Chelmsford Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

Lazarus Willmott, 59, of Harlow, made six abusive 999 calls to Essex Police call handlers over 26 minutes on the morning of Sunday 23 August 2026. During each call he was abusive and wished harm on officers. After being arrested at his home and taken into custody, he racially abused an officer. He admitted the offences and was sentenced at Chelmsford Magistrates Court the following day.

Mr Figg carried out unsafe, non-compliant, and substandard building work at the home of the homeowners, including failing to notify Basildon of stages of work, failing to install suitable suspended floor, adequate cavity wall insulation, wall and roof insulation, failing as Principal Contractor to plan, manage and monitor work, demonstrate necessary skills, transfer load safely, provide adequate support to floor joints and end bearings for steel beams, and contravening compliance notices requiring replacement of ground bearing slab with suspended floor slab, remedy defective steel beam installation, and removal of load bearing internal wall. Example of unsafe work: steel beam propped up by loose collection of blocks.

On April 14, 2025, Shay McQueen, 27, was driving at around 40mph on Parkway in Chelmsford city centre after drinking beer and playing darts with a friend. He collided with a female pedestrian who was crossing against a red light while the vehicle lights were green, throwing her into the air. The victim suffered serious injuries including a broken pelvis, broken hip, and bleeding and swelling on the brain, requiring two-and-a-half months in hospital. McQueen stopped at the scene and later attended the police station. Breath test showed 55 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath, exceeding the drink-drive limit.

Tarmac Building Products Limited failed to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery at its manufacturing plant in Linford, Essex, on July 22, 2022, leading to an employee's legs being crushed by moving frames on a production line track. The company had prior near misses on the same section of track that were not adequately addressed, and required control measures identified in a risk assessment years earlier were not implemented until after the incident.

Andy Carroll was spotted by a police officer using his mobile phone behind the wheel of his Range Rover in High Road, Epping, on 20 July 2025, while filming an anti-immigration protest outside The Bell Hotel. The protest was in response to an asylum seeker living there being charged with and later jailed for sexual offences. Carroll argued he was filming to prove to a friend why he was running late to meet them.

On July 24, during a protest outside The Bell hotel in Epping housing asylum seekers, Joshua Meadows, 18, was seen in a crowd with three other males all dressed in black with face coverings. He refused to remove his full face balaclava and hood when asked by police, stating he did not want his face in the media and questioning why he as a white British person couldn't wear a face covering when people could wear burkas. He was arrested, and a quantity of cannabis was found on him. He claimed he never had a full face balaclava but had his hood up due to rain and couldn't hear the officers clearly.

Christopher Allen, of The Walk in Eight Ash Green, breached a Stalking Protection Order by repeatedly following young women around Witham and Colchester in June 2024. He was arrested on July 2, 2024, after the women reported his behaviour.