Courts

A Lincolnshire stonemason who failed to supply memorial headstones to his customers after getting into financial trouble was today (Monday) given a suspended jail sentence. Julian Karl Gaunt, 53, from Spalding, admitted failing to supply ceremonial works to four customers in 2016 after his memorials business collapsed. Gaunt also pleaded guilty to the theft of one memorial headstone from a ...

A construction manager charged with breaching health and safety following the death of a teenage groundworker on a Boston housing estate did not have the responsibilities alleged by the Health and Safety Executive, a jury was told. Josh Disdel 18, from Holbeach, was working in a manhole at the White Bridges site off St Thomas Drive, in Boston, when he was ...

The owner of a Pinchbeck car wash is the first in the country to have an anti-slavery order put on him after being found to have employed illegal workers on ‘little or no pay’. Boston Magistrates’ Court approved the two-year order against Mohamed Hamza at a hearing on Monday May 9. Hamza, who runs the M&H car wash on Enterprise ...

A stonemason who is accused of failing to supply memorial headstones to his customers after getting into financial trouble has today (Thursday) appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. Julian Karl Gaunt, 53, had been due to go on trial at Lincoln Crown Court in April 2020 – but the hearing was adjourned because of the coronavirus outbreak. It was the third time Gaunt’s ...

A Spalding driver involved in a traffic collision, was found to be three times over the legal alcohol limit at two in the afternoon. Kestas Zickus, 51, of Pennygate, admitted driving with excess alcohol and without insurance when he appeared before District Judge Peter Veits sitting at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Lou Johnson said police came across the two vehicle ...

Two strangers are facing jail after a violent confrontation over parking which left one unconscious. Appearing separately before District Judge Peter Veits at Boston Magistrates Court, Lee Seymour, 51, of Mansell Close and Tim Herd, 45, whose address was not listed, both admitted affray in the late evening incident on New Street in Spalding November 9. Prosecuting, Lou Johnson said ...

A man has been fined over £5,000 after he burnt waste illegally for months on end at his home. Adam Ivory, 38, of Magnolia Cottage, Tydd St Giles stored and burnt waste without a permit between April 2019 and September 2020. A neighbour reported that commercial waste was being burnt at the site every 3-5 weeks where it was being ...

An 18-year-old ground worker died after he was crushed by a works van while clearing out a drain on a new housing estate, a jury heard today (Tuesday, April 26). Josh Disdel, 18, from Holbeach, was working at the White Bridges site off St Thomas Drive, in Boston, when he was hit by a van being driven by a work colleague ...

A Spalding man, who smashed his handcuffed wrists down on a policeman’s hands, has been given a suspended prison sentence. Mantas Stirbys, 41, of Lansdowne Court admitted being drunk and disorderly as well as assaulting a police officer, when he appeared before District Judge Peter Veits sitting at Boston Magistrates Court. Lou Johnson, prosecuting, said police went to a Spalding ...

A man found in possession of three offensive weapons, has been given a suspended prison sentence by a district judge sitting at Boston. Nevzat Sevri, 32, of Spalding Road, Holbeach, had admitted all three offences when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court in March and was appearing for sentence following a pre sentence report by the Probation Service. Lou Johnson, ...

A 25-year-old who attacked a man leaving him with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain has been sent to prison. Connor Tierney of Langwith Drive, Holbeach had admitted causing grievous bodily harm to Richard Scott when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court two weeks ago and was appearing for sentence following a pre sentence report from the Probation ...

Two Londoners have admitted stealing cooking oil from a Surfleet fish and chip shop. Nencho Borisov, 37, and Krastyo Asenov, 35, both from Wood End in London, admitted stealing £50worth of cooking oil from The Cod Squad in Surfleet on April 2. The Boston Magistrates Court heard that police found the two men in a Mercedes van with the cooking ...

A wanted man from Holbeach denied a charge of robbery when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court.  Connor Tierney, 25, of Langwith Drive, was on bail for a charge of robbery on March 15 in Long Sutton. He is accused of robbing the BP Main Road Filling Station, in Long Sutton, of a quantity of alcohol, cigarettes and a Yodel ...

A driver told magistrates he thought he’d been found over the alcohol limit because he had not eaten for hours. Szymon Platek, 46, of Eastern Road, Holbeach St Matthews admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. Marie Stace, prosecuting, said Platek was stopped by officers when driving his Audi car in Tattershall Road in Boston ...

A Spalding man who told magistrates that driving disqualifications had ‘ruined his life’ as he had wanted to be a professional driver, has been banned again. Valdis Caune, 31, of Regent Street, admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance when heappeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said he was stopped by police while driving his Mercedes C220 in ...

A man has appeared in court at Boston on allegations of making and distributing indecent images of children. Philip Beattie, 39, of George Avenue, Gedney Drove End has denied three allegations ofmaking indecent photographs of children and one of distributing an indecent image. All the offences are alleged to have taken place between October 2020 and May 2021 and involve ...

A man who got into a car drunk and then nearly collided with a police car has been banned from driving for more than three years. Officers were patrolling Wellington Street, Peterborough, in a marked police car at 9pm on 17 December last year, when a Ford Fiesta being driven by Daniel Taylor pulled out at a junction in front ...

A Holbeach woman has appeared in court on charges including four assaults on police officers. Rebecca Duggan (27) is also accused of failing to provide a breath sample in the same incident at King’s Lynn on March 11. She entered not guilty pleas to those five charges. Duggan, of Market Rasen Way, admitted to two further offences – possession of ...

A teenager has appeared in Boston Youth Court on an allegation of rape on a boy of seven. The teenager, who was 13 at the time of the alleged offence in June last year, cannot be named for legal reasons. He pleaded not guilty to the charge alleged to have taken place in the South Holland area. District Judge Peter ...

A disqualified motorist who admitted driving a VW Golf dangerously through the streets of Spalding while followed by police has today (Monday) been warned to expect jail. Lloyd Peter Hook, 27, pleaded guilty to three driving offences when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court.Hook, of Oxford Gardens, Holbeach, had previously denied all the offences but his case was re-listed before ...