Crime

A man arrested following the discovery of a body in Spalding on Sunday morning has been released under investigation. A 49-year-old man was found dead at a house on Neville Avenue at around 11.38am. A police spokesman said they had arrested a 59-year-old man on suspicion of murder and he was released under investigation this morning (Wednesday). Officers are not ...

Two men face big fly-tipping bills after being taken to court by the district council. Jordan Hughes of Queens Street, Sutton Bridge, pleaded guilty at Boston Magistrates Court for offences relating to a fly tip on Marsh Road, Gedney Drove End in June 2018. Hughes, who appeared in court on Monday, employed a non-registered carrier to remove waste items for ...

A 53-year-old local man and an 18-year-old woman were arrested in Holbeach yesterday after police executed a search warrant at a Holbeach home. On Wednesday, November 21, officers from Holbeach and Spalding Police Stations, supported by regional search officers, executed a search warrant at a residential address in Holbeach, police said. This warrant had been obtained under the Misuse of ...

A  man who committed sex offences against two 15 year old girls was today (Fri) jailed for five years after a judge described him as posing a risk to young girls.   Neil Amess sent sexually explicit messages to the girls and met up with them. He went on to give them alcohol after taking back to his flat in Spalding and ...

A 42-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking offences. The suspects were questioned following a Lincolnshire Police operation in Gedney yesterday morning (Wednesday, November 7). Both have been released under investigation pending further enquiries. Lincolnshire Police said six people believed to have been trafficked to the county for work in the food services ...

Spalding convenience store staff held at gunpoint refused to give up the contents of the till during a robbery on Monday and the robber left empty-handed. Lincolnshire Police are appealing for information and have released photograph of the failed robber. Police said at 8.27pm on Monday, November 5, a man (pictured) entered the Fantasia store on Bourne Road. He threatened ...

A Long Sutton man was found in possession of cannabis, close to a children’s play area in Spalding where anti-social behaviour had been observed. Cieren Peter Brownsword, 28, of Little London, Long Sutton admitted possessing 5.79 grams of cannabis, when he appeared before District Judge Peter Veits sitting at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Shelley Wilson said police were carrying out observations ...

South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes has had his plea for a return of the death penalty knocked down by the government’s justice minister. Mr Hayes wrote to the Secretary of State for Justice on the issue of violent crime, and asked the “potential merits” of reinstating the death penalty be explored. In a written response, Edward Argar, ...

Four people have been arrested following a call from a member of the public that a burglary was taking place at a shed near his house in Sutton St James at around 1am Friday morning. Police said the member of the public detained one of the individuals until police arrived and he was then arrested. Three others made off in ...

Lincolnshire Police could be facing a £21 million shortfall in the next two years, the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Marc Jones has said. It follows central government telling police forces across the country they are the ones that need to fund an upcoming pensions shortfall. That shortfall in Lincolnshire is estimated to be at least £1.5 million next year, ...

A Spalding man has been warned that he faces jail after admitting offences involving two 15 year old girls.   Neil Richard Amess, 34, of Gaunt Close, Spalding, pleaded guilty at Lincoln Crown Court to charges of sexual activity with a child, meeting a child following sexual grooming and sexual communication with a child involving one of the girls.   ...

Balaclava wearing thieves used sledgehammers to steal “several thousands” of pounds from a Spalding town centre building society last night (Wednesday). G4S staff were at Nationwide Building Society’s Hall Place branch when two offenders smashed the glass door at 9.50pm. The security guards were able to close the doors and were uninjured, but the thieves made off with several thousand ...

It turned out to be an expensive day for two Spalding men, one the owner of a Mercedes car and the other a man who was test driving his car with a view to purchasing it. Edgaras Sukvietis, 26, of Spring Gardens admitted driving whilst under the influence of cannabis and to driving without insurance when he appeared at Boston Magistrates ...

Two brothers’ bid to raise awareness of the signs of domestic abuse after their father murdered their mum and sister has reached the international stage. Luke Hart was one of the keynote speakers at the One Young World annual summit for young leaders, this year held in The Netherlands. Luke was at The Hague to tell the summit his and ...

MPs have been asked to allow the police to reclaim the costs of keeping dogs confiscated from hare coursers in kennels. It came up when National Farmer’s Union (NFU) members from Lincolnshire went to the House of Commons recently to lobby Lincolnshire MPs about the issues surrounding rural crime. The meeting, which was chaired jointly by NFU national vice president ...

A dispute which began with a woman being assaulted ended with a man being stabbed in the leg, Lincoln Crown Court was told today (Mon).   Luke Cannon stabbed his victim Gregory Duffy in the thigh during an incident in Roman Bank, Spalding.   Jonathon Dee, prosecuting,  said there was a confrontation between the men before Cannon stabbed Mr Duffy in the ...

Lincolnshire Police Student officer group “cohort 22” were out in force on Friday to tackle “Fatal Four” offences across the county. Police said that during the day, 42 traffic offence reports were issued for speeding, mobile phone use and not wearing seat belts. An arrest was made, 20 breath tests were conducted (all negative), 10 drivers were given the chance ...

A Spalding shop that was found to be selling illegal cigarettes and smuggled alcohol has had its premises licence revoked. The 7 Day Euro Shop on Westlode Street was stripped of the licence to serve alcohol at today’s (Thursday) meeting of South Holland District Council’s Licencing Panel pending any appeal after several police sting operations. The license holder, Ali Hussein ...

A Long Sutton man seen reversing down a one-way street in Spalding was found to have been under the influence of drugs, a court has heard. Matthew Cousins, 21 of John Swains Way, Long Sutton admitted driving whilst under the influence of benzoylecgonine and cocaine when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court. Prosecuting, Marie Stace said police saw Cousins reversing ...

A councillor has spoken out after he was one of large number of South Holland residents recently targeted by fraudsters threatening court action over unpaid tax. South Holland District Councillor Pete Williams was phoned last week and told he was due in court that day ) owing nearly £5,000 in unpaid taxes dating from 2014 to 2017. The person claiming ...