Some of the criminals jailed in Lincolnshire in November. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
A man who slit the throat of a teenage salesman in a chilling attack and a former town councillor embroiled in a drug dealing chain were among those thrown in jail across the county in November.
Here’s a summary of notable court reports this month:
Colin Clarkson
Colin Clarkson, 51, has been jailed for over 10 years. Photo: Humberside Police
Colin Clarkson, 51, of Heneage Road in Grimsby was jailed for 10 years and eight months after slitting the throat of a teenage salesman in a chilling attack outside an Asda supermarket in Grimsby.
During the attack he whispered ‘random murder’ into his victim’s ear and he will serve an extended five years on licence after his release. After the attack Clarkson calmly walked into the fruit and veg section of the supermarket and sat down on the floor to eat a punnet of raspberries. Luckily the victim survived.
Former Gainsborough Town Councillor and licence holder for the White Hart Hotel Sharon Hopkinson.
Former Gainsborough town councillor Sharon Hopkinson was jailed for three years and six months for her part in a drug dealing chain in Lincoln.
Hopkinson, 45, of the White Hart Hotel in Gainsborough had already surrendered her alcohol licence for the venue and stepped down from her role on the council after she was convicted as part of a conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine earlier this year.
Seven people have been jailed for a total of over 47 years. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Seven people, including Sharon Hopkinson, were jailed for a total of over 47 years after being found guilty of a conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine in Lincoln.
Police action was carried out in various locations including Lincoln’s High Street and Portland Street.
The conspiracy centred around a property in the Bailgate area of the city, which was being used to prepare significant quantities of Class A drugs for onward sale in Lincoln.
The other six sentences were as followed:
Norman Foreshaw, 39, of White Hart Hotel, Gainsborough was jailed for 16 years.
Roger Bayes, 48, of Keddington Avenue, Lincoln was jailed for 12 years.
Charlie Murray, 28, of Washington Street, Hull was jailed for four years and seven months.
Elon Williams, 24, of Washington Street, Hull, was jailed for four years and seven months.
Robert Sharpe, 50, of Greetwell Gate, Lincoln, was jailed for three years and 10 months.
Dwan Fowler, 31, of Jarvis Close, Lincoln, was jailed for two years and seven months.
James Hewitson, 36, of Newark Road, Lincoln, who was found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court on September 11, will be sentenced at a later date.
Samuel Warner from Lincoln has been jailed for two years. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Samuel Warner, 46, from Lincoln was jailed for two years for offences against minors after being filmed by a group of so-called paedophile hunters. ‘Hunter group’ Justice4Kids claimed to have posed as young girls in order to bait Warner online.
A video in which a group appear to confront him near to the Lincoln city centre police station has been viewed more than 26,000 times on Facebook. In the video, Warner is accused of arranging to meet with what he believed to be a minor and sending images. He tells them he “doesn’t know why” he exchanged messages.
Warner will also be subject to a 10 year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and have to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.
William Gaskin and Riley Smith were both jailed for over three years. Photo: North Yorkshire Trading Standards
A 42-year-old Lincolnshire man was one of two people jailed for over three years for property repair scams targeting elderly and vulnerable victims.
William Gaskin, of Rose View Drive Travellers Site in Holbeach and Riley Smith, 42, of Sunrise Meadow Travellers Site, Needingworth Road, Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud elderly and vulnerable victims.Both Smith and Gaskin were jailed for three years and nine months.
James Quantrill has been jailed for four years. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
James Quantrill was jailed for four years after seeing fire to his girlfriend’s flat after she told him their relationship was over. Quantrill, 28, of Willesby Road, Spalding, admitted a charge of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered as a result of the incident at Ms Parsons’ flat on September 2 this year.
The court was also told that Quantrill was given a five year sentence at Nottingham Crown Court in January 2008 for manslaughter following an incident when he was 16. Quantrill and another teenager kicked and burned a helpless 27-year-old man before throwing him into the River Welland in Spalding.
Michael Bradbury, 30, drove off without helping the three seriously injured riders.
An uninsured motorist who seriously injured three cyclists when he fell asleep at the wheel has had his jail sentence cut by nine months. Michael Bradbury, 30, was jailed for 45 months earlier this year after a court heard how he drove off without helping the riders despite knowing “he had hit something”.
