Canterbury Crown Court Sentencing Results

Explore 583 verdicts at Canterbury Crown Court (Canterbury, Canterbury). Updated with the latest court outcomes.

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Lewis Day

Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm *

Sentence

14 and a half years in prison, with an additional three and a half years on licence

Lewis Day, 26, of Ramsgate, and Daryl Brown took part in a brutal attack at Whitstable railway station on the night of 16 December 2023. The victim, a man in his 50s, intervened in a dispute involving Day, Brown, and a friend, leading to a confrontation where the victim was chased and repeatedly stabbed in a nearby alleyway.

Convicted after a trial of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

1 Jan 0001

Lewis Whittington

Causing GBH with intent *

Sentence

seven and a half years imprisonment

On 16 August 2023, Lewis Whittington and Kenny Harmsworth stabbed a man known to them on Shaftesbury Road. The victim approached police on patrol, was injured with a collapsed lung, and airlifted to a London hospital before being discharged to recover at home. The offenders were tracked to a suspicious car on Albert Road and arrested.

Pleaded guilty to causing GBH with intent, possession of a bladed article, and possession of a class A drug with intent to supply. Aged 19, of no fixed address.

1 Jan 0001

Lana Laws

Fraud by abuse of position *

Sentence

2 years and 7 months imprisonment

In May 2017, Lana Laws, a tax adviser from Ramsgate, asked a client to transfer £45,516 to his firm to cover capital gains tax due to HMRC. Instead of paying HMRC, the money was transferred to other accounts within a month. The victim realised in February 2019 upon receiving a letter from HMRC showing the tax was still outstanding. Financial enquiries confirmed the misuse. Laws was interviewed under caution by Kent Police in September 2019 and refused to comment.

Pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position. Abused position of trust as a tax adviser defrauding a client of £45,516.

1 Jan 0001

Lance Colston

Coercive Control *

Sentence

5 years imprisonment

Lance Colston abused his ex-partner over a period beginning in October 2017. He head-butted her and slammed her against a wall. On 24 October he grabbed her by the throat, pinned her down, and head-butted her again. He later smashed dishes, broke her mobile phone, and punched her in the face following a row about money. On 10 November 2017 he subjected her to a prolonged attack, punching and kicking her repeatedly as she curled up on the sofa. After she reported the abuse to Folkestone Police Station on 13 November, her flat was found ransacked with bannisters broken, appliances smashed, TVs knocked over, a games console destroyed, and an oily substance smeared over plug sockets. He was arrested the next day and found guilty at Canterbury Crown Court.

Denied coercive control, three assaults, and two counts of criminal damage. Found guilty on all six charges after trial. Recorder Edmund Burge stated the five-year term. The victim provided photographic evidence of injuries; Colston claimed they were from play fighting or a bike fall.

1 Jan 0001

Kristian Fernandez

Making an indecent image of a child *

Sentence

two years and three months imprisonment

Kristian Fernandez, of Clements Road, Ramsgate, was visited by members of Kent Police’s Offender Management Unit on Thursday 6 June 2019 as part of the terms of a SOPO. When checking a phone at his address, an officer saw an indecent image of a child and the telephone was seized. Analysis uncovered further indecent videos and images, including 16 at category A, the most explicit kind, and more than 20 category A, B and C images and videos in total.

Admitted three counts of making an indecent image of a child. Was subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order from previous similar offences in 2009.

1 Jan 0001

Lee Dardani

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm *

Sentence

1 year imprisonment

Lee Dardani assaulted a victim he knew in or around Priory Station Approach Road, Dover, shortly before 1am on Sunday 7 November 2021. A witness saw him following the victim and saying he had hit her. His car was in the area at the relevant time. The injured victim was later found by an off-duty officer near Dover Road, Deal.

Admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm at court. Made subject of a two-year restraining order.

