Crime

Two men have been arrested in connection with a serious fire at a house in Spalding on Monday.(April 10)   Police are holding the 22 and 24-year-old in custody while investigating reports that fire crews were assaulted at a house in Holyrood Walk. The 24-year-old was also arrested in connection with possession of cannabis.   Fire crews from Spalding, Holbeach ...

A man has been jailed for life for murdering his estranged wife, a worker at Spalding’s Fesa fruit packing factory. Gytis Griskevicius was ordered to serve a minimum of 23 years before he can be considered for parole. Griskevicius (32) had denied the murder on May 20 last year of 33-year-old Marina Erte, but was found guilty by the jury at the end of a two week ...

The treasurer of a pre-school playgroup who stole thousands of pounds from the organisation has been jailed for eight months.   Andrew Rivett, who was an accountancy worker in his day job, began stealing within a short time of being appointed to his position with Tydd St Mary.   He took almost £5,000 but when the money was discovered missing ...

Police are appealing for information on the current whereabouts of Thomas Parr who is wanted in connection with a string of burglaries.   The 19-year-old is wanted on a court warrant for failing to attend a sentencing hearing in relation to a commercial burglary in Spalding on October 15 2016.   He also failed to attend police bail in relation ...

A call for calm has been made to a community incensed after their village shop was robbed – weeks after a burglary and then an attempted break-in. Cowbit Village Stores owner Colin Foxwell was alone in the store when he was threatened with a machete by three masked men who cleared the tills of cash and shelves of alcohol and cigarettes. ...

A Spalding man accused of downloading over 60,000 indecent images and videos is to face trial later this year.   David Paul Alexander Kaye (43), of Spring Street, appeared before Lincoln Crown Court on Wednesday (March 22) when he denied three charges of making a total of 62,166 indecent photographs and videos of children between December 25, 2015 and July 22 last year.   The case was ...

A Spalding man has admitted inciting under-age girls to engage in sexual activity.   Roy Hayes (44) pleaded guilty to three sexual offences when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on Monday.(March 20)   The offences related to a 13-year-old girl on April 7, 2014, a 14-year-old girl on October 11, 2012, and a 15-year-old girl on July 30, 2014.   Michael Cranmer-Brown, prosecuting, said the ...

A Spalding man accused of making more than 400 indecent images of children has had his case sent for trial. Gareth Raymond Oddy, of Wygate Road, is said, on or before January 20, 2016, to have made: 256 category A photographs 108 category B photographs 84 category C photographs Category A photographs are the most serious. Oddy is also accused of possessing ...

Police are investigating a robbery after Cowbit Village Store was hit for the third time in a month last night (Wednesday).   Three men entered the store at around 7.15pm and stole cash, alcohol and cigarettes before leaving the scene in a blue 4×4 with a silver skirt.   Police confirmed that the member of staff at the Barrier Bank shop ...

A campaigner whose mum died in a house fire caused by illegal cigarettes has called for a change in the law which she hopes will save lives. June Buffham died at her home in Stonegate, Spalding in April 2012 after she fell asleep and dropped a lit Jin Ling cigarette in her chair. The illegal cigarette continued to burn, quickly ...

This man is wanted by police in connection with commercial burglary offences in the Spalding area.   Named as Peter David Davis (40), it is thought he may possibly be in the Lincoln area.   Anyone with information about Davis’s current location, is asked to contact DC Matthew Nottidge at Spalding by calling 101.

A 44-year-old man facing two charges of inciting a girl under 16 to engage in sexual activity has had his case sent for trial. Roy William Hayes, of Gaunt Close, Spalding, is said to have: intentionally caused or incited a girl of 13, not reasonably believing she was 16 or over, to engage in sexual activity involving the penetration of her ...

A man was injured when he was beaten with a metal bar in Quadring Fen. Police have issued a CCTV image of  two people they would like to speak to about the incident. A police spokesman said: “We are appealing for information about an assault that occurred at a property in Beck Bank, Quadring Fen, around 9.40pm on Tuesday 21st ...

Police want to speak to this woman in connection with theft from Wilko in Spalding. A police spokesman said: “We are investigating the theft of cosmetics on 18 February from Wilkinsons, Holland Market, Spalding and believe the person in the photo can help with our enquiries. “ Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101, quoting incident 229 of ...

Police are trying to trace these two people to speak to about theft from the Co-op in Gosberton. A police spokesman said: “On 2 March £100 worth of alcohol, meat and snacks were stolen from the Co-op store in Gosberton.  “We would like to trace the two people in the photo who we believe can help with our enquiries.” Anyone ...

A benefits cheat and thief who was ordered to pay back just £1 of the £56,679 she pocketed could still be forced to cough up more.   Holbeach mum Maria Pridmore fraudulently took more than £16,000 worth of housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support and stole more than £30,000 from four women. A court was told last December ...

Lincolnshire Police force has received an overall “good” rating for being effective by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).   This latest assessment, published today (March 2) means that Lincolnshire has now received an overall ‘good’ grading for each of the HMIC pillars of PEEL – efficiency, effectiveness and legitimacy.   Assistant Chief Constable Paul Gibson: “Overall we are pleased with HMIC’s assessment ...

Cowbit Village Store has been attacked for a second time, in what has been described as a “slap in the face” for the whole village. The community launched a fundraising drive to buy security shutters for the store after it was broken into on February 19 – and around £1,000 has already been donated. At around 10.45pm on Monday (Feb ...

Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership (LRSP) is highlighting that the penalties for using,  or holding, a handheld mobile phone whilst driving increase from today (March 1). The fine has now increased to £200, six penalty points and the withdrawal of the educational course that negated the points awarded. The use of handheld mobile phones whilst driving has been against the law ...

A Spalding man said to have made more than 62,000 indecent images of children has had his case sent for trial. David Paul Alexander, of Spring Street, is charged with: making 111 still/moving Category A indecent images of a child between December 26, 2015 and July 27, 2016 making 136 still moving Category B indecent images of a child between ...