Courts

An arrested man who staged a spectacular escape from police custody was caught after just 45 minutes, Lincoln Crown Court was told today (Monday). Jason Fovargue was detained by officer on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday weekend and was taken by van to Boston Police Station.   Hal Ewing, prosecuting, said that Fovargue was not handcuffed and after arriving in the police station’s ...

A mum who crashed her car in Moulton while twice the drink-drive limit had her 21-month-old son with her. Katie Wilson’s Alfa Romeo careered into the garden of a cottage in Hallgate just before midnight on April 17.  Boston Magistrates’ Court heard today (Wednesday) that she told a police officer: “Oh my god, I think I fell asleep.” However, the ...

A troubled Spalding man deliberately put himself in the path of a freight train near his home, an inquest has heard. Jeremy (Jez) Gareth Spikings was instantly killed in the “utterly unpredictable” incident close to Cherry Holt Level Crossing in Pinchbeck in the early hours of December 7 last year. The hearing at Boston Coroner’s Court today (Thursday) was told ...

A Whaplode man has appeared in court over a “large-scale growth” of cannabis. Alex Robert Robinson, of Kirkgate, is charged with three offences – all said to have taken place at a farm in Leamlands Lane, Lutton Marsh. The 44-year-old is accused of producing cannabis and possessing cannabis with intent to supply, both on November 21, 2017. He is also ...

The “popular and charismatic” founder of a Lincolnshire choir was this afternoon (Friday) jailed for eight years at Lincoln Crown Court after being convicted earlier this month of sex attacks on a teenage boy.   Andrew Clingo (43), who was musical director of the Handful of Harmonies Choir and is a former primary school teacher, was also placed on the sex offenders’ register ...

A man was nearly double the drink drive limit when he collided with a taxi, injuring the five occupants, a court has heard. Alexandru Radu (30) of Rookery Farm, Holbeach St Johns, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. The court was told that he collided with the taxi at 10.30pm on Saturday, April 13 ...

A man has been charged with two counts of possessing an imitation firearm after someone was reported as having what looked like a gun in their back pocket in Spalding town centre yesterday (Monday) morning. Kacper Malkiewicz, 21, of Cross Street, Spalding, has been bailed to appear at Boston Magistrates Court on June 19. It follows police raiding a property ...

A teacher was fatally injured in a traffic collision on her way home from school in Boston last November, an inquest has heard. Gemma Elizabeth Ashling (40) of Old Leake but originally from Spalding, a teacher at Boston High School, was described immediately following her death, as “dedicated, enthusiastic, kind and a wonderfully warm-hearted teacher, colleague and friend”. She had ...

A teenager who hanged himself had been preoccupied with the death of his aunt who had killed herself 10 months earlier, an inquest has heard. Boston Coroner’s Court heard that Lee Smalley, 19, of Spalding had told his father on the evening of October 31 last year, that he was going to drive two girls to Leicester and expected to ...

The founder of a Lincolnshire choir was today (Friday) warned he faces a substantial jail sentence after he was convicted of sex attacks on a teenage boy. Andrew Clingo, who became musical director of the Handful of Harmonies Choir and is a former primary school teacher, denied three charges of sexual assault but the jury at Lincoln Crown Court took ...

A Crowland man who admitted sexually abusing three young girls was today (Wednesday) jailed for 17 years.   Edward Church (68) raped one of his victims in a car when she was just 12 years old.   A jury at Lincoln Crown Court found Church guilty of the rape which occurred ten years ago.   Church, of Alderlands Close, Crowland, ...

A row over a vehicle sale boiled over into violence on a Cowbit drive, a court heard. Graham Stephen York, who was under a suspended sentence order imposed for an ABH offence, punched piano tuner Warren Goodwin “hard” in the face, magistrates in Boston heard today (Wednesday). York (44) had returned to his Backgate home to find Mr Goodwin sitting ...

A prolific thief with 48 previous convictions has been jailed for two years after a masked robbery in Spalding town centre.   Matthew Dye covered his face in a bid to disguise his appearance before he walked into the Nottingham Building Society in Sheep Market in the town and demanded cash, Lincoln Crown Court heard today.   Phil Howes, prosecuting, said “He ...

A dispute between two families led to a 26-year-old Holbeach woman sending a threatening and abusive message, a court has been told. Claire Marie Houghton of Allison Avenue, Holbeach admitted to sending a grossly offensive and menacing electronic communication when she appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said that on October 5 last year, a voice mail message ...

An elderly Spalding man was killed when he drove into the path of an oncoming lorry for no apparent reason, an inquest has heard. Trevor Chapman (76) died on the Spalding-bound carriageway of the A16, about a mile-and-a-half from the Sutterton roundabout on Sunday, November 11 last year. He was alone in his Vauxhall Astra van when it collided with ...

A wife watched in her wing mirror as her 80-year-old husband’s car collided with a lorry he’d pulled out in front of. James (Jim) John Hurley, of Surfleet, died instantly in the incident, an inquest at Boston Coroner’s Court heard on Tuesday. The tragic collision as Mr Hurley pulled out of The Drayton at Swineshead was witnessed by his wife, ...

A 26-year-old-man from Cowbit has appeared in court charged with death by dangerous driving after an RTC that killed three people in Peterborough. Tommy Whitmore of Stonegate appeared at Huntingdon Magistrates Court on Monday. The charge relates to an RTC on Fletton Parkway on April 14. He is due to appear before Peterborough Crown Court on May 20. Sister and ...

A police sergeant was assaulted as he helped fellow officers arrest a Sutton Bridge man at his home. Graham Paul Day kicked Sgt Dan Brigginshaw and brought his handcuffed hands up to the officer’s throat, Boston Magistrates’ Court heard today (Wednesday). The arrest came after police attended the property in Withington Street at 12.30am on March 10, following a call ...

A man will appear in court charged with drink driving after an RTC between a taxi and a Mini Cooper in Spalding on Saturday night that left five people injured. Alexandru Gabriel Radu (30), of Cradge Bank, Spalding, has been charged with driving a motor vehicle when alcohol limit above limit after the incident on St Thomas’s Road at around ...

A teenager, who has been living in a tent in the Spalding area, was found in possession of a knife when he was stopped by security staff in a town supermarket, a court has heard. Kacper Krzoska, 19, of no fixed address but formerly of Deepdale Lane in Nettleham, admitted possession of the lock knife, which had a seven centimetre ...