A rapist has been jailed for 26 years for despicable crimes relating to women and children spanning three decades. Christopher Welch, aged 66 of Westlands, Wrafton in Braunton, was convicted at Exeter Crown Court on 25th February of four counts of rape, o...
Release date: 02/04/2026
A man has been jailed for three years for a terrifying sex attack on a teenage girl in a Launceston alleyway. Bulgarian national Yordan Stanchev, 26, of no fixed abode, appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentence on Thursday 2 April having pleaded guilty t...
Release date: 02/04/2026
A convicted child rapist who fled police and attempted to start a new life at the other end of the country is back behind bars. Stephen Pennington, 38, from Botlon Road, Blackburn, evaded police in Lancashire for a number of weeks before being tracked to ...
Release date: 02/04/2026
An Exeter man has been sentenced to a total of eight-and-a-half years in prison for rape and other offences. Colby Hill, 22, of no fixed abode in Exeter, also known as Colby Seatherton, was found guilty at a trial at Exeter Crown Court on Tuesday 3 Februa...
Release date: 31/03/2026
A drug dealer who tried to claim he arrived in North Devon as a tourist has been jailed for 30 months. Bulgarian national Aleksandar Dobrev, 47, appeared at Exeter Crown Court for sentence on Thursday 26 March after pleading guilty to possession with inte...
Release date: 26/03/2026
Six people have now been sentenced to a total of nearly 40 years in prison for flooding North Devon with Class A drugs worth millions of pounds. The investigation named Operation Haku involved an organised crime group with members in North Devon, West Yo...
Release date: 16/03/2026
A 22-year-old man from Wolverhampton, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to manslaughter at Exeter Crown Court, following the death of a man in Exmouth. Joseph Jones, 22, of Chillington Lane, Codsall, Wolverhampton, admitted ...
Release date: 13/03/2026
In the space of one hour on the evening of 9 May 2025, Sonny Boyes carried out multiple sexual offences against two teenage girls in Exeter. Today, 6 March, the 19-year-old appeared at Exeter Crown Court where the judge jailed him for 17 years, described ...
Release date: 06/03/2026
A stalker who left his victim terrified in her own home after attending numerous times a day has been jailed. Andrew Giles, 54, of St John’s Road in Exeter, appeared at Exeter Crown Court recently for sentence having pleaded guilty to stalking involving f...
Release date: 03/03/2026
A serial offender who stabbed a stranger in the street with a broken bottle has been jailed for five and a half years. Freddie Clow, 27, of no fixed abode, Penzance, carried out the brutal attack in the early hours of 1 July 2025. Following a trial at Tru...
Release date: 03/03/2026
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