1 Jan 0001

Kurt Collins

Unlawful wounding *

Sentence

4 years imprisonment

Kurt Collins got into an argument with a member of staff at a shop in Snargate Street, Dover, on the evening of Sunday 16 September 2023 before leaving the store. The shopkeeper followed Collins outside and an altercation occurred while Collins was in his van and the shopkeeper was on the pavement. Collins then pulled over and started damaging the shop with a metal levelling edge from the back of his van but when the member of staff confronted him again, he hit the man with the tool and a bat. The assailant then left the scene, leaving the victim with serious head injuries which required treatment at a London hospital. Collins was quickly identified as a suspect by officers who attended the scene and he was arrested the same evening.

Found guilty of unlawful wounding after trial. Sentence includes a two-month term for criminal damage to the shop. 35-year-old van driver from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

1 Jan 0001

Kye Dunn

Rape *

Sentence

seven-and-a-half years imprisonment

Kye Dunn raped a vulnerable child in the early years of secondary school in Dover in December 2017. He gave the victim cannabis and alcohol before taking them back to his home where he raped them.

Pleaded guilty to rape. Was 19 at the time of the offence.

1 Jan 0001

Kye Shipman-O’Connor

Burglary *

Sentence

3 years imprisonment

Kye Shipman-O’Connor, 20, broke into a home in Queens Gardens, Broadstairs on 24 April 2019 intending to steal valuables. The homeowner returned early, forcing him to hide in the attic until later. The victim heard noises and discovered the loft hatch ajar, a window open, and damaged roof tiles. Despite causing more than £1,800 in damage, nothing was stolen. However, a suitcase filled with stolen goods was found in the bathroom along with a blood-stained towel. Forensic tests on the towel linked Shipman-O’Connor to the burglary. Two weeks earlier, he was caught on a train with a stolen holdall bag taken from a Whitehall Gardens property on 8 April 2019. He was already out on licence for similar offences at the time.

Pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to steal and admitted handling stolen goods. Already out on licence for similar crimes.

1 Jan 0001

Kyle Hellyer

Being concerned in the supply of class A and class B drugs *

Sentence

three years and eight months imprisonment

Drugs worth around £25,000 including more than 500 wraps of cocaine and heroin were seized from a cavity in a wall hidden behind a kitchen panel at a property in Townley Street, Ramsgate on 20 August 2019, and were later identified to belong to Kyle Hellyer. He was arrested on 15 June 2020 in Minster near Ramsgate and found in a van with more than 3,000 deals of heroin and cocaine plus around 900 grams of amphetamine with a combined street value of more than £30,000.

Admitted charges of being concerned in the supply of class A and class B drugs at Canterbury Crown Court on 14 September 2020.

1 Jan 0001

Kyle Thatcher

Burglary *

Sentence

32 months imprisonment

Kyle Thatcher, 30, of Folkestone Road in Dover, broke into three homes between 7 and 20 April 2022 in Staple and River. First burglary on 7 April in Staple: smashed window, emptied jewellery boxes, stole duvet found blood-stained with his DNA in woodland. Second on 15 April in London Road, River: forced doors, stole jewellery, designer clothing and cash. Third on 20 April: found by woman in her 80s in her bedroom, pushed her to the ground causing head injury, stole her jewellery.

Admitted the three offences.

1 Jan 0001

Kevin Jones

Wounding *

Sentence

40 months imprisonment

On December 27, 2017, Kevin Jones, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, stabbed two women with a kitchen knife during a dispute in a home in Ramsgate, causing cuts to their arms. He then stole a vehicle, drove dangerously around Newington Road, mounting the pavement, narrowly missing two pedestrians, and crashing into a fence and tree. He reversed the car three times into a house wall, causing major damage. When a neighbour tried to stop him, Jones kicked and bruised him, and then knocked him down with the car. He also punched a paramedic who arrived to help.

Pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, two counts of wounding, and two counts of assault. Also handed a driving ban and required to re-take driving test before regaining licence.

