A teenager has been sentenced to 15 months in a young offenders’ institution for entering a family home while its occupants slept and stealing a BMW, PlayStation 5 and other items. Alfie Curtis, 19, from Windermere Close in Exeter, was sentenced at Exeter...
Release date: 15/07/2025
Two men who were headed for Boardmasters in 2024 with a haul of drugs have been jailed. The duo, from Birmingham, were travelling to the festival in Newquay when officers stopped their van on the A30 near Bodmin. Levi Bethune-jones, 37, and Luke Belcher, ...
Release date: 14/07/2025
A former Devon & Cornwall Police officer has admitted misconduct in a public office and been sentenced to a 12-month prison term, suspended for 12 months. Former temporary Police Sergeant Martin Newitt, aged 39 of Dobwalls, Liskeard, appeared at Brist...
Release date: 14/07/2025
A Cornwall duo who attacked a man with garden tools have been jailed for a combined total of 20 years after leaving the victim with a fractured skull, broken leg and multiple cuts. Stefan Ledden, 32, and George White, 26, used a sledgehammer, a screwdrive...
Release date: 04/07/2025
A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with an additional year on extended licence after being convicted of the sexual abuse and rape of a young girl. Neclp Uslu, 45, of Fore Street in Pool, was sentenced at Truro Crown Court by HHJ Simon Carr on ...
Release date: 03/07/2025
A former police officer who pleaded guilty to speeding has been ordered to pay £1,140 and disqualified from driving for three months. Former police constable Carl Parker, 43, was recorded on a fixed site speed camera travelling at 140mph. The incident hap...
Release date: 27/06/2025
A sex offender has been jailed for six years after being convicted of the abuse of two young boys. Kevin Matthew Blake, 41, of Rosewarne Wollas Cottages, Camborne, was previously convicted by a jury of four counts of assault of a boy under 13 by tou...
Release date: 26/06/2025
A Buckfastleigh man has been jailed for 22 months after being convicted of attacking a neighbour and driving offences. Graham Chetwynd, 55, previously of Glebelands in Buckfastleigh, was recently sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court after being convicted of ...
Release date: 24/06/2025
An Exeter man has been jailed for two years and three months after being found guilty of the sexual touching of a child. David Fuller, 64, of Church Lane, Broadclyst, Exeter, was convicted of two counts of sexual activity with a child following a trial at...
Release date: 19/06/2025
A Devon man has been jailed for 30 months after admitting the sexual abuse of a child. Charles Kirkby, 39, of Church Road, St Thomas, Exeter, appeared at Exeter Crown Court for sentencing on Friday 13 June after previously pleading guilty to two sexual as...
Release date: 13/06/2025
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