Crime

A police officer has received a fine and three points on his licence after being found guilty of a driving offence in Weston. PC Ryan Martin Murphy (33)entered a guilty plea at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court last Tuesday (June 11) after being charged with driving a Suzuki Swift car “without due care and attention” at Broadgate, Weston, on December 8 last ...

A charity centre was broken into over the May bank holiday weekend and thousands of pounds worth of items were taken. The Sense Centre in Pinchbeck provides day service provision to almost 30 people with complex needs from the surrounding area. The items stolen enabled individuals to access and enjoy the sensory garden at the centre. A spokesman said that ...

A 12-year-old boy has had his bike stolen in Spalding. Police said the boy’s red/orange Carerra Hellcat junior bike was stolen from an alleyway on High Street at 3.20pm. In a statement, police said: “We’re looking for a white man, approx. 17-years-old, 5′ 10″, thin, wearing a black hoodie, joggers & maybe a puffa jacket.” Anyone with any information is ...

A Long Sutton man and woman have received suspended sentences after being found guilty of causing an animal unnecessary suffering after a court saw video evidence of fox cubs being fed to hunting dogs. Paul Oliver (40) and kennel maid Hannah Rose (30), from Sutton Crosses, were convicted at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court of causing unnecessary suffering to fox cubs. The ...

A former firefighter helped stop a home from burning down with a hose after a family’s garden renovation, bought using savings and finished just last weekend, was set alight in a reported arson. A hot tub purchased just last weekend to ease two relatives’ ill health and a 22-year-old wooden playhouse containing family memorabilia were destroyed in the blaze in ...

A spokesman from the trust that runs University Academy Holbeach said it would like to reassure parents, pupils and carers that it is working with police on the yesterday’s knife arrest. On Tuesday, June 4, a 13-year-old boy was arrested at the school under suspicion of possession of a bladed article. The trust spokesman said: “University Academy Holbeach is part ...

A family including two young children were left terrified after a brick was thrown through their front window on Sunday seemingly by vandals attempting to target a different property. Annie East was sat in the front room of her home in Roman Bank at 9.15pm, when the brick smashed through the front window and also broke the TV. The sound ...

Budget cutting Lincolnshire Police has received a big boost with additional funding of £1.8m allowing it to recruit 30 more officers. Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones successfully applied to the Home Office for the additional cash and will make it available to the Chief Constable to spend this year and next. Back in February Lincolnshire Police announced that ...

A teenager has been arrested at a Holbeach school on suspicion of having a knife. Inspector Gareth Boxall said: “At 10.35am yesterday (Tuesday, June 4) we were called to the University Academy Holbeach following a report of a pupil with a knife. “We arrested a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of possessing a bladed article. “I’m grateful to staff at the ...

Police are appealing to identify the man in the image to assist with a burglary investigation in Weston. On Monday, May 20, a man described as wearing dark trousers and a dark hooded jacket entered the rear yard of The Chequers Inn pub on High Road, at 3am before taking meat. Anyone with information can contact police via 101 or ...

A series of anti-social behaviour incidents were reported in Crowland on Thursday, May 23. A group of youths were seen throwing stones and pulling down banners outside the Royal British Legion at 7.26pm in Broadway. Youths were then seen kicking a property door in Reform Street at 8.25pm. There was also a report of a man being abused in North ...

Police have appealed for information after a woman reported a balaclava clad man coming towards her after the van he was driving pulled out in front of her. The woman was driving along Glenside, Pinchbeck, at around 11pm on Friday, May 24. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “A silver coloured van pulled sharply in front of her and she ...

Two men have been arrested after armed police were called to Pinchbeck on Monday night. Police said armed officers were deployed to Blue Gowt Lane in Pinchebeck after reports of a man seen with an air weapon at 7.27pm on Monday, May 27. Two men, aged 41 and 29, were arrested in the area on suspicion of possession of an ...

Lincolnshire Police arrested a 47-year-old local man for driving whilst unfit through drugs in Spalding Cemetery on Monday morning and seized the uninsured vehicle. Police said at 11.10am they were called to Spalding Cemetery following a report of someone taking drugs in a car. “We arrested the driver for driving whilst unfit though drugs and seized the vehicle as it ...

A “large quantity” of class A and B drugs has been found by police in Holbeach following “months of hard work” by Lincolnshire Police and Holbeach residents. On Friday, May 19, police found class A and B drugs after executing a search warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at an address in Holbeach, with support from Lincolnshire Police Dog ...

Two men have been arrested on suspicion to steal after a police chase from Spalding to Bourne. Lincolnshire Police says it spotted a grey Fiesta on the A16 just after 5pm yesterday (Sunday) believed to have involved in ‘bilking’ offences in several occasions, including in Spalding and Whaplode. Bilking means to obtain or withhold money from (someone) unfairly or by ...

A Cowbit man who caused a collision which killed three members of one family, including a young mother and father, has been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison. Tommy Whitmore (26) pleaded guilty to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving at Peterborough Crown Court today (May 20). The judge also banned him from driving for ...

The “popular and charismatic” founder of a Lincolnshire choir was this afternoon (Friday) jailed for eight years at Lincoln Crown Court after being convicted earlier this month of sex attacks on a teenage boy.   Andrew Clingo (43), who was musical director of the Handful of Harmonies Choir and is a former primary school teacher, was also placed on the sex offenders’ register ...

A man was nearly double the drink drive limit when he collided with a taxi, injuring the five occupants, a court has heard. Alexandru Radu (30) of Rookery Farm, Holbeach St Johns, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared before magistrates in Boston. The court was told that he collided with the taxi at 10.30pm on Saturday, April 13 ...

Fewer than one in five people think alcohol is a bigger problem than illegal drugs – despite the fact that South Holland is the UK’s drink-drive capital. A new study by alcohol and addiction advice service Port of Call exposes the fact that most people downplay the danger of alcohol addiction. While recent figures showed South Holland to have relatively ...