Cambridge Crown Court Sentencing Results

Carl Scarrow, 43, was spotted by officers driving a black Vauxhall Vectra on the A1123 near Harrison Way in St Ives at about 3.40am on December 1. He drove normally at first but then turned into Broad Leas and continued driving despite being signalled to stop. He overtook two vehicles while turning left into East Street, colliding with a parked Toyota Aygo, an Audi A3, and two houses. He was uninsured, held only a provisional licence, and failed to provide a drugs wipe test. Structural engineers inspected one of the houses, and supports were needed to remove the vehicle.

Leon Richardson, 22, of Mill Road, Cambridge, began communicating with a schoolboy via social media on October 10. The conversations started innocently but quickly became sexual, with Richardson sending explicit images and videos of himself and requesting the boy to do the same. He persuaded the boy to engage in sexual acts with his younger brother, which were recorded and shared with Richardson. This abuse continued until December 29, when the boy's parents discovered the messages after noticing his withdrawn behaviour. Richardson later confessed at a police station.

Reece Ludlow, a prisoner at HMP Whitemoor, approached the victim at about 6.30pm on September 20, 2022, and threw a cup of boiling blue liquid over him, causing burns and blisters to the victim’s shoulder and torso. He then punched the victim in the face several times, leaving cuts and bruises. The victim returned to his cell, and prison officers intervened.

Zeeshan Ellam, aged 26, was already wanted by another police force when he was spotted driving a silver Peugeot 308 in St Ives on September 15, 2023. He attempted to evade police by ramming into a police car, driving through a car park, a small fence, and over a footpath onto Reynolds Way, causing significant damage. He handed himself in at Thorpe Wood Police Station in Peterborough on September 29, 2023.

Aaron Readman, 28, was reported driving his blue BMW erratically in Stanground at around 7.30pm on Saturday 6 December. Officers intercepted the vehicle near his home in Hardwick, but he fled, triggering a high-speed pursuit. He reached speeds of up to 85mph in a 60mph zone, ignored road hazards, braked erratically, and rammed the front of a police car. The pursuit ended when the BMW crashed into a fence at his home in The Pastures. Readman was found hiding in a nearby shed and arrested. He failed a roadside breath test, revealing he was more than twice the legal alcohol limit.

Patrick Connors, 22, of Carshalton Road, Banstead, Surrey, approached five different women between 13 and 17 June 2023 in Sawston, Arbury, and Great Shelford. He drove next to them and asked for directions before indecently exposing himself. Connors was arrested on 19 June 2023.

Matthew Tolcher, 34, of Essendine, Stamford, attempted to smuggle crack cocaine and buprenorphine tablets into Peterborough prison in March 2022 by disguising the handover with a prolonged handshake and hug to an inmate. Prison officers spotted the exchange and confiscated the wrap containing the prohibited drugs.

Jamie Barnes, 47, of Rivendale, Werrington, Peterborough, was arrested and his electronic devices seized after officers received intelligence about his online activity between November 2020 and January 2022. Indecent images of children were found on his devices along with messages showing he was arranging for children to be sexually abused and livestreamed online.

On October 8, 2021, Asim Bashir was driving a grey BMW M8 westbound on the A47 near Wittering with his family as passengers. He attempted to overtake multiple vehicles dangerously, leading to a head-on collision with a red Ford Fiesta driven by Christopher Hunt. The collision caused Mr Hunt's vehicle to go airborne, crash through a tree line, and explode, resulting in his death. Bashir's family sustained serious injuries, with his four-year-old son requiring a wheelchair.

Lulzim Sinimati, 27, of Dogsthorpe Road, Millfield, Peterborough, and Fatos Kertolli were in Bar 42, Broadway, Peterborough, when a fight broke out at about 3am on 20 July 2023. CCTV footage captured the victim being repeatedly punched in the face before falling to the floor, where he was then kicked to his body and repeatedly stamped on. One man was left with minor injuries to his face, while a second man was hospitalised with a bleed on his brain and fractures to his spine and face. The pair claimed self-defence, but were found guilty after a trial.

