Courts

A Spalding shop has been closed by police for selling illicit cigarettes. A closure order was been issued at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court yesterday  (June 7) for Nasz Market, in Sheep Market. This followed an application by police, using powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, following the alleged supplying of illicit cigarettes.  The order prohibits anyone, other than ...

A former Spalding man who admitted engaging in coercive behaviour and threatening to distribute an intimate video was today (Wednesday) jailed for 26 months. Toby Dawson, 25, bombarded his teenage victim with hundreds of calls and texts, and made her believe that he had disclosed an intimate video to her family. Lincoln Crown Court heard Dawson also demanded that the ...

A 29-year-old Spalding man charged with raping a woman has appeared at Lincoln Crown Court.Daivaras Sarkauskis is accused of the offence at an address in the town on July 31 last year.He appeared before Boston Magistrates’ Court earlier this year and his case was sent to Lincoln Crown Court.Sarkauskis, of Spring Gardens, Spalding, appeared before Judge James House KC but ...

A domestic cleaner who stole sentimental jewellery worth thousands of pounds from Spalding and Boston homes she worked in was today (Tuesday) given a suspended jail sentence. Aimee Ward (38) admitted four offences of theft between December 1, 2021 and February 8, 2022. Lincoln Crown Court heard the mother-of-two worked for a Lincolnshire based housekeeping firm between August 2021 and ...

A banned motorist who evaded police by driving round and round the outside of Spalding’s McDonald’s drive-thru restaurant has been given a suspended sentence. Christopher Dye (57) also deliberately crashed through a fence on to the forecourt of the neighbouring filling station in Holbeach Road. He drove round that several times at speed before fleeing the scene, Boston Magistrates’ Court ...

A Spalding woman who suffered devastating injuries in a crash caused by a driver’s careless action has emotionally spoken of the impact on her life. Demi Blackbourn (27) is now partially blind and her health has seriously struggled since the crash last December.Her parents, Clive and Kay, were warned that she might not survive her injuries.Incredibly, it was the second ...

A 29-year-old Spalding man charged with raping a woman has today (Wednesday) appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. Daivaras Sarkauskis is accused of the offence at an address in the town on July 31 last year. He appeared before Boston Magistrates’ Court earlier this year and his case was sent to Lincoln Crown Court. Sarkauskis, of Spring Gardens, Spalding, appeared before ...

Former long-time Spalding United chairman Chris Toynton has begun a four-and-a-half year prison sentence for his part in running a £3.9million ‘get rich quick’ scheme. He encouraged lots of people he knew well to invest in theLottery Syndicate Club, which ran in the Spalding area between 2017 and 2019. In all, 184 people made a total loss of £2,397,002, Lincoln Crown Court heard during a seven-week trial. Many others of ...

A Spalding man who was the victim of a maliciously false tip-off turned to shoplifting when his benefits were stopped, a court was told. Andrew Bullivant, 32, appeared before Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to plead guilty to theft from Tesco in Holbeach and Lidl’s Winsover Road branch in Spalding. On March 17 he twice went into Tesco to steal ...

A large meat cleaver was found in the driver’s door pocket of a van stopped in Whaplode. But the only occupant could not give police much of a reason why it was there, Boston Magistrates’Court heard on Wednesday.Vladas Bisturys was given a suspended sentence after admitting having a bladed article in public.He had been pulled over in High Road at ...

An uninsured and unsupervised learner driver was caught at three times the alcohol limit. Police spotted a Peugeot come to a stop about one metre over the line at the junction of Park Road and Winsover Road, magistrates in Boston were told on Wednesday.Driver and sole occupant Mihai Brehuescu, 33, was pulled over at about 7.20pm on April 23.“He smelt ...

A court has heard how a banned motorist drove into trouble at Spalding Police Station. Victoria Doyle (41) did not realise she was disqualified when she took her Fiat Punto to a pre-arranged appointment, magistrates in Boston were told on Wednesday. “It was then noted by officers that she was disqualified and they issued her with a summon,” said prosecutor ...

A Spalding motorist convicted of a third drink-driving offence has been banned for 46 months. Police had received a tip-off that Nauris Mulers (41) might be over the limit. They were in Hannam Boulevard looking for his Ford C-Max car at about 7.30pm on April 17. “They saw it turn into the road from Pennygate,” said prosecutor Paul Wood at ...

A man who was previously homeless has been given a suspended sentence for repeatedly breaching a restraining order. Kaspars Blanks (41) carried on going to an address in London Road despite a 12-month court order preventing him from doing so.On two occasions he stayed overnight in the back garden, magistrates in Boston were told on Wednesday.Blanks, now of Chestnut Avenue, ...

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Spalding man accused of robbery. Mark Stone (47), of Bowditch Road, did not appear at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday as scheduled. He is charged with robbing Anthony Eccles of power tools worth £1,500 in Spalding on May 31, 2021. The bench issued a warrant not backed for bail.

Residents in a Spalding street were woken by the sound of screeching tyres and a drink-driver’s car hitting a tree. A Peugeot 508 being driven by Andrius Jankauskas left St Thomas’s Road at about 11.30pm on April 9.He was still twice the alcohol limit when he gave an evidential breath test more than four hours later.Prosecutor Paul Wood told Boston ...

A juror was allowed to reach a verdict in the fraud trial of former Spalding United chairman Christopher Toynton after drawing a pencil sketch of his barrister during the case, it can now be revealed. The picture of fraud specialist James Bourne-Arton was passed to a court usher by the juror after the 12 members of jury retired to consider their ...

A former Whaplode tractor drive charged with causing the death of a car passenger following a three vehicle collision near Sutterton has gone on trial at Lincoln Crown Court. William Flynn, 41, formerly of Whaplode but now of Carrick-on-Suir, County Waterford, has pleaded not guilty to causing the death of Karen Fenton by driving dangerously on the A16 at Sutterton. He also denies charges ...

The former chairman of Spalding United Football Club has been found guilty of nine fraud charges relating to his role in a Ponzi type scheme which was based in the town. Christopher Toynton, 73, had denied acting dishonestly but was convicted after a two month trial at Lincoln Crown Court. The jury found Toynton, of Horseshoe Road, Spalding, guilty of ...

Investors who put their money into a multi-million pound trading scheme “simply did not want to miss out,” a jury was told. Christopher Toynton, 73, denies ten charges of fraud relating to his alleged involvement with the Spalding based Lottery Syndicate Club. Prosecutors claim Mr Toynton represented to potential investors that the scheme was safe and low risk, and also ...