A man has today been jailed for life for the murder of Ricky Collins in Killamarsh
Bradley Ward was found guilty of murder in December following a three-week trial at Derby Crown Court. Officers were called to reports of an assault on Westthorpe Road in the late evening of Monday 29 March. Ricky, from Sheffield, had suffered two serious stab wounds to his body and arm. The 31-year-old staggered […]
A man has today been jailed for life for the murder of Ricky Collins in Killamarsh – (ID 520180)
Bradley Ward was found guilty of murder in December following a three-week trial at Derby Crown Court. Officers were called to reports of an assault on Westthorpe Road in the late evening of Monday 29 March. Ricky, from Sheffield, had suffered two serious stab wounds to his body and arm. The 31-year-old staggered […]
A man has today been jailed for life for the murder of Ricky Collins in Killamarsh
Bradley Ward was found guilty of murder in December following a three-week trial at Derby Crown Court. Officers were called to reports of an assault on Westthorpe Road in the late evening of Monday 29 March. Ricky, from Sheffield, had suffered two serious stab wounds to his body and arm. The 31-year-old staggered […]
A teenage boy has been jailed for 12 years for killing 17-year-old Benjamin Orton, in Swadlincote
Erik Rudaks, of Essex Drive, Church Gresley, was found guilty in December of manslaughter following a three-week trial at Derby Crown Court and was today (Friday 14 January) sentenced for killing Benjamin. Benjamin, who was known as Benji to his friends and loved ones, and his 20-year-old friend were attacked on Wragg Passage, near […]
Dean O’Neil booked a hotel room in Derbyshire to meet a seven-year-old girl for sex
The 40-year-old also bought make-up and clothes as gifts for the youngster after agreeing to pay her father £200 and a Burger King meal for his daughter’s services. But she was really an undercover police officer posing as her dad. And when he went to the defendant’s address to arrest him two days before […]
A drug dealer has been sentenced to three years in a young offenders’ institution
Iftekhar Hussain was sentenced after he admitted supplying cocaine and cannabis and possessing both drugs with intent to supply. The case against him began on September 9 last year when he was seen by officers inside a car that was suspected to be involved in the supply of drugs in Normanton. The Honda Civic was […]
A couple have been jailed for four armed robberies where a handgun was used to demand cash, tobacco, and alcohol
Mark Hamlet, 37, and Rebecca Monk, 50, were arrested at their home in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, after a 14-hour stand-off with police in July 2019. Officers found the handgun used in the robberies hidden inside a cake box at the property, police said. The pair were sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday. The […]
A 37-year-old woman has been jailed for five years for her part in a violent robbery at a house in Chesterfield
Jessica Hodgkinson, along with a still unidentified man, burst into the home of the elderly couple at around 9am on 26 February 2020. Shortly before the incident Hodgkinson, of Dundas Road, Sheffield, had attempted to buy cigarettes from a man at a house in Newland Dale, Chesterfield. She argued with the man about a […]
A woman and three children who were found dead at a house in Derbyshire died as a result of “violent acts”, a coroner has said
Terri Harris and her children John Paul and Lacey Bennett were found dead along with Lacey’s friend Connie Gent at a house in Killamarsh on 19 September. Their inquest openings heard police went to the house following a report Damien Bendall had stabbed himself. Mr Bendall was arrested on suspicion of murder and has […]
A 32-year-old man who shot his ex-partner in the face has been jailed for 27 years
Tyrone Harvey shot his former partner with a converted handgun loaded with home-made ammunition at her home in Warren Street, Derby, on Monday 11 January 2021. This occurred a day before the victim was due in court to apply for a non-molestation order, which would have restricted him contacting the victim. In the early hours […]
A prison officer has been sentenced for helping her lover escape from a Derbyshire jail
Erica Whittingham began a relationship with Michael Seddon while she worked at HMP Dovegate, in Staffordshire, where he was serving a term for his part in the violent robbery of an elderly farmer. When Seddon was moved to the nearby HMP Sudbury, an open prison in the Derbyshire Dales, the pair continued their relationship […]
A man who was jailed for more than 34 months after bombarding a Chesterfield taxi firm with calls, in a bid to blackmail money from the owner of the business, has been ordered to pay back just £1 after it was found that all the money he stole had been spent
Ehsen Abdul Razak, 24, of Strachan Street, Maidstone and Gracia Mbwiti of Harts Lane, Barking launched a Telephone Denial of Service (TDOS) attack on A-Line Taxis in February 2017. The pair purchased specialist equipment which allowed them to constantly call the firm day and night over a 30-hour period, preventing genuine calls getting through. They […]
A man who was jailed for more than 34 months after bombarding a Chesterfield taxi firm with calls, in a bid to blackmail money from the o…
Ehsen Abdul Razak, 24, of Strachan Street, Maidstone and Gracia Mbwiti of Harts Lane, Barking launched a Telephone Denial of Service (TDOS) attack on A-Line Taxis in February 2017. The pair purchased specialist equipment which allowed them to constantly call the firm day and night over a 30-hour period, preventing genuine calls getting through. They […]
Man jailed for knife and drugs offences following search at Tibshelf
A man has been jailed for possession of a knife and drugs offences after police stopped a car he was in at an M1 service station Adeel Hussain, of Almond Street in Derby, was arrested in April after officers from our roads policing unit spotted a car driving the wrong way round the one-way system […]
A woman has been jailed for ten years after a jury found her guilty of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy
Debbie Yates was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault of a child aged under 13, two counts of inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and one count of child abduction. She was sentenced at Derby Crown Court today after a two-week trial. The court had heard how Yates (38) […]
18 years in jail for man who claimed he strangled partner due to cage fighting dream
A man who claimed he strangled his partner after having a dream about cage fighting has been jailed for 18 years. Bradley Souto attacked his partner Rebecca Jackson as she slept on the evening of 13 November, 2019. After choking her unconscious, he rang his mother who told him to ring 999. A passing […]
A Derby man has been jailed for eight years after being found guilty of raping a young woman in his van
Sudesh Kumar, of Carsington Crescent, in Allestree, denied the offence which took place back in August 2018 but was found guilty and sentenced during the hearing last week. He had been with the victim, a woman in her 20s, and friends who were drinking at a pub in Peartree during the evening. The group then […]
Three men have been given prison sentences after they were found guilty of assaulting a vulnerable man in Derby
Officers were called to a disturbance at a property in the Rose Hill area around 2.15 am on Thursday 1 November 2018. They found a man had been assaulted at the address and three men, who were also at the property, were arrested. The victim, who was in his early 20s and has learning difficulties, […]