Nathan Lovell, 33, from Wisbech, sexually abused two young girls between January 2021 and June 2023. He possessed over 1,000 indecent images of children on his phone, including 14 category A images, and paid nearly £5,000 for adults to abuse children worldwide. He was involved in online conversations directing and facilitating such abuses, with evidence from screen recordings and social media enquiries.

Fatos Kertolli, 36, of Garton End Road, Millfield, Peterborough, and Lulzim Sinimati were in Bar 42, Broadway, Peterborough, when a fight broke out at about 3am on 20 July 2023. CCTV footage captured the victim being repeatedly punched in the face before falling to the floor, where he was then kicked to his body and repeatedly stamped on. One man was left with minor injuries to his face, while a second man was hospitalised with a bleed on his brain and fractures to his spine and face. The pair claimed self-defence, but were found guilty after a trial.

Fezhan Bahadur, 25, of Sallowbush Road, Huntingdon, breached an indefinite restraining order issued in January 2022 by contacting his former partner through multiple social media platforms using false accounts from December 2023. He made threats to harm her, damage her property, stab her dad, and assault her mum and sister. He also directly threatened the victim's family and arranged for at least three people to attend their home in Huntingdonshire since April 2023, where they made threats and damaged the house and cars by throwing bricks. Bahadur was arrested at Stansted Airport on August 22, 2023, upon his return from Dubai.

Louis Kidd, 39, of Arrington, stole more than £2,000 worth of alcohol and £142 in cash from a business in Sussex Street between December 16 and 25, 2023. He also broke into the Asda warehouse at the Beehive Centre and targeted Co-ops in Milton Road and Hills Road on nine occasions.

Mary Casey, 34, from St Albans, drunkenly drove the wrong way down a one-way street in Cambridge in July 2022. She overtook four cars at traffic lights, sped around a corner through no entry signs, lost control, and crashed into two parked cars. After the crash, she reversed the car and hit her one-year-old great-niece, who was on the pavement, causing a bleed on the brain, a fractured skull, and fractured ribs.

Timothy Addy, 56, of Barton Road, Comberton, near Cambridge, prowled around three women as he walked his dog and repeatedly displayed strange behaviour. Police were called in November 2021 after one victim noticed a torch beam being shone in her bedroom window, between 4.20am and 6.30am, up to four times a week. Eventually she looked out and saw Addy looking up towards her. She had recognised him as previously making her feel uncomfortable when she was out walking or running. The victim had also noticed a bra, which did not belong to her, hanging on her fence post and, one morning, she had drawn up her blind to see a pair of knickers in her garden. A second victim saw Addy staring through her windows two years before, noticed a bright light being shone through her window, and during lockdown in 2020, Addy would approach her almost every time and make degrading comments about what she was wearing, leaving her feeling very uncomfortable. The victim told officers Addy had stopped her in a shop and made sexually explicit comment before closely walking past her and grabbing her inappropriately. A third victim came forward and said in May 2021 she had come out of her home to find “I love you” written in the light dirt on the driver’s side window of her car, which then happened twice more. And on one morning, she discovered the same message had been written on the front windscreen – in letters as tall as the windscreen – but this time so it could be read from inside the car, which left her feeling scared. She also recalled Addy looking through her living room window while she was on the sofa, and when she confronted him after spotting him outside her house again, he apologised.

Colette Carre, 56, of Acacia Grove, March, failed to provide prompt or adequate professional veterinary care and attention to her female greyhound type dog called Defa for signs of ill health, including a large tumourous mass on her snout/muzzle, weight loss, and poor bodily condition. The defendant had made an appointment to have Defa put to sleep, but concerns were raised over the dog's condition and the matter was reported to the RSPCA. Witnesses described Defa as emaciated with a strong smell of putrefaction and a large ulcerated tumourous mass the size of a grapefruit on the front of her mouth and snout, measuring approximately 14cm in diameter side to side and 7cm front to back. A vet's examination confirmed emaciation, a large putrefying and necrosing tumour over her upper jaw obliterating the nostrils, an overpowering smell of rotting flesh and purulent discharge, dehydration, and inability to eat, drink, or pant due to the tumour, which was incredibly painful and caused suffering for at least two months.

