Courts

A Spalding shop has been fined more than £2,500 at Lincoln Magistrates Court for possessing dangerous counterfeit cigarettes. A County Council spokesman said “unsafe, incorrectly marked and counterfeit cigarettes” were found in the Nasza Biedronka shop at Sheep Market, Spalding, on September 27. “A total of 3,640 cigarettes (182 packs of 20) were seized,” the spokesman said. “The items were ...

A Sutton Bridge man who downloaded hundreds of indecent images of children has been jailed at Lincoln Crown Court. Police officers who checked the computer of Russell Nason found images of children as young as four years old being abused. And the search history of the computer revealed that Nason had carried out searches specifically aimed at finding child abuse ...

A judge has commended the bravery of teachers who disarmed a boy of 13 after he went in to a South Lincolnshire school armed with an air rifle and axe. The lad was tackled by staff at the school after firing one pellet in to the ground, Lincoln Youth Court heard. The boy, who can not be named because of ...

Magistrates told a defendant there had been “faults on both sides”, after he claimed police overreacted to his behaviour outside a Spalding night spot. Liam James Parker (22), of Hall Place, Spalding, admitted obstructing the police when he appeared before magistrates at Boston. Prosecuting, Jim Clare said police officers were in a van outside Loaded night club in Westlode Street ...

A man who demanded cash from a 79-year-old antiques dealer after threatening him with a knife has been jailed for two and a half years at Lincoln Crown Court. The court heard at the hearing on Friday January 19 that defendant Viktors Lahs initially chatted with John Mumford about furniture before suddenly grabbing the antiques dealer by his coat collar ...

The owners of Baytree Garden Centre in Weston have been fined after a member of staff was seriously injured falling from a tree. Bay Tree Nurseries Ltd was fined £13,000 at Boston Magistrates Court on Wednesday, January 17 after entering a guilty plea for breaching section two, The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Action was taken against ...

A care home company was today fined £70,000 after a court heard how confused and elderly residents were able to leave the premises without being noticed putting their lives at risk.   Apex Care Ltd, which runs a 28-room unit at The Bungalow on Park Road, Spalding, had admitted breaching health and safety regulations following an investigation in to incidents at ...

The family of a 14-year-old girl who was left distressed after an exposure by a Spalding man has criticised his sentence after he escaped jail. At Lincoln Crown Court on Friday, December 8, Paul Raymond Stubbs, of Beech Avenue, pleaded guilty to the charge of indecent exposure on May 31 earlier this year on Church Street, Spalding, and of separate ...

A Holbeach woman stole £460 from a 78-year-old woman with dementia she was supposed to have been helping, a court heard. Jane Denise Smith (58), of Cherry Tree Caravan Park, admitted stealing the money from elderly couple James and Shirley Taylor over two occasions in May, when she appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Dan Pietryka said Miss Smith was ...

A bogus “Help for Heroes” collector faces jail after he pocketed hundreds of pounds by posing in military uniform and pretending to be a serving soldier, a court heard. David Santini (55), of North Drove, Quadring, was caught collecting cash from the unsuspecting public at a Newark antiques fair after police became suspicious about the style of his uniform. Santini ...

Spalding searched the car of a man they had seen buying heroin and found a lock knife in the door pocket, a court has been told. Serges Mitrjuk, 28, of Red Lion Street, admitted possession of the heroin and the lock knife when he appeared before Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Nick Todd said police officers saw him buying heroin in ...

A 24-year-old Holbeach man assaulted two 14-year-old boys as he drunkenly attempted to take their bicycles, a court has heard. Kieron McPherson of Marshlands Drive, Holbeach, admitted assaulting the two boys – who cannot be named for legal reasons – when he appeared before magistrates at Boston. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said that at 6.30pm on May 21, the two boys ...

The body of a teacher killed by her husband lay undiscovered for nearly a fortnight, an inquest was told this week. Police who searched the home of a missing primary school teacher took two days to discover her body, the inquest heard on Tuesday. Officers carried out an initial search of the home of Kanwal Bernice William (50) who was ...

A Long Sutton grandfather of ten died when a pensioner failed to see his motorcycle on the A16, a court was told this week. Jean Taylor (74), of Stickford, admitted causing the death of Terence Westrop (65) by careless driving following the collision on the A16 at Sibsey in December. Lincoln Crown Court heard Taylor was driving her husband to ...

A Spalding man who sexually assaulted a woman while she lay asleep has been jailed for two years and four months. Ashley Bray (27) touched the woman inappropriately after she fell asleep on a sofa, a court was told. Bray (pictured) denied his motive was sexual but was convicted of the assault by a jury at Lincoln Crown Court. The ...

Two brothers turned on fire fighters who were trying to rescue their mother from her blazing property, Lincoln Crown Court was told on Friday.   Jason Dodd and Simon Harrison were aggressive and threatening towards the fire fighters who answered a call to deal with a fire at the property in Holyrood Walk, Spalding.   Dodd went on to produce an air ...

Three South Holland men have been jailed for their part in a shooting in Long Sutton.   Lloyd Peter Hook (22), Samuel James Tooke (26) and Shane Kelk (23) were all convicted of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence after the incident in Anfield Close.   The men went to a property on Sunday, January ...

A 71-year-old Holbeach man has been found guilty of creating a bomb hoax in the town’s Lincolnshire Co-op store. David James Edwards, of Hallgate, had denied placing a brown package in the Fleet Street store on January 27, 2017, “with the intention of inducing in another a belief the said article was likely to explode or ignite and thereby cause ...

A Tongue End resident has appeared in court accused of fraud. Krzysztof Zaja (38), of Everard Road, is said to have submitted a false document on October 14, 2016, intending to make a gain, namely obtaining a full English driving licence for himself. Zaja appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court on June 7 and pleaded not guilty to the charge. He ...

A 78-year-old Spalding man has been banned from the roads for 20 months after being caught more than twice the drink-drive limit. Michael Stuart Edwards, of Parkside Crescent, was arrested in St Thomas’s Road, Spalding, on May 6. He had 77 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. Edwards pleaded guilty to driving with ...