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June 11, 2015, 5:23 am

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A woman who dealt in drugs to fund her own use has been given a suspended jail sentence.Joanne Alice Greaves began taking MCat and cannabis when she was involved on the rave party scene.Leicester Crown Court was told that it "spiralled out of control" and she ended up dealing to people she knew.Victoria Rose, prosecuting, said that in December last year, the police went to her home in Roman Close, Barrow upon Soar.They recovered 6.30 grams of MCat and 1.13 grams of cannabis, with a...

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June 12, 2015, 2:33 am

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A drunken "bully" twice pushed a pregnant woman to the ground in front of her children in the street, a court heard.When Nathan Nelson encountered her in a shop three-and-a-half months later, he told her: "If you get me sent to prison, I'll sort you out."The victim informed him she was 24 weeks pregnant, but he ignored her request to leave her alone in the store, saying he knew where she lived.When the shop keeper overheard the threats, at the Mini-Market in Sileby, he tried...

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June 14, 2015, 3:06 am

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A road worker who had sex with a schoolgirl in his van and in remote woodland was jailed for four-and-a-half years.Judge Simon Hammond said Owen James Hanton was "a sexual predator" and the courts had a duty to protect young girls from people like him.Leicester Crown Court was told that Hanton, 47, who worked all over the country on the roads, met the girl in Leicester and groomed her.On three occasions they had sexual intercourse in his van, parked near a supermarket in the city, when...

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June 14, 2015, 6:48 am

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A "remorseless offender" caught with drugs and two stashes of counterfeit notes was jailed for two years and four months.Liam Saddington, was seen acting suspiciously in Leicester's Victoria Road East and was arrested on January 18 last year.He dropped a small package containing 12.29 grams of MCat with a street value of £300.Three £10 wraps of cannabis and a smaller amount, worth five pounds, were found on him.Text messages on his mobile phone revealed he was street...

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June 14, 2015, 7:52 am

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A mother-of-five who cheated the benefits system out of more than £80,000 was given a suspended jail sentence.Sherry Smith, 39, was living with her lorry driver husband, Andrew, whilst falsely claiming to be a single parent with no income.She pleaded guilty to four counts of fraudulently claiming income support, child tax credits and housing and council tax benefit, that she was not entitled to, between early 2009 and December 2013.Smith, of Herrick Road, off Welford Road, Leicester, was...

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June 15, 2015, 2:47 am

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An architect caught downloading indecent images of young boys has been given a suspended jail sentence.Richard Francis Kaye, 61, was arrested at his then home in Exton, near Rutland Water, in April last year.Officers seized his laptop, a memory card and hard drive, containing child pornography.Ben Gow, prosecuting, told Leicester Crown Court: "He had been deleting images, but hadn't deleted them all."What they the officers were able to recover were 186 images and movies in the most...

Man who threatened to sexually abuse four children jailed for...

June 16, 2015, 5:18 am

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A man who threatened to sexually abuse four children has been jailed for three years for accessing and distributing indecent images.Jason Hill was caught with 3,000 indecent images of children, and distributed hundreds of them on the internet a court was told.Philip Gibbs, prosecuting, said: "In some cases children had been drugged and were unresponsive."The majority were young boys, aged under 13 and also under-fives."Hill, formerly of Frolesworth Road, Glenfield, Leicester, also...

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June 16, 2015, 9:44 am

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A motorist's guilty plea to causing a crash, which killed a popular café owner, has been met with relief from the victim's family.Gareth Carnall, 33, who owned Fingerprints Deli Café on Leicester's Queen's Road, in Clarendon Park, died instantly in the collision.He was just minutes away from arriving home in Earl Shilton, when Polish national, Karol Jutkiewicz, made the fatal mistake of driving on the wrong side of the road for 420 metres – directly into Gareth's oncoming van...

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Prisoner who attacked and bit off part of fellow inmate's ear...

June 18, 2015, 6:26 am

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A prisoner who attacked and bit off part of a fellow inmate's ear has been jailed for four years.Stephen Blowes pleaded guilty to wounding with intent, at HMP Stocken, Stretton, near Oakham, where he was already serving four years for a violent attack.The sentence will run consecutively to his current term, and an extended five year licence period was also imposed.Andrew Howarth, prosecuting, said Blowes attacked the 30-year-old inmate during a row about tobacco, in K-wing, on April 23 last...

Mother-of-nine jailed for brutal knife attack in Leicester city...

June 18, 2015, 6:36 am

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A disabled woman who was jailed for a brutal knife attack on an ex-friend today failed in an appeal against her sentence - despite claiming she was bullied into it.Angela Patterson, 48, of Gaddesby Avenue, Leicester, left Kehinde Oshungbure seriously injured after the attack in a city centre bookies' in 2011.The Jamaican mother-of-nine admitted wounding with intent and was jailed for 12 years at Leicester Crown Court in May 2012.Today, at the Court of Appeal, her lawyers argued that the sentence...

