Courts

A Holbeach teenager pretended to be offering a 15-year-old girl a job and asked her to send a photograph of her stripped to her bra. Luke Henderson, 19, of St Matthews Close, who admitted inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, as well as two separate offences of assault by beating, was said to have engaged in conversation on ...

A Spalding man who was caught in a “paedophile sting” when he sent sexual messages to two adults he believed were teenage girls has been jailed for 32 months. Simon Stone (24) instigated sexual conversations with the two women decoys in December last year believing they were aged 13 and 16. Lincoln Crown Court heard Stone first exchanged messages with ...

A former Spalding United chairman has appeared in court today (Thursday) charged in relation to an investment scheme said to be worth £4million. Chris Toynton, 72, pleaded not guilty to all three charges which arise out of the running of Lottery Syndicate Club Ltd, based in Spalding between 2017 and 2019. Lincoln Magistrates’ Court was told by prosecutor Paul Wood ...

A Gosberton man arrested on a drink driving charge, on the same day after his release from custody, headbutted a police officer who was removing him from a takeaway where he had been offending the female staff. Matthew Sansam, 41, of Rutland Gardens admitted driving with excess alcohol, assaulting a police officerby beating and being drunk and disorderly when he ...

A health care assistant has appeared in court on an allegation of stealing morphine tablets from apatient in Bourne Road, Spalding. Tracey Brookes, 47, of Queens Road, Boston entered a ‘Not Guilty’ plea on the grounds of her mentalhealth at the time but her solicitor, Sean Conway, told the court that the facts of the case were not denied. The ...

A Lincolnshire lorry driver who was jailed for causing a crash in which a charity worker died has failed in a bid to reduce his driving ban.Dorin-Silviu Buinea (35), was jailed for 16 months in December 2019 after he admitted causing the death of Katie Ablewhite (37), by careless driving.Her work colleague, Dawn Crisp, who was driving the car in ...

A hobbyist car parts dealer will stand trial on a charge of theft from a disused Jaguar E type. Ross Coleman, 35, is accused of stealing parts belonging to Alan Giles from a field in Setchey, Norfolk. The prosecution says a valuation of the property as scrap is between £2,000 and £3,500. Coleman, of Old South Eau Bank, Throckenholt, appeared ...

A 28-year-old man from Donington has been charged with attempted rape, robbery and assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a 22-year-old woman was attacked in Spalding The incident in Albion Street took place on the evening of Saturday November 27.Kamil Gziut of Arnhem Way, Donington, has been remanded into custody and will appear at Lincoln Magistrates Court later today, Thursday ...

A Spalding man has been sent to Lincoln Crown Court on an allegation of indecent exposure in Boston on July 25. Muhammad Hassan, 34, of Little London was said to have been found in a psychiatric examination to be unfit to plead or stand trial. The first hearing at the crown court will be on December 28.

A Pinchbeck man punched an innocent tractor driver in a road rage incident, after another had inadvertently clipped his car. Leigh Squance, 46, of Glenside North, who admitted assault by beating, was said to have jumped up onto the step of the tractor, opened the door and punched the driver, Kevin Bright, on the side of his face. Prosecuting at ...

A Spalding man will go on trial accused of sex offences against two children. James Edward Blackbourne, 37, entered not guilty pleas to 13 charges when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. Blackbourne denied one charge of attempted rape on a male aged under-16, one charge of attempted rape on a boy aged under-13, two charges of indecent assault on ...

Two Spalding area men have been sent for trial at Lincoln Crown Court on a charge of robbery at Tydd St Mary. William Lakey, 20, of Little Lane, Whaplode and Jack Forbes of West Road, entered no pleas to a charge of robbing Louis Rees of a coat valued at £500 on November 21 last year. They were both granted ...

A 21-year-old Holbeach woman will lose her job after she drove her friend away from a nightclub where she had been assaulted, a court has been told. Brittany Hughes of The Chase, admitted driving while under the influence of alcohol when she appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Andy Convoy said police were told on October 9 that there was ...

A court has heard that police were forced to arrest a drunken man who continually interfered with their arrest of a woman for theft. Darren Fox, 52, of Lowgate, Gosberton admitted being drunk and disorderly when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Andrew Convoy said police officers were arresting a woman for theft in New Road i Spalding at ...

A Spalding man who was refused entry to a Bourne night club, began a ‘campaign against the door staff’, a court has been told. Toby Dawson (23), of London Road, admitted four charges of harassment without violence when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Dale Brownless said the harassment had started from a ‘minor incident’ at the Late Bar ...

Two men who tried to steal a till from a petrol station in Boston were today (Wednesday) jailed for a combined total of over five years. Darren Matthews (49), of Double Street in Spalding, and Marcus Roberts-Fogarty (37), of Bakewell Street in Donington, admitted a charge of non-dwelling burglary following the incident at the Esso garage in John Adams Way. ...

A Spalding man who walked away from a collision caused when he dropped his milkshake has been banned from driving by magistrates in Boston. Timothy Cairns, 35, of Riverside Park, who admitted driving with excess alcohol, was said to have walked away from the collision in Queens Road at 8.30pm on September 26 but was identified from paperwork in the ...

A woman who denies the murder of her former partner at a property in Boston has been refused bail by a Crown Court judge. Charlie Stevenson, now 21, of Portland Street, Boston, was arrested on July 14 and charged with the murder of Christopher Higgs, also 21. Her trial is due to begin at Lincoln Crown Court on January 4 ...

A food manufacturer has been fined after one of its employees at its Spalding site sustained two broken ribs having been crushed within an industrial cooking machine whilst working to clear a blocked water inlet. Bakkavor pleaded guilty to a charge of breaching the Healthy and Safety Act by fined £130,000 and ordered to pay £2,607 costs following a hearing ...

Two South Holland people have been given a final chance to attend court to answer a charge of uprooting wildlife. Robert Barnes. 30, and Saskia Jackson, 28, are accused of digging up 8,000 Native English bluebells at woodland in Thursford, Norfolk, on March 23, 2021. The species is protected by law and intentionally uprooting it is against the Wildlife and ...