Man jailed for child sexual offences in Doncaster
Stephen John Head, formerly of Baird Crescent, Leven, in Scotland, appeared before Sheffield Crown Court The 56-year-old admitted to 26 charges of sexual offences involving children at an earlier hearing on Monday 2 August. Head was sentenced to 20 years and 12 weeks in prison as well as being placed on the Sex Offenders […]
A man has been jailed for nine years for causing the deaths of two people in a collision in Romford
Paul Ballard, 39 of The Galleries, Brentwood, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, 11 August after previously pleading guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving. He was also banned from driving for 11-and-a-half years. Police were called to Squirrels Heath Road, Romford at 1.15pm on 20 February 2020. A black […]
A Worthing man has admitted making more than a thousand nuisance calls to a free NHS advice line in two years, costing the taxpayer more that £20,000
Richard William Cove, 45, a buyer, of Boundary Road, Heene, Worthing, pleaded guilty to one charge of making malicious communications when he appeared at Worthing Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (10 August). Sentencing was adjourned 13 September at the same court. NHS 111 is a free NHS telephone and online service for the […]
A drug dealer instrumental in orchestrating a cocaine supply network into Tunbridge Wells has been jailed for almost five years
Sergjo Rica was part of an organised criminal gang which arranged delivery of drugs into the town through dedicated ‘customer’ phone lines. Rica played a key role in the operation and between May 2019 and June 2020 was responsible for directing multiple drug runners to users’ homes. He was initially arrested on 22 […]
A Glasgow man has been jailed for five years for smuggling a potentially deadly stun gun into the UK, following a National Crime Agency and Police Scotland investigation
Officers from the Joint Organised Crime Partnership unit investigated following the seizure of one weapon, which had been disguised as a torch, at Stansted Airport on 22 February, 2020. The device was found during checks on incoming freight by Border Force, with the package destined for Yai Kain Cheung’s home address at Bishopsgate […]
Four people who fatally stabbed a 24-year-old NHS worker because he lived in south Newham have been found guilty of murder
Mohammad Jalloh, 19 of Watt Street, Wapping; Vagnei Colubali, 23 of Suffolk Road, Enfield; David Ture, 19 of Bloomsbury Street, Camden and a 17-year-old male from Telford, Shropshire were convicted at the Old Bailey following a six-week trial which concluded on Wednesday, 11 August. They will be sentenced at the same court on Tuesday, […]
A man who murdered his baby son and inflicted life-changing injuries on the infant’s twin brother by violently shaking them has been jailed for life
Haroldas Bugaila, 29, shook 11-week-old Martinas Bugaila to death on 27 March 2019 after a row with his partner. Lincoln Crown Court heard the youngster died after suffering a “catastrophic brain injury” akin to those seen after a “high-speed motor vehicle accident. Bugaila was ordered to serve a minimum of 23 years in prison. Prosecutors […]
Man who seriously injured police officers during collision jailed
A lorry driver who ignored a lane closure before smashing into the back of a stationary police car on the A1, leaving two of our officers with serious injuries has been jailed for two years. Christopher Swain appeared at Lincoln Crown Court yesterday (10th August) where he was sentenced for two counts of causing […]
Two men have been jailed for a combined total of 26 years for stabbing a teenage boy with machetes and causing severe injuries
Kevin McNeil and his accomplice Sadique Thomas stood before trial for their involvement in the wounding of a man in Gloucester last year which occurred at an address in Salisbury Road on 2 August 2020. They had been charged with attempted murder and a trial began on 21 June 2021. Following two […]
A lorry driver from West Lothian has been handed a seven-and-a-half-year jail sentence following the seizure of cocaine worth almost £900,000 in Bathgate
As part of a proactive investigation into drug supply, officers from the joint National Crime Agency and Police Scotland Organised Crime Partnership arrested John Neilson, aged 44, at a vehicle repair yard on Easton Road, Bathgate, on 22 June 2020. During a search of the van he had been driving, 15 kilo blocks of […]
