Bournemouth Crown Court Sentencing Results

Billy Banks filmed himself setting a young lurcher-type dog on a live rabbit at Broadstone recreation ground in October 2025. He pulled the rabbit from a bag and kicked it several times to make it run so the dog could continue pursuing it. He uploaded the footage to an open hare coursing group on social media and was identified from it. He was arrested in November 2025 and admitted the offence at Poole Magistrates' Court in May.

Tom Jun Ahnstrom, a teaching assistant and martial arts instructor from Southampton, contacted one teenage victim via Snapchat in July 2022 and engaged in sexual communication with her. He contacted a second teenage girl via Snapchat during the summer of 2022 and sent her sexually explicit messages. Police received an allegation from the first victim in December 2023, and Ahnstrom was arrested on 8 December 2023. Further enquiries identified the second victim, and detectives later found indecent images of children on his electronic devices.

Cruz Buckley, 21, of Bridport, posed as a 17-year-old boy named Joshua on Snapchat and formed an online relationship with a 14-year-old girl in November 2024. He sent indecent videos of himself, threatened her into performing indecent acts on video calls, took screenshots without consent, and later shared them with her family. He was arrested in March 2025 and his phone was found to contain indecent images and videos of the victim. He pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual communication with a child, sharing a photograph or film of a person in an intimate state intending to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, making indecent images of a child, blackmail and causing or inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity.

Jason Evans, 32, of Poole, escaped from a privately operated prisoner transport vehicle on 2 April 2026 after being remanded in custody for assault and other offences. He led police on a four-day manhunt with NPAS helicopter assistance before being recaptured. He pleaded guilty to administering a noxious substance with intent to injure/aggrieve/annoy, escape from lawful custody, two counts of assault with intent to resist arrest, and assault by beating of an emergency worker. The lead charge was administering poison for which he received 16 months, with 14 months consecutive for escape and concurrent eight-month sentences on the remaining charges, totalling 30 months.

Miroslaw Kochaniec, 46, of Bournemouth, attacked an 89-year-old wheelchair-bound woman as she left a restaurant with her son in Haven Road, Poole, at around 8.45pm on September 19, 2025. He carried a large wooden bat and lunged towards the woman, pushing her to the ground and causing her to fall out of her wheelchair. The victim was taken to hospital and treated for injuries to her face and head, fingers, swelling to her knee, with a bleed to her brain later confirmed.

Henry Leung, postmaster of Spar in Furze Hill, orchestrated two fake armed robberies in November 2022 (£35,704 stolen) and January 2023 (£60,000 stolen) with Robert Bloomfield posing as robber, to cover debts. Leung staged being threatened with knife then toy gun, tied up. Police found cash during surveillance after suspicions.

Robert Bloomfield of Lyndhurst Road, Christchurch, posed as armed robber twice for friend Henry Leung: threatened with knife on 15 November 2022 (£35,704), toy gun on 10 January 2023 (£60,000). Wore balaclava, black clothing, gloves. Caught with cash during police stop. Toy gun found at home.

Brooke Marshall, 35, was involved in a major drugs operation run from a family home in Old Manor Close, Wimborne. In August 2025, police raided the property and uncovered a large-scale distribution setup, including one-and-a-half kilos of cocaine, 400 grams of heroin, 500 grams of ketamine, two kilos of cannabis, £20,000 in cash, illegal vapes, a knuckleduster, and equipment for preparing, packaging, and posting drugs across the UK. Drugs were stored in the kitchen, fridge, and throughout the home. Marshall handled money laundering for the operation.

On April 10, 2025, at approximately 9pm, Emma Smart entered The Catch at the Old Fish Market restaurant in Weymouth, Dorset, reached into a fish tank, and removed a pet lobster owned by the restaurant owner for educational purposes with visiting schoolchildren. Despite attempts by staff to stop her, she carried the lobster a few yards to the nearby harbour and dropped it into the water. The lobster, which had been with the restaurant for two-and-a-half years and was not for consumption or sale, was never seen again, and its survival is unknown. Smart acted impulsively due to her concerns for animal and marine welfare as a marine biologist.

John Pidgley (24) of Thorney Hill, Bransgore, committed the offence of harassment without violence between 24th January 2025 and 9th February 2025.

Junior Turaga, 21, from Dorchester, violently choked his ex-girlfriend until she struggled to breathe on Monday, 14 October 2024. He obsessively controlled her every move, stalked her phone, and threatened harm to himself, her family, or damage to her car if she disobeyed. The victim bravely came forward, leading to his arrest and investigation by police.

