Crime

A 13-year-old boy has today (Friday, January 12) pleaded guilty to possessing an air weapon with intent to cause fear of violence and having an axe at a Lincolnshire school. Police were called to the school in the south of the county just after 9am on Monday, November 13 after staff dealt with an incident involving a teenage pupil. Lincolnshire Police ...

A photo of a cow chewing on a plastic beer can ring in Lincolnshire is the latest incident of fly-tipping that demonstrates the seriousness of the crime and the risk it can pose to cattle, the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) said. The incident took place near a picnic area at East Lighthouse, Sutton Bridge on land where cattle ...

Officers in South Holland gave 360 motorists drink-driving breath tests over the Christmas period, Lincolnshire Police said. The stops were made as part of the force’s Operation BlackWater through December. Inspector Gareth Boxall said: “South Holland officers conducted 360 breath tests throughout that period and made 20 arrests. “Those caught were from a mixture of us responding to reports from ...

The family of a 14-year-old girl who was left distressed after an exposure by a Spalding man has criticised his sentence after he escaped jail. At Lincoln Crown Court on Friday, December 8, Paul Raymond Stubbs, of Beech Avenue, pleaded guilty to the charge of indecent exposure on May 31 earlier this year on Church Street, Spalding, and of separate ...

A Pinchbeck businessman whose chip shop was broken into last week is “disgusted and disheartened” after discovering charity boxes had been taken. Ian Donger, who has run Pinchbeck Friar for 15 years, said he turned up for work at 9am on Friday morning to discover the shop had been broken into overnight. He said two charity collection boxes had been ...

A manhunt following a stabbing, for which a £500 reward for information has been offered, has been linked to the Gosberton/Quadring area of South Holland. Sussex Police are on the look out for Andrew Prince (20) who is wanted in connection with an incident of GBH on October 30 in Eastbourne. On Wednesday, December 20 Lincolnshire Police tweeted: “We are ...

A Spalding man who “head-butted” another man during an argument in a bar has been given a suspended jail sentence and a curfew imposed to keep him from drinking in public at Christmas.   Aleks Szerafin (20) had been drinking when the incident occurred in Bentley’s Bar on September 3 last year, Lincoln Crown Court heard.   Passing sentence Judge ...

A 31-year-old man was arrested on Friday after air support were called to an incident at Holbeach St Marks. Officers from East Midlands Operational Support Service were involved in the arrest, which came after a vehicle ended-up in the river at Pode Hole. The arrest was part of Operation Galileo which is targeting hare coursers visiting Lincolnshire to commit offences. ...

A man has appeared in court charged with possessing more than a thousand indecent photographs of children. Russell Ian Nason (34), of Wrights Lane, entered no pleas to three allegations of making a total of 1,081 indecent photographs of children between May 2009 and September last year. He also faces a single allegation of possessing an extreme pornographic image of ...

Police officers have been out and about in Spalding today (Wednesday) cracking down on cyclists flouting laws. On the spot fines have been handed out to 15 people seen on bicycles riding without lights or in pedestrian areas. Officers came in at 6am this morning for the day of action and spent most of the day handing out the £50 ...

The chairman of Lincolnshire Police Federation has blasted the “absurdly lenient sentence” given to a man who avoided jail after leaving a Spalding officer disfigured. Jon Hassall says the victim’s young children were initially frightened by their dad’s appearance as a result of the attack and is calling for increased sentences for assaults on emergency service personnel. The incident happened ...

Police are appealing for witnesses after reports of a disturbance involving teenagers in Spalding town centre yesterday (Tuesday, November 14). The reported incident of affray occurred around 5.30pm on Hall Place in Spalding and involved what police described as a “large” group of young people. A posting on Spalding Police’s Facebook page, said: “We are appealing for witnesses to an ...

A bogus “Help for Heroes” collector who pocketed thousands of pounds by posing in military uniform and pretending to be a serving soldier was today (Monday, November 6) jailed for 15 months.   David Santini (55) from Quadring, was caught collecting cash from the unsuspecting people at Newark antiques fair after police became suspicious about the style of his uniform. ...

A man who downloaded hundreds of photographs and videos of young girls being sexually abused claimed he was working as a vigilante to expose paedophiles, Lincoln Crown Court was told.   Matthew Pointon (43) has been jailed for three years for downloaded images of girls as young as five years old being abused and sharing photographs with other men using ...

A drugs courier caught with more than £80,000 worth of cocaine was today (Wednesday, November 1) jailed for six years at Lincoln Crown Court.   Bush Hykaj was arrested after police who were called out to an unconnected domestic incident at an address in Spalding found him sitting outside the property in a BMW car.   Hykaj said the car was ...

Ten Ford Kugas have joined Lincolnshire Police’s ranks to help officers tackle crime in tough conditions in Lincolnshire. The vehicles, which will be used in South Holland when needed, are designed to cover fields and farm tracks, as well as difficult winter weather conditions such as icy or flooded roads. The vehicles will cost £195,000, which includes the cost of ...

A Spalding care home company has admitted breaching health and safety regulations following an investigation into the deaths of three residents. Apex Care Ltd pleaded guilty at Lincoln Crown Court on Wednesday to failing to carry out the provision of residential care in a way that residents were not exposed to risk to their health and safety. The charges, brought ...

Police emergency call handlers were stunned when a Spalding resident called 999 to complain about a Chinese takeaway. Police Sector Inspector Gareth Boxall condemned the irresponsible act on Monday night. He said he was: “Sorry to read that someone in our community thought it appropriate to call 999 to complain about their Chinese takeaway.” The caller has not been identified ...

Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of robbery following a knife-point raid in Holbeach. On Wednesday, October 25, three men with knives robbed McColl’s Newsagents (formerly Martin’s), High Street, Holbeach, police said. A police spokesman said two local teenagers, aged 16 and 17, have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and released on bail until November 26. The spokesman ...

Three armed men robbed a shop in Holbeach on Wednesday (October 25), police said. A police spokesman said three men with knives robbed McColl’s Newsagents (formerly Martin’s), High Street, Holbeach, on Wednesday (October 25). A police spokesman said they received a call around 7.30pm reporting three men had entered the store and threatened staff with knives. They stole a small ...