Bristol Crown Court Sentencing Results

On October 17, 2025, police executed a warrant at Alfie Bailey's address in Stockwood, South Bristol. Bailey attempted to flee through the back garden carrying a carrier bag and entered a car, which was stopped by police. The bag contained 54 grams of cocaine worth £4,400 and paraphernalia. Additional cocaine, over £10,000 in cash, weapons, unusable ammunition, and multiple mobile phones were found at the property. An electric motorcycle and charger worth £11,180 were seized as criminal property.

Ben Bicknell, 37, from Whitchurch Lane, Bristol, served as the main drugs distributor for the OCG in Bristol. He was arrested in June 2022 and found in possession of snap bags containing cocaine. A search of his home revealed a small amount of cocaine and almost £20,000 in cash. He was forensically linked to three kilos of heroin and 660 grams of cocaine seized from his niece Kasey Cotterell’s address in Hartcliffe, Bristol, on the same day.

Thomas William Gall was one of two men who ran more than 40 misleading websites imitating government services, including the Dartford Crossing and London ULEZ. The sites used sponsored links and Google adverts to appear above official results, charging inflated fees or charging for free services such as SORN applications. Gall and his co-defendant generated over £2.25 million in revenue. More than 780 penalty charge notices were issued to customers who used the sites to pay Dart Charge, though these were later cancelled.

Joshua Batt, aged 28 from Whitchurch, was part of an organised crime group involved in supplying class A drugs (heroin and cocaine) and class B drugs (amphetamine). Police uncovered over 40kg of drugs worth £1.8m, including 10kg of heroin found in a business park off Staunton Lane on November 18, 2024, where Batt was present. Additional drugs including 10kg of cocaine, 9kg of heroin, and 21kg of amphetamines were found in a garage in Down Lane, along with cutting agents and paraphernalia.

Justin Pearce, aged 45 of no fixed address, was part of an organised crime group involved in supplying class A drugs (heroin and cocaine) and class B drugs (amphetamine). Police uncovered over 40kg of drugs worth £1.8m, including 10kg of heroin found in a business park off Staunton Lane on November 18, 2024, where Pearce was present. Additional drugs including 10kg of cocaine, 9kg of heroin, and 21kg of amphetamines were found in a garage in Down Lane, along with cutting agents and paraphernalia.

Mark Glover, aged 48 from Henbury, was part of an organised crime group involved in supplying class A drugs (heroin). Police uncovered over 40kg of drugs worth £1.8m, including 10kg of heroin found in a business park off Staunton Lane on November 18, 2024, where Glover was present. Additional drugs including 10kg of cocaine, 9kg of heroin, and 21kg of amphetamines were found in a garage in Down Lane, along with cutting agents and paraphernalia.

Mark Bourne, aged 49 from Horfield, was part of an organised crime group involved in supplying class A drugs (heroin). Police uncovered over 40kg of drugs worth £1.8m, including 10kg of heroin found in a business park off Staunton Lane on November 18, 2024, where Bourne was present. Additional drugs including 10kg of cocaine, 9kg of heroin, and 21kg of amphetamines were found in a garage in Down Lane, along with cutting agents and paraphernalia.

Curtis Tucker, 43, of Kingswood, engaged in persistent shop thefts over recent months, stealing bakery products, alcohol, meat, high-value tools, and other items from various retailers in South Gloucestershire. He also committed theft from a vehicle and threatening behaviour with intent to cause fear, resulting in significant losses to targeted businesses.

Carl Davies, 32, formerly of Islington, London, was identified as a ringleader directing the fraud operation. Between January and December 2022, the group targeted older and vulnerable victims across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, and Herefordshire, luring them with offers of low-cost guttering work and pressuring them with false claims of roof damage to pay for unnecessary and poor-quality repairs, stealing over £370,000 in total.

David Chalk, 30, formerly of Green Acres Mobile Home Park, Chertsey, Surrey, was identified as a ringleader directing the fraud operation and recruiting others. Between January and December 2022, the group targeted older and vulnerable victims across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, and Herefordshire, luring them with offers of low-cost guttering work and pressuring them with false claims of roof damage to pay for unnecessary and poor-quality repairs, stealing over £370,000 in total.

Liam Riley, 28, from Liverpool, was involved in a county lines drug operation exporting Class A drugs from Liverpool to the Weymouth area of Dorset between November 2018 and February 2019. He orchestrated the network using a phone line for broadcast texts advertising drugs. Arrested on December 31, 2018, at an address in Cheshire while attempting to destroy a mobile phone in a bathroom. The operation led to the seizure of over 800 wraps of Class A drugs and more than £15,000 in cash.

Kemar Lewis was observed exchanging small items for money in east Bristol on August 6, 2025, leading to his arrest on suspicion of supplying class A drugs. A search of his home, conducted with the help of a police dog, uncovered heroin worth £55,000, crack cocaine worth £58,500, cannabis worth almost £1,800, a cutting agent worth around £50,000, and cash totaling £25,125 hidden under the floorboards.

Eileen McDonagh posed as an RNLI charity collector in Bath and Exeter, making over 3,600 fraudulent transactions to collect nearly £27,000. She wore an RNLI lanyard and uniform, fabricated a story about a family member drowning at sea, and overcharged donors, such as secretly charging £20 instead of £2. She was arrested in 2023 and the offences occurred on dates including May 25, 2023, in Bath, and June 19, 2023, in Exeter.

Andrew John Westwick was arrested after around 6kg of cannabis, including cannabis plants, cannabis flowering head and cannabis resin, were seized from his home and car in Pilton on Thursday 12 December. Four packages containing cannabis flowering head and resin were found in his car ready to be posted. He was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court after pleading guilty to multiple drug supply and production offences.

Lewis Thomas, 35, from Stockwood, defrauded victims across the South West by taking upfront payments for loft ladder installations that he never completed. He operated under more than 27 different business names and stole over £5,000 from victims in Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Wales, causing emotional distress. He breached a previous deferred sentence and Criminal Behaviour Order from February 2024.

Omar Hassanjee headed an organised crime group supplying wholesale amounts of heroin and cocaine. Investigators tracked his associates making trips to collect drugs, leading to the seizure of cocaine worth £13,000 from James Lea and heroin worth £2.5 million from a car driven by James Pokora. Additionally, £15,000 worth of high-purity cocaine was found under the floorboards of a safe house in Birmingham, which Hassanjee visited. He used his own home to store proceeds from the drug supply. The network was uncovered in May 2024.