1 Jan 0001

Kevin Andrews

Aggravated vehicle taking *

Sentence

22 months imprisonment

Kevin Andrews stole a Ford Transit Tipper from outside a property on Paul Harman Close, Ashford, just after midnight on Sunday, 2 December 2018. He drove towards Maidstone on the A20, then joined the M20 motorway heading the wrong way, driving at up to 70mph towards London on the coastbound carriageway. He refused to stop, narrowly missing several vehicles and driving head‑on into oncoming traffic for over ten minutes, continuing onto the M26. He finally stopped on Vigo Road, Fairseat, then reversed the truck into a parked police car, causing significant damage and injuring two officers.

Pleaded guilty. Charged with failing to stop, no insurance, aggravated vehicle taking, and two counts of assault on police officers. Two officers injured when he reversed the truck into a police car.

1 Jan 0001

Karamvir Dhadda

Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm *

Sentence

2 years and 7 months imprisonment

Karamvir Dhadda was shopping with a friend at Costcutter in Northdown Road, Margate, when a fight broke out involving another man shortly after midnight on Saturday 28 August 2021. He used an object believed to be a screwdriver to stab the victim six times until a member of the public intervened, allowing the victim to escape.

Pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. No previous convictions. Will serve sentence in a young offender institution.

1 Jan 0001

Karl Kennett

Sexual assault against a child *

Sentence

7 years imprisonment with an additional 3 years on licence

Karl Kennett sexually assaulted a boy of primary school age at an address in the Canterbury area in 2020. The victim reported the incident to his parents, who contacted Kent Police. Officers were made aware of separate earlier offences against another victim of similar age, which took place more than six years prior at another address in the district. Kennett was arrested in April 2020.

Denied the offences but convicted after trial. Made subject of a 12-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

1 Jan 0001

Karol Niewiadomski

Importation of cocaine and importation of amphetamine *

Sentence

14 and a half years in prison

Karol Niewiadomski (30), a lorry driver from Poland, was arrested after his lorry was searched on arrival at Dover on 7 January 2026. The lorry, meant to contain vintage clothing for Nottingham, had 50kg of cocaine worth £4m hidden in cardboard boxes in the sleeping area of his cab, plus amphetamine in a first aid box. He claimed he did not know about the drugs and had left the lorry unlocked while travelling by ferry from the Netherlands.

Denied charges but was convicted. Arrested during National Crime Agency investigation.

1 Jan 0001

Kenny Harmsworth

Causing GBH with intent *

Sentence

five and a half years imprisonment

On 16 August 2023, Kenny Harmsworth and Lewis Whittington stabbed a man known to them on Shaftesbury Road. The victim approached police on patrol, was injured with a collapsed lung, and airlifted to a London hospital before being discharged to recover at home. The offenders were tracked to a suspicious car on Albert Road and arrested.

Pleaded guilty to causing GBH with intent and possession of a bladed article. Aged 23, from Canterbury.

1 Jan 0001

Kawus Rafiei

Attempting to import Class A drugs *

Sentence

19 years imprisonment

Kawus Rafiei attempted to bring almost half a tonne (470 kilos) of cocaine into the UK hidden in tyres in his lorry at Dover’s Eastern Docks on 18th March 2020. Officers from Border Force scanned his lorry and detected an anomaly in the load. Within the trailer unit, they found two shrink wrapped stacks of tyres containing packages of cocaine. Rafiei had paperwork for two legitimate deliveries and additional doctored documentation for the tyres loaded in the Netherlands heading to a car fit company in the UK. The drugs were estimated to be worth £37.6 million on the streets.

Found guilty of attempting to import Class A drugs following a five-day trial. National Crime Agency investigated.

1 Jan 0001

Kieran Champion

Rape *

Sentence

6 years imprisonment

Kieran Champion, of Merchants Way, Canterbury, Kent, met the victim at a nightclub in Margate in 2018. He lured her to a property in Canterbury, plying her with whisky and coke, isolating her. He then raped and sexually assaulted her, making lurid remarks when she cried out to stop. She escaped when a police officer appeared outside by chance. Arrested the same day; forensic evidence contradicted his denials. Convicted unanimously by jury.

