Bournemouth Crown Court Sentencing Results

Stephen Sheppard was driving near Wool, Dorset, on 5 July 2020, when he collided with a caravan being towed by a Land Rover and then crashed head-on into a Ford Fiesta carrying Warren Wright, his wife, and their six-month-old baby daughter. This resulted in Wright's death at the scene and injuries to four others. Expert reports suggested Sheppard fell asleep at the wheel due to untreated sleep apnoea.

Asa Davison attacked his girlfriend, who was seven months pregnant, on multiple occasions. On May 29, 2020, in Gillingham, he followed her to a block of flats and assaulted her, causing swelling to her forehead, bruising to her upper arms, a fracture to her eye socket, fractures to her nasal bone, and bruising to her abdomen in the shape of a fist, which resulted in the death of her unborn child. He had previously shown resentment towards her pregnancy and continued to assault her in September 2020. He also perverted the course of justice by encouraging her to make a false statement from prison. Davison had a history of violence towards previous partners, including kicking one in the stomach while pregnant and breaking the eye sockets of two ex-partners.

Timothy Brian Lovegrove made 24 Category A, 17 Category B, and 2,194 Category C indecent images of children at Evershot over a 17-year period between April 10, 2004, and June 24, 2021. He also possessed 27 extreme pornographic images depicting, in an explicit and realistic way, a person performing an act of intercourse with a live animal during the same period.

Laurence Vonderdell, 50, entered the Bournemouth town centre branch of Barclays on March 25, holding a banana covered with an orange plastic bag. He pointed it at a cashier, saying 'This is a stick up, give me the cash,' causing her to hand over £1,100 in £20 notes. He then left the bank but handed himself in at Bournemouth police station shortly afterwards.

Ian Clowes used a large butane gas cylinder to cause an explosion in his marital home, which had been converted into separate flats, on October 22, 2018. The explosion caused catastrophic damage and endangered the life of his estranged wife, Elaine, who escaped uninjured. Clowes himself sustained serious injuries.

John Christian Beckett, as sole director of NRG Installs Ltd and The Insulate Group Ltd, oversaw companies that used misleading and aggressive sales tactics to sell spray foam loft insulation and coatings. Between January 2017 and September 2018, the companies generated £8 million in turnover by pressuring vulnerable customers into immediate fittings, waiving their 14-day cooling-off period, and making unsubstantiated claims. This resulted in 28 identified victims, some of whom faced difficulties selling their properties afterward.