A man has been given a suspended sentence for an assault outside an Ottery St Mary pub. Samuel Whitcombe, 46, of Brook Street in Ottery St Mary, was sentenced at Exeter Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 3 September after pleading guilty to causing grievous b...
Release date: 04/09/2026
A Barnstaple man has been jailed for 32 months for sexual offences against a child. Daniel Mansford, 26, of Rumsam Gardens, previously changed his plea to guilty on the day of his trial at Exeter Crown Court on Monday 29 June. He admitted to five offences...
Release date: 04/09/2026
Police have banned a Bideford man from drinking alcohol in any public space after concerns around his alcohol-fuelled antisocial behaviour. On 27 August 2026, Robert Tellem, aged 29, pleaded guilty to one count of violence to secure entry, three counts of...
Release date: 03/09/2026
Police in Mid Devon have continued their crackdown on anti-social behaviour; serving a teenager with a six-month injunction granted by the courts. Officers from the Tiverton Neighbourhood Policing team were at Exeter Magistrates’ Court last week to presen...
Release date: 03/09/2026
A child sex offender has been jailed for 16 years after being convicted of a catalogue of recent and non-recent sexual offences in a joint Devon & Cornwall Police and South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) investigation. John Woodley-Rennie...
Release date: 21/08/2026
Two men from Launceston have been jailed for their roles in a gunpoint robbery in Yelverton which they carried out on 29 January. Jack Felton, 24, and John Chapman, 43, both formerly of North Petherwin, Launceston, have now been sentenced at Plymout...
Release date: 12/08/2026
A 48-year-old man has been ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid community work and will be placed on the sex offenders register after exposing himself in public. Kiran Rabdiya, of Stanmore, London, was found guilty of exposure and possession of a class...
Release date: 10/08/2026
A Devon treasurer entrusted with managing a charity’s finances diverted around £200,000 to her own accounts over many years. Geraldine Coates even transferred £11,083.55 from the charity to pay off her own credit card while falsely claiming the money was...
Release date: 10/08/2026
A convicted child sex offender has been sent back to prison for further offences committed against the same victims. Nigel Collier, 68, from Hull, was previously sentenced in 2017 to four years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual abu...
Release date: 07/08/2026
A rapist has been sentenced to eight years in prison after attacking his victim and threatening to kill her. Iain Platt, 51, from Bideford, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court on Thursday 30 July after being convicted of rape, threats to kill and one othe...
Release date: 05/08/2026
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