Bristol Crown Court Sentencing Results

Alfie Cook, driving a BMW, and another driver, driving a Ford Fiesta, were racing each other at high speed on the A36 Warminster Road at Claverton, near Bradford on Avon, on April 15, 2023, causing a four-car crash that killed 26-year-old victim and seriously injured others.

Anthony Nowogrodzki, a senior Crown prosecutor with over 30 years’ experience as a criminal defence solicitor, was convicted of child cruelty and assault by beating. The offences involved violence against a child on more than one occasion. He was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court in July 2024 to concurrent terms of 14 months’ imprisonment for child cruelty and three months for assault by beating.

Benjamin John Semple, a 46-year-old former girls' rugby coach and electrical engineer from Lawrence Weston Road, was alone with a 15-year-old girl when he groped her and tried to get her to touch him improperly. The complainant suffered nightmares as a result of the abuse. Semple, a father-of-three, was convicted after a jury trial.

John Fielding, 46, of Andover, covertly filmed children and teenagers in public places across the South and South West of England using a camera pen and GoPro. On 27 May he was confronted by a suspicious shopper at Lidl in Andover; a camera pen was found in his bag. Further police investigation uncovered thousands of indecent images downloaded onto his computer since January 2023. He was charged with four counts of outraging public decency, six counts of making indecent photos/pseudo-photos of a child, two counts of possessing prohibited images of children, two counts of possessing extreme pornography, and three counts of breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

Jurate Grigelyte trafficked nine men and two women from Lithuania to the UK, promising them work. They were forced to collect and sort charity bags for Dreams Come True, a terminally ill children's charity. She housed them in cramped, poor-condition accommodation, charged them £50 per week rent, and fined them £50 if unable to work. They spoke little or no English and had no money for food, living off potatoes and relying on a free food kitchen. Police arrested Grigelyte in November 2013 after a school raised concerns about a victim’s six-year-old son.

Seal, of Frome, travelled in a Citroen to a car park in the centre of Radstock ahead of Delbono and Ephgrave. After Delbono stabbed the 16-year-old victim in The Street on Sunday, July 31, 2022, they fled the scene in the same two vehicles. They stopped at various points where they learned the victim had died before heading to Shearwater Lake, near Warminster. Delbono admitted during his trial that he threw the knife he used to murder the victim into the lake.

James Sunderland, 56, was a member of the Pattern Gang, a County Lines drug dealing gang that sold drugs in Sussex. He threatened to throw acid in the face of one of the gang's runners' mother to enforce a drug debt. Between May and October 2023, Sunderland attended the woman's home address between 20 and 40 times, hanging around outside and repeatedly phoning the family member. The victim felt so threatened she installed CCTV and kept fire extinguishers by the door, fearing her house would be burned down. Sunderland demanded cash on several occasions and forced her to take out loans and borrow money from family. He also threatened the woman's family member, telling him to get into the boot of his car. Sunderland was found guilty of blackmail and sentenced to six years in prison.

Ephgrave, of Melksham, travelled with Joshua Delbono in a Seat car to a car park in the centre of Radstock. After Delbono stabbed the 16-year-old victim in The Street on Sunday, July 31, 2022, they fled the scene. They stopped at various points where they learned the victim had died before heading to Shearwater Lake, near Warminster. While at the lake, Ephgrave took photos of clothes being burned in an attempt to dispose of evidence.

Lewis Glasby, driving a Ford Fiesta, and another driver, driving a BMW, were racing each other at high speed on the A36 Warminster Road at Claverton, near Bradford on Avon, on April 15, 2023, causing a four-car crash that killed the 26-year-old victim and seriously injured others.

Mark Foley, of Cardiff, director of M E Foley (Contractors) Ltd, allowed approximately 100,000 tonnes of waste, including hazardous materials such as chopped/shredded plastics, metals, foam and other man-made materials that were carcinogenic or ecotoxic, to be illegally dumped at Stowey Quarry, a former limestone quarry near Chew Valley reservoir in Somerset, in the first nine months of 2016. The site was permitted only for clean and non-hazardous material like soil and construction waste for recovery purposes. Waste was misleadingly described as 'soil substitute'. Despite repeated warnings from the Environment Agency, illegal tipping continued. The company declared only 44,950 tonnes but actual amount was nearly 95,000 tonnes. Permit suspended in October 2016.