Ipswich Crown Court Sentencing Results

Explore 41 verdicts at Ipswich Crown Court (Ipswich). Updated with the latest court outcomes.

Kenneth Bischoff
Voyeurism
September 11, 2025

Sentence: eight months imprisonment

Kenneth Bischoff, 66, of Colchester, Essex, placed hidden cameras on his shoelaces and used other equipment to secretly film under the clothing of women he knew and trusted, as well as couples through hotel windows. This behaviour, part of a fetish, involved taking 704 photos and videos dating back to 2016. Victims, including women who regarded him as a grandfather figure, reported feeling shocked, sickened, and violated, with one reading a victim impact statement in court.
Igor Ikoniak
Indecent exposure and assault
August 1, 2025

Sentence: 40 months imprisonment

Igor Ikoniak, aged 21, targeted women between October 2024 and February 2025 while they walked along a footpath in Yarmouth Road, Ipswich. He exposed his penis and masturbated in front of them, grabbed one victim while doing so, and pulled at another victim’s backpack. One victim was pregnant at the time.
Joshua Amoakohene
Supply of heroin and cocaine
July 1, 2025

Sentence: Four years imprisonment

Attempted to dispose of a mobile phone containing messages related to drug supply by throwing it out of a window; police found £7,000 cash and drug paraphernalia, including scales and a bulking agent, at his home. The offences occurred between February and April of the previous year.
Andrew Grinham
Rape and assault
July 1, 2025

Sentence: 13 years imprisonment with an extended licence period of five years

Assaulted and raped a vulnerable woman by hitting her on the head with a cupboard, strangling her, punching her to the floor, and kicking her.
Andrew Lewis
Wounding
July 1, 2025

Sentence: 40 months imprisonment

Entered a Tesco store in Ipswich's Tavern Street despite being banned, picked up two bottles of wine, hit a staff member over the head with them causing one to break, and then stabbed the man with the broken remains on March 24 of this year.
Azizbek Egamshukurov
Supply of cocaine
July 1, 2025

Sentence: Three years and seven months imprisonment

In December of last year, officers stopped a black Honda Jazz in London Road, Ipswich, and found 252g of uncut cocaine concealed in a Nescafé box in the glove compartment, valued between £18,675 and £24,900. A mobile phone, £130 cash, and additional grip-seal bags of cocaine were seized from the car and an address in Clapgate Lane.
Daniel Gibbs
Sexual communication with children and historical sexual offences
July 1, 2025

Sentence: Three years imprisonment

Engaged in online chats about sex with individuals posing as school girls, sending a naked picture of himself and asking for explicit content, including requesting to see a 10-year-old's vagina, knickers, and school uniform. He had previously sexually assaulted a girl under 13 and raped a boy under 13 in 2007.
Mirhat Nela
Possession with Intent to Supply Class A Drugs
June 13, 2025

Sentence: 2 years and 9 months imprisonment

Mirhat Nela, an Albanian national of no fixed abode, was stopped by Suffolk Police’s Sentinel West team in Newmarket on February 2, 2025. Police discovered 13 sealed bags of cocaine hidden in an empty deodorant container in his car. Further examination of his phone revealed evidence of drug dealing activities since January 2025.
Kieran Hibble
Causing serious injury by dangerous driving
June 6, 2025

Sentence: 4 years and 4 months imprisonment

Kieran Hibble was riding a motorcycle over the speed limit in Queen Street, Colchester, in May 2024, when he collided with an 84-year-old pedestrian, causing serious injuries that required urgent hospital treatment. Witnesses reported him reaching out to strike other road users during the incident. Additionally, he was found to have breached multiple court orders, including using multiple devices to contact prohibited individuals and riding motorcycles without a licence in restricted areas.
Ferhat Gumrukguoglu
Drug Smuggling
May 16, 2025

Sentence: 15 years imprisonment

Ferhat Gumrukguoglu and Bruce Knowles were intercepted on a rigid hulled inflatable boat off the coast of East Benacre Broads, near Lowestoft, on June 24, 2024. They were carrying approximately 350 kilograms of cocaine, worth an estimated £39 million, which investigators believe was picked up from French waters. Gumrukguoglu jumped overboard and swam towards the beach, leading to a chase by Norfolk and Suffolk Police, resulting in his arrest later that day in Wrentham.
Bruce Knowles
Drug Smuggling
May 16, 2025