Found guilty of rape and sexual assault following a trial. Judge: Recorder Stuart Trimmer QC. Mitigating: suffered anxiety and depression, worked all his life, supported unwell mother. Lifetime notification requirements and 10-year restraining order.

1 Jan 0001

Kieran Martin

Robbery *

Sentence

seven and a half years imprisonment

Kieran Martin and Luke Tudor approached two men carrying shopping in Addington Road, Margate on 17 March 2022, demanded alcohol from their bags, pushed them when refused, and stole the bottles. Later the same day, they approached an off-duty taxi driver, demanded a lift despite him not working, took him to a pharmacy, assaulted him, damaged his car, and stole a pencil case containing his fares.

Admitted robbery and other offences. Aged 30, of no fixed address.

1 Jan 0001

Kieron Mcdonald-Gillet

Wounding with intent *

Sentence

7 years and 2 months imprisonment

On Saturday 6 January, 22-year-old Kieron McDonald-Gillet hurled a can of beer at his former partner with such force it fractured her hand. He continued arguing with her inside her home before grabbing a kitchen knife and slashing her across the ear, causing a permanent scar. He then smashed up her property before fleeing. The victim called an ambulance and reported the attack to Kent Police. Officers quickly located and arrested him nearby.

Pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and criminal damage. Investigating officer said he showed no remorse and intended to hurt the victim.

1 Jan 0001

Kimberley Flaherty

Burglary *

Sentence

4 years imprisonment

Kimberley Flaherty, 24, from Clarence Street, carried out a crime spree in Folkestone by pretending to be injured or in need. She used distraction tricks like asking for a glass of water, an ice pack, or to use the toilet to gain entry to victims' homes and steal cash and bank cards. On 31 May 2018, she smashed a window in a Wood Avenue flat. On 9 June, she talked her way into a Princess Street property by asking to use the bathroom and then a glass of water, before stealing a wallet. She later tried to use the victim's card at a shop on Canterbury Road. On 12 June alone, she targeted three homes: at Rossendale Gardens, she claimed a hurt leg and requested a drink and flannel, stealing a wallet and cash; at Grover Road, she climbed through an open window, stole cash and cards, and was caught on CCTV trying to use the cards at a shop on Blackbull Road; at Charlotte Street, she claimed she was escaping a pursuer and asked for an ice pack before stealing items. Her spree ended when officers caught her in Radnor Bridge Road later that day. She pleaded guilty to four burglaries, fraud, criminal damage, and theft, including stealing vodka from a Hythe supermarket while on bail.

Pleaded guilty to four burglaries, fraud, criminal damage, and theft. Stole vodka from a Hythe supermarket while on bail.

1 Jan 0001

Kirk Holt

Burglary *

Sentence

six years in prison

Kirk Holt, 32, of Honeysuckle Close, Margate, targeted three properties on 2 and 3 August 2022. He burgled a property in High Street, stealing bank cards, a gold pocketwatch and medals; burgled a property in Wellis Gardens, stealing keys and a wallet with bank cards; and attempted to burgle a property in Coronation Crescent, Garlinge, where he was found by the victim holding a sledgehammer from the shed. He used the stolen cards to fraudulently buy goods from shops. CCTV evidence linked him to the transactions, and stolen items were found at his property upon arrest.

Pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary, one attempted burglary and five counts of fraud by false representation.

1 Jan 0001

Kirsty Wallis

Burglary *

Sentence

two and a half years imprisonment

Kirsty Wallis and Angela Lawrence stole jewellery and a purse containing the woman’s bank card after entering the property in the Hales Place area of Canterbury at around 2am on Tuesday 8 October 2019. Wallis was wearing the uniform of the care company and told the victim, who was in her 90s, she had been sent to check she was okay. A receipt was found showing Wallis had sold First World War medals stolen from another care company client in Canterbury between June 2018 and October 2019.