Among his victims was Colchester dentist Bill Tweddell, 58, who was immediately knocked unconscious and suffered multiple injuries in the collision which left him paralysed and wheelchair bound. A later hearing at Lincoln Crown Court was told on Monday, November 5 that the prison guidelines used to sentence Bradbury, from Sleaford, were too high. The sentence was then reduced from 45 months to 36 months.
(L-R) Andrew Hurns and Lucasz Orywal have been jailed for causing the death of a pregnant mother in a horrific crash on the A17.
Two Nottinghamshire men who caused the death of a pregnant mum from Bradford after towing an unroadworthy van for 27 miles through Lincolnshire have had their jail sentences cut by five months. Lukasz Orywal, 32, and Andy Hurns, 28, towed the unroadworthy van before losing control of the vehicle in a crash which killed 26-year-old Aneta Zdeb on the A17.
Orywal and Andy Hurns had each been jailed for three years and nine months earlier this year after they both admitted causing the death of Aneta Zdeb by dangerous driving. However, a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court on Tuesday, November 6 was told both men were entitled to full credit for their guilty pleas. The original sentence for both men was reduced to three years and four months.
Neil Amess, 34, of Gaunt Close in Spalding was jailed for five years for committing sex offences against two 15-year-old girls. He pleaded guilty to charges involving one of the girls of sexual activity with a child, meeting a child following sexual grooming and sexual communication with a child.
He sent sexually explicit messages to the girls and met up with them. He went on to give them alcohol after taking them back to his flat in Spalding and subsequently had sex with one of them. He also admitted a charge of sexual communication with the second 15-year-old girl.
He was given an extended licence which means he will be at risk of being returned to prison for five further years after his initial sentence expires. He was placed on the sex offenders’ register for life and given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
Alex Cawood-Charlton was jailed for 18 months. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police
Alex Cawood-Charlton, 26, has been jailed for 18 months after being arrested by armed police on the University of Lincoln campus back in May. He was also among four sentenced in relation to an armed burglary in Worksop.
Porcher Toynbee, 22, knew the victim of the robbery and made arrangements to visit him – but instead of making a friendly house-call she brought three masked men with weapons. The victim suffered what is believed to be an axe injury in the incident in Norfolk Street in Worksop, at around 9pm on May 14 2018.
His injuries included a 10-inch gash to his head and a fractured eye socket. The investigation later led detectives to identify Toynbee’s boyfriend Aaron Meehan, 37, and friend Cawood-Charlton as two of the three masked men. Toynbee’s father Alan O’Neil, 45, was identified as being involved in plotting the robbery.
Left tor right – Aaron Meehan, Porcher Toynbee and Alan O’Neil have all been jailed. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police
Meehan, of Wiltshire Road, London, was jailed for four years
Toynbee, formerly of Bawtry Close, Lincoln, was sentenced to three years
Sebastian Mocny has been sentenced to 12 months in jail. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
A burglar who raided the home of a disabled 90-year-old woman as she slept has been jailed for 12 months. Sebastian Mocny smashed a kitchen window to get into the property on New Hammond Beck Road, Boston, and went on to search rooms in the house.
Mocny, 37, of Paddock Grove, Boston, admitted burglary on the night of July 16-17. He asked for a further offence of burglary of the Black Sluice Centre in Boston to be taken into consideration.
A Lincoln woman “feared for her life” when her former partner broke into her home and attacked her. Jake Coyle, 27, of Hamilton Road, Lincoln was the subject of a restraining order when he turned up at her home on the Ermine West estate.
His former partner, Whitney Swann, refused to let Coyle into her home on a Sunday night but he put a slab through the rear lounge window. Coyle admitted assaulting Ms Swann and causing her actual bodily harm, breach of a restraining order and damaging property as a result of the incident on September 23.
He also admitted two charges of common assault to police officers. As a result, Coyle was jailed for 30 months and given a five year restraining order banning him from contacting Ms Swann.
Jack Harrison, 19, from Top Road in Winterton was jailed for 10 months after committing a series of offences on the day of a Scunthorpe United game earlier this year. Harrison was sentenced for ABH, throwing a flare and exposure for offences committed on Tuesday, May 1 when Scunthorpe were playing Plymouth Argyle at home.
