A man from St Austell, Cornwall, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted of rape. Adam Parry, aged 37 and from Southborne Road, St Austell, was found guilty at Truro Crown Court in April. Today, Wednesday 7 May, he was sentenced to ...
Release date: 07/05/2025
A man has been jailed for robbing his local shop at knifepoint. Dennis Ham, 30, of Hyde Road in Paignton, held up Costcutters at around 7am on Friday 28 February. Ham appeared at Exeter Crown Court for sentence on 1 May after pleading guilty to robbery an...
Release date: 02/05/2025
Three crooked construction build bosses bribed energy officials linked to a major Devon housing development to the tune of around £2million in order to secure lucrative contracts and other favours. Six people have now been sentenced for involvement in a c...
Release date: 01/05/2025
A Dawlish man has been jailed for two violent assaults, one of which a sustained and brutal attack on his former partner. Richard Williams, 39, of Holman Close in Dawlish appeared at Exeter Crown Court after pleading guilty of three assaults occasioning a...
Release date: 01/05/2025
A motorcyclist has been sentenced to 20 months in prison and disqualified from holding a licence for four years for causing a collision which resulted in the amputation of a fellow biker’s leg. Kathryn Goff, 52, of Milton Road in Exeter, appeared at Exete...
Release date: 28/04/2025
A 53-year-old Plymouth man has today, Friday 25 April, been jailed for life for the murder of his former partner. Paul Butler attacked 48-year-old Claire Chick outside her home in West Hoe Road in Plymouth on the evening of 22 January this year. She was s...
Release date: 25/04/2025
A Torquay man has been jailed for 27 years after being found guilty of the rape and sexual abuse of three children. Stephen Sanders, 62, of Raleigh Avenue, Torquay, appeared at Exeter Crown Court for sentencing on Wednesday 23 April having been found guil...
Release date: 23/04/2025
A man who killed a 63-year-old man in East Devon has been given a hospital order. Corin Harper-Davis, aged 37, of Hither Green, London, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court today (Tuesday 22 April) after he admitted the manslaughter of his uncle, Jonathan ...
Release date: 22/04/2025
A 20-year-old man from Honiton, Devon, has today (Thursday 17 April) been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for terrorism offences. Tobias Gleed, of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court, after being found guilty of: fo...
Release date: 17/04/2025
A Crediton man has been jailed for more than nine years after pleading guilty to a range of sexual offences and another offence. Lukasz Grzywna, 30, of Upton Hellions, Crediton, had previously admitted 13 sexual offences and one drug related offence...
Release date: 14/04/2025
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