A former Devon & Cornwall Police officer has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to three charges of Misconduct in Public Office. Ex-Police Constable James Stillman, aged 32, of Chard, was sentenced when he appe...
Release date: 19/06/2026
Shared on behalf of South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) A man appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Friday 12 June and been sentenced for supplying class A and B drugs and possession of offensive weapons. Back in February this year, Ryan Boa...
Release date: 15/06/2026
Four men have been jailed for their roles in the “senseless” killing of 24-year-old Denva Smith in Exmouth last summer. Denva died after suffering a single stab wound to the left arm on Saturday 31 May 2025. Police were called at around 00.50am following...
Release date: 10/06/2026
An Isles of Scilly man piloted a 24ft vessel while drunk and collided with another boat causing tens of thousands of pounds’ worth of damage. Joshua Street, 29, was found by Police the following morning asleep on his boat. Street, of Bryher, Isles of Scil...
Release date: 05/06/2026
A man has been jailed for attacking a complete stranger making his way home after a night out and stealing his belongings. David Gibbs subjected the victim to a brutal and unprovoked attack on the Tarka Trial, between Barnstaple and Chivenor on 30 Septemb...
Release date: 04/06/2026
A Plymouth man regularly attacked his partner and then claimed she’d been either injured at work or had inflicted the injuries herself. Joseph Powney, 35, of Beaumont Road, Plymouth, was sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday 2 June to three years i...
Release date: 04/06/2026
A prolific offender has been jailed for 12 months for breaking into vehicles and going on spending sprees with stolen bank cards. Michael Ainsworth, 34, of no fixed abode, Falmouth, was sentenced at Truro Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 21 May after pleadi...
Release date: 21/05/2026
An Exeter fraudster swindled four victims out of more than half a million pounds of savings, pensions and inheritance – most of which he spent on gambling. Jamie Drew, 46, of Cottey Crescent in Exeter, appeared at Exeter Crown Court for sentence on Thursd...
Release date: 21/05/2026
A drugged-up driver killed a much-loved grandmother after travelling on the wrong side of the road at more than 50 miles-per-hour above the speed limit. Dwayne Arney, 34, killed 60-year-old Rosemary Wooldridge in a head-on collision outside her home on H...
Release date: 20/05/2026
Three men and a woman have been found guilty of the brutal acid killing of a Plymouth dad-of-two who was attacked in his own home. Danny Cahalane, 38, was attacked in a planned organised crime hit in Lipson Road on 21 February 2025. Danny was treated in h...
Release date: 14/05/2026
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