Courts

A food manufacturer has been fined after one of its employees at its Spalding site sustained two broken ribs having been crushed within an industrial cooking machine whilst working to clear a blocked water inlet. Bakkavor pleaded guilty to a charge of breaching the Healthy and Safety Act by fined £130,000 and ordered to pay £2,607 costs following a hearing ...

Two South Holland people have been given a final chance to attend court to answer a charge of uprooting wildlife. Robert Barnes. 30, and Saskia Jackson, 28, are accused of digging up 8,000 Native English bluebells at woodland in Thursford, Norfolk, on March 23, 2021. The species is protected by law and intentionally uprooting it is against the Wildlife and ...

A 26-year-old Sutton Bridge man has been jailed for his part in a mass brawl in front of shoppers. The punch-up involving several men began after a row in King’s Lynn’s Primark spilled outside. Dean Kirk traded blows with two East Europeans and others who waded in but came off worst, a court was told. Witnesses inside and outside the ...

A 44-year-old man who drunkenly assaulted a lone female police officer in Spalding in the early hours of the morning, had just that day returned from his home in Romania. Stefan Ion of High Street, Spalding, who admitted assault by beating, was seen by PC Sharon Walsh near a taxi rank in New Road at 1am on September 6. Prosecuting, ...

A tracker placed into a refrigerator on a building site led police to the home of a 43-year-old man, a court has heard. Jamie Bunn, now of no fixed address but then living at the Foreman’s Bridge Caravan Park at Sutton St James, admitted handling the stolen refrigerator when he appeared before magistrates at Boston after a charge of burglary ...

A former barman accused of stealing money from a Spalding pub will go on trial next year. Luke Jackson, 32, was due to stand trial before a jury at Lincoln Crown Court this week. However a lack of court time and delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic meant his trial could not go ahead. Jackson, of Sewell Way, Spalding, denies theft from ...

A Spalding area teenager has been said to have amassed a fortune of almost £2 million from fraudulent activities, Youth Court magistrates in Boston have heard. The 17-year-old male, who cannot be named for legal reasons but who lives in the Deeping St Nicholasarea, admitted the charges relating to money laundering and committing fraud by false representationinvolving a total of ...

Hundreds of cannabis plants were found growing in a Spalding house after police raided the building, Lincoln Crown Court was told today (Wednesday). Officers found that the electricity supply to the house in Bridge Street in the town was bypassed and rooms had been converted for growing cannabis. Andrew Fitch-Holland, prosecuting, said that a total of 783 cannabis plants were ...

A serving soldier charged with crashing into a bridge while under the influence of alcohol, told a court that his job in the Army involved recovering broken down and damaged vehicles. Luke Thompson, 20, whose home address is Chapel Street, Spalding, who admitted driving with excess alcohol at Boston Magistrates Court, was said to have crashed his Ford Fiesta into ...

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man who assaulted a landlady and who has previous convictions in three countries, including for unauthorised possession of a firearm. Marius Rostas, 28, of Wayet Road, who has no previous convictions in the UK, had failed to appear in July to answer the charge of assault and the case had been adjourned ...

A man’s bravery has been praised after his grandfather drowned when the car he was sitting in rolled into a ditch. Raymond Turner (78), of Barr Farm, Deeping St Nicolas, did not survive the incident but at the recent inquest into how his death occurred, coroner Paul Cooper praised grandson Luke in what he called “one of the saddest cases ...

A Long Sutton man was found to have two-and-a-half times the lethal level of sleeping tablets in his system, an inquest into his death has heard. Robert Chapman was found in his bed at his Bull Lane home by his father David on March 23 this year, last week’s hearing at Lincoln Coroners’ Court was told. The inquest heard that ...

A man who murdered his daughter and then hid her body after she made allegations of sexual abuse against him has been told he will serve a minimum of 32 years in prison. Today (Friday) Scott Walker was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of killing 17-year-old Bernadette Walker at Cambridge Crown Court earlier this year, despite ...

A Spalding man who said he had only drunk one can of beer, was over the drink drive limit as ‘some beers are now much stronger than in the past’, a court has heard. Edvardas Kratavicius, 26, of Tweed Close admitted driving under the influence of alcohol when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Becky Alsopp said he was ...

A Spalding man has told a court he had ‘fallen in with the wrong crowd’ after he was arrested for driving under the influence of cannabis. James McCormack. 33, of Pennygate, admitted driving while under the influence of drugs and also to an offence of refusing to supply a sample for analysis at Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said ...

A Spalding man who kicked a police officer in the face as he was being arrested for obstructing them as they tried to investigate a disturbance in his home, has been ordered to pay him compensation. Sam Mason, 28, of Mclaren Gardens, admitted assaulting the officer by beating and obstructing the police when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, ...

A Holbeach man who threatened two police officers with a broken bottle, has been ordered to undergo rehabilitation days and observe a night time curfew by magistrates in Boston. Edward Elston, 20, of Park Road, who admitted two assaults as well as damaging a window, was said to have been amongst a group of young males causing a disturbance in ...

Drink driving at speeds up to 100mph has cost a Spalding driver his licence and almost £1,000 in fines and costs. Georgi Kisov, 22, of Church Street, who admitted driving with excess alcohol and speeding, was said to have been seen in his BMW car by the driver of an unmarked police vehicle travelling at speeds up to 100mph on ...

A Gosberton man who sold cannabis to fund his own addiction was spared an immediate jail sentence.Travis Frederick Mills (23) admitted turning to dealing to help pay off a drug debt, Lincoln Crown Court heard.Mills, of Belchmire Line, admitted possession of cannabis with intent to supply, possession of MDMA in October last year, as well as possessing cannabis found in ...

A Spalding woman stole vodka on two separate occasions from a supermarket to sell to buy drugs, a court has been told.Mia Rock (29), of Linden Court, admitted stealing the vodka on April 16 and again on the 20 when she appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court.It was said she made full admissions and said she had stolen the vodka to ...