Admitted burglary and theft in relation to the sale of stolen medals belonging to another client of a care company where she had worked. Gross breach of trust.

1 Jan 0001

Nicholas Moulder

Production and supply of cannabis *

Sentence

two and a half years imprisonment

Nicholas Moulder, 49, from Haverfordwest, was stopped by Kent Police in Folkestone on 18 January 2021 for suspected speeding in a Jaguar X-Type. Officers found £5,000 cash in a suitcase, £500 cash and cannabis on him. A warrant at his home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, uncovered three tents with hydroponic equipment, 26 cannabis plants and over 800 grams of cannabis.

Admitted being concerned in the production and supply of cannabis and two counts of possession of criminal property relating to £5,500 cash.

1 Jan 0001

Nicole Elkabbas

Fraud *

Sentence

2 years and 9 months imprisonment

Between February and August 2018, Nicole Elkabbas falsely claimed she had been diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer requiring surgery in Spain. She posted a photo of herself in a hospital bed, taken months earlier for an unrelated illness at an NHS site in Kent, on a fundraising website and accepted more than £50,000 from nearly 700 donors via the website and direct bank transfers. She gambled away more than £8,000, spent £14,000 on suspected gambling debts, over £6,000 on travel, and bought Premier League season tickets worth £3,748. No evidence of cancer diagnosis existed.

Found guilty of fraud and possession of criminal property following a trial.

1 Jan 0001

Neil Jarvis

Sexual assault *

Sentence

two years and eight months' imprisonment

Neil Jarvis carried out three sexual assaults near bus stops in Ramsgate in 2021. On 9 June, he touched the leg of one of a group of teenage girls at a bus stop in Queen Street. On 6 July, he grabbed a woman from behind near a bus stop in Plains of Waterloo; she elbowed him away and her husband photographed him. On 23 September, he slapped the bottom of a four-year-old girl at the bus stop in Queen Street after looking at her phone. He was identified via CCTV and the photo, then charged.

Pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual assault of a child. The 46-year-old, of Grange Road, Ramsgate, was also made the subject of a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order preventing unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 16.

1 Jan 0001

Nelson Aliaj

Conspiracy to supply cocaine *

Sentence

15 years imprisonment

Aliaj led a Class A drug ring that supplied cocaine across Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge from May to October 2018. The gang used a London-based mobile phone to take orders 24/7, dispatching local dealers to deliver £40 bags of cocaine.

Ringleader of the cocaine supply gang.

1 Jan 0001

Oliver Lee

Robbery *

Sentence

three years custody

Alex Bull and Oliver Lee assaulted a man in his fifties and stole £40 from him after he refused to buy Valium tablets from them on the evening of 30 January 2020 in Oxford Street, Margate. They approached the victim, demanded money when refused, followed him, pushed him to the ground, punched and kicked him, ripped his shirt taking £20, took his phone squeezing it hard, returned keys but phone only after another £20. Identified and arrested the following day.

Pleaded guilty to robbery. Aged 28, of no fixed address.

1 Jan 0001

Ozgur Gun

Fraud *

Sentence

3 years and 3 months imprisonment

In December 2016, Ozgur Gun sent a letter to the DVLA under a false name, claiming he had bought a £93,500 Mercedes parked in London. The DVLA contacted the original owner, who had passed away just before the fraud attempt. With no reply, the DVLA sent a new V5C registration document to Gun, enabling him to pose as the car’s legal owner. Using his fake identity, he arranged to have the car towed from London to a Canterbury garage, claiming he lost the keys. He planned to use the new paperwork and set of keys to steal the vehicle. Kent Police were waiting and arrested him at the garage. Gun admitted guilt but claimed the deceased owner owed him money, an excuse dismissed by the court. He was sentenced to three years and three months in prison.

Pleaded guilty. Claimed the deceased owner owed him money, but the court dismissed this.

