Courts

Things went from bad to worse for a Spalding resident who tried to distance himself from a heated row at home. Bryan Holland got into a vehicle while over the alcohol limit and immediately collided with a neighbour’s parked Audi A6 car.Holland’s solicitor, Stuart Wild, told Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday: “Mr Holland’s intention was to drive a relatively short ...

A Holbeach man who cut his former partner’s neck with a piece of broken mirror will be sentenced after a judge decides if he is dangerous. Kristian Butcher, 31, admitted a charge of Section 18 wounding after injuring the woman during a protracted assault on June 3 this year. Butcher, of Spalding Road, Holbeach, had gone back to the victim’s ...

A South Holland man will contest a charge that he supplied cocaine and cannabis to a youth. Daniel Bailey (46) indicated that he will admit possession of the class A and B drugs on October 13last year.But when the case goes to crown court next month he will deny supplying cannabis to the girl fromthe age of 14 and cocaine ...

A man who was spared jail after putting his hands around his partner’s throat was today (Tuesday) given a final chance to avoid prison. Liam Crane, now 20, was given a chance to avoid custody by Recorder Emma Smith who told him “not to look a gift horse in the mouth” when he appeared before Lincoln Crown Court in November ...

A man who was found with a flick knife in a Spalding pub has been given a 12-week suspended sentence. Lewis Markham told magistrates in Boston on Wednesday that his mental health had been suffering and the knife was to self-harm. “I was only intending to harm myself with that knife. I had no intention of hurting anyone else,” he ...

A 71-year-old Tydd Gote man has made a first appearance in court over alleged sexual assaults on a woman. Rodney Stevenson is charged with three counts of the offence – the first between November 1 and December 1, 2022, and on January 23 and 24 this year. Stevenson appeared before Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday and entered not guilty pleas ...

A Whaplode man has been jailed for a host of sexual offences against young girls, including rape. Anthony Portor (62), of Hagbeach Gate, has been jailed for a total of 12 years.The sentence was given for a number of incidents against three different victims who cannot be identified for legal reasons.He was guilty of raping one victim under the age ...

Two shops in Spalding have been given closure orders in the last week. Euro Star Shop in New Road and Spalding Express Convenience Store on Commercial Road have both been given three month closure orders after being alleged to have supplied illicit cigarettes and illegal vapes. The closure order is enforced for a period of three months, which is the ...

A father and son from Spalding have appeared in court charged with assaulting a man. Mark Harris (46) and his 18-year-old son, also named Mark, are jointly accused along with a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. The three are said to have assaulted Joshua Redding in Spalding on April 7. Appearing before magistrates in Boston on ...

A Deeping St Nicholas man deliberately walked out in front of a lorry to end his life on Christmas Eve, an inquest into his death has concluded. Nigel Varley died after receiving multiple injuries from the incident which occurred outside the home he shared with his sister Caroline on Main Road.She formally identified the 54-year-old later that day.The incident occurred ...

A man accused of being responsible for £100,000 worth of cannabis discovered at a Spalding property has been sent for crown court trial. Appearing before Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, Aleksandras Zacharovas pleaded not guilty to four charges in connection with the find by police on February 7. He is accused of producing cannabis between November 6 last year and ...

A speeding South Holland motorist claimed it had been his mother – despite police having photographic evidence of a man with a beard. Gary Church had been disqualified two months earlier for driving while unfit through drink or drugs, Boston Magistrates’ Court heard on Wednesday.Then he was clocked doing 35mph in a 30mph speed limit on Bridge Road in Sutton ...

A banned driver who borrowed his best friend’s car to steal two air fryers has been given a suspended sentence. Tommy Lines, of Weston Hills, walked out of The Original Factory Shop with the kitchen appliances after the friend told him he could benefit from losing some weight. Lines – a serial shoplifter – was spotted by staff and the ...

A male physiotherapist accused of two sexual assaults on a woman left the country the day before his court case. Marib Zaibi was living in Stonegate, Spalding, when the offences are alleged to have happened in Crowland on February 7 last year. The 27-year-old defendant was due before magistrates in Boston on Wednesday. However, his solicitor said Zaibi told him ...

A Spalding resident has been sent for crown court trial accused of a serious sexual assault. Nerijus Rozaitas (41) appeared before magistrates in Boston on Wednesday charged with penetrating the vagina of a woman with a finger without consent. The offence, said to have occurred between January 1, 2017 and April 30, 2022, is indictable only and therefore the case ...

The trial of a man accused of murdering a women whose body was found in a Spalding graveyard tent has been set for next January. Paul Neilson, 30, of Priory Road, Spalding, is charged with the murder of 26-year-old Colette Law on Monday 10 July. The body of Colette, from Greenock in Scotland, was found in a tent on Monday ...

A man charged with the murder of a woman found dead in the grounds of a Spalding church has this morning (Monday) appeared before Lincoln Magistrates Court . Paul Neilson, 30, who gave a postal address of Priory Road, Spalding, is charged with the murder of 26-year-old Colette Law on July 10. The body of Colette, from Greenock in Scotland, ...

A man “panicked” when a machete fell out of his jacket in a Spalding pub, a court heard. JoJo Taylor (23) quickly left with the weapon and hid it in a drainhole, returning with bleach with the intention to wipe it clean of his fingerprints. However, police had been called and arrested him in Market Place. Taylor, who has learning ...

As ridiculous calls to 999 go, police might have briefly smirked at a Spalding man’s request for help to find him a girlfriend. But it was no laughing matter when 54-year-old Brian Chappell called nine times in quick succession over his quest for love – potentially delaying the Lincolnshire force’s response to an emergency.The self-styled “social justice warrior” insisted he ...

A Spalding man harassed a woman after their brief relationship ended, a court was told. It was “persistent and unwarranted” behaviour by 53-year-old Jacek Stoltman.Prosecutor Paul Wood told magistrates in Boston on Wednesday that the woman had moved intoStoltman’s home in Perry Close during their three-week relationship.“It didn’t work out and ended in some acrimony. She packed her bags and ...