A child sex offender has been jailed after being involved in a specialist police operation. Jason Taylor shared his intentions to drive to Kent in order to meet and abuse a child. Taylor, 38, of Pengover Road in Liskeard, appeared at Truro Crown Cou...
Release date: 30/06/2026
A man has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years plus five years on extended licence after violently attacking a female officer in the course of her duty. Guy Pottle, 39, of no fixed abode in Exeter, had previously pleaded guilty to charges of attempted grie...
Release date: 26/06/2026
A trainee surgeon has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after being convicted at a retrial for raping two women in North Devon and Cornwall. Salil Korambayil was jailed by Judge Simon Carr after being found guilty on three counts of rape. Korambayil, a...
Release date: 25/06/2026
A man who raped a teenager in St Austell has been jailed for four years and two months. Jordan Roberts, 25, of Beacon Hill, Bodmin, was found guilty of rape of a 14-year-old girl at Truro Crown Court and was sentenced to four years and two months in priso...
Release date: 19/06/2026
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
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