A Grantham man who made threats to kill his own young daughter and briefly left her outside in the rain was on Tuesday given a suspended jail sentence.

The 32-year-old man, who can not be named to protect the identity of his daughter, pleaded guilty to child cruelty between September 2020 and July 2021. Lincoln Crown Court heard neighbours in Grantham became concerned after overhearing shouting towards the child “nearly every day.”

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Two people who conspired to supply cocaine and heroin in Grantham were on Thursday given suspended jail sentences after turning their lives around.

Emily Taylor, 26, and Christopher Gwither, 29, were arrested after police watched them for three days at Taylor’s then address in Grantham High Street during May 2020. Lincoln Crown Court heard Gwither played a lesser role as a drug runner and was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment suspended for two years.

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