Lincoln man lost his arm in ‘preventable’ factory accident
A Lincoln man has lost his arm in an incident at a recycling plant in Scunthorpe due to safety failings at his work post. On March 8, 2011, the 25-year-old’s (then 23) arm was severed at the shoulder...
View ArticleNorth Hykeham Chinese takeaway fined for 13 hygiene breaches
The owner of a Chinese takeaway in the south of Lincoln has been fined after breaching a number of food hygiene standards in his kitchen. According to health inspectors, the kitchen of Jade Garden,...
View ArticleLincoln smartphone thief jailed
A Lincoln man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for a street robbery and stealing mobile phones in the city. Shane Goss (33) of Kirkby Street in Lincoln, admitted robbery and theft and was...
View ArticleLincoln woman fined £1k for not clearing dog mess
A Lincoln woman was fined over £1,000 for persistently failing to clear dog mess from her back garden. Kerry Carr, 25, of Monks Road, was found guilty of two counts of statutory nuisance under the...
View ArticleLincolnshire prison absconder charged with indecent exposure, burglary and...
A man who absconded from an open prison in Lincolnshire for almost two months has been charged with 13 offences, including indecent exposure in the county, burglaries and knifepoint robbery. Ivan Leach...
View ArticleMan in Lincoln court over malicious Facebook messages
A local man appeared in a Lincoln court on Saturday charged with sending malicious Facebook messages following the Woolwich attack in which a soldier was killed. Benjamin Flatters (22) was arrested in...
View ArticleLincoln solicitor finds ‘expired’ driving licences wrongly prosecuted
A road traffic law specialist from a Lincoln solicitors firm has found courts are incorrectly accusing motorists with old or expired photos or addresses of not having a licence at all. Partner Michael...
View ArticleTwo weeks jail for Lincolnshire man over Woolwich murder Facebook comments
A Lincolnshire man who posted offensive comments on Facebook following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich has ben jailed for two weeks. Benjamin Flatters, 22, originally from Swineshead, near...
View ArticleDangerous Lincoln sex offender jailed for 7 years
A dangerous sex offender from Lincoln was jailed for seven years for an attack on an eight-year-old girl in the city. Scott Owen (29), formerly of Willow Tree Close in Lincoln, was found guilty of...
View ArticleEight months jail for Lincoln IT technician over child porn stash
A Lincoln man has been jailed for eight months after it was discovered he had almost 2,000 indecent images of children on his computer. IT technician Marc Gothorp (32) of Coulson Road in Lincoln, was...
View ArticleLincoln paedophile jailed for 15 years
A Lincoln man who raped a young girl has been sentenced to 15 years in prison at Lincoln Crown Court. Darren Lewis (37) of Newland Street West denied eight sexual offences, including rape, on the...
View ArticleLincolnshire meals-on-wheels supplier fined over kitchen hygiene
A supplier of meals-on-wheels for the elderly based near Lincoln has been fined nearly £5,000 after a series of kitchen hygiene breaches. The Lincolnshire Kitchen, run from Nocton Heath by David Mather...
View ArticleLincoln teenager temporarily banned from Spilsby
A Lincoln teen charged with three disorder offences has been banned from a nearby town until her court date next month. Tamara Bache (19), currently residing in Lincoln, has been charged with three...
View ArticleThree men jailed over Washingborough burglary
Three local men who burgled a house in Washingborough near Lincoln last year have been jailed. Daniel Philip Besccoby (26), Aron Findley Duff (28) and Keith Andrew David Duff (27), were sentenced at...
View ArticleMan to stand trial over mother’s murder
The man accused of murdering his mother will be on trial in January 2014. Nigel Constable (51) of Sherburn Road, Rastrick, Brighouse in West Yorkshire was charged with the murder of his mother, Betty...
View ArticleDrone protesters fined for criminal damage at RAF Waddington
Six peace activists, including two priests, two pensioners and a partially blind researcher, have been found guilty of causing criminal damage after breaking into RAF Waddington this summer. On October...
View ArticleSix years jail for Lincoln man for drugs supply
A Lincoln man has been sentenced to six years jail for possession of class A drugs with intent to supply, along burglary offences. Lincolnshire Police arrested the man and his partner in Operation...
View ArticleAt least 15 years jail for man found guilty of mother’s murder
A Lincoln man has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum of 15 years, after he was found found guilty of murdering his mother at Derby Crown Court on October 9. As previously reported, Kazik...
View ArticleLincoln man convicted of 23 child abuse offences
A 50-year-old local man has been convicted of possession and distribution of child abuse images. Andrew Bowen (50), of Bawtry Close in Lincoln was found guilty of 23 offences relating to child abuse...
View ArticleLincoln family angry as trial delays pause daughter’s recovery
The family of a Lincoln teenager seriously injured in a car crash last year have spoken out as delays in the criminal case mean she has been unable to commence a specialist rehabilitation process to...
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