A man who carried out two violent assaults at a local takeaway and a male who caused a head-on collision which left two people seriously injured were among those jailed in October.
Here’s a summary of notable court reports from October 2019:
Jamie Furnell
Jamie Furnell was jailed for 10 years. Photo: Humberside Police
Jamie Furnell, 26, of Hildyard Street in Grimsby, was jailed for 10 years after two violent assaults at a local takeaway including biting a man’s face. Furnell’s victims received some very serious injuries.
Atis Vetrins was jailed for 10 years. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Atis Veterans, 34, of Newark Road in North Hykeham, was jailed for 10 years after causing devastating injuries to another male in a savage attack. Vetrins dragged his victim Saulius Rimkus from his bed then kicked and punched him to the head, leaving him with serious brain injuries and unable to walk or talk.
NImtiaz Khoda, 46, from Dubai, who stole nearly £9 million, was jailed for another nine years and eight months after failing to pay the money back. He conned the Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust out of nearly £1.3 million after submitting a fake invoice when a mental health unit was being built at St George’s, Lincoln.
Abdulla Hamza, 33, formerly of Edinburgh Drive in Spalding, fled the UK after causing a head-on collision which left two people seriously injured. He is believed to have returned to his home country of Iraq and failed to appear for his trial at Lincoln Crown Court, where a four-and-a-half-year jail sentence was imposed.
Two masked men who stole from a safe during a raid on a Gainsborough convenience store have been jailed for over four years. Mark Cutler, 30, of Tower Street in Gainsborough was jailed for 34 months. Zak Metcalfe, 19, of Pingle Close, Gainsborough, was jailed for 16 months.
Costel Copalea and his accomplice Marius Stanescu were both jailed. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Two men who went on a day-long crime spree targeting victims across a 75 mile area, including in Lincolnshire, have been jailed. Costel Copalea, 20, and Marius Stanescu, 21, both of Manford Way, Chigwell, Essex, were each jailed for 32 months and are likely to face deportation.
Michael Furniss at Lincoln Crown Court. Photo: Steve Daniels
Royal British Legion worker Michael Furniss, 62, of Shuttleworth Court in North Hykeham, was jailed for two years and three months after being convicted of sexually assaulting a widow.
Deon Hartley-De-Roche has been jailed. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
University student Deon Hartley-De-Roche, 25, of Stavely Road in Wolverhampton, was caught with crack-cocaine and heroin worth over £1,800. He was jailed for 27 months after a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court.
Christopher Inkley, 26, of Linnet Close in Lincoln, was caught by police selling cocaine near the University of Lincoln during Freshers’ Week. He admitted charges of supplying cocaine and possession of ecstasy and was jailed for 27 months.
Adam Isham was jailed for 21 months. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Adam Isham, 33, who at the time was living in a tent on Holbeach Road in Spalding, was jailed for 21 months after smashing a bottle over the head of a security guard that attempted to stop him fleeing from a supermarket.
Mark Preston put his hands up in front of his face.
Banned driver Mark Preston, 26, of Tennyson Road in Mablethorpe was jailed and labelled as “stupid” after he tried to hide his face with his hands from the police. He was jailed for 12 months after admitting charges of driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and breach of a suspended jail sentence.
Disqualified driver Martin Vasjanov, 24, of Tattershall Road in Boston, failed to stop for police and led them on a 12-mile pursuit, as well as punching the roof of a prison cell. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
Slawomir Kazmierczak has been jailed for nine months. Photo: Media Lincs
UK-based eBay trader Slawomir Kazmierczak, 55, was caught with two unworked sections of elephant tusk after police raided his home. He was also found to have illegal items of ivory jewellery made from elephants, which were killed after the 1947 legal deadline, and he was jailed for nine months.
Marcus Lowe, 41, of Monks Road in Lincoln was jailed for a total of 10 months after stealing designer watches from a city centre store while the window display was being rearranged. He admitted the theft of two wrist watches worth a total of £1,960 belonging to Ernest Jones jewellery store on September 9 this year.
A couple who carried out a savage attack on Lincoln High Street were both handed prison sentences in October. William Long, 26, and Charlotte Barnard, 22, of Riverton View, Ermine West in Lincoln were jailed for 10 and 9 months respectively.
Darren Ives, 50, of Mill Road in Cleethorpes, who breached a suspended sentence for a pub assault by trying to drive his car when three times over the limit, was jailed for four months.
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A dangerous sex offender who went on the run from police for three days after absconding from an open prison in Lincolnshire pre-booked a taxi to make his escape, a court heard.
Gary Butcher, 55, who is serving a life sentence for burglary after being jailed in 1995, absconded from HMP North Sea Camp near Boston on May 31.
Police previously said that after further enquiries they could confirm that his previous offending also included a number of serious sexual offences towards women.
After appearing at Derby Crown Court, Butcher has now been ordered to serve an extra six months in jail.
Butcher flagged down a passing police car and approached an officer from Derbyshire Constabulary in the Swadlincote area of Derbyshire to hand himself in on June 3.
At the time Lincolnshire Police also said that a 56-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. The man was also an inmate at HMP North Sea Camp, but never left the prison himself and was returned to closed prison conditions.
Butcher has since pleaded guilty at Derby Crown Court to escaping lawful custody.
Prosecutor Adam Pearson told the court Butcher booked a taxi from his cell using an illegal mobile phone the night before he escaped, according to the BBC.
He then stole a bicycle from the prison just after midnight and rode to Boston where he was taken by the taxi to Coalville in Leicestershire.
He paid £150 for the journey with cash he had withdrawn earlier, the barrister said.
Butcher’s escape was only discovered when his cell was found empty the following morning.
Mr Pearson said Butcher absconded as he was worried he would be returned to a closed prison after losing his job on the prison farm.
Defence barrister Lewis Kerr disputed the reason for escape saying that his client had been shown indecent images by another prisoner and decided to abscond as he felt he could not report it to prison authorities.
Judge Penelope Stanistreet-Keen said the reason why Butcher left was “immaterial” and that him “being at large would cause consternation with the public”.
Over 500 riders took part in the annual C2C2C 100-mile bike ride across the county to raise over £30,000 for local charities and good causes.
All the entry donations from the 536 riders raised around £25,000 which will be donated to local charities. In addition, 24 riders raised an extra £9,000 sponsorship for St Barnabas Hospice in its 40th birthday.
The riders started the ride during the morning of Thursday, June 30 from Lincoln Rugby Club on Lodge Lane in Nettleham before taking in some of the area’s most beautiful landscapes in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
The team from Stokes Tea. Left to right – Darren Bavin, Nick Peel, Paul Coulson, Jack Pearce, and Crispin Victoria. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
They then headed to the coast at Saltfleet before the exhausted riders made their way back to Lincoln Rugby Club later the same day.
The cycling event known as Castle 2 Coast 2 Castle (C2C2C for short) happens ever year and the 2021 ride raised £30,000.
Members of the Stokes Tea & Coffee team were among the riders and kept the other cyclists caffeinated with coffee stations along the route too during what was a very successful event.
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