A former football coach and school worker has been sentenced to 19 years imprisonment after admitting a series of child sex offences

Jonathan Clarke, 32, was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court today (Friday 9 December 2022) after pleading guilty to 54 offences spanning more than a decade. The offences include the making of indecent images, sexual communications with a child, inciting children to engage in sexual acts, voyeurism, and blackmail, which were all committed online. Clarke asked […]
A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison following a robbery in Norwich in which a pensioner was viciously attacked

Harvey Smithson, of Park Court, North Walsham appeared at Norwich Crown Court on Friday 4 November after pleading guilty to robbery at an earlier hearing. It relates to an incident that happened on the afternoon of 24 March 2022 where Smithson followed the victim, aged in their late 70s, to their home address in Norwich […]
A 68-year-old man has been charged in connection with a fatal road traffic collision in Stalham on Sunday

Officers were called shortly before 4.30 p.m. on Sunday (31 July 2022) after receiving reports of a collision between a silver Lexus SUV and two pedestrians on the A149 in Stalham, between Stepping Stone Lane and Old Market Road. The silver Lexus SUV did not stop at the first collision and continued down the A149 […]
A man in his twenties has been sentenced to more than ten years in prison for killing a 96-year-old woman in Great Yarmouth during a road…

Michael Irons, 26, of Lilac Close, Bradwell, was sentenced today (Friday, July 1) at Norwich Crown Court after pleading guilty to manslaughter, criminal damage to endanger, driving while intoxicated, and causing death while uninsured. He was sentenced to a total of ten and a half years in prison, with a four-year licence extension. Irons was […]
A man in his twenties has been sentenced to more than ten years in prison for killing a 96-year-old woman in Great Yarmouth during a road rage incident

Michael Irons, 26, of Lilac Close, Bradwell, was sentenced today (Friday, July 1) at Norwich Crown Court after pleading guilty to manslaughter, criminal damage to endanger, driving while intoxicated, and causing death while uninsured. He was sentenced to a total of ten and a half years in prison, with a four-year licence extension. Irons was […]
For a series of sexual offences, a 29-year-old man was sentenced to more than eight years in prison

For a series of sexual offences, a 29-year-old man was sentenced to more than eight years in prison.
At Norwich Crown Court, two men were sentenced for fraud offences

Four men were sentenced to prison for operating a County Line in Norwich

The four men appeared at Norwich Crown Court, where they were each sentenced for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin. Mohamed Tiet, 26, of London’s Beaumont Road, was sentenced to four years and four months in prison.
A soldier has been jailed after being convicted of the rape and sexual assault of a child under 13

Shane Percival, 27, a lance corporal with the Royal Anglian Regiment, appeared at Norwich Crown Court having been found guilty of rape and sexual assault. It followed a trial in March this year after which Percival, of Lynford Drive, Eaton, Norwich was found guilty of the offences. They happened between December 2011 and August […]
A 25-year-old man from London has been charged in connection with a number of drug offences

The charges relate to an incident in December 2021 when officers arrested two teenage boys, who were located at a property in Norwich, where a number of suspected Class A drugs and mobile phones were recovered. The boys were subsequently released under investigation.
A father who violently shook his baby daughter to death has been jailed for 14 years for her manslaughter

Christopher Easey, 31, formerly of Norfolk, had denied murdering 14-week-old Eleanor in December 2019. His trial heard Eleanor had a brain injury and 31 rib fractures and had been left alone on occasions by both parents, who had also fed her biscuits. The baby’s mother, Carly Easey, 36, was sentenced to a 12-month community order […]
A father who killed his 14-week-old daughter has been jailed for 14 years

A father who killed his 14-week-old daughter has been jailed for 14 years. Christopher Easey, 31, of Ely Road, Little Thetford, appeared at Norwich Crown Court today (Friday 29 April 2022) and was jailed for 14 years for the manslaughter of his baby daughter Eleanor. He also received a one-year custodial sentence for one count […]
Two men were sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison at Norwich Crown Court for drug trafficking and firearms offences

Kelly Bond, aged 53 and formerly of Lopham Road in Kenninghall, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment and Darren James, aged 48 and formerly of Norwich Street in Dereham, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. The two men were arrested in Dereham during the early hours of the 12 May 2020, following a search of […]
Two men were sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison at Norwich Crown Court for drug trafficking and firearms offences – (ID 521608)

Kelly Bond, aged 53 and formerly of Lopham Road in Kenninghall, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment and Darren James, aged 48 and formerly of Norwich Street in Dereham, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. The two men were arrested in Dereham during the early hours of the 12 May 2020, following a search of […]
Two men were sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison at Norwich Crown Court for drug trafficking and firearms offences

Kelly Bond, aged 53 and formerly of Lopham Road in Kenninghall, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment and Darren James, aged 48 and formerly of Norwich Street in Dereham, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. The two men were arrested in Dereham during the early hours of the 12 May 2020, following a search of […]
Two men were sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison at Norwich Crown Court for drug trafficking and firearms offences

Kelly Bond, aged 53 and formerly of Lopham Road in Kenninghall, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment and Darren James, aged 48 and formerly of Norwich Street in Dereham, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. The two men were arrested in Dereham during the early hours of the 12 May 2020, following a search of […]
A 56-year-old man accused of murder who was due to stand trial later this year has died, police have confirmed

Stuart Williamson, of Barford Road, Colton, was found dead in his prison cell at HMP Norwich on Wednesday 29 December 2021 around 5pm. He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
A man has been jailed for the attempted murder and kidnap of a woman in Kirby Cane earlier this year

Christopher Crichton, aged 33 and of Park Street in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 15 years, at Norwich Crown Court on Friday 15 October after pleading guilty to the offences at a previous hearing. Officers were called just after 8.40am on Monday 26 April 2021 to reports […]