Courts

A teenager has been warned to expect custody after he admitted stabbing a man with a knife in a Lincolnshire village. George Swallow, 19, pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. His victim, Linton Doherty, was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary with a suspected stab wound ...

A Sutton Bridge woman who collided with a parked car was found to be almost three times over the legal alcohol level, a court has heard. Kelly Gregory, 42, of Allenby’s Chase, admitted driving with excess alcohol when she appeared beforemagistrates in Boston. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said that Mrs Gregory collided with a parked car in Bridge Road at 11.40pm ...

A Spalding man drunkenly crashed his partner’s car into a barrier following an argument, a court has heard. Fabio Santos, 37, of Lilburn Drive, admitted driving with excess alcohol and without a full drivinglicence or insurance, when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said police attended a single vehicle collision in West Elloe Avenue at 1.20amon November ...

The director of a travel company which specialised in organising school sports trips today (Monday) pleaded guilty to wrongly indicating that he was the holder of an ATOL certificate. Marcus Buckley-Bennion, 63, admitted a single offence on dates between 1 January 2016 and 31 March 2017 when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. Buckley-Bennion, of Normanton Road, Crowland, had previously ...

A 19-year-old man charged with attempted murder after a stabbing in a Lincolnshire village appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on Thursday. George Swallow, of Lindsey Drive, Holton Le Clay, was charged with the offence after a man in his 20s was taken to hospital with suspected stab wounds.He has also been charged with possession of a bladed article in a ...

A Holbeach woman who was banned from the town’s Tesco store, went in and stole meat and wine, Boston Magistrates’ Court heard.Helen Houghton (52), of Marshlands Drive, admitted theft and was known to staff in the store. They saw her take the items and attempt to leave without paying on September 14, the court was told.She told police she hadn’t ...

A man who was bravely disarmed by a temporary shop worker after producing an imitation firearm during an attempted robbery in Spalding Sheep Market was jailed for 45 months on Monday. Vaidotas Mecislauskas (49), of Spalding Common, walked into the Nasza Biendronka supermarket shortly before 1.30pm on September 29 and demanded cigarettes and money from Sedad Amin who was stacking ...

A judge has issued an arrest warrant for a driver who failed to stop after hitting two pedestrians in Spalding town centre.William Jones (29) was due to be sentenced at Lincoln Crown Court on Monday after he admitted charges of dangerous driving and failing to stop after an accident.Jones, of Washway Road, Fleet Hargate, was driving his BMW 120D car ...

A man who was bravely disarmed by a temporary shop worker after producing an imitation firearm during an attempted robbery in Spalding Sheep Market was today (Monday) jailed for 45 months. Vaidotas Mecislauskas, 49, of Spalding Common, walked into the Nasza Biendronka supermarket shortly before 1.30pm on 29 September and demanded cigarettes and money from Sedad Amin who was stacking ...

A Pinchbeck man today (Wednesday) walked free from court after he was cleared of raping a woman who he met on a night out in Spalding. Matthew George Cocks (26) had denied a single charge of rape – telling a jury he had consensual sex with the woman after they shared a taxi home together. A jury at Lincoln Crown ...

A Pinchbeck man who denies raping a woman he met on a night out in Spalding insists it was “consensual sex.” Matthew George Cocks (26) denies a single charge of rape after sharing a taxi home with the woman on May 29 last year.A jury at Lincoln Crown Court heard the woman, who cannot be named, had spent the day ...

A Long Sutton man has been banned from driving after he went for a drink after work before going to collect his car from the MOT test centre. Louis Preston, 21, of Daniels Gate, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. It was said police were told on October 29 that a car had been ...

A man who put his hands around his partner’s throat for a few seconds was today (Friday) given a chance to avoid jail. Liam Crane, 19, had denied a charge of intentional strangulation but pleaded guilty to an offence of battery relating to the incident on June 14 this year. Crane also admitted offences of criminal damage and racially aggravated harassment on ...

Two men have each been fined £500 for their part in a brawl in a Spalding pub. Niall Burton and Luke Preston were two of six people charged over the two-stage fight at ThePunchbowl in New Road. Boston Magistrates’ Court heard on Wednesday that the disturbance “terrified” the landlady wholocked the doors afterwards. It happened at about 4.30pm on Sunday, ...

An argument over an air fryer led to a son throwing one at his 70-year-old dad before he bit a police officer on the leg. Edward Davis (31) was living with his father at Station Approach at the time of the incident triggered after he forgot to put food in the fryer while drunk on October 22. Now in temporary ...

A man who broke a window at the home of his now estranged partner, has been fined by magistrates at Boston. Steve Jackson, 28, who at the time had been living at Youngs Row, Sutton Bridge but now lives in Cambridge, admitted causing damage when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. The court was told the couple had been in ...

A 31-year-old Sutton Bridge man found drunk in the driver’s seat of his stationery car while banned from driving has been fined. Ernestas Montvydas of Granville Terrace, who admitted the offence, was found by police in RavensBank, Holbeach on October 2. It was said he was slumped in the driving seat of his Ford S Max with the exterior and ...

A Spalding man drunkenly assaulted two police offers after recently completing an alcohol abstinence monitoring order, a court has heard. Tiberiu-Lucian Grozav, 34, of Lancelot Way, admitted the assault when he appeared atBoston Magistrates Court. The magistrates heard that at 2am on October 2, two officers were sent to investigate the report of a manassaulted in the town centre and ...

A Crowland man smashed the window of a car he wrongly thought belonged to someone who had thrown his laptop over a fence, a court has heard. Daniel Matthews, 37, of Broadway admitted damage when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.Prosecuting, Paul Wood said Matthews had gone to his former partner’s home in Crowland on May 13 tocollect a laptop. ...

A Holbeach man has told a court he stole meat after his benefits were stopped for three months. Paul Skiller, 45, of Marshlands Drive, who admitted the offences of shoplifting and breach of a conditional discharge when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court, was said to have stolen £75 worth of meat from Tesco in Holbeach on September 20. Mitigating, ...