25-07-2008 |
Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) |
HHJ Philip Clegg |
GL |
Male |
16 Years |
Manslaughter |
Custodial immediate |
He was 15 at the time when he and a 19year old attacked Mr Neil Abrams, a 43 year old, who was trying to break up a fight between his friends and Gary Lathwells friends father. He alerted his 19yr old...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
25-07-2008 |
Derby Crown Court |
Judge David Pugsley |
TH |
Male |
24 Years |
Rape [5 counts] |
Custodial immediate |
Heinau forced himself on his victim following an argument.
The judge said: "In degrading circumstances you raped that woman with a noose round her neck. This was an ordeal extending over thre...
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Not Recorded |
David Jackson |
25-07-2008 |
Bristol Crown Court |
Judge Michael Roach |
PC |
Male |
23 Years |
Rape [3 counts] |
Custodial immediate |
Colleran raped two women working as prostitutes.
The judge said: “These were highly unpleasant, serious offences. Although both these women were experienced in the work they undertook, they were ...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
25-07-2008 |
Southampton Crown Court |
Judge Jeremy Burford QC |
PW |
Male |
38 Years |
Sexual Activity with a Child Sexual Assault [8 counts] Take, make, possess, publish, distribute indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children Meeting a child following sexual grooming or travelling with the intention of meeting a child following sexual grooming |
Custodial immediate Custodial immediate Custodial immediate Custodial immediate |
Williams targeted boys over the Internet, befriending them to gain their trust and meeting them for sex.
The pre-sentence report that assessed him as highly skilled in grooming victims. The probati...
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Not Recorded |
David Reid |
25-07-2008 |
Teesside Crown Court |
Judge Peter Bowers |
SD |
Male |
43 Years |
Sexual assault of a child under the age of 13 Rape of a child under 13 Causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity |
Custodial immediate Custodial immediate Custodial immediate |
Diggle made his victims play strip poker and with BB guns and knives.
Diggle must serve a minimum of 4 and a half years before parole and sign on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
The judge s...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
25-07-2008 |
Luton Crown Court |
John Bevan QC |
RC |
Male |
34 Years |
Murder |
Custodial immediate |
He groped the victims girlfriend and when the victim ejected him from the house he lay in wait attacking him and stamping on his head, causing massive head injuries. Hi victim was left in a coma and d...
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Not Recorded |
Lord Thomas of Gresford KC OBE |
24-07-2008 |
Teesside Crown Court |
Judge Peter Fox QC |
AD |
Male |
20 Years |
Criminal damage to a dwelling [2 counts] Criminal damage to a vehicle |
Custodial immediate Custodial immediate |
Dooley waged a campaign of criminal damage against a disabled pensioner and her epileptic son.
The judge said: "People, especially vulnerable people, must be protected from people like you and the ...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
24-07-2008 |
Bristol Crown Court |
Recorder P Thomas QC |
GS |
Male |
28 Years |
Unlawfully and maliciously wounding or causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent |
Custodial immediate |
Stenner claimed that he could not remember the attack, as he had been drinking heavily.
Christopher Quinlan - prosecuting
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
24-07-2008 |
Bristol Crown Court |
Recorder Mr Llewelyn Sellick |
ZT |
Female |
33 Years |
Perverting the course of justice - Committing an act intending to pervert the course of justice |
Custodial suspended |
Turner accused a man of rape after her partner caught her in a hotel room with another man. The allegation was retracted after two days.
The judge said: "What you did is falsely accuse a man who ha...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
24-07-2008 |
Nottingham Crown Court |
Judge Andrew Hamilton |
JD |
Male |
27 Years |
Burglary in a dwelling / residential burglary Theft - Dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it [2 counts] |
Custodial immediate Custodial immediate |
Dawson a heroin addict who followed an 89-year-old woman into her home and stole a handbag and shopping bag.
He also admitted two counts of theft from his own family. He was on bail when he committ...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
24-07-2008 |
Taunton Crown Court |
Judge Graham Hume Jones |
LL |
Male |
20 Years |
Aggravated burglary |
Custodial immediate |
Locke and his accomplice, Ryan Thomas, broke in to the home of a man they had known since school.