On the evening of 24 February 2025, Maksims Pilko, 22, of Bournemouth, approached a couple walking to Bournemouth train station after an evening out. Following a brief verbal altercation instigated by Pilko when he called the woman derogatory names, he pushed between them, spat in the woman’s face, and punched her to the head, causing her to fall to the floor. When her boyfriend tried to get between them to protect her, Pilko stabbed him nine times to the chest, arm, thigh, and back. The prosecution used evidence including CCTV footage and statements from by-passers who stopped to help the victims.

Harrison Taylor, 19, from Poole, was driving a Mercedes A200 with a 17-year-old passenger in the front seat on Banks Road in the early hours of Tuesday, December 26, 2023. The vehicles were travelling at speeds exceeding 70mph on a 30mph road. The Mercedes failed to negotiate a right-hand bend and struck a gatepost before the BMW collided with it. The 17-year-old passenger was trapped and suffered multiple serious injuries.

Henry Taylor, 21, from Poole, was driving a BMW M135 in convoy with his brother on Banks Road in the early hours of Tuesday, December 26, 2023. The vehicles were travelling at speeds exceeding 70mph on a 30mph road. The Mercedes driven by his brother failed to negotiate a right-hand bend and struck a gatepost before the BMW collided with it. A 17-year-old passenger was trapped and suffered multiple serious injuries.

Matthew Ashley Foster-Smith stalked a woman in her 40s in Bournemouth between May and October 2023. He loitered outside the victim's workplace, deliberately sought chances to encounter her in public, and researched her on multiple internet platforms. The offending also breached a restraining order from a previous stalking case.

Georgia Smith (33), of Orchard Gardens, Cranleigh, West Sussex, along with Christopher Call operated under the name Your Roof Buddy Ltd. The pair charged inflated prices totalling £119,600 to four elderly customers aged 65 to 93 for substandard, unnecessary roofing work of no value that required complete redo. They falsely claimed membership of Checkatrade and targeted vulnerable people via leaflet drops, escalating minor repairs to full roof replacements and threatening legal action for non-payment.

Callum Giddins was driving a black Audi A1 with a revoked driving licence and no insurance, and had close to seven times the legal limit of cocaine in his system. He failed to stop for police near the Canford Bottom roundabout and collided with a blue Vauxhall Zafira on Wimborne Road East near Ferndown on August 5, causing serious injuries to himself and the 58-year-old driver of the other vehicle, as well as minor injuries to an 18-year-old passenger in his car.

Conrad Lee Morgan was involved in an altercation in Etches Close, Bournemouth, on October 7, 2024, where he and others possessed offensive weapons and conspired to commit affray. This led to a stolen black Range Rover with false plates being driven at a victim, resulting in the victim being hit twice and pinned against a wall, necessitating the amputation of his left leg.

Conrad Morgan was involved in the same incident as his son on October 7, 2024, in Bournemouth, where a man in his 20s lost his leg in a collision involving a black Range Rover.

Vinny Dean Conrad Morgan and others were involved in an altercation in Etches Close, Bournemouth, on October 7, 2024. They were seen with baseball bats and drove a stolen black Range Rover with false plates at the victim, who was assisting others. The vehicle hit the victim twice, pinning him against a wall, causing severe injuries that led to the amputation of his left leg.

Vinny Morgan was involved in a collision with a black Range Rover in Bournemouth on October 7, 2024, which resulted in a man in his 20s sustaining a serious injury leading to the amputation of his left leg.

Adam Culverwell, a 53-year-old psychiatric nurse employed by Dorset Healthcare Trust, engaged in a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient suffering from a mental disorder while she was under his care between September 2016 and December 2020. He exploited his professional position, knowing of the victim's mental health issues, for his own gratification. The offences were reported to Dorset Police in June 2021, leading to his arrest and charges in June 2024, followed by a trial.

On September 7, 2023, at around 6.15pm, Benjamin Charles Foster, aged 35 and driving a red Ford Transit minibus, was involved in a crash on the A30 Sherborne Road at Purse Caundle near Sherborne. He crossed into a filter lane as if to turn right before continuing onward towards oncoming traffic, colliding head-on with a red Toyota Yaris. A red Volkswagen Polo, travelling behind the Yaris, then collided with the rear of the Yaris. A man in his 60s was taken to hospital by air ambulance with serious injuries. A man and a woman, both in their late teens, were also taken to hospital with serious injuries. A road closure was implemented to allow emergency services to respond.

41-year-old Darryl John Cornish attacked a woman at an address in Upton on August 29, 2024. During the attack, Cornish strangled the woman, threw her to the ground, pushed her down the stairs, and threw her belongings. The victim fled the address having sustained injuries to her arms, hands, back and neck. Following an investigation involving door-to-door enquiries, statements and mobile phone footage, Cornish was charged and convicted of non-fatal strangulation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.