Courts

The mother of a Holbeach teenager killed in 2018 is pleading with the courts to hold a trial before the end of this year so she can grieve for her son. Two companies and two individuals face charges relating to the death of Joshua Disdel (pictured) on July 13, 2018. An initial hearing took place at a magistrates’ court in ...

A Spalding carpenter has been banned from driving for three years after drug driving. Oliver Thompson, 26, of Jubilee Close had admitted driving while under the influence of cannabis and possession of cannabis and because of a conviction for driving with excess alcohol within the past 10 years, faced a mandatory three year driving ban. Prosecuting, Daniel Pietryka said Thompson ...

The mother and step-father of a Peterborough teenager who went missing last year are on trial at Cambridge Crown Court.Scott Walker (51) is charged with the murder of his step-daughter Bernadette on or after July 18 last year.Police from Cambridgeshire searched land around Cowbit several times after Bernadette was reported missing.Her body has never been recovered and her step-father is ...

A Spalding man has told magistrates that he took cannabis as an alternative to alcohol in at attempt to stop drinking and be a ‘better man’. Darren Paul Osborne, 37, of Chestnut Avenue admitted possession of a personal amount of cannabis when he appeared before Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Ela Crighton said police were called when a man in Pinchbeck ...

An 82-year-old man who crashed into a dyke has never held a driving licence or had motor insurance, a court has heard. Jasper Stewart of Cowley Road, Donington, Spalding admitted failing to provide a sample for analysis and driving without insurance or a driving licence when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Ela Crighton said firefighters saw Stewart, who ...

A Spalding man who broke a driving ban just two months after receiving it, has been ordered to carry out unpaid work and has had his driving ban extended. Reinoldas Kratavicius, 27, of Commercial Road admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance when he appeared before Deputy District Judge Ray Allen-Khimani sitting at Boston Magistrates Court. The judge heard that ...

A 20 year old Spalding man had to be ‘repeatedly restrained’ because of his ‘aggressive and volatile behaviour’ towards police officers who had been called when he refused to get out of a taxi. Iuri Rodriguez of Wygate Road failed to attend Boston Magistrates Court and the case was heard in his absence. Ben Payne, prosecuting, told the court police ...

A 26 year old man has been sent for trial at Lincoln Crown Court for stealing a Renault Megane car and crashing it into Park Road level crossing in Spalding resulting in more than £46,000 worth of damage. Tudorel-Drinel Carmocanu of Holbeach Road, Spalding entered no pleas to aggravated vehicle taking and criminal damage as well as driving without insurance ...

A man who took bags of clothing which had been left out for collection by a cancer charity, told a judge he had believed they had been thrown out. Vasile Strajeru, 43, of Hall Gate, Holbeach admitted theft when he appeared before Deputy District Judge Ray Allen-Khimane sitting at Boston Magistrataes Court. Mark Hudson, for Strajeru, said he owned a ...

Magistrates at Boston have heard that a 61 year old Spalding man sent unwanted cards, flowers and chocolates to a former female work colleague. Gerald Antony Fuller of Beech Avenue, who admitted harassment without violence, was said to have senttwo Christmas cards to her on December 19 and 30 last year, clearly meant to try and persuade her toleave her ...

Two brothers who ran a county line selling cocaine across the region, including Lincolnshire, have been each jailed for three-and-a-half years. An intelligence-led investigation into the transportation of substantial amounts of class A drugs across four counties had been underway in Cambridgeshire for many months ahead of a strike in June last year (2020). Asad Dost Officers from Cambridgeshire Police’s ...

A Spalding woman was strangled to death by her partner who then hanged himself, an inquest heard today (Wednesday). Karolina Zinkeviciene, 30, was killed by Breshnev Ruiters, who had a history of domestic violence with three previous partners. The hearing in Lincoln was told that Ruiters, 34, had strangled one of the women to the point she accepted she was ...

An inquest was unable to establish why a Spalding car driver crossed into the opposite lane of theA16 into the path of an oncoming lorry. Szymon Suwala, 34, was killed when his Vauxhall Corsa collided head-on with a DAF truck on a straight stretch of the road between the roundabouts at West Marsh Road in Spalding and Surfleet. It happened ...

A man accused of ripping off mourners is on the run from police after failing to attend a court hearing. Julian Karl Gaunt (52) had previously pleaded not guilty to eight counts of fraud relating to failing to supply memorial headstones to customers. Last Thursday he failed to attend when his case was listed for a pre-trial hearing at Lincoln ...

A burglar forced his way through the roof of a Spalding store before raiding the premises, Lincoln Crown Court was told. Andrew Searle went on to steal £1,000 worth of stock from the Buy and Sell Exchange store on New Road in the town. Steven Gosnell, prosecuting, said Searle then smashed his way through a wall to break-in to the ...

A man has been left £344 out of pocket after cycling in Hall Place in the centre of Spalding. Zubra Egidijus, 23, of Macarthur Court, Spalding was found to be guilty of wilfully cycling in the pedestrianised area on November 2 in a hearing held at Boston Magistrates Court last week. Egidijus was fined £220 and magistrates ordered him to ...

A Spalding man who hit a police officer who was trying to walk him away from an argument in the street, has been given a suspended prison sentence. Bruce Angus Noble, 32, of Saddlers Mead, who admitted assault when he appeared at Boston MagistratesCourt, was said to have been found by police officers staggering around in St Paul’s Close at ...

A Spalding man who had just got engaged to his partner, then made the ‘poor decision’ todrive to tell his friend and drive home after drinking alcohol. Prosecuting at Boston Magistrates Court, Marie Stace told District Judge Peter Veits that StanislavsSlisans’ Volvo car was found stationery and apparently broken down in the middle of Alexandra Road onMarch 2, after it ...

A woman has been given a suspended prison sentence after a court heard she had obstructed and assaulted police officers on two occasions, used an axe to smash a car windscreen and twice failed to provide breath samples. Pharramena Barsby, 39, of Cheal Road, Gosberton admitted all the offences when she appeared beforeDistrict Judge Peter Veits, sitting at Boston Magistrates ...

A Weston Hills woman died in a road crash after pulling into the path of another vehicle, an inquest was told. Caroline Holmes (54) was driving on the A1103 at Osgodby in a black Mercedes on October 20 last year. She pulled out of a junction with the A46 in front of a seven-seater SsanYong Rodius and died as a ...