A Lincoln man who admitted sexually touching a 13-year-old girl when he was aged 21 has been spared jail by a judge. Simon Clappison, 32, was given a suspended prison sentence after Judge Michael Heath described the case as “unusual” and “exceptional.” Lincoln Crown Court heard the matter was only reported ten years after the…
A Lincoln man who admitted sexually touching a 13-year-old girl when he was aged 21 has been spared jail by a judge. Simon Clappison, 32, was given a suspended prison sentence after Judge Michael Heath described the case as “unusual” and “exceptional.” Lincoln Crown Court heard the matter was only reported ten years after the…
A man who committed sex offences against a teenage girl which led to his victim giving birth to a child has been jailed for nine years at Lincoln Crown Court. John Hogan Stewart began having sex with the girl when she was just 14-years-old and later told her how he wanted her to have his…
A burglar who carried out a sneak-in raid in the early hours of the morning was today jailed for 18 months at Lincoln Crown Court. Perry Calvert reached through an open window of a house in Lincoln city centre and stole a bag of clothing. Stephen Kemp, prosecuting, said that Calvert then stole two bicycles…
A former Lincoln university student was part of a drugs gang who imported mephedrone from China to sell on the streets of Boston. The group were today given jail sentences totalling 33 years at Lincoln Crown Court. The drugs were bought directly from a manufacturing laboratory in China and delivered to addresses in the Boston…
A convicted sex offender who amassed a collection of more than 80,000 indecent images of children was today jailed for four years at Lincoln Crown Court. Gary Davison, who had two previously been jailed for sex offences, was caught after officers from the National Crime Agency raided his home in Lincoln. Police found so much…
An inquest has on Monday, June 12 opened in to the death of a popular school teacher from South Lincolnshire. Hedley Graeme Mutton, known as Graeme, was last seen leaving the Peter Hodgkinson mental health centre in Lincoln on November, 24 2015. The 41-year-old’s body was found four days later hanging from a tree at…
A 76-year-old-man has been charged with 23 sexual offences as part of an investigation into allegations of abuse involving children. John Bailey, 76, from Ash Tree Park in Kipped, Leeds, faces Indecent Assaults charges on females under the age of 14 between 1957 and 1981. He has been bailed to appear at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court…
A Grantham woman faces jail after she admitted smuggling over 40 grams of synthetic cannabis into Lincoln prison. Nicola Dowell, 41, also pleaded guilty to a charge of assault after she became angry while being searched at the Greetwell Road jail. Lincoln Crown Court heard Dowell admitted a charge of conveying 43.74 grams of synthetic…
A 33-year-old man from Faldingworth north of Lincoln has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for a string of sexual offences against a girl under the age of 13. Matthew Derek Clarke pleaded guilty to a number of offences and was jailed at Lincoln Crown Court on Thursday, June 22. Clarke targeted his victim,…
A gambling addict who stole over £38,000 after being employed by a Lincolnshire County Council sub-contractor despite having previous theft convictions was today jailed for 15 months. Darren Challis, 34, was employed in a financial role by both Mouchel and Serco despite being jailed for 18 months in 2013 after he stole over £47,000 while…
An international organised crime group who defrauded public bodies, including a Lincolnshire NHS trust, out of over £12 million have been sentenced. Conspirators who conned hospitals, councils and a government were given sentences of up to 10 years at Leicester Crown Court. Lincolnshire Police have been investigating the series of crimes since 2011 under Operation Tarlac…
A teenager who was caught with 15 wraps of heroin in Lincoln city centre was sentenced to two and half years in a young offenders institution. Declan Massingham, 18, was arrested in the Cornhill Quarter during October 2015 after he was spotted acting suspiciously on CCTV. Lincoln Crown Court heard Massingham was found to be…
A dealer who took regular trips to Lincoln from London to supply users in the city with illegal drugs has been jailed for three years. Terrell Holness, also known as ‘Dredz’, 20, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin at Lincoln Crown Court on June 27. He…
A builder has been fined after waste was found fly-tipped on land east of the A46 in Norton Disney. Phillip Partridge, 29, of Eastgate, Bassingham, was sentenced by Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on June 13 after invoices relating to him were found fly-tipped within a mixture of DIY, construction and green waste. He was found guilty…
A man has been charged with causing the death of a 23-year-old woman from Lincoln by dangerous driving. Benjamin Hughes, 24, of Nottingham Road, Lowdham, has also been charged with driving with alcohol over the prescribed limit following the crash in Southwell Road between High Cross and Thurgarton Village, Nottinghamshire on October 30, 2016. Dominique Wright from Nettleham died…
Courts this month have jailed a number of Lincoln criminals for offences ranging from child sexual assaults to drug dealing. Take a look at some of the Lincoln offenders convicted in June 2017: John Stewart John Hogan Stewart was jailed for nine years after committing sex offences against a teenage girl which led to his…
An inmate who admitted using a prohibited mobile phone in Lincoln Prison was today sentenced to eight months imprisonment. Kevin Anderson, 39, was caught with the Nokia phone after it was detected by prison officers who were using equipment which picks up the use of mobiles in jail. Lincoln Crown Court heard two prison officers…
A court has heard that a 16-year-old Lincoln schoolgirl was strangled to death by a man she had met just hours earlier. James Morton, 24, of Pierson Street in Newark, denied murdering 16-year-old Lincoln schoolgirl Hannah Pearson at his home on July 24 last year when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court. Michael Evans QC opened…