1 Jan 0001

Olgierd Golubovski

Conspiring to steal vehicles *

Sentence

2 years, 4 months imprisonment

Olgierd Golubovski was part of a trio linked to the thefts of 29 vehicles from Ashford, Hawkinge, Tonbridge, Tenterden and Maidstone in October and November 2022. They used an electronic device to capture signals emitted by car keys and trick vehicles into thinking keys were present. The thieves travelled from east London in vehicles with cloned number plates, targeting BMWs, Mercedes and Range Rovers in Kent, which were then driven to Essex and London to be stripped and sold for parts. Golubovski was arrested at a Dagenham address after running from the scene of a stop near Sittingbourne on 8 December 2022. Evidence from phones linked them to the thefts.

24, from Dagenham. Admitted conspiring to steal vehicles.

1 Jan 0001

Nigel Stewart

Attempting sexual communication with a child *

Sentence

two years and 11 months’ imprisonment

Nigel Stewart, aged 55 from Canterbury, commenced conversations with a victim he believed to be 14-years-old on 13 September 2022, targeting her over several weeks by sending graphic images and requests for the child to perform sex acts, despite being made aware of her age on numerous occasions. Unbeknown to him, it was a fictitious profile in a sting operation by Kent Police’s Paedophile Online Investigation Team. Officers searched his home and arrested him on 18 October 2022, seizing a mobile phone. Following investigation, he was charged.

Pleaded guilty to attempting sexual communication with a child and attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity. Also subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for ten years.

1 Jan 0001

Nikas Biliakevicius

Conspiring to steal motor vehicles *

Sentence

1 year and 10 months imprisonment

Nikas Biliakevicius was involved in keyless thefts of seven Mercedes and a BMW from outside owners' homes in Folkestone, Maidstone, Tonbridge and Gravesend in Kent, and Welwyn, Hertfordshire and Hockley, Essex, between 24 March and 15 April. Two other vehicles linked to the thefts. Arrested on 19 April after stolen vehicle stopped on M25 slip-road in Essex.

26, from Hull. Admitted conspiring to steal motor vehicles. Part of organised vehicle thefts.

1 Jan 0001

Pamela Higginson

Aiding and abetting rape *

Sentence

22 years imprisonment

Pamela Higginson, 73, of Deal, was charged with aiding and abetting rape and causing suffering to a child in the 1980s. Arrested after a victim came forward in 2016 by East Kent Vulnerability Investigation Team.

Convicted following a trial. Will have to serve two thirds of sentence before eligible for parole.

1 Jan 0001

Paris Campbell-Mitchell

Burglary *

Sentence

2 years 10 months imprisonment

On the afternoon of Saturday 12 November 2022, Paris Campbell-Mitchell visited a man in his 60s suffering from a terminal illness in Ramsgate, whom she knew, and convinced him to go shopping with her. While they were out, Mark Queen entered the victim's property in Leopold Road and emptied a cash box beside his bed, stealing £3,000 in cash savings intended for his funeral costs. Messages recovered showed Campbell-Mitchell asking Queen how much he got, with him replying 'Dead on 3'. The victim has since passed away.

Admitted burglary at an earlier hearing. Aged 26, formerly of Victoria Road, Ramsgate. Found in possession of £300 cash, iPad and Nintendo Switch upon arrest.

1 Jan 0001

Paul Bristow

Conspiring to supply heroin and crack cocaine *

Sentence

3 years and 7 months imprisonment

Paul Bristow, 50, and Andrew Brown, 28, were stopped by Kent Police officers in Sussex on 10 June 2021. Bristow was seen to discard a ball-shaped object containing around 100 wraps of cocaine and heroin over a hedge in Sea Road, Winchelsea. A phone and £450 cash were found. Messages from phones showed drug sales.

Pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply heroin and crack cocaine. Aged 50, from Ashford.

