A mother has been sentenced after pleading guilty to causing the death of her baby daughter in Brighton
Verphy Kudi, 19, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment at Lewes Crown Court on Friday 6 August, having admitted at a hearing in March to the manslaughter of her daughter Asiah, aged 20 months, at a flat where they were living in Islingword Road, Brighton, in December 2019.
A driver who fell asleep at the wheel and caused a head-on collision – killing her own mother – has been convicted in court
Janet Macey was driving her mother’s Honda Jazz on the A229 at Hurst Green when she drifted into the opposite carriageway and crashed into a Ford Mondeo. The incident on the afternoon of 26 February 2020 tragically claimed the life of Margaret Skeet, aged 88, from Hawkhurst, Kent, who was the front seat passenger in […]
A Hastings man has been given a prison sentence totalling 16 years after being convicted of sexual offences against a young girl over fou…
Mark Greenfield, 47, an electrical contractor, now of Elphinstone Road, Hastings, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Friday 9 July. He had been convicted at the same court on 15 April after an eight-day trial, of five counts of rape and one of indecent assault against the girl, then aged between 11 and 15, […]
A Hastings man has been given a prison sentence totalling 16 years after being convicted of sexual offences against a young girl over four years
Mark Greenfield, 47, an electrical contractor, now of Elphinstone Road, Hastings, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Friday 9 July. He had been convicted at the same court on 15 April after an eight-day trial, of five counts of rape and one of indecent assault against the girl, then aged between 11 and 15, […]
Man jailed after stabbing police officer in Eastbourne
An Eastbourne man who viciously stabbed a police officer in the town last summer has been jailed. Paul Cunningham, 43, unemployed, of Pevensey Road, Eastbourne, was today (Wednesday 26 May) sentenced at Lewes Crown Court having pleaded guilty to charges of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, assault by beating of an emergency […]
Brighton woman convicted of false statements in historic murder case
A Brighton woman has been convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice in a murder case. Jennifer Johnson, 55, was found guilty of both counts by a jury on majority verdicts at Lewes Crown Court on Monday (17 May) after a month-long trial.
Jail for drug-driver who killed man, 65, in crash
A drug-driver who caused this horrific crash – killing one man and seriously injuring his wife – has been jailed. Christopher Fenton was driving an Audi S4 eastbound on Fairlight Road, Fairlight, around 6.45pm on 6 March 2020 when the tragic incident occurred. He clipped the wing mirror of a Volkswagen Polo travelling in the […]
An Eastbourne man is starting a 17-year prison sentence for child sex offences after an investigation by Sussex safeguarding detectives
Simon Hutchinson, 53, unemployed, now of Hailsham Road, Stone Cross, near Eastbourne, was sentenced at Hove Crown Court on Thursday 22 April after being convicted of 14 offences relating to the sexual abuse over 10 years of a girl known to him who was a young child when the abuse first began. He admitted four […]
A man who subjected his former partner to violent abuse has been sentenced to 25 months in prison
Palito Arteaga-Aponte, 46, of Woolborough Road, Crawley, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on 13 April after he was convicted of seven offences between June 2020 and January 2021. He was found guilty of five counts of assault by beating and one count of grievous bodily harm without intent. He pleaded guilty to one count […]
Two in court on drugs charges after car stopped on M23
Two men have appeared in court on drug dealing charges after officers stopped a car from which drugs were thrown on the M23. The car, a silver Mercedes A150, was southbound on the M23 between the Gatwick and Crawley junctions at 5.30pm on Thursday 8 April, when it was safely stopped by officers from the […]
A Dutchman who admitted swallowing 50 packets of cocaine in an attempt to smuggle them into the UK has been jailed for 32 months
Martinus Gunning, 42, was investigated by the National Crime Agency after arriving at London Gatwick Airport from the Netherlands on 10 January 2021.When stopped by Border Force, he initially claimed he was in the UK to visit a girlfriend but shortly afterwards said he had swallowed 50 packages. A total of 463g of the class A […]
A Brighton man has been jailed for seven years following an investigation by Sussex Police
A Brighton man has been jailed for seven years following an investigation by Sussex Police. Lee Jones, 32, of Richmond Terrace in Brighton, appeared before Lewes Crown Court following an investigation into the supply of Class A drugs in Brighton and Hove.
Tributes have been paid to a “fun-loving, doting dad” who was tragically killed by an uninsured and unlicensed driver
Tributes have been paid to a “fun-loving, doting dad” who was tragically killed by an uninsured and unlicensed driver. Michael James Craig, known as Mick, had been riding his moped eastbound on the A27 at Poling when he was struck by a blue Volkswagen Caddy. He was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
A motorist who crashed while high on drink and drugs, killing his housemate, has been jailed
A motorist who crashed while high on drink and drugs, killing his housemate, has been jailed. Ionut Dumitru was driving a recently purchased grey BMW 5 Series southbound on the A21 London Road, at Flimwell, when he left the carriageway and collided with a tree.
A man who made a hoax call in attempt to get his colleague into trouble with police has been jailed for 10 months
Ashley Hall, 26, a Labourer, of The Nurseries in Bognor Regis, dialled 999 at 4.07pm on 26 June and reported seeing a man waving a machete out of the window of a car in the Burgess Hill area. Due to the seriousness of the report, this triggered a significant emergency response involving over 20 officers, […]
A man has been jailed for 25 years after he was convicted of the murder of Jacqueline Hoadley in Eastbourne
Raymond Hoadley, 62, of Willowfield Road, Eastbourne, was unanimously found guilty of the murder of his estranged wife Jacqueline at Hove Crown Court on 22 January following a three-week trial. He appeared at Lewes Crown Court on Monday (22 February) and was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years custody by Judge Jeremy Gold QC who told […]
Two men have been jailed for an armed robbery in Worthing
At 4.30pm on Thursday (3 December), two men who had been browsing Worthing News in Rowlands Road, pulled out a silver imitation revolver and demanded cash from shop workers.
A North London couple have appeared in court Sussex, charged with a ‘County Lines’ operation bringing Class A drugs from London into Brig…
Edward Birigwa, 29, a labourer, and Kessia Davies, 21, a retail employee, both of Golders Way, London NW11, appeared in custody at Crawley Magistrates Court on Friday 29 January, both charged with being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin. They were remanded in custody to appear at Lewes Crown Court on […]