John Daffin, 31, of Cornfield Lane, Littleport, was driving a stolen Blue Audi A6 and overtaking vehicles at dangerous speeds along the A10 near Milton at about 12.40pm on 28 August 2023, when he crossed into the opposite carriageway and collided head-on with a Ford Focus carrying two men aged 68 and 43, a 71-year-old woman, and an eight-year-old boy from the same family who were travelling back from a holiday. The victims suffered serious injuries including fractures to the ribs, bleeding on the brain, and punctured lungs, and were treated at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Daffin fled the scene into nearby hedgerows but was identified via public footage and later arrested.

Juned Miah, 33, and his wife assisted drug dealers in Cambridge to move criminal funds to and from different accounts between 2020 and 2021. The pair, of Darwin Drive, were found guilty at a trial in 2024. Following sentencing, a financial investigation discovered they had benefitted by £216,036.49 from their criminal conduct.

Darren Barker committed offences including threatening to disclose private sexual photographs, theft, criminal damage, and nine breaches of a non-molestation order. He also breached a suspended sentence during these offences.

Tania Miah, 32, and her husband assisted drug dealers in Cambridge to move criminal funds to and from different accounts between 2020 and 2021. The pair, of Darwin Drive, were found guilty at a trial in 2024. Following sentencing, a financial investigation discovered they had benefitted by £216,036.49 from their criminal conduct.

On 10 September 2023, at about 8.20pm, Oliver Nicholls, driving a Mini Cooper at excessive speed (56mph in a 40mph zone, reaching up to 71mph), overtook a vehicle turning left into New Road on Oakington Road towards Girton, misjudged the road, mounted the pavement, and struck 14-year-old cyclist Isla Cochrane who was riding fully in the separated cycle lane with lights and helmet. Nicholls thought he was travelling at 40mph and mistook the cycle path's cat's eyes for the middle of the road; he did not see her, hit the kerb, braked hard, but it was too late. He stopped after the crash, called an ambulance, and both he and his passenger were uninjured. Isla was rushed to Addenbrooke’s Hospital but died of her injuries in the early hours of the following day.

In the early hours of 19 November 2023, John Kennedy, 42, of no fixed address, along with Derek Nash and Selena Rosella, entered the victim's home in Eastfield Road, Peterborough, after Rosella knocked on the door claiming an argument with her boyfriend. The 60-year-old victim allowed her inside, but Kennedy and Nash followed, stabbing the man in his arm, chest, and abdomen, and hitting him over the head with a machete. The trio ransacked the house looking for drugs before leaving with a small amount of cash and a candle.

In the early hours of 19 November 2023, Derek Nash, 49, of Figtree Walk, Dogsthorpe, along with John Kennedy and Selena Rosella, entered the victim's home in Eastfield Road, Peterborough, after Rosella knocked on the door claiming an argument with her boyfriend. The 60-year-old victim allowed her inside, but Nash and Kennedy followed, stabbing the man in his arm, chest, and abdomen, and hitting him over the head with a machete. The trio ransacked the house looking for drugs before leaving with a small amount of cash and a candle.

In the early hours of 19 November 2023, Selena Rosella, 37, of Shakespeare Avenue, New England, along with John Kennedy and Derek Nash, entered the victim's home in Eastfield Road, Peterborough. Rosella knocked on the door at about 5.30am, claiming to have had an argument with her boyfriend, and the 60-year-old victim allowed her inside. Kennedy and Nash followed, stabbing the man in his arm, chest, and abdomen, and hitting him over the head with a machete. The trio ransacked the house looking for drugs before leaving with a small amount of cash and a candle.

Aaron Goosey, 44, of Pennine Way, Peterborough, was found to possess 46 indecent images of children and one video on his phone, which was seized during an unannounced visit by officers in April. The images were sent via a deleted messaging app, and he had also deleted Facebook Messenger chats and failed to notify police of a new alias, breaching his SHPO and Sex Offenders Register requirements. He has 36 prior convictions including exposure and making indecent images.