1 Jan 0001

Paul Ellis

Burglary *

Sentence

six years and one month imprisonment

Paul Ellis, 47, from Hersden, committed distraction burglaries targeting the elderly and vulnerable in villages around Canterbury between June and August 2020. Offences included: stealing a purse, wallet and cash from a property in Wingham on 20 June 2020; returning to the same property on 6 August 2020 claiming to be police; stealing a mobile phone from another Wingham resident on 6 August 2020; stealing cash from a vulnerable woman in her 90s in Preston on 6 August 2020; stealing jewellery including a signet ring, engagement ring and two other pieces from a woman in her 80s in Faversham on 11 August 2020; stealing ornamental plates from a vulnerable woman in her 70s in Sturry on 16 August 2020. Linked to a Citroen van seen at the scenes and identified via CCTV.

Admitted five counts of burglary and one of attempted burglary.

1 Jan 0001

Paul Higginson

Rape, indecent assault and gross indecency *

Sentence

29 years imprisonment

Paul Higginson, 72, of Deal, was charged with multiple counts of rape, indecent assault and gross indecency relating to offences against girls in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. The charges relate to assaults on four girls. He was also charged with possessing indecent images. Arrested after a victim came forward in 2016 by East Kent Vulnerability Investigation Team.

Convicted following a trial. Will have to serve two thirds of sentence before eligible for parole.

1 Jan 0001

Paul Watson

Possession with intent to supply heroin *

Sentence

2 years and 4 months imprisonment

Further searches of properties near Ashford led to the arrest of Paul Watson, 52. More heroin and a phone were found at a property in Chilmington in his possession. Messages from the phones showed they had been used to sell drugs.

Pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin. Aged 52, from Ashford.

1 Jan 0001

Peter Baars

Possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply *

Sentence

6 years imprisonment

Peter Baars, 53, was arrested after Kent Police carried out a drugs warrant at his home in Sotherton, Willesborough on the morning of 19 March 2021. Officers found a large amount of crack cocaine and some heroin, which had a combined street value of around £8,000, a taser disguised as a torch, and two large knives. A phone recovered contained messages relating to drug dealing referring to him as 'P'.

Denied the offences but was convicted by a jury following a trial.

1 Jan 0001

Peter Savage

Robbery *

Sentence

12 years imprisonment

Peter Savage and Daniel Hake entered the home of an elderly couple in the Sturry Road area of Canterbury in the early hours of 26 February 2020, dragging the man in his eighties out of bed. The man's wife, in her nineties, was threatened with a knife as she lay in bed and the man was cut behind the ear and punched as he tried to protect her. The intruders stole the victim’s bank card and demanded his pin before leaving in his vehicle. They later returned and the elderly man was taken to a local Post Office. £500 was withdrawn from his account. The victim was then taken home and the robbers left with the money, as well as jewellery, watches, mobile phones and perfumes.

Admitted robbery. Sentence included terms for being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine, after the drugs were found at his former home in Craddock Road, Canterbury in 2019.

1 Jan 0001

Peter Wrotchford

Rape *

Sentence

18 years imprisonment

Peter Wrotchford targeted his victim as she walked in the Tram Road area of Folkestone at around 4am on 4 September 2022. He then drove her to various locations near Folkestone and carried out sexual offences, before driving her to the address of a friend of hers. The victim told her friend what had happened and the incident was reported to Kent Police. Enquiries linked Wrotchford's white Ford Connect vehicle to the offence. He was arrested the day after the incident and charged on 6 September 2022.

Found guilty of rape and sexual assault following a trial. Will serve an extra four years on licence.

1 Jan 0001

Phillip Bassett

Sexual assault on a child under 13 *

Sentence

12 years and nine months' imprisonment

Phillip Bassett abused a child, with several videos located on his mobile phone showing the abuse. He ordered indecent images of children to be printed at a photo printing company in July 2020, prompting staff to alert Kent Police. Officers executed a search warrant at his home on 14 August 2020, seizing his phone. He admitted accessing the dark web to view indecent images of children.

Admitted 15 charges including two counts of sexual assault on a child under 13 and two counts of assaulting a child under 13 by penetration. Will serve an extra five years and three months on licence.

