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A former pillar of the community in Crowland has admitted making almost 600 indecent images of children. Peter Bird was on Crowland Parish Council until recently and stood for UKIP in the 2015 South Holland District Council elections, polling 903 votes in the Crowland and Deeping St Nicholas ward. Appearing before Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (April 27), he pleaded guilty ...

A man convicted of raping a ten-year-old girl was jailed for 15 years on Thursday.(April 27)   Christopher Parsons was found guilty by the jury following a three-day trial at Lincoln Crown Court.   The jury heard that he groomed the girl giving her cans of cola, food and money before sexually abusing and later raping her.   Martin Hurst, prosecuting, ...

A 40-year-old woman accused of possessing a class B drug in Holbeach with intent to supply is to face a trial. Caroline Kelly Moxon, of Moulton Washway, Fosdyke Bridge, is said to have had 10.05 grams of cannabis on September 19, 2016. She pleaded not guilty at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (April 26) and was remanded on unconditional bail until her ...

A Holbeach man accused of burgling almost £2,000 of property from a home has had his case sent for trial at crown court. Adam Hughes (23) is said to have stolen a 55in LG smart TV, a Toshiba laptop, a safe containing cash, and a pair of Air Max trainers from the property in Dog Drove North, Holbeach Drove, on March 15 this ...

A 44-year-old man has received a suspended prison sentence for having a knife in a public place. Fernando Carvalho, of Roman Bank, Spalding, pleaded not guilty to having the “large knife” in the town on November 22 last year. He was found guilty on April 17 and was sentenced at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.(April 25) As well as the 26-week jail ...

A man found with a lock knife in a Spalding street has received a jail term. At Lincoln Magistrates’ Court last Saturday (April 22), Artur Leontjev was sentenced to 12 weeks after pleading guilty to having the knife in a public place (Westlode Street) the previous day. He also pleaded guilty to theft of mascara worth £50 from Wilko in Holland Market on March 25. ...

A trusted worker at an electrical wholesale company who stole £42,000 worth of stock to fund his gambling addiction has been jailed.   Gavin Phillips set up an eBay account which he used to sell the firm’s stock and then falsified documentation to cover-up what he was doing.   Brian Outhwaite, prosecuting at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday (April 21), said ...

Lutton teacher Bernice William had to be identified by DNA after her body was found hidden under a pile of underlay in the family’s junk room, an inquest has heard.   Police took two days to find the body of the mother-of-two after her husband Lawrence (49) was discovered hanged in a stable block at the couple’s farmhouse in Colley’s Gate. ...

A Long Sutton woman who “catastrophically” injured her husband when she fired his shotgun was jailed for two years on Tuesday.(April 18) Mary Jane Taylor (57) left Alan Taylor (58) with a “useless” left arm when she discharged two shots from the weapon, Lincoln Crown Court heard. The court was told that Mrs Taylor could not remember what happened after ...

Two men who were arrested following a house fire in Spalding on Monday evening are due to appear in court today.(Wednesday) Jason Lee Dodd (22), of Holyrood Walk, has been charged with assault, affray, and possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. Simon Harrison (24), of the same address, has been charged with affray. They will appear ...

A man has been jailed for life for murdering his estranged wife, a worker at Spalding’s Fesa fruit packing factory. Gytis Griskevicius was ordered to serve a minimum of 23 years before he can be considered for parole. Griskevicius (32) had denied the murder on May 20 last year of 33-year-old Marina Erte, but was found guilty by the jury at the end of a two week ...

A Spalding man accused of downloading over 60,000 indecent images and videos is to face trial later this year.   David Paul Alexander Kaye (43), of Spring Street, appeared before Lincoln Crown Court on Wednesday (March 22) when he denied three charges of making a total of 62,166 indecent photographs and videos of children between December 25, 2015 and July 22 last year.   The case was ...

A 44-year-old man facing two charges of inciting a girl under 16 to engage in sexual activity has had his case sent for trial. Roy William Hayes, of Gaunt Close, Spalding, is said to have: intentionally caused or incited a girl of 13, not reasonably believing she was 16 or over, to engage in sexual activity involving the penetration of her ...

A benefits cheat and thief who was ordered to pay back just £1 of the £56,679 she pocketed could still be forced to cough up more.   Holbeach mum Maria Pridmore fraudulently took more than £16,000 worth of housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support and stole more than £30,000 from four women. A court was told last December ...

A Spalding man said to have made more than 62,000 indecent images of children has had his case sent for trial. David Paul Alexander, of Spring Street, is charged with: making 111 still/moving Category A indecent images of a child between December 26, 2015 and July 27, 2016 making 136 still moving Category B indecent images of a child between ...

An elderly pedestrian who died six days after being knocked down by a bus as he crossed the road did not appear to look its way.   Harold Fisher (93) stepped out into Winfrey Avenue, Spalding, with the single-decker passenger bus just feet away. An inquest on Tuesday (Feb 21) heard that the Shaws of Maxey driver had “little or ...

John Hayes is taking his fight to get tougher sentences for criminals convicted of assaulting police officers to the Home Secretary. The MP for South Holland and The Deepings says those convicted of assaults on police officers should automatically receive a jail sentence. And he will give that opinion to Amber Rudd, urging her to instigate a change. Mr Hayes ...

Former Spalding man Andy Hall has appealed his conviction for criminal defamation and computer crimes in Thailand. The human rights defender’s legal team lodged the paperwork last week, five months after the outcome of his case in Bangkok. The conviction related to publication of a report entitled Cheap Has A High Price in 2013 by Finnwatch, a Finnish civil society organisation. ...

A 27-year-old man has been sentenced for five instances of flashing. Sam Thomas exposed himself in a series of incidents in September and October 2016. They were: in Lime Walk, Long Sutton on September 15 in Little London, Long Sutton on October 18 in Old Main Road, Fleet Hargate on October 21 in Windsor Crescent, Boston on October 21 at Lincolnshire ...

Two men who robbed a Spalding mobile phone shop at knife-point, leaving staff terrified, face longer stretches in jail.   Kurtis Lamptey and accomplice Reece Francis travelled from East London in a stolen Audi Q5 to raid Carphone Warehouse in Winfrey Retail Park.   The pair entered the shop at 6pm after waiting for customers to leave.   Lamptey put his arms around the ...