A former sports coach who sexually abused five teenage boys, an inmate producing makeshift weapons in attempts to kill two prison officers and a fellow prisoner, and a man who carried out the brutal machete murder of a dad-of-three, were among those given the longest jail sentences in 2019 in Lincolnshire.
Here’s a summary of court reports of the longest sentences from Lincolnshire Reporter and The Lincolnite this year:
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Aklakur Rahman was handed a life sentence for each attempted murder. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
An inmate who made makeshift weapons in attempts to kill two prison officers and a fellow prisoner was given life sentences for the violent attacks.
Aklakur Rahman was handed in a life sentence for each attempted murder, as well as five years for the GBH, all to run concurrently. It will be 13 years before he is eligible for parole.
Dylan Lamb was jailed for 30-years for historic sex offences. Photo: South Yorkshire Police
A man who ‘grossly abused his position of trust’ as a sports coach, sexually abusing five teenage boys, was found guilty of a catalogue of historic sexual offences and jailed for 30 years.
Dylan Lamb, 72, of Scawby, North Lincolnshire, was found guilty of the following offences: eleven counts of indecent assault, five counts of indecency with a child and five counts of other additional sexual offences. The victims were all aged between 13 and 17, or below, when the abuses occurred.
Kieran Walker, 23, was convicted by a jury of Jordan O’Brien’s murder. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
A man who carried out the brutal machete murder of dad-of-three from Gainsborough was jailed for a minimum of 28 years.
Kieran Walker, 23, from Doncaster, attacked Jordan O’Brien, 25, in Scampton Way in Gainsborough on March 27 with such force that he almost severed one leg and left the other leg so badly damaged it had to be amputated at the knee. He later died in hospital.
Jordan O’Brien, 25, died after an incident on Scampton Way in Gainsborough. Photo: Facebook
Michael Brian Hayes, 65, was convicted of 18 sexual offences. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
A 65-year-old man from Stamford, who carried out a campaign of sexual abuse against three children, was jailed for 24 years. He must also serve an extended licence period of two further years following his release from jail.
Michael Brian Hayes was convicted of 18 sexual offences, including six charges of rape. The offences occurred over an eight year period between 2008 to 2015.
Mariusz Skiba (L) and Dariusz Kaczkowski (R) attacked the man over a request for £1
Two men were sentenced to a combined 37 years in prison for a man’s brutal murder in a Boston car park.
Mariusz Skiba and Dariusz Kaczkowski had argued with Przemeslaw Cierniak on the morning of January 10, 2019 after the victim asked them for £1.
The victim has been named as 41-year-old Przemyslaw Cierniak
Kaczkowski, 33, of Woodville Road, Boston, who stabbed Cierniak to death, was ordered to serve a minimum sentence of 23 years before parole. Skiba, 32, of no fixed address, who joined the attack by ferociously kicking and punching him, was ordered to serve 14 years.
Grimsby man Craig Whittle, 45, has been charged with murdering Shaun Lyall in Cleethorpes. Photo: Humberside Police
A 45-year-old man from Grimsby was jailed for life over the murder of Shaun Lyall in Cleethorpes.
Craig Whittle murdered Shaun, 47, at a house on Sidney Street on July 17, 2018. Whittle also pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in connection with the murder, as well as possession of a knife and drugs with intent to supply.
The body of Shaun Lyall was found at a house on Sidney Street in Cleethorpes in July 2018. Photo: Humberside Police
A jury at Hull Crown Court found Whittle unanimously guilty to all charges and Judge Paul Watson QC sentenced him to life.
Dion Hendry (pictured) has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Raymond Ward. Photo: Humberside Police
Dion Hendry was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Raymond Ward, 51, after inflicting 57 horrific injuries on his victim over the disappearance of two bags of heroin.
Hendry, 24, of no fixed abode, was given a sentence with a minimum of 18 years after the victim’s body was found in a disused local authority building on Cliff Gardens in Scunthorpe.
Murder victim Raymond Ward. Photo: Humberside Police
A 51-year-od man from Bulwell in Nottingham was jailed for life after brutally beating his partner to death on her birthday.
Andrew Highton was convicted of murdering Linda Treeby on May 29 and ordered to serve a minimum of 18 years in prison before he can be considered for parole.
Linda Treeby was murdered at a caravan park in Ingoldmells.
Highton punched, kicked and stamped on her and smashed a heavy glass ashtray into her face. He then left her dying on the floor lying in a pool of blood and walked off to a relative’s home nearby.
Edward Church was jailed for 17 years. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Edward Church was jailed for 17 years after he admitted sexually abusing three young girls.
Church, 68, of Crowland, raped one of his victims in a car when she was just 12 years old, which occurred 10 years ago. He also admitted seven charges of indecent assault on two other young girls. Those incidents occurred in the early 2000s when Church was living in a village between Sleaford and Grantham.
Borge Bradwell, Daniel Charnock and Gavin Dyball have all been jailed. Photo: Humberside Police
Three men who viciously attacked a 65-year-old man in his own home were sentenced to a combined total of nearly 40 years in prison.