1 Jan 0001

Mark Green

Manslaughter *

Sentence

eight years custody

Mark Green was part of a group in New Street, Folkestone, on the afternoon of 6 October 2022. After Ruben Smith punched Anthony Armstrong in the face following comments made by the victim, Green continued the assault, causing Armstrong to fall backwards and hit his head on the ground. Green and Smith left the scene but were identified and arrested the same day. Armstrong, aged 49, was unconscious, flown to a London hospital, and died three days later from his injuries.

Aged 41, of no fixed abode. Admitted manslaughter but found not guilty of affray.

1 Jan 0001

Mark Moys

Unlawful wounding *

Sentence

2 years and 4 months imprisonment

Mark Moys attacked his girlfriend in her home after a heated argument. He punched and choked her, bit her forearm, whipped her face with a belt, and slashed her with a Stanley knife, causing serious injuries. He was arrested on 28 April 2018. He pleaded guilty to assault, unlawful wounding, and making threats to kill.

Pleaded guilty to assault, unlawful wounding, and making threats to kill. Sentenced to a young offender institution.

1 Jan 0001

Mark Queen

Burglary *

Sentence

3 years 4 months imprisonment

On the afternoon of Saturday 12 November 2022, while Paris Campbell-Mitchell distracted a man in his 60s suffering from a terminal illness in Ramsgate by taking him shopping, Mark Queen entered the victim's property in Leopold Road and emptied a cash box beside his bed, stealing £3,000 in cash savings intended for his funeral costs. Messages recovered showed him telling Campbell-Mitchell 'Dead on 3'. The victim has since passed away.

Aged 32, formerly of Gordon Road, Margate. Attempted to evade arrest by jumping out of a window.

1 Jan 0001

Mark Riley

Fraud *

Sentence

two years and seven months in prison

Mark Riley cold-called at a property in Ramsgate on 8 July 2020, offering gardening jobs. For nearly seven weeks, he performed work including weeding, new fencing, painting guttering black and roof tiles red, installing a garden membrane and covering with shingle, while pressuring the victim to withdraw cash totalling £50,000 for materials and labour. The bank alerted Kent Police, leading to his arrest. Investigation found the work not up to standard and overvalued.

Admitted the offence at Canterbury Crown Court on 14 September 2023. Took advantage of an elderly victim in his 60s by cold-calling and overcharging for routine building and gardening work. Victim withdrew £50,000 for work valued at no more than £20,000 if done properly.

1 Jan 0001

Marius Kuci

Conspiracy to supply cocaine *

Sentence

4 years imprisonment

Kuci was involved in the drug gang that dealt cocaine across Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, using a dedicated phone line to take orders from customers.

Played a role in the cocaine supply network.

1 Jan 0001

Mark Billingy

possession of an imitation firearm, robbery, possession of an offensive weapon, theft and affray *

Sentence

seven and a half years' imprisonment with an extended three years on licence

On 23 May 2023, threatened a member of staff at a shop in William Street and found in possession of a knife. On 6 June 2023, argued with a motorist in Beech Street, kicking the car and waving a flick knife. Later the same month, argued with a group of men in Central Parade, made racist comments, returned holding a BB gun and knife while making threats. On 27 August 2023, while on court bail, shoplifted from a shop in Herne Bay High Street and made threats of violence to staff who challenged him.

Charged with multiple offences following investigations by East Kent CID and Canterbury’s Victim Based Crime Team between May and August 2023. Described as a persistent menace carrying weapons and putting residents and shop workers in fear.

1 Jan 0001

Mark Clover

Inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity *

Sentence

two years and seven months imprisonment

Clover contacted a girl who was 12 at the time in 2019, sent her sexual messages and encouraged her to engage in sexual activity. Separate messages showed him sending similar messages to a girl he believed to be 14. He was arrested at his home in July 2020 and his mobile phone was seized and analysed.

Found guilty following a trial. Sentence includes a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

1 Jan 0001

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