Bristol Crown Court Sentencing Results

Jacob Barnard and Andrew Milne set fire to a house in Croxden Way, Eastbourne just before 1am on July 10th, 2018, killing Gina Ingles, 34, and her son Milo Ingles-Bailey, four. Gina’s partner Toby Jarrett, now 29, managed to escape through a first floor window and sustained serious injuries including severe burns.

Jacob Barnard and Andrew Milne set fire to a house in Croxden Way, Eastbourne just before 1am on July 10th, 2018, killing Gina Ingles, 34, and her son Milo Ingles-Bailey, four. Gina’s partner Toby Jarrett, now 29, managed to escape through a first floor window and sustained serious injuries including severe burns.

On 11 July 2019, Alhaji Sesay entered the female toilet of a nightclub in Bristol City Centre, approached an unknown woman, pushed her against the wall, sexually assaulted her through her clothing, and attempted to force her to commit a sex act on him. He was detained by security and arrested. On 30 August 2020, at a bar on Chase Road, N14, north London, he pushed an unknown woman into a toilet cubicle, attempted to rape her, and when unsuccessful, forced her to perform a sex act on him. He left but returned and was arrested at the scene.

Nathan Matthews murdered his 16-year-old step-sister Rebecca Marie Watts by suffocation on 19 February 2015 at the family home in Bristol as part of a sexually-motivated kidnap plot. He stabbed her body 15 times post-mortem, then with Shauna Hoare dismembered it using a knife and circular saw over several days, hiding the remains in bags and boxes in a neighbour's shed.

Shauna Hoare, girlfriend of Nathan Matthews, participated in the manslaughter of 16-year-old Rebecca Marie Watts by suffocation on 19 February 2015 at the family home in Bristol as part of a sexually-motivated kidnap plot. She assisted in dismembering the body using a knife and circular saw over several days and hiding the remains in bags and boxes in a neighbour's shed.

Robin Hollyson was part of a gang that shared indecent images and videos of children being raped and sexually abused, mainly babies and infants, via social media and internet conferencing. Victims included at least one given stupefying drugs. The group offered advice on drug administration to children and live-streamed abuse. The investigation, led by the NCA, identified the organised crime group after Adam Toms' arrest in September 2012.

Matthew Stansfield was part of a gang that shared indecent images and videos of children being raped and sexually abused, mainly babies and infants, via social media and internet conferencing. Victims included at least one given stupefying drugs. The group offered advice on drug administration to children and live-streamed abuse. The investigation, led by the NCA, identified the organised crime group after Adam Toms' arrest in September 2012.

John Denham was part of a gang that shared indecent images and videos of children being raped and sexually abused, mainly babies and infants, via social media and internet conferencing. Victims included at least one given stupefying drugs. The group offered advice on drug administration to children and live-streamed abuse. The investigation, led by the NCA, identified the organised crime group after Adam Toms' arrest in September 2012.

David Harsley was part of a gang that shared indecent images and videos of children being raped and sexually abused, mainly babies and infants, via social media and internet conferencing. Victims included at least one given stupefying drugs. The group offered advice on drug administration to children and live-streamed abuse. The investigation, led by the NCA, identified the organised crime group after Adam Toms' arrest in September 2012.

Adam Toms was arrested in September 2012 by Avon and Somerset police after admitting he had sexually abused a child under the age of five. He was part of a gang that shared indecent images and videos of children being raped and sexually abused, mainly babies and infants, via social media and internet conferencing. Victims included at least one given stupefying drugs. The group offered advice on drug administration to children and live-streamed abuse, expanding rapidly from Toms' admissions to identify other offenders.

Christopher Knight was part of a gang that shared indecent images and videos of children being raped and sexually abused, mainly babies and infants, via social media and internet conferencing. Victims included at least one given stupefying drugs. The group offered advice on drug administration to children and live-streamed abuse. The investigation, led by the NCA, identified the organised crime group after Adam Toms' arrest in September 2012.

Stephen Farrow murdered 77-year-old Betty Yates on January 2, 2012, by breaking into her home in Bewdley, Worcestershire, striking her from behind with a heavy walking stick, causing her to fall and hit her head, then stabbing her four times and leaving the knife in the fatal wound. Six weeks later, on February 13, 2012, he murdered 59-year-old Rev John Suddards after being let into his vicarage in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, attacking him with knives causing seven deep wounds, kicking him back to the floor, and watching him die while telling him to 'f****** die then and hurry up'. Farrow then drank beer, ate food, watched DVDs, and left the next morning. The body was found on February 14 surrounded by pornography, party poppers, a condom wrapper, underwear, a canvas of Jesus Christ, and a mirror. This was part of a two-month reign of terror including threats to kill 'Christian scum' and a burglary where he left a threatening note to Alan and Margaret Pinder reading 'Be thankful you didn’t come back or we will have killed you, Christian scum. I f****** hate God.' Farrow had an obsession with religion, claimed abuse by a priest, and wanted to murder the Archbishop of Canterbury. He sent a chilling text on New Year’s Eve 2011 warning that the 'church will be the first to suffer' and believed 2012 marked the 'second coming of Christ.'

Vincent Tabak strangled Joanna Yeates at her flat at 44 Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol, on 17 December 2010, shortly after she returned home. He used sufficient force to kill her, causing 43 separate injuries to her head, neck, torso and arms including cuts, bruises and a fractured nose during a struggle. He then concealed the crime by transporting and disposing of her body in a quarry near Longwood Lane, Failand, North Somerset.

Jonathan Haynes, a 30-year-old former Royal Logistics Corp lance corporal based at Buckley Barracks, Hullavington, near Chippenham, raped an 18-year-old student at Glamorgan University halls of residence on September 26, 2009. Prior to this, he abducted and raped a 16-year-old girl in Chippenham, Wiltshire, on September 13, 2009. He also raped a 17-year-old girl in Chippenham in 2010 and attempted to snatch two 14-year-old girls from a country lane near Chippenham in February 2010.

Paul Beart, a 25-year-old sex-crazed psychopath, murdered 31-year-old Deborah O'Sullivan on April 29, 2001, in Newquay, Cornwall. After being released early from a five-year sentence for indecent assault, he violated his probation, travelled to Newquay, stalked women, assaulted two teenage girls, and then subjected Deborah to an hour-long brutal attack on a footpath beside Newquay's seaside golf course off Atlantic Road. He strangled, beat her with a litter bin, tortured and mutilated her. She died three days later in Plymouth hospital. Beart confessed to police immediately after.

In October 2023, Paul Kibble, aged 42 and living in Bath, sexually assaulted and raped a woman at a residential address in Bath. He refused to take no for an answer and continued sexual activity without her consent for his own gratification.

Mark Baglow, aged 54, of Landkey, Barnstaple, former housing manager at Mid Devon District Council, sexually assaulted a female employee at the council’s headquarters in 2019 by putting his hand up her top and fondling her breast while she was photocopying. He also committed two rapes and two assaults by penetration against a different woman around 2020.