Courts

A former football referee died after a small wound on his hand became infected, an inquest has heard. Andrew Pamby (53), of Finley Close, Spalding, passed away on March 6, 2016 at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston after attempts to save his life failed including amputation to a finger and subsequently his right hand. The inquest into his death at Boston ...

A disqualified Gosberton Risegate driver who drove into a neighbour’s gate pillar has been given a suspended prison sentence. Darren John Goodwin (50) of Sheppersons Avenue, Gosberton Risegate, who was already on a suspended prison sentence, admitted failing to provide a breath specimen for analysis and for driving while disqualified in the incident outside his home on March 26. At ...

A 29-year-old man has pleaded guilty to possessing a knife in the centre of Spalding last month. Eugen Ancuta (29), of Holbeach Road, Spalding, had the kitchen knife in a public place without good reason or lawful authority on New Road in the town on Monday, March 19. He was committed to prison for four months suspended for 12 months ...

A dog owner whose pet attacked a student after breaking free from its chain was today (Thurs) ordered to pay £2,000 to the injured teenager.   Sharon Foster’s dog , described as an Akita-type, attacked Emily Ormes ,18, leaving her with injuries which needed 50 stitches.   Tony Stanford, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court said the victim was on her way ...

An argument over a van and its MOT test, led to an employee of the garage breaking the window and damaging the steering lock, after its owner left it blocking the way in and out of the garage. Timothy Edward Hart, 42, of Alexandra Road, Spalding admitted damaging the Citroen Relay van, when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court, but ...

A 32-year-old former teaching assistant has appeared in court in Boston on allegations of grooming and having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl. Martin Moon of Bridgewater Lane, Pinchbeck near Spalding faces two charges of breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order imposed in January 2011, by contacting and communicating with a child under 17, two of causing a 15-year-old girl ...

A woman who was said to be ‘very ashamed’, sobbed in court as magistrates banned her from driving for 17 months after she admitted drunk driving. Alison Girdlestone, 51, of Meadowgate Lane, Spalding admitted driving with excess alcohol on February 27, when she appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Jim Clare said she was seen by police driving her car ...

A Spalding man who had been out of trouble for three years, “reverted to his old ways” and stole from two local stores when he had a problem with his benefit payments. Shaun Parker, 34, of Park Road, admitted two charges of theft when he appeared before Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting. Jim Clare said Parker was seen by a member ...

A Lincolnshire woman has admitted having a dog which was out of control when it injured another woman. Sharon Foster, 38, of High Road in Whaplode, near Spalding, will be sentenced next month after she admitted the charge at Lincoln Crown Court. Victim Emily Ormes was injured after the Alsatian cross breed type dog escaped on Thursday May 18 last ...

A driver who abandoned his car and hid when he realised he was being followed by police in the early hours of the morning, was facing his second excess alcohol conviction in less than 10 years, a court has heard. Darryl Gebhard, 61, of Starlode Drove, West Pinchbeck, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared before magistrates at Boston ...

A 77-year-old from Spalding whose body was found in the River Welland last year had taken her own life, an inquest has heard. Janet Brighton’s body was found at Welland Yacht Club by a police officer hours after being reported missing from her Hawthorn Bank home on September 2, 2017. The inquest at Boston Coroner’s Court on Wednesday, March 14, ...

A father of three from Spalding died of a drug overdose shortly after being released from prison, an inquest has heard. Damian James Baker passed away aged 32 on January 7, 2018 at the Little London flat he had moved into with girlfriend Courtney Reeves just a week earlier. In a statement read out at the inquest into Damian’s death ...

A Deeping St Nicholas man who churned up a lawn with his car had been drinking beer and spirits while watching rugby at a friend’s house, a court has heard. Daniel Lee Beeken (39) of Campain’s Lane, Deeping St Nicholas admitted driving with excess alcohol and causing damage to a lawn and garden, when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. ...

A defence solicitor has told magistrates that he was acting in the best interests of his client by saying that despite facing a prison sentence, his client ‘did not accept responsibility or that he has done anything wrong’. Ireneusz Stanislaw Duda, 50, of Wesley Road, Whaplode had admitted driving with excess alcohol, whilst disqualified and without insurance or a test ...

A Spalding man has been banned from driving for 20 months after magistrates heard he had been found kneeling in the road shouting and screaming after crashing into a tree while almost twice over the legal limit for alcohol in his bloodstream. Raimondas Raudonis, 28, of Edward Road, admitted driving with excess alcohol in his bloodstream and without a full ...

South Holland District Council tax payers are footing the bill for prosecuting a care home owner following three separate deaths. But the authority is battling to recoup the money it spent on bringing to court a company which ran a care home where the three residents had died after leaving the building in 2012. Apex Care Ltd was fined £105,000, ...

A FRAIL pensioner has pleaded guilty to detaining a then 12-year-old girl whom he gave money and cigarettes, a court has heard. Raymond Mauderne (74) of Hampton Close, Spalding, leaned heavily on a stick and had great difficulty in getting up and down as he admitted the charge of detaining a child under the age of 16, so as to ...

A SPALDING lorry driver’s conviction for driving with excess alcohol will have a ‘catastrophic impact’ on his life, a court has been told. David Rose, (56), of Austendyke Road, Weston Hills, admitted driving with 97 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 milliitres of breath when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. The legal limit is 35. The court heard that Rose ...

A 27 YEAR old Spalding man who has been smoking cannabis as a painkiller following injuries sustained in a hit and run accident 11 years ago, was found to be more than three times over the drug limits for driving. Arran Lee Chambers of Clough Road, Holbeach Clough admitted driving with seven microgrammes of cannabis per litre of blood when ...

A drink-driver who escaped justice when a judge accepted he was too drunk to provide a breath test has finally been convicted after the decision was overturned following a costly appeal. Michael Camp (52) was almost three and a half times over the drink-drive legal limit after being pulled over by police in Spalding, Lincs, in November 2015. The salesman ...