Virginia Cornwall, defending Locke, said the complainant owed him money. He had been drinking that ...
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Not Recorded |
Virginia Margaret Cornwall |
24-07-2008 |
Taunton Crown Court |
Judge Graham Hume Jones |
RT |
Male |
21 Years |
Burglary in a dwelling / residential burglary |
Custodial immediate |
Thomas, along with Lloyd Locke, broke into a man's house who hey had known since school.
Th judge said Thomas had a nasty record for violence, which troubled him a lot. It was accepted he had inter...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
24-07-2008 |
Lewes Crown Court |
Anthony Niblett |
LP |
Male |
28 Years |
Causing an affray |
Custodial immediate |
"It is a serious offence because it involved you producing a machete and a knife to threaten others in a busy shopping street in the middle of the day… Onlookers were alarmed as were the men from th...
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Not Recorded |
Sussex (Eastbourne) Chambers |
23-07-2008 |
Teesside Crown Court |
Mr Justice Wilkie |
JD |
Male |
57 Years |
Obtaining a money transfer by deception [7 counts] Dishonestly obtaining property by deception Money Laundering [9 counts] |
Custodial immediate Custodial immediate |
In March 2002, John Darwin was reported missing in the sea off Seaton Carew his body was not found and an open verdict was recorded on his death certificate. This allowed his wife to collect life insu...
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Not Recorded |
Peter Anthony Makepeace KC |
23-07-2008 |
Teesside Crown Court |
Mr Justice Wilkie |
AD |
Female |
56 Years |
Obtaining a money transfer by deception [5 counts] Dishonestly obtaining property by deception Money Laundering [9 counts] |
Custodial immediate Custodial immediate Custodial immediate |
"Of course this is and has been a highly unusual case in which you are being asked to consider, in respect of many of these counts, a highly unusual defence." The defence of Marital Coercion failed. S...
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Not Recorded |
David Ebsworth Waters KC |
23-07-2008 |
Derby Crown Court |
Judge William Everard |
MD |
Male |
25 Years |
Production or being concerned in production of a controlled substance Perverting the course of justice - Committing an act intending to pervert the course of justice |
Custodial immediate Custodial immediate |
Dao was a 'gardener' for a cannabis growing operation. He was not thought to be the mastermind of the operation.
Mark Watson, for Dao, said: “He came from difficult circumstances in Vietnam with a ...
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Not Recorded |
Mark Watson KC |
23-07-2008 |
Derby Crown Court |
Judge William Everard |
CS |
Male |
36 Years |
Possessing a false identity document, an improperly obtained identity document, an identity document that relates to someone else |
Custodial immediate |
Singh presented a false driving licence to the bank.
The judge did not recommend Singh should be deported.
He said: “I don't think this offence makes him detrimental to the UK.”
Dominic S...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
23-07-2008 |
Gloucester Crown Court |
Judge William Hart |
DS |
Male |
29 Years |
Burglary in a dwelling / residential burglary |
Custodial immediate |
Sly stole property and cash from a nursing home.
It was his third similar conviction in three years.
Jason Coulter - defending
Mary Harley - prosecuting
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
23-07-2008 |
Court of Appeal Criminal Division |
Mr Justice Simon |
SA |
Male |
26 Years |
Unlawfully and maliciously wounding or causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent Possession of offensive weapon without lawful authority or reasonable excuse / Threatening with an offensive weapon in a public place |
Custodial immediate Custodial immediate |
Mr Justice Simon, sitting with Mr Justice Penry-Davey lowered the original sentence of 5 years after hearing that Ali had a brain tumour that had caused a personality change and may only have 5 to 8 y...
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Not Recorded |
Not Recorded |
23-07-2008 |
Preston Crown Court |
Judge Anthony Russell QC |
DB |
Male |
49 Years |
Take, make, possess, publish, distribute indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children [7 counts] |
Non-custodial |
Blaxhall a DJ who filmed up schoolgirls skirts whilst in the school setting up a radio station.
Gerard Doran, defending, said Blaxhall had "departed from what had hitherto been a positive and produ...
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Not Recorded |
Gerard Patrick Doran |
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