He assaulted a man from Devon in a McDonald’s restaurant, which resulted in the victim needing 22 stitches to his face and being concussed for a number of hours. Harrison bragged on social media about what he’d done which was picked up by Humberside Police’s colleagues at Devon and Cornwall Police.
A subsequent investigation led to Harrison being arrested in August. He has been jailed for ten months, been given a six year football banning order with full conditions, and in addition has been put on the sex offenders register for exposure.
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Davies, 43, of Freer Gardens in Louth was jailed, as well as being disqualified from driving for 12 months, after his aggressive driving put others on the road in danger. Davies was charged with dangerous driving on January 20, 2017 after an incident on the A16 between North Thoresby and Holton Le Clay.
He was driving a green VW Golf at the time and overtook another motorist at North Thoresby, but then pulled up and slammed on his brakes in the middle of the A16 causing the car he’d been following and all other traffic to come to a complete stop. He then jumped out of his car and verbally abused the victim.
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Lincoln could be in discussions over tier 2 (high) restrictions by the weekend, health bosses have said.
Lincolnshire County Council’s public health officials are advising that the city — at least — could be put into a higher tier as numbers continue to rise across the county.
Lincoln’s rate of infection per 100,000 of the population alone rose from 154.1 on October 16 to 213.5 on October 23, just above the England average of 212.5.
The city has had 1,063 cases since the pandemic began, with the number on Monday increasing by 59.
How cases have increased in the city of Lincoln up to October 26.
The county’s Outbreak Management Board, which includes representatives from councils, health and other response bodies, will meet on Wednesday to discuss the next steps.
Neighbours Nottinghamshire on Monday confirmed that Nottingham city along with the districts of Rushcliffe, Gedling and Broxtowe face tier 3 lockdown from midnight on Thursday — though Newark on the Lincolnshire border will stay in tier 2 for now.
Lincolnshire’s neighbours in Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire have much higher COVID-19 infection rates. | Data: GOV UK
Lincolnshire County Council’s assistant director of public health Tony McGinty said Lincolnshire was “fairly close” to having similar conversations.
“If you look at the numbers in some of our districts we probably are going to be wanting to talk about taking additional measures over the coming week or two,” he said.
“Some of those numbers […] are looking quite difficult.”
He added: “Lincoln is having some particularly challenging times at the moment with its numbers […] for me at the moment, the district I’m spending most of my time talking to colleagues about and talking to City of Lincoln Council colleagues about is Lincoln.”
He said local and national leaders may want to have that conversation “over the coming days or weeks”.
The restrictions for tier 2 – high – lockdown.
Lincolnshire is tier 1 – medium – lockdown.
Lincolnshire is currently still on the medium (tier 1) level for the the new three-tier lockdown system of COVID-19 risk, which means it has no extra restrictions on top of the nation-wide ones.
If that decision is made to move up a tier, the next steps will include discussions over what the additional measures will mean and what extra funding will be made available.
A newly qualified teenage driver caused a fatal crash in which three of her friends were killed after she lost control of her car on a straight stretch of road, a jury was told on Tuesday.
Kasey Boulton, 19, who had only passed her test a few weeks earlier, spun out of control as she drove along Heath Lane just outside the village of Welton near Lincoln, resulting in her Vauxhall Astra colliding with a tree.
Ian Way, prosecuting, told the jury at Lincoln Crown Court that three passengers Ricky Sharp,17, Aiden Sawyer, 17, and Joby John Scrimshaw, 14, were killed. Boulton and her two other passengers were seriously injured.
None of the three were wearing a seat belt at the time. No other vehicle was involved.
Mr Way said that the car was only designed to hold four passengers but Boulton had five with Ricky Sharp sitting in the footwell behind the front passenger.
The prosecutor told the jury that the overloading of the car caused the vehicle to be unbalanced which contributed to Boulton losing control.
Boulton had recently passed her test at the time and had only had the Astra for three weeks before the collision occurred.
Flowers laid at the scene in tribute to the Welton Cliff crash victims. | Photo: Connor Creaghan for The Lincolnite
Mr Way said: “Miss Boulton had just gone through a right hand bend before coming onto a straight stretch of road.
