smith, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “I am pleased with this conviction; Sam Parsa carried out a […]

A man from Manchester has been jailed for slashing three mens’ faces on nights out

  Milo Lindsay of Longport Avenue, Withington was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to 14 years imprisonment for two counts of section 18 assault, section 20 assault and two counts of possessing a bladed article. He will also spend an extended period of four years on licence. Lindsay was arrested and taken into police custody […]

Two men have been sentenced following the death of a man in Falmouth in May

  Liam Bastow, 25, and Kane Coggin, 27, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 25-year-old Aaron Pill on 5 May at an earlier hearing but were found guilty of murder by the jury at Truro Crown Court on 2 December. Bastow, of Avalon Close, Mylor Bridge, has been sentenced to life in prison to serve […]