Sentence: 17 years and three months imprisonment

Bruce Knowles and Ferhat Gumrukguoglu were intercepted on a rigid hulled inflatable boat off the coast of East Benacre Broads, near Lowestoft, on June 24, 2024. They were carrying approximately 350 kilograms of cocaine, worth an estimated £39 million, which investigators believe was picked up from French waters. Knowles tried to flee from Border Force officers, restarted the engine, and jumped overboard when the boat was grounded on the beach.
Dermot Bradley-Beacham
Being the owner in charge of a dangerously out of control dog causing injury
March 24, 2025

Sentence: 2 years suspended imprisonment and £2,400 compensation

Dermot Bradley-Beacham's Russian Terrier escaped from his home on August 5 due to an insecure garden fence and bit a child under 13 on the leg, causing a serious injury that exposed the bone. The child was initially taken to West Suffolk Hospital and then to Addenbrooke’s Hospital for surgery, and was released two days after the incident. Bradley-Beacham admitted knowing the dog was not friendly to other dogs or children and that the fence was insecure.
Dragos Lujinschi
Threats to kill
December 1, 2024

Sentence: 16 months imprisonment

Dragos Lujinschi made dozens of abusive phone calls to emergency workers between July and August. He was aggressive when arrested, using such force that officers feared the van could not contain him. He later admitted to the charges and was sentenced.
Adam Williams
Attempted sexual communication with a child
September 1, 2024

Sentence: 14 months imprisonment suspended for two years

Adam Williams, formerly of Elizabeth Way, Bramford, Suffolk, engaged in online communication with a decoy posing as a 12-year-old girl via Facebook and WhatsApp. He sent sexually explicit images and videos of himself, expressed love, requested intimate photographs, and arranged to meet her at a hotel in Stoke-on-Trent, where he was arrested. This occurred prior to the suspended sentence being imposed.
Ryan Wade
Breaching sexual harm prevention order
August 29, 2024

Sentence: 16 months imprisonment

Ryan Wade, 36, of Bromley Close, breached his sexual harm prevention order by using a tablet computer in public, being active in a messaging app, and possessing images of male children under the age of 18, although these were not child sexual abuse material. He was prohibited from accessing the internet and possessing photographs of children under 18. The breach occurred earlier in the year, leading to his arrest in June.
Tyler Woodley
Possessing cocaine with intent to supply
August 28, 2024

Sentence: 45 months imprisonment

On June 16, 2024, police raided a house in Shackleton Square, Ipswich, and observed a bag containing 12g of cocaine being thrown from Tyler Woodley's bedroom window. Inside, officers found him with £700 cash, a wrap of cocaine, and some cannabis. His phone contained messages and images related to drug dealing, as well as contacts of drug users. Woodley had been released from an 83-month sentence for conspiracy to supply drugs and violent disorder on May 16, 2024, just weeks prior.
Michael Mcdonnell
Possession with Intent to Supply Cocaine and Cannabis
August 12, 2024

Sentence: Jailed and ordered to pay a fine of £228

Michael McDonnell, 27, of Mayflower Avenue, Saxmundham, was arrested on June 24 during a county lines crackdown operation. Officers stopped him in a car park on Church Street, Saxmundham, and found four wraps of cocaine in his pockets. Evidence on his phone indicated he had been involved in the supply of drugs between November 2024 and June 2025.
Danny Foley
Rape
August 9, 2024

Sentence: 13 years imprisonment

Danny Foley, a manipulative man, subjected a woman to years of coercive control and multiple rapes over an extended period.
Jonathan Warne
Stalking
August 8, 2024

Sentence: 30 months imprisonment

Jonathan Warne followed the victim in his car as she walked down the street, driving aggressively, shouting, revving his engine, and throwing a Coke bottle at her. He attempted to drag her into the vehicle while she was on the phone to his mother for help, and when that failed, he dragged her along the ground by her hair. Over subsequent weeks, he bombarded her with phone calls, emails, and WhatsApp messages, including 63 messages in one day and 60 in a single night, one of which showed a needle in his arm. He also took her car, used her bank card to make unauthorised purchases totalling £300 (which he later repaid), arrived uninvited at her workplace, produced 97 cannabis plants, and engaged in erratic driving that led to his arrest.
Christopher Allen
Stalking
August 6, 2024

Sentence: 15 months imprisonment for breaching suspended sentence, 8 months for stalking, and 4 months and 10 weeks for two breaches of a Stalking Protection Order, all to run consecutively, totalling more than two-and-a-half years

Christopher Allen, of The Walk in Eight Ash Green, repeatedly followed young women around Witham and Colchester in June 2024, spending more than 12 hours a day offering them gifts and making unwanted, unreciprocated sexual comments. This behaviour breached the terms of his full Stalking Protection Order. He was arrested on July 2, 2024, after the women reported the offences, and he has been convicted of stalking three times previously.
Darren Matthews
Criminal Damage
July 30, 2024

Sentence: £500 fine

Darren Matthews pleaded guilty to criminal damage for damaging the victim’s front door, with the offence alleged to have occurred in August 2023.
Joshua Joyce
Dangerous Driving
July 29, 2024

Sentence: 18 months imprisonment, three-year driving ban, and £187 victim surcharge

Joshua Joyce, 33, of Upper Rainham Road, Hornchurch, was driving a stolen Mazda when ANPR cameras detected it at Stanway in Colchester. He led police on a dangerous chase on the A12, reaching speeds of 70mph despite a burst tyre, swerving through traffic and causing other drivers to take evasive action. He drove the wrong way around a roundabout and crashed head-on into a Honda Civic carrying a man and his 10-year-old son in November 2022, while serving a driving ban.
Jeffery
Criminal damage
July 12, 2024

Sentence: two months imprisonment

A 35-year-old individual smashed the windows of several businesses in Ipswich town centre using a skateboard during an angry rampage.
Abdishakur Salah
Supply of cocaine and heroin
July 10, 2024

Sentence: eight years imprisonment

Abdishakur Salah, who ran the 'Delano' county lines drug line, was arrested in a house on Alderman Road, Ipswich, after throwing a latex glove containing 200 wraps of cocaine and heroin worth £13,000 out of a window. He sent out 585 marketing messages advertising drugs to users in the Ipswich area shortly after his release from prison on July 29, 2023. He was found sitting on a sofa in the property while another individual supplied drugs outside. Salah has a history of similar offences, including being arrested multiple times in 2021 at properties in Ipswich where drugs were discovered or attempts were made to destroy evidence.
Benjamin Tigges
Possession with intent to supply class A drugs
July 9, 2024

Sentence: three years and four months imprisonment

Benjamin Tigges had approximately 600 grams of cocaine, 1.1kg of cannabis, and nearly £50,000 in cash seized during police raids at his home on Belstead Avenue in Ipswich and another address in March 2025. He was involved in supplying cocaine in Ipswich, Stowmarket, Hadleigh, and surrounding areas.
Rigers Myqelefi
Possession with intent to supply cocaine
July 4, 2024

Sentence: 38 months imprisonment

Rigers Myqelefi, aged 27, was involved in drug-related activities in Ipswich. On July 3, 2024, he was seen leaving an address on Harland Street on an electric bicycle and evaded police by riding off at speed. He discarded the bicycle on Portman Road and was found hiding under a Royal Mail van. During his arrest, police seized an iPhone, 11 bags of cocaine hidden in a cigarette box, and a set of keys. A search of his flat on Harland Street uncovered 45 bags of cocaine, 16 bags of cannabis, £2640 in cash, four mobile phones, a fraudulent driving licence, and a yellow knuckle duster. He stated his involvement stemmed from a debt incurred after the theft of a previous quantity of drugs. Evidence from one phone showed messages advertising cocaine sales to 80 contacts and offers to coordinate deliveries directly with customers.
Benjamin Waldron
Possession of indecent images of children
May 14, 2024

Sentence: Imprisonment (duration not specified)

Benjamin Waldron was found in possession of a large collection of indecent images of children following his release from a 13-year prison sentence for raping two schoolboys. The incident was reported in court, leading to his jailing.
Alinur Rahman
Attempting to throw prohibited articles into a prison
May 1, 2024

Sentence: 12 months' imprisonment

Alinur Rahman was caught at the perimeter fence of HMP Highpoint in Stradishall, near Newmarket, with a carrier bag containing tightly wrapped tobacco, cannabis, four iPhones, chargers, and SIM cards. He was attempting to throw these prohibited items into the prison. Police were alerted in April 2023, and he was charged on December 20, 2023, before being sentenced.
Mark Ling
Sexual communication with a child
May 1, 2024

Sentence: 4.5 years imprisonment

Mark Ling, a former police officer, used false personas to engage in explicit online conversations with children as young as 12 between March 2021 and February 2023. He tricked victims into sending sexually explicit pictures by posing as teenage girls and conducting 'loyalty tests' on the girls' boyfriends, using a phone belonging to a young family member and a photo of a real female. He was caught and sentenced for his actions.
Adrian Ling
Conspiracy to commit criminal damage
March 1, 2024

Sentence: 8 years imprisonment

Adrian Ling, after being sacked from Goldline Travel in 2012, conducted a six-year revenge campaign targeting the company's vehicles between December 2012 and November 2019. This involved conspiring to commit criminal damage, including vandalising taxis by slashing tyres, dowsing them in corrosive substances, and shooting at them with an air rifle while they were in use. The attacks caused significant distress to the business owner and staff, with incidents monitored via intercepted radio communications, leading to feelings of helplessness and ongoing fear among victims.
Tyrone Busch
Manslaughter
January 30, 2024

Sentence: 8 years imprisonment

Tyrone Busch delivered a single punch to a man outside the Red Lion public house in Dereham, Norfolk, on July 20, 2024, causing the victim to fall backwards and hit his head, resulting in a traumatic head injury from which he died the following day.
Dominic Robinson
Possession of indecent images of children
September 16, 2023

Sentence: 24 months imprisonment

Dominic Robinson downloaded more than 500 indecent images and videos of children, including one category A image and video, 11 category B images, and 542 category C images and videos. Police conducted a raid at his home in January 2023, where he threw two mobile phones out of a window before they were recovered and examined.
Grant Philips
Fraudulent trading
August 20, 2023

Sentence: 26 months imprisonment

Grant Philips, a rogue trader, defrauded elderly customers of more than £30,000 by taking payments for plumbing and accessibility improvements that were not completed or were substandard. He operated under business names such as Superdry Plumbing & Drainage, Rhino Plumb, and Plumb Fix around East Anglia between April 2021 and October 2023, affecting twelve customers with losses ranging from £200 to over £4,400.
Mark French
Rape of a child
August 14, 2023

Sentence: 19 years imprisonment and 2 years on extended licence

Mark French, formerly of Newbourne Gardens in Felixstowe, committed two counts of rape of a child and 10 counts of indecent assault on children in the Felixstowe area over a 10-year period, involving two girls. The offences occurred more than 30 years ago and came to light in December 2020. He was charged in May 2023, leading to a trial and subsequent sentencing.
Simon Smith
Keeping images of children
August 11, 2023

Sentence: three years imprisonment

Simon Smith, a 35-year-old sex offender from Lowestoft, was jailed for keeping images of children while on a suspended sentence.
Stephen Burrows
Supply of cocaine and cannabis
July 7, 2023

Sentence: 32 months imprisonment

Stephen Burrows was involved in running a drug line in Lowestoft. Police raided his home address in May 2023, discovering 5.63g of cocaine with a street value of up to £485 hidden in a safe, along with four Samurai swords. His phone contained 4,503 messages advertising the sale of cocaine and cannabis between June and August 2023.
Jack Howes
Supply of cocaine
July 7, 2023

Sentence: 28 months imprisonment

Jack Howes was present at the raided address in Lowestoft in May 2023, where police found messages on his phone advertising the sale of drugs. He was involved in supplying cocaine alongside Stephen Burrows.
Callum Smith
Supply of Cocaine
April 19, 2023

Sentence: 3 years imprisonment

Callum Smith, 31, of Blackheath Road, Lowestoft, was involved in supplying Class A and Class B drugs. He was witnessed in a suspected drug exchange on June 1, 2022, leading to his arrest by Suffolk Constabulary's Scorpion team. A search revealed cash, two mobile phones, and two small packages of cocaine. Further investigation of the mobile phones showed he had sent bulk text messages advertising the sale of cocaine, ketamine, and cannabis between November 25, 2021, and June 1, 2022.
Kamil Kwiecenski
Sexual Assault and Assault
December 1, 2022

Sentence: 18 months imprisonment suspended for 2 years, 35-day rehabilitation order, 180 hours unpaid work and £2,800 costs

Kamil Kwiecenski slapped a woman’s bottom and grabbed her between the legs as she walked along Sproughton Road towards Morrisons. He also hit her son on the head, causing a cut that required hospital treatment in December 2022.
Roy Barclay
Assault
August 1, 2015

Sentence: Jailed (specific details not provided)

In 2015, Roy Barclay attacked an 82-year-old man, Leslie Gunfield, in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, after the victim threatened to inform security about Barclay going through rubbish bins at a local Co-op supermarket. The attack involved taking the victim to the ground and repeatedly striking him to the head, resulting in severe injuries including multiple facial fractures that required 10 titanium plates and detached the upper jaw from the skull. The victim was found with a dog lead wrapped around his foot.
Ryland Headley
Rape and Burglary
January 1, 1978

Sentence: Jailed for two rapes and burglary offences

In 1977, Ryland Headley broke into the homes of two elderly widows in Ipswich during the night, threatening to kill them if they did not comply, and raped them. He was arrested and later pleaded guilty. During his sentencing in 1978, he admitted to several burglary offences. This behaviour was described as depraved and predatory, involving stranger rapes and break-ins into elderly women's homes.

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