Ipswich Crown Court Sentencing Results

Michael Shrigley was involved in handling stolen goods, dangerous driving, driving with no insurance, going equipped for theft, fraud by false representation, theft from motor vehicles and commercial burglaries as part of the same investigation into offences across Norfolk and Suffolk. He was sentenced in connection with the joint effort by Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies.

On 25 July 2020 at approximately 8.25pm, Claire Waterman drove a Volkswagen Golf at 50mph in a 30mph zone in Mildenhall. After police attempted to stop the vehicle due to no current MOT or insurance, she led officers on an 11-minute pursuit covering almost eight miles, driving on the wrong side of the road, the wrong way around a roundabout, weaving between vehicles and causing her car to leave the road. The pursuit ended when the car went up a verge into a hedge in Lakenheath. Officers found cocaine in her purse. Waterman was arrested and later sentenced.

Corey Anderson first met the victim online in 2018 and continued to communicate with her online until the summer of 2020 when he arranged to meet her when she was aged 15. He met with the victim in Suffolk before taking her back to his home address in the West Midlands. Police located Anderson and the victim after the teenager had been reported missing by her family. Anderson was stopped while in a vehicle with the victim. He was arrested and charged with sexual activity with a child, meeting a child following sexual grooming, sexual communication with a child and child abduction.

Sadowski, 37, from Yeoman Close in Ipswich, targeted a decoy account he thought belonged to a 14-year-old girl. On March 2, 2025, he sent a Facebook message to the decoy account. Within the first four messages, the account stated she was 14, to which Sadowski replied that he was 37 and much older. He gave the girl his phone number and moved the conversation to WhatsApp, where the exchange quickly became sexual and he sent her an explicit image. Sadowski also offered to pay for a train ticket so she could meet him the next day, telling her not to tell anyone. The conversation was reported to police, and he was arrested on April 10. He was later charged on December 29, 2025.

Benjamin Perry dumped blue barrels of used motor oil at multiple locations across Colchester between February and March 2025. The barrels posed a serious environmental hazard and required specialist removal and disposal. He was identified through a Colchester Council investigation and admitted the offences when interviewed under caution. The case was referred from Colchester Magistrates' Court to Ipswich Crown Court for sentencing due to the seriousness of the crime.

Grant Borroff, 55, from Colchester, Essex, used a camera to take indecent photographs of children as young as one year old, including zooming into a child's private parts, and upskirted young schoolchildren in Colchester. Devices seized contained 66 Category A images, 