Crime

A 78-year-old Spalding man has been banned from the roads for 20 months after being caught more than twice the drink-drive limit. Michael Stuart Edwards, of Parkside Crescent, was arrested in St Thomas’s Road, Spalding, on May 6. He had 77 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. Edwards pleaded guilty to driving with ...

A Spalding man charged with fraudulent evasion of income tax during a four-year period has had his case sent for trial. Jonathan Peter Warfield (39), of Sharman Way, appeared before magistrates in Lincoln on Tuesday (June 13). He is said to have committed the offence between April 6, 2011 and April 5, 2015. The charge was brought by the Specialist ...

Police are appealing for information after four portable toilets, each worth around £500, were stolen from fields in and around South Holland. The thefts took place overnight on Monday, June 5, near to Cowpers Gate, off the A17, at Long Sutton and off the A17 at Moulton Seas End. Then overnight on Thursday, June 8, at Main Road, Gedney Drove ...

South Holland residents are being called upon to review their security after a number of recent attempts to steal heating oil. Attempts were made in Hockley Lane, Whaplode; Boston Road North, Holbeach and Hogsgate, Moulton overnight on Friday, June 9. Anyone who saw anything suspicious or has information should contact police on 101 quoting incident 149 of June 9.

Police are hunting a driver who fled after smashing into a streetlight and two garden walls in Spalding. Carol Hudson (69, pictured), of Hawthorn Bank, woke to find her wall destroyed. Her son’s car on the drive suffered minor damage and her neighbours’ wall was also partially demolished. She said: “You work hard and save hard and it’s devastating to ...

Police say they remain committed to proactive patrols to reduce the risk of further burglaries at the homes of the elderly and vulnerable in South Holland. Extra resources have been drawn in to increase patrols by up to double in some areas at times since a spate of more than 20 burglaries where intruders have got in after breaking into ...

One of the two 14-year-olds who murdered Spalding dinner lady Liz Edwards and daughter Katie (13) last year was Kim Edwards, Liz’s second-eldest daughter. Reporting restrictions have been lifted by judges at the Court of Appeal so the identities of Kim and boyfriend Lucas Markham – both 14 at the time of the killings in April 2016 – can be ...

Police are appealing for information about the theft of a yellow Yamaha R125 motorbike, registration GJ58 FCL. It was stolen from a garden in Danube Square, Spalding, overnight on Tuesday, May 23. Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Ben Harrington by calling 101 and quoting incident number 81 of May 24. Or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 or ...

Police are appealing for information on the attempted theft of a car on Tuesday (June 6).   It happened in Acacia Avenue, Spalding between between 3am and 4am. The white Ford Fiesta had a door forced open and there was a failed attempt to drive it away. The offenders left pushed it a short distance before leaving it.   Anyone ...

A pensioner has been accused of criminal damage after he removed panels from a fence he says blocks a legal right of way to his back garden. Alwyn Chilvers (70) and his mother Audrey (92) say it is stated in their deeds they can access their garden  behind the next door end-of-terrace house in High Road, Whaplode, but a 7ft ...

Lincolnshire Trading Standards and Lincolnshire Police are warning residents about a new type of copycat website.   Trading standards officers say a “significant number” of residents have been in touch about the websites which feature cars, expensive machinery and large plant, all for sale at low prices. Designed to look like existing local businesses’ websites, they carry copied contact details, ...

A banned motorist caught at the wheel while three times the drink-drive limit has escaped an immediate jail sentence. Arturs Eversons (31), of Walnut View, pleaded guilty to driving in Albert Street, Spalding on May 13 with 110 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. Appearing before magistrates in Lincoln on June 1, Eversons ...

A Gosberton Risegate man has started a prison sentence after admitting assaulting a woman. Darren Paul Matthews, of Sheppersons Avenue, was handed a six-week term seven days after beating Megan Parr on May 24. He was also ordered to pay £50 compensation. Appearing before Boston magistrates on May 31, Matthews (45) also pleaded guilty to: taking a car on May ...

A Deeping St Nicholas man accused of having 71.5 grams of cannabis with intent to supply has been remanded on unconditional bail. Luke Hugh Perry (19), of Cornfield Close, is said to have been in the possession of the class B drug  in St George’s Avenue, Stamford, on November 20, 2016. Perry appeared before Boston magistrates on May 31 and ...

The daughter of one of the many elderly burglary victims targeted in the Spalding area over the past fortnight says her mother will not feel comfortable using a key safe again. Many of those targeted have been burgled using keys kept in coded boxes on the outside of the property, which enable access for trusted people. The daughter (who we ...

A woman accused of having cannabis in Holbeach with intent to supply has changed her plea to guilty. Caroline Kelly Moxon (40), of Moulton Washway, Fosdyke Bridge, admitted the charge surrounding 10.05 grams of the drug on September 19, 2016. She had previously denied the offence but before Boston magistrates on May 26 Moxon entered a guilty plea. She was ...

Police investigating a string of 20 burglaries and attempted burglaries at homes of elderly people seized property at a Spalding home on Thursday (June 1). A search warrant was executed at a house in Halmer Gate. No arrests have yet been made. Det Insp Dave Rimmer said: “This is very much a live enquiry. We have searched an address today, ...

A Spalding disc jockey who committed sex offences against teenaged girls has been jailed.   Roy Hayes contacted his victims over Skype persuading them to strip and perform sexual acts as he watched. He masturbated while the acts were taking place and recorded the footage.   Hayes (44), of Gaunt Close, admitted two charges of inciting a girl to engage in sexual ...

A Spalding man who was caught with films of child sex abuse has been jailed for eight months.   After police raided his home in Wygate Road, Gareth Oddy (34) admitted to searching for indecent material. Lincoln Crown Court heard Oddy was present when officers carried out the early morning search on January 20, 2016.   Gregor Purcell, prosecuting, said Oddy ...

A 71-year-old man accused of taking a suspicious package into the Lincolnshire Co-op store at Holbeach remains on conditional bail. David James Edwards, of Hallgate, was not at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on Friday (May 12) for the case’s latest hearing. It is said that, on January 27 this year at the Fleet Street store, he “placed an article, namely a ...