“About 160 metres along that section of road she veered to the right, crossed over the centre line and into the opposite carriageway. The car spun clockwise and struck a tree. The vehicle received what can only be described as catastrophic damage.”
The jury was told that passing motorists stopped to give assistance and the emergency services were called. Ricky Sharp and Joby John Scrimshaw were both pronounced dead at the scene and Aiden Sawyer died two days later in hospital.
The incident happened as Boulton was driving towards Lincoln having picked up a house key from her home at Welton just minutes earlier.
Mr Way said: “PC Mark Brown, the police collision investigator, was of the opinion that the overloading of the vehicle was likely to have caused an imbalance in the car’s handling and stability.
“He concluded that the loss of control had to be due to the actions or inactions of Miss Boulton as an inexperienced driver.
“The issue for determination in this trial is the standard of Miss Boulton’s driving at the material time.
“The prosecution say her driving was dangerous because she took the conscious decision to drive an overloaded car in which one of her passengers could not be afforded the use of a seat belt.
“PC Brown was of the opinion that the overloading was a critical factor in the loss of control.”
Kasey Boulton, 19, of Heath Close, Welton, denies three charges of causing death by dangerous driving as a result of the incident on March 25, 2019.
The jury was told that after the collision she produced negative results when tested for drugs and alcohol.
When she was interviewed by police she said she was driving at between 50 and 55mph on the 60 limit road.
“I don’t know why I didn’t swerve back. I don’t know why I didn’t brake,” she said.
The Aldi store in uphill Lincoln will be one of 13 UK stores used as part of the latest trials for a click and collect service by the budget supermarket chain.
From Tuesday, October 27, customers will be able to order from a full range of groceries online via the Aldi website. The service is charged at £3.99 per order.
You can then collect them in pre-booked one hour slots from the Wragby Road store. The last slot is 8-9pm.
Upon arrival at new dedicated click and collect car park areas, shopping will be brought to cars by Aldi colleagues contact-free, in line with COVID-19 measures.
This follows the introduction of Deliveroo at the Wragby Road Aldi in June, allowing for home deliveries from the supermarket within 30 minutes.
If the click and collect trial is successful, it is expected to be rolled out nationwide across other stores.
Giles Hurley, CEO of Aldi UK and Ireland, said: “Aldi’s quality products and unbeatable prices have never been so in demand.
“Extending this trial is about providing thousands more of our existing customers with another convenient way to shop with us, while also making Aldi accessible for many others who may not have shopped with us before.”
A luxury dog bed company near Market Rasen has been hounded with orders, thanks to a month on month surge in sales and new jobs created despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Holly Bryant founded Designed for Dogs in Osgodby in April 2017. The company hand makes a range of dog bedding, blankets, bandanas and toys, treats and chews and face coverings, as well as a bespoke service for durable and practicable beds for mucky pups.
The products are sold online here and via the firm’s own page on Etsy.
Holly Bryant is the owner of Designed for Dogs.
Holly has seen a surge in sales since the beginning of lockdown, prompting her to take on three local new staff members in October at a time when unemployment is at its highest for three years.
The new staff will help hand make the products, provide admin support and grow the business.
Belle the Dachshund.
Belle is feeling festive.
Holly lives with her husband Joe and their two dogs Rocky and Buster, as well as three horses called Harvey, Shai and Shadow.
She said: “We started to put plans in place at the start of COVID-19 to try to safeguard the business, stay positive and look at innovative ways to bring in revenue due to the cancellation of events we exhibit at.
“We were worried that with so many events cancelled this year it would have a detrimental effect on the business.
“Thankfully we have built up a loyal customer base over the past three years and having to have a new focus on online sales, it’s generated new business where I have often worked late into the night to ensure all our orders get out on time.
“I am really excited to welcome the new team to Designed for Dogs HQ and excited about our future.
“It takes a lot of hard work, determination and self-belief to get through turbulent and unpredictable times like these. Building a strong team around you who believe in your brand and the quality of your offering helps you get through anything.”
Fern the Dalmatian.
Fraser is owned by Hannah Jackson aka The Red Shepherdess.
Work has already started on Designed For Dogs future plans. This includes building a bigger studio and storage facility.
There will be a shop at the front where customers can buy ready made products and get their dogs measured for bespoke beds, which Holly hopes will be ready within 12 to 18 months.
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