Leicester man Philip Merry appears in court accused of murdering...

June 19, 2015, 4:43 am

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A man has been remanded in custody accused of murdering Steven McKinnon in an alleged assault on June 6.Philip Merry (28) from Pinewood Avenue, Thurmaston, appeared before Leicester Magistrates this morning.He has been charged with murder following the death of Mr McKinnon (44) from Uppingham Road, as a result of the alleged assault in Catherine Street, Belgrave, Leicester.Merry has also been charged with causing actual bodily harm to Courtney Smith Hughes on the same date. He was remanded in...

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June 19, 2015, 5:28 am

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A man who accessed almost 2,000 indecent images of children on the internet has been jailed for two years and four months.Leigh Bedford, 39, was also banned from going abroad without permission from those responsible for supervising him on his release.Leicester Crown Court was told he was viewing child pornography for 12 years, before he was caught.He also distributed 10 pictures of youngsters being abused to two other people.Kate Plummer, prosecuting said the police paedophile online...

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June 19, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A businessman was killed in a crash after he became involved in a "spontaneous" race against another motorist on a dual carriageway.Harjit Singh Thaliwal, 27, was fatally injured when his BMW X6 was in a collision with a VW Sirocco driven by Shahid Abdul Kadir Omar on the southbound carriageway of the A6 Loughborough Road, near Mountsorrel.Neither driver knew each other.Omar (28) , of Laundry Lane, Belgrave, Leicester, admitted they "spontaneously" began racing , Leicester...

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June 20, 2015, 7:19 am

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A prisoner given a potentially lifelong sentence for a mobile phone mugging nine years ago has been freed by judges on appeal.Nathan Roberts was aged 23 and living on the streets when he cornered three youths in an alleyway."He relieved them of their telephones having frogmarched them down a side street," Judge Nicholas Cooke QC told London's Appeal Court. Roberts' young victims were also threatened with a knife, although the judge added: "No great actual violence was - or needed...

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June 20, 2015, 7:30 am

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The police found drugs at a man's house after being called to deal with a disturbance in the street, a court heard.Jakob Doronin (22) was found to have two ounces of cannabis and 17 ecstasy tablets in his then home, in Narborough Road, Leicester.He pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis, with intent to supply it, on September 20 last year.Kate Plummer, prosecuting, said that the cannabis had a street value of up to £740.Doronin also admitted possessing ecstasy, a class A drug, for personal...

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Armed police swoop on Leicester street after thugs smash up cars

June 21, 2015, 12:40 am

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Armed police swooped on a city street this morning after reports that thugs smashed two car windscreens and tried to break in to a house.They descended on Collingham Road, in Rowley Fields, just before 7am today.One officer told neighbours that a red car had pulled up outside the house at about 6.15am.He said someone had tried to break in to the property and had also smashed the windscreens of the two cars parked on the driveway.When officers arrived at the scene they had to force their way in...

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June 21, 2015, 6:52 am

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A violent man, who waved a blade at the police in the middle of a busy dual carriageway has been jailed for two years.Nicholas Underwood, who suffers from mental health problems, at one stage told the officers in Narborough Road, Leicester: "I want you to shoot me."One of the eight officers attending the scene said afterwards: "I've never been so scared of being injured."Avik Mukherjee, prosecuting, told Leicester Crown Court: "The safety of the police was in real...

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June 22, 2015, 3:21 am

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A drunken teenage mum was so out of control when the police arrived at her home she pushed an officer downstairs, a court heard.Harriet Brookes, 18, was behaving so badly in front of her own daughter and other youngsters, that her family called the police for help.Philip Gibbs, prosecuting, said: "When they arrived at the house in Glenborne Road, Leicester, to deal with the disturbance, the defendant was upstairs; being hostile, volatile, aggressive and abusive."When she did not come...

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June 22, 2015, 7:55 am

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A son who hid a loaded Smith and Wesson revolver under his mother's mattress has been jailed for seven years.Leaving the dock after sentencing, Bryan Kaba said to his mother in the public gallery: "I love you mum."The court heard police went to Kaba's home in Stocking Farm, Leicester, intending to arrest him on suspicion of an assault that was never proceeded with – and found the handgun in a black bag with six rounds of ammunition in it.Faye Mellor, prosecuting, told Leicester...

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June 23, 2015, 4:35 am

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Two men involved in a group burglary of a home, when the occupants were on holiday, have been given suspended jail sentences.Cameron Creese and Richard Watson pleaded guilty to the break-in, on Stephenson Drive, Newfoundpool, Leicester.The city's crown court was told the defendants were recruited to take part by a "ringleader," who has yet to be sentenced.He lived near the victims and knew they were away.Michael Collis, prosecuting, said a local resident spotted Watson, who was the...