A robber who was frightened off by a dog as he tried to highjack a car has been jailed
Adam Elliott, 37, climbed into the vehicle as the owner and two local residents were trying to jump start it in Deepdale Court, Stoneyford Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Witnesses described how he franticly searched for the keys before being disturbed by the dog on the back seat After jumping from the vehicle on the evening of […]
An ex-council finance officer stole more than £60,000 from her former employer to help pay off her accumulated credit card debts.
Kerry Wheatley was employed as a revenue finance officer for business rates for Bassetlaw District Council. Over a 12-month period, between October 2018 and October 2019, Wheatley diverted refunds of business rates, due to be paid to a number of businesses, into a single bank account. Wheatley, who worked for the council for around […]
A survivor of a multi-car crash caused by a drugged, unlicensed and uninsured driver ‘closed her eyes and waited to die’ as he came speed…
Ty Chapman, 26, ploughed into stationary traffic as he attempted to flee from police – passing on the wrong side of the road through a red light junction as he fled from police. The incident happened shortly before 6.45pm on the evening of Sunday August 30 2020 – minutes after he had been spotted […]
A survivor of a multi-car crash caused by a drugged, unlicensed and uninsured driver ‘closed her eyes and waited to die’ as he came speeding towards her
Ty Chapman, 26, ploughed into stationary traffic as he attempted to flee from police – passing on the wrong side of the road through a red light junction as he fled from police.
Wellington was arrested and charged with being part of a gang supplying cocaine from London to the Nottingham area. Wellington pleaded gu…
A Nottingham man has had his jail sentence increased following an intervention by the then Solicitor General, Rt Hon Michael Ellis QC MP. Francis Wellington, 37, was found guilty of conspiracy to supply drugs, possession of Class B drugs, blackmail and sending abusive text messages, and of inflicting grievous bodily harm. The offences […]
Wellington was arrested and charged with being part of a gang supplying cocaine from London to the Nottingham area. Wellington pleaded guilty to the charge in November 2020
A Nottingham man has had his jail sentence increased following an intervention by the then Solicitor General, Rt Hon Michael Ellis QC MP. Francis Wellington, 37, was found guilty of conspiracy to supply drugs, possession of Class B drugs, blackmail and sending abusive text messages, and of inflicting grievous bodily harm. The offences took place […]
A teenage girl will have to wear a leg splint for the rest of her life after a callous driver travelling at twice the speed limit knocked…
Kwame McKenzie was driving at more than twice the speed limit in the moments leading up to the crash – hitting speeds of more than 70mph after he failed to stop for police. Danae Mills-Beresford, who was 15 at the time of the incident, was knocked into the air and flung down the road […]
A teenage girl will have to wear a leg splint for the rest of her life after a callous driver travelling at twice the speed limit knocked her down and left her for dead
Kwame McKenzie was driving at more than twice the speed limit in the moments leading up to the crash – hitting speeds of more than 70mph after he failed to stop for police.
Two men have been locked up for a combined 17-and-a-half years connected to drug and knife-related offences.
Jayvarn Booth, 20, was given a total of 11-and-a-half years’ detention after pleading guilty to charges of grievous bodily harm with intent, possession of an offensive weapon and conspiracy to supply a Class A drug.
A man who caused grievous bodily harm to a seven-week-old baby, leaving her with a broken leg, has been sentenced
Kieron Platten told police and hospital staff that he heard a clicking noise while changing her nappy at a property in Owston Road, Annesley, during the early hours of 18 August 2017. Doctors who examined the baby couldn’t find the cause of the injury and after she was transferred to see a specialist, X-rays revealed […]
Dopey cannabis growers led armed police to their own doorstep after exploding soft drinks cans on a hot coal barbecue
A worried member of public rang the police after hearing the three Red Bull cans exploding, believing them to have been gunshots being fired inside a house. Armed officers quickly surrounded the semi-detached in Hollydale Road, Bakersfield, and heard loud voices from the back of the house, only to find the burst cans. They […]
The ringleader of a plot to smuggle millions of illegal cigarettes has been jailed
Svajunas Navagruckas, 51, who was one of HMRC’s most wanted tax fugitives, led an organised crime network that was caught with 8.5 million illegal cigarettes in June 2017.
A fight in Nottingham city centre that resulted in a man being stabbed in the stomach has led to a man being jailed
In the early hours of Sunday 9 August 2020, the 25-year-old victim was out for drinks when he was confronted by a man.
A man has been locked up for seven years after forensics specialists found his DNA on a gun recovered by police after a street disturbance
Nottinghamshire Police received a report that occupants of a Volkswagen Golf got out of their vehicle, after stopping in stationary traffic in Kirkby Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, and attacked another car with hammers and bats before it was driven off.
Man who spat in police officer’s face and claimed to have Coronavirus is locked up
A man spat in a police officer’s face while claiming to have Coronavirus after a report of a fight in St Ann’s. Joshua Staples, 25, was locked up for a total of 18 months at Nottingham Crown Court today (Wednesday 6 January 2021) after pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, affray and common assault.
A drug dealer has been jailed after police officers searched a man acting suspiciously in Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Bradley Hardy, 20, of no fixed address, was arrested when he ran away from two police officers in Willow Crescent at around 4.25pm on Sunday 3 May 2020. When police searched his flat in Willow Crescent, they found class A drugs including cocaine and heroin as well as scales, cash and deal bags. Hardy […]
A burglar entered a house armed with a hammer and stole a set of car keys before driving off whilst a mum was upstairs with her three children
The intruder – who has been jailed for four years following a Nottinghamshire Police investigation – had entered a house in Broxtowe when he was confronted by a resident who told him to ‘get out of my house.
A burglar entered a house armed with a hammer and stole a set of car keys before driving off whilst a mum was upstairs with her three chi…
The intruder – who has been jailed for four years following a Nottinghamshire Police investigation – had entered a house in Broxtowe when he was confronted by a resident who told him to ‘get out of my house. Minutes later he went into a second property on the same street, when a mum heard […]