Courts

A teen has admitted drug driving after being three times over the legal limit. Archie Parkinson, 19, of Main Road, Deeping St Nicholas, appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Marie Stace, prosecuting, said he was stopped in St Johns Road, Spalding while driving his Honda CRV on October 20 and a blood analysis showed a reading of six micrograms of cannabis, ...

Magistrates have heard a Spalding man who could ‘barely stand up’ when he got out of his car following a collision, failed to give breath or blood samples at the roadside and the police station. Eduards Novikovs, 48, of Winsover Road, admitted failing to provide a specimen when he appeared atBoston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said police had been ...

A Lincolnshire based stonemason who is accused of failing to supply memorial headstones to his customers has today (Wednesday) appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. Julian Karl Gaunt, 53, had been due to go on trial at Lincoln Crown Court in April 2020 – but the hearing was adjourned because of the coronavirus outbreak. It was the third time Gaunt’s trial ...

A motorcyclist who crashed and died on a rural South Holland road was almost twice the drink-drive limit. Jacob Williams (26) came off the Honda on Station Road, part of which runs alongside the River Nene between Sutton Bridge and Tydd St Mary. The crash location was close to the junction with Front Road, which leads to Foul Anchor. Mr ...

A drink driver was seen driving erratically without lights in the centre of Spalding. Florin Stan, 27, of 7 Franklin Drive, Spalding admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Paul Wood, prosecuting, said officers saw Stan in a Peugeot in Westlode Street at 3.45am on March 6 where the car was seen driving without lights ...

A police appeal has been launched after a van was stolen along with music equipment and electrical mountain bikes. The incident happened in Austendyke Road, Weston Hills, in the early hours of thing morning (Monday, March 14). The musical equipment and bikes was in the black Transit van. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police said: “We are appealing for witnesses and ...

A Pinchbeck man has been sent for trial on an allegation of rape. Matthew Cocks, 25, of Southgate entered no plea to the single allegation that he raped a woman atPinchbeck on May 29 last year. Following the hearing at Boston Magistrates Court, the case will get underway at Lincoln Crown Court with a first appearance on April 5 and ...

A 27-year-old man has appeared in court in Boston on allegations of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl in Spalding. Andrew Geeson, of St Margarets, Quadring, entered no pleas to charges alleging penetrative and nonpenetrative sexual activity with the girl between October 2018 and September 2019, as well sexualactivity with a child aged 15-17 whilst in a position of trust ...

A Pinchbeck man who attempted to engage in sexual conversations with three people he thought were under-age girls was today (Monday) jailed for 16 months. Jason Hildred, 48, of Walpole Close in Pinchbeck, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years and made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order. Lincoln Crown Court heard Hildred ...

A young mother who killed her partner with a single stab wound to the heart was today (Thursday) jailed for nine years. Mum-of-two Charlie Stevenson (21) was cleared of murdering her on-off partner Christopher Higgs, also 21, after a trial last month. But the jury convicted Stevenson of unlawfully killing Mr Higgs at her home in Portland Street, Boston, Lincs. The jury ...

A man today (Thursday) denied charges of murder and attempted murder following two alleged attacks in Spalding on the same day.Darren Kirk (52) died following an alleged attack at a property in Cygnet Court, Spalding, on December 20.A second man, Mark Stone (46), was also taken to hospital in a critical condition on December 20 after an alleged serious assault ...

A Spalding teenager has been fined after a court heard she had spat at a police officer in a ‘heat of the moment’ incident outside a nightclub. Julia Trzeciak (18), of Longs Wharf, Double Street, admitted assaulting the officer by beating when she appeared before District Judge Peter Veits sitting at Boston Magistrates’ Court.Prosecuting, Marie Stace said police went to ...

A man has been jailed after breaching a domestic abuse protection order just hours after it was implemented by the courts. It was made against William Jolly of Quadring Road, Donington by Lincolnshire Magistrates Court on Friday after what Lincolnshire Police describe as reported assaults carried out “over a number of day”. Officers had previously attended an incident on Wednesday, ...

The family of Christopher Higgs have paid tribute to a “caring, loveable son and devoted father” after his partner was found guilty of his manslaughter. He died after being found with a single stab wound to the chest at the home of his partner Charlie Stevenson in Portland Street, Boston on July 14 last year. Yesterday (Thursday) Stevenson was found ...

A woman who was accused of murdering her partner has been found guilty of manslaughter. The jury at Lincoln Crown Court today (Thurs) found Charlie Stevenson, 21, not guilty of the murder of Christopher Higgs, also 21, from Spalding.  After deliberating for two days they instead found her guilty of manslaughter after he was found with a single stab wound ...

A Spalding man punched a police officer who was arresting him after he refused to move his bicycle, a court has heard. Timothy John Philips, 53, of Park Road admitted using threatening behaviour and assaulting the officer during the incident at Springfields Shopping Centre on October 1 last year, having denied it at a previous hearing. Prosecuting, Paul Wood said ...

A man who grabbed a Holbeach pub landlord by the neck has been banned by magistrates from going to the pub for the next two years. Martin Plaice, 46, of Heron Road, Wisbech had admitted assaulting John Budworth of The Crown Hotel in West End by beating when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. The magistrates were told he had ...

A South Holland company has been fined by magistrates for unsafe work. The company was prosecuted after carrying out Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) installation work at a food factory near Spalding which was later condemned as being unsafe. Lincoln Magistrates’ Court heard how GlenFarrow UK Ltd undertook the installation of a liquid LPG bottle filling system at the food preparation ...

A woman accused of stabbing her partner to death “was in control of what was going on,” it was alleged. Charlie Stevenson, 21, denies murdering Christopher Higgs, also 21, at her home in Portland Street, Boston. The prosecution allege Mr Higgs died from a single stab wound to the heart which was deliberately inflicted by Ms Stevenson on 14 July ...

A Boston woman who denies murder told a jury has spoken of a previous occasion she picked up a knife to scare her partner. Charlie Stevenson, 21, denies murdering Christopher Higgs, also 21, at her home in Portland Street, Boston. The prosecution allege Mr Higgs died from a single stab wound to the heart which was deliberately inflicted by Ms ...