Crime

Police have released CCTV images of two men they want to speak to in relation to a theft from the Spalding branch of B&Q. £750 worth of goods was stolen from the store in Winfrey Avenue in Spalding on August 8. A police spokesman said: “One person had entered the store and removed items from a large cardboard box. “Another ...

Thieves attempted to enter a bungalow in Rotten Row, Pinchbeck, over the Bank Holiday weekend. The incident occurred between 10am on Friday August 24 and 12pm on Sunday August 27. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “Access was not gained to the property. Anyone who witnessed suspicious behaviour should call 101 quoting incident 176 of 27/8.”

A court has issued a six-month ban on a 32-year-old Spalding man from going to a local pub after hearing that staff were “cowering” behind the bar as he fought with a friend he had fallen out with. Christopher John Wayne Morris of Spring Gardens admitted using threatening behaviour likely to cause alarm or distress, when he appeared at Boston ...

Three new Ford Rangers have been added to Lincs Rural Crime’s armoury as they set to tackle hare coursers again over the next few months. With the hare coursing season about to begin again, Lincolnshire Police’s Operation Galileo has been relaunched for 2018-19. Last year saw the number of related incidents fall 30 per cent from 1.965 in 2016/17 to ...

An 89-year-old Spalding man, who was tricked out of £8,000 of life savings, has spoken out in the hope others won’t fall victim to fraudsters posing as police officers. In an elaborate plot Roy Clark believed he was working undercover for the police in an investigation into bank workers when he withdrew the money. The fraudsters even led the retired ...

Thieves posing as police officers are targeting the elderly and vulnerable in South Holland. Lincolnshire Police has received reports of the incidents in and around Spalding over the last 24 hours. The force is urging the public to be vigilant. Inspector Gareth Boxall, said: “Yesterday we received another report of a Police Impersonation Fraud in South Holland. This is the ...

A child has been injured in a collision in Spalding and the driver left the scene without stopping. Lincolnshire Police are appealing for any witnesses to a RTC involving a dark red 5-door saloon car near the A16 at Clay Lake, at approximately 5.50pm yesterday (August 8). Police said: “The vehicle has caused injury to a child and left the ...

A man well known to police for persistent offending has been jailed following more offences. Matthew Dye (32), of Spalding, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and given a three-year driving ban at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, July 26 after being found guilty of several charges. The court heard Dye stole power tools to the value of £150 ...

Farmers are turning to medieval methods in a bid to protect themselves from rising rural crime. Dry ditches are making a return to our landscape as a way of keeping trespassers off property and preventing burglary or hare coursing. The most recent survey by NFU Mutual insurance shows that rural crime cost Lincolnshire £2.1m in 2017 and the Midlands lost ...

Thieves have stolen two safes containing donations and takings from a charity shop, just a week before it was due to celebrate a year of being in Spalding Market Place. St Barnabas Hospice Charity Shop was broken into and raided sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Takings from the previous day totalling £800 were taken as well as the ...

A leading criminal defence solicitor has told a court that banning someone from driving in Lincolnshire was much more severe for that person than if they lived in London or some other city where they could just get a bus or cycle to work. David Eager, who is head of the Criminal Department at law firm Andrew Jay & Co, ...

The daughters of a motorcyclist killed by a drug-driver have hit out at the man’s six-year jail sentence. Daniel Pryce (40) had taken drugs and had two young children in the Ford Galaxy people carrier he was driving when he overtook another car and caused the death of Martin Elam (47), last August Bank Holiday Monday. Mr Elam’s passenger and ...

A terrified householder hid under bedclothes as two women burgled his home at 3am, Lincoln Crown Court was told. The man was woken up in the early hours by the noise from the intruders after they broke into the Willow Walk property in Spalding. Rebecca Coleman, prosecuting, told the court: “he was terrified. He hid under the bedclothes. “He pretended ...

Lincolnshire Police having not reported 9,400 crimes correctly will not lead to a rethink on Lincolnshire County Council’s part-night streetlighting policy which was continued due to crime levels having not increased dramatically. As reported in last week’s The Voice, the figure led to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate branding the force “inadequate”. Several residents commented on our Facebook page with regards the ...

Three men have been charged with affray after an incident outside a Spalding nightclub in February. Kristaps Zarins (30) and Dovydas Bagdonas (30) from Spalding as well as Vasilijus Klimuk (28) from Kent will appear before Boston Magistrates Court on Wednesday, August 15. A man was left in what police described at the time as a “critical condition” following the ...

A man has been arrested and a police officer injured in an incident in Station Road, Spalding this morning (Friday, July 20). Inspector Gareth Boxall praised members of the public who helped the officers in the incident which took place just before 9am this morning. He tweeted: “Several of our officers attended Station St, Spalding just before 9am this morning ...

From September, Mini Police recruits will start their beat. If you think police officers are looking younger nowadays, you’re right. Lincolnshire Police are currently recruiting their latest batch and none of them are even teenagers. But the force of Mini Police has proved a popular addition to the force and its now being rolled-out to more than 100 schools in ...

Lincolnshire police have failed to record thousands of crimes, including rape. A report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate rated the force as “inadequate” and says “much work remains to be done”. But the force has said it was not the case that the 9,400 crimes were not recorded, but they weren’t recorded correctly. “We are deeply disappointed by this report and ...

A former teaching assistant who caused a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity was today (Friday, July 13) jailed for eight years.   Martin Moon (32) of Bridgewater Lane, Pinchbeck, also sent the girl sexual videos of himself and repeatedly asked her to send him sexual pictures.   Lincoln Crown Court heard Moon had previously been jailed for 30 ...

A Spalding man who assaulted his partner during a drunken argument, has been ordered by a court to go 90 days without consuming any alcohol. Maris Dudars (32) of St Paul’s Road, admitted assaulting his partner  by beating on June 23. Prosecuting, Paul Wood said that during the evening, after they had both taken drink, an argument developed as to ...