Borge Bradwell, 40, and Daniel Charnock, 38, both of Grimsby, were sentenced to 16-and-a-half-years in prison. They walked in the house and demanded money from the victim and when he didn’t hand any over they hit him with a baseball bat. The man fell to the floor and they continued to kick him causing serious abdominal injuries.
A third man – Gavin Dyball, 35, was with the pair before they broke into the house. He was seen standing as a lookout on the street whilst the attack was happening. He was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison for his involvement.
Lincolnshire woman with longest sentence – Alison Skingsly
Alison Skingsly was jailed for 10 years. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Alison Skingsly was the woman with the longest jail sentence from the court reports covered in Lincolnshire Reporter and The Lincolnite in 2019.
The 43-year-old from Spalding killed her partner Kevin Nix, 46, when she drove for 200 metres with him clinging to the bonnet of her car before braking sharply.
Kevin Nix died after being hit by a car near a pub in Crowland. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
A jury rejected her defence and found her guilty of manslaughter after hearing Skingsly became convinced her partner was flirting with another woman in the Crowland pub where they were drinking.
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A pair of anti-vaxxers have decided to temporarily stop sharing conspiracy theories on Facebook and stage a protest at a roundabout in Lincoln instead.
The duo were spotted on the Riseholme roundabout on the A15 on Friday afternoon, armed with misinformation signs that appear to suggest England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has an “evil agenda”.
The protest signs appeared to be against child vaccinations, which suggests that the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation were against young people being jabbed, despite a statement in July saying the Pfizer dose had been authorised for use in people aged 12 and over.
They seem to be at loggerheads with Lincolnshire’s own Jonathan Van-Tam, none other than England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, who urged people this week to “trust professionals, not Instagram” as fake propaganda posted on social media is being attributed to vaccine hesitancy.
Another sign held up spouts rhetoric about heart problems from the COVID-19 vaccine, while a third notice shows children with masks on and reads: “Is this the future we want for our kids?”
For reference, in case you cannot make it to the Lincolnshire Showground for your vaccination, there will be a free shuttle bus service to take you to and from the jab site starting next week. Read more here.
Up to 86% of adults in Lincolnshire are double-jabbed, and over 25% of 12-15-year-olds.
A special lights show celebrating Lincolnshire’s plants will take place at Boultham Park on Saturday.
The Lincspirational Lightshow will start at 5.30pm on October 23 after the original event was postponed earlier this month due to the weather forecast.
The free show is the final of event of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trusts’ LoveLincsPlants project.
The evening will feature a lightshow parade, artwork projects, park illuminations and music inspired by nature from Sinfonia Viva. During the event the 30 artworks created by the public will be projected onto a large screen.
There will also be an opportunity to bid on the 130 artworks submitted as part of the exhibition. They will be available via an online action, with the 30 winning pieces starting at £40.
The evening will feature a lightshow parade, artwork projects, park illuminations, and more. | Photo: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
The money raised from the sale of the artworks will help fund nature’s recovery in Lincolnshire. It will also help the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust create wildflower rich habitats across the county.
Lincolnshire County Council’s Labour Group will call on the Conservative-led authority to rethink its policy of turning off street lights in built-up areas overnight.
The present situation, introduced in 2016, means that most street lights in Lincolnshire are turned off at midnight, as the council said in March this year that lighting has “no impact” on night-time crime levels.
This statement came after a petition signed by over 5,000 people demanded that street lights were kept on overnight following the death of Sarah Everard in London this year.
The response to Sarah Everard’s death was one of concern for women’s safety, to which the council responded by saying “women’s safety is about much more than street lights.”
A memorial for Sarah Everard in Lincoln on university campus. | Photo: The Lincolnite
More than half of Lincolnshire’s street lights were turned off in 2016 as the council looked to save £1.7 million, and despite the petition and concerns raised, just one parish council asked for lights to be switched back on in 12 months, according to the county’s highways chief.
Now Kev Clarke, Labour County Councillor for Boultham Division in Lincoln and member of Lincolnshire County Council Highways Scrutiny Committee, will be raising the issue at the next meeting on Monday, October 25.
He will be calling for a review of LCC’s street lighting policy, and asking for the council to consider the possibility of keeping the lights on overnight.
Councillor Clarke argues: “After recent sad events – attacks on females – a lot of people feel unsafe and anxious when walking home at night when the county is plunged into darkness at midnight.
“Lincoln is being promoted as a university city with young people leaving home for the first time and moving to Lincoln to study here and gain a first class education. Wonder if the parents were told that lights go off, if so they may look at other locations for their children.
“To boost our local economy we want to attract visitors to Lincoln to visit not only as day–trippers, but to stay over for longer periods to enjoy the benefits of the city and county – one of which is not the turning off of the lights.
“Labour County Councillors are not alone in this plea to Lincolnshire County Council to review the current street lighting policy particularly in Lincoln before it’s too late. Students at the University of Lincoln also want to see changes to the current policy.”
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