Cambridge Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

Cameron James Campbell, 26, was recorded travelling at 90mph in a 70mph speed limit zone near Loughbrickland on April 3, 2026, at around 10.20am. He appeared before District Judge Natasha Fitzsimons at Banbridge Magistrates' Court, sitting at Newry Courthouse, on October 22, 2026. Campbell was fined £125, given three penalty points and ordered to pay a £15 offender levy.

Paul McAreavey admitted exceeding the 60mph speed limit on the A1 dual carriageway on April 26, 2026. Police observed his vehicle travelling at 70mph at around 11am. He had been offered a fixed penalty but did not take it up within the time allowed.

Zbigniew Malecki was driving a Renault Master van on the A1 near Newry on June 17 while holding a provisional licence. Police travelling southbound saw the van travelling at 84mph, where a 60mph limit applied on the dual carriageway. He had no qualified supervisor, the passenger was unable to provide the required supervision, and the van was not displaying L plates.

Darek Smagiel, 55, was seen swerving across lanes on the A14 eastbound at Fenstanton on 13 July 2026 and was reported by members of the public. Police stopped his Iveco lorry and found bottles of whiskey in the cab. A roadside breath test showed 221 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, more than six times the legal limit. He later gave an evidential reading of 121 in custody. He pleaded guilty at Cambridge Magistrates' Court and was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, and disqualified from driving for three years.

Wendy Davies, 75, of Isleham, kept pigs in hazardous conditions without a dry place to lie down or water, and poultry in a filthy environment at Willow Tree Stables. She also failed to maintain medicine records or reports of dead animals. Following an investigation by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Trading Standards, officers visited the holding on several occasions and provided extensive advice along with veterinary surgeons at the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), but she failed to act to provide for the basic needs of her livestock.

Cara Powell was pulled over by police in Carlton Way, Cambridge, on 18 December 2025. She initially gave officers a false name before admitting her real identity and revealing she was already disqualified following a previous drug driving conviction. Officers smelled cannabis and a roadside drug swipe was positive, but she failed to provide an evidential sample in custody.

Brennan Kiplagat drove his Audi into a garden wall in Sunningdale Drive, Fen Road, Cambridge, on the evening of Saturday, 25 January 2026, while more than five times the legal drink driving limit. He was found asleep in the car nearby, with a bottle of whisky on the passenger seat. He blew 177 on a roadside breath test, exceeding the legal limit of 35, and was arrested. No one was injured.

Marion Read, 75, was spotted swerving across lanes in Comberton Road, Toft, on Thursday, 23 October 2025, before she crashed into another car and then drove off. Police found her at her home in Toft, with her car on the driveway. It had a damaged front wheel. She was arrested and was found to be over the legal alcohol limit.

Haygen Norman, 19, of Crystal Lakes, Fenstanton, smashed into a bollard and then reversed into a lorry in King’s Parade, Cambridge, at about 6am on Sunday 24 August 2025. He abandoned his car and walked away, but officers found him in Harvey Goodwin Avenue, Cambridge. He failed a breath test and was arrested.

On 25 July, Jack Walker, 27, of Cambridge, was spotted carrying a seven-inch bread knife in Ditton Lane, Cambridge. A member of the public flagged down police officers who were on patrol. When approached, Walker pulled the knife from his trousers and dropped it on the ground. He was arrested at the scene.

On the evening of October 12, 2024, Owen Dodwell, 21, of Warboys, was driving a black BMW and attempted to overtake another vehicle on a blind hill on the B1040 Somersham Road in St Ives, crossing a solid white line at an estimated 70mph. This caused a head-on crash with a blue Ford Transit Connect at a combined impact speed of around 130mph. The other driver suffered serious injuries including a fractured sternum, burns, missing teeth, and a broken ankle, requiring hospital treatment.

Nicola Sharkey, 65, of The Green, Steeple Morden, conducted a prolonged campaign of harassment against her 94-year-old neighbour starting in 2021. She filmed the victim while he mowed his lawn or had visitors, verbally abused him and his visitors, and in September 2023 erected a six-foot-high fence that blocked his driveway access, making it difficult for him to receive food and medication deliveries. Her mobile phone contained 76 photos and videos of the victim, including footage from hidden cameras. The victim reported feeling cut off from the world, stressed, and scared to leave his house, especially after losing his wife and experiencing reduced mobility due to age.

Edward Allcock, a 62-year-old man now of no fixed abode, bellowed racist abuse and harassed his neighbours in Clarke Close, Cottenham, multiple times between Friday, 15 November and Wednesday, 27 November 2024. He also threw objects such as ceramic plates at his neighbour’s vehicles from his window.

Ryan Woollard was driving a black Audi RS5 on the afternoon of 7 July when he crashed into a parked car at a garage on Witchford Road, Ely. He left the scene at speed, overtook a vehicle in a 20mph zone, and was arrested at the level crossing in Chettisham.

Renatas Dargevicius, 56, of Wisbech, caused a collision on April 28, 2025, at about 10.45am by pulling out of the junction of Churchill Road and Elm Road in his Vauxhall Astra into the path of a Nissan Micra. He registered 115 on a roadside breathalyser, more than three times the legal limit of 35, and provided an evidential sample of 108 in custody.

Darren Valentine, a 34-year-old man from Squires Close, Chesterton, Cambridge, was arrested by neighbourhood police on 10 January 2025 at his home after being found in possession of a stolen black Dallingridge Oxford folding bike worth more than £1,000. The bike had been taken from the owner’s shed, and officers tracked down the owner via Cycle King on Mill Road.

Amy Hunt, 37, of Campkin Court, Cambridge, uploaded an indecent image of a child to Facebook on 6 March 2023, alerting officers. She was arrested, and her devices were seized, revealing 38 category A images, 20 category B images, and 21 category C images of children. Hunt claimed her phone was hacked, but no evidence supported this.

Luke Jarrett, 26, was spotted by officers driving a green Jeep Cherokee on the A47, from Thorney Toll towards Wisbech, at about 9am on September 22. Concerns had been raised for his welfare that morning as he had been due to attend Cambridge Magistrates’ Court to face charges relating to illicit images of children.

Daniel Lee Crockwell, aged 35, of Cambridge, operated Cambridge Skip Hire at Half Acre Site, Long Drove, which began as a skip hire site but became an unpermitted waste transfer station. Environment Agency officers first visited in August 2016, left a letter, then issued a stop notice. In November 2016, Crockwell agreed to clear the site by 16 February 2017 but failed to do so. He only held a waste carriers’ licence and stopped taking extra waste in November 2017. The site required infrastructure improvements, planning, and health and safety compliance to operate legally as a waste transfer station.

Samuel Stewart, 42, from Hinchcliffe, Orton Goldhay, was intercepted by police around 11:15pm on 16 December in Peterborough's Orton Centre while loitering suspiciously. He was found carrying a rucksack containing pliers, a metal rod, and a Stanley knife. On 22 January at Cambridge Magistrates' Court, he admitted carrying a bladed article in public and was sentenced to six months and one week in prison.

William Maxwell was sentenced for stalking, harassment, breaching a restraining order and criminal damage. The offences included stalking and harassment, three breaches of a restraining order, a further breach involving contact with a woman he had been prohibited from contacting, and criminal damage to a police cell van and a door. The total sentence comprised three months for stalking and harassment, a further three months for three breaches of the restraining order, two months for the November breach, and one month each for damaging the police van and the door, with one sentence ordered to run consecutively to bring the total to 10 months. He was also ordered to pay a £25 offender levy.