The Lincolnite

Police are maintaining a presence at a property on Burwell Close in Lincoln on Thursday, following the arrest of a 53-year-old man last night. The arrest came after an altercation involving the man and two women at an Archer Street address, in the Sincil Bank area.

Police received a call at 7.09pm on September 13, alerting them to a man who was reportedly being physically and verbally threatening towards two women. Officers were dispatched and made an arrest just before 7.20pm.

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Timothy James Goodlad, a 58-year-old lorry driver from Barnetby, Lincolnshire, faced justice at Winchester Crown Court. He was found guilty of dodging more than £2.4 million in excise duty by smuggling counterfeit cigarettes into the UK.

On the morning of 28 November 2019, Goodlad’s lorry came to a halt at the Eurotunnel UK Control Zone in France. Border Force Officers were on duty. Goodlad handed them documents, claiming he was transporting 26 pallets of laminate wood from Belgium to a building supplies company in Scunthorpe.

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