A man has been sentenced to three years in prison for robbing a newsagent
Lee Shopland, 31, of Willow Way, Guildford, was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to robbery at Guildford Crown Court.Officers were called to Prime Wines on Worplesdon Road around 7.30 a.m. after an incident occurred. Shopland entered the store and approached the counter, pushing past the shop assistant and taking £200 in cash and cigarettes.The […]
A healthcare worker who fathered a child with a psychiatric unit patient has jailed for eight months
The man, 36, from London, admitted having sexual relations with a mentally ill woman after she became pregnant at the Surrey unit in 2019. The woman was unable to care for the baby, so they were removed by children’s services after birth. Judge Rufus Taylor, sentencing the man at Guildford Crown Court, stated that […]
A police officer convicted of cocaine possession has been fired without notice
On Friday, 15 July, a misconduct hearing was held at the Empress State Building in relation to the case of Detective Sergeant Wayne Stanley, 41, who was assigned to the Met Operations Command. On the 28th of December, 2019, DS Stanley was present when Surrey Police officers responded to a call to a residential address. […]
Following a string of burglaries and vehicle thefts across Surrey, a man was sentenced to seven years in prison
Tristram Spencer, 35, of Watney Close, Purley, appeared in Guildford Crown Court on Friday (10 June) after pleading guilty to a number of charges. Officers were called to a residential address in Diceland Road in Banstead following reports of a Burglary on Friday, 15 January 2021, and an investigation was launched. When […]
A man sentenced for stealing a car from a house in Woking was caught on dashcam admitting to his crimes
On June 26, last year, Surrey police officers responded to reports of a car crashing into a wall on Constitution Hill in Woking. The driver of the car had fled the scene, but officers were able to contact the car’s owner, who confirmed that it had been stolen. They discovered dashcam recordings of the […]
Four men have been arrested after being identified as key members of a drugs gang based in Surrey. The sentence is the result of an inter…
The men were sentenced to a combined 35 years in prison following the large-scale investigation. Dean Criscuolo, 35, Christopher Brooks, 31, Kerran Boylan, 32, and Ben Dalton, 33, were sentenced today, (31 May), at Guildford Crown Court after all pleading guilty to multiple drugs offences at an earlier hearing. They were arrested in April […]
Four men have been arrested after being identified as key members of a drugs gang based in Surrey. The sentence is the result of an international investigation led by Surrey Police’s Serious Organised Crime Unit in collaboration with the National Crime Agency
The men were sentenced to a combined 35 years in prison following the large-scale investigation. Dean Criscuolo, 35, Christopher Brooks, 31, Kerran Boylan, 32, and Ben Dalton, 33, were sentenced today, (31 May), at Guildford Crown Court after all pleading guilty to multiple drugs offences at an earlier hearing. They were arrested in April […]
Five drug dealers will spend a combined total of over 23 years behind bars after pleading guilty to multiple drug offences at Guildford Crown Court
A serial burglar and conman has been jailed for more than a decade
Jim Chuter, 33 of no fixed address, appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday, 19 May where he was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for a linked series of burglaries committed in London, Surrey and Thames Valley. He had previously pleaded guilty to 26 charges including nine for burglary, sixteen counts of fraud and a […]
“I’m going to prison for this and I don’t ******* care.”- Dane Messam has been sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering his on-off partner Helen Anderson
Dane Messam has been sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering his on-off partner Helen Anderson. Helen Anderson was just 41 when her body was discovered in a small wooded area near the A3 in Guildford on Monday, 23 August 2021. Messam, 52, of Henry Road, Finsbury […]
“I’m going to prison for this and I don’t ******* care.”- Dane Messam has been sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in prison after being f…
Following today’s sentencing, Detective Chief Inspector Emma Vickers, from Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team said: “This was a tragic case where a woman lost her life at the hands of a man she loved who abused her trust. “Even with all the evidence against him, Messam continued to deny having any involvement in […]
A prolific burglar has been sentenced following Surrey Police’s ongoing efforts to tackle burglary offences in the county
Lloyd Ernest Edwards, 35 of Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon has been sentenced to two years five months in prison after pleading guilty to multiple burglary offences. Officers were alerted to two burglaries in October last year, one of which was at the Carrington School in Redhill. Staff contacted the police on Monday, 25 October […]
Two behind bars following burglary in Esher
David Parsons, 70, of Hounslow Road in Feltham, and Karl West, 53, of Rockingham Road in Uxbridge, were sentenced at Guildford Crown Court yesterday (13 April) following a burglary in Esher in January this year. On 17 January the pair broke into a residential address in Esher, waking up the victim who spotted them in […]
Violent man behind bars after abusing victim for nearly ten years
Imagine you spent time making a plan of what you would do if someone was going to kill you. That’s the reality for one victim of domestic abuse who suffered at the hands of her perpetrator for almost a decade. Her abuser, Toni Flisik, 38, of Fernback Crescent in Ascot, was sentenced at Guildford Crown […]
A man who sold cocaine and cannabis in West Surrey has been jailed for four years
Karl Frank Reichmann, 31 of Frimley Road, Camberley appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Wednesday (16 March) after pleading guilty to multiple drug dealing offences. Reichmann was identified as a suspect by Surrey’s Western Proactive Team. A drugs warrant was executed at his home address in Camberley on Tuesday, 8 February this year. Officers discovered […]
A man who was running a drug line from his Guildford bedroom has been jailed for four years
Khalid Chowdhury, 22 of Worplesdon Road, Guildford, appeared at Guildford Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to multiple drugs offences. Chowdhury was identified as the main suspect in a large investigation into an active drugs line which was carried out by Surrey Police. Phone work indicated that Chowdhury was involved in the supply of cannabis […]
A man from Lingfield who was involved in a number of thefts of motor vehicles, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison
James Cross, 19, of Selbys in Lingfield, was arrested on 25 January after officers from Surrey, Kent and Sussex police, executed a joint warrant at his address for a string of car thefts across the three counties. After appearing at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday, 8 March, Cross pleaded guilty to stealing four motor […]
A man who stalked a woman from Spelthorne over a period of several months, has been sentenced to three years behind bars following a hearing at Guildford Crown Court
On Friday (4 March) Craig Gibson, 38, of Staines Road in Hounslow, was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Friday, after pleading guilty to all charges, including causing damage to the same woman’s house and breaching a suspended sentence for similar offences. The court heard how Gibson stalked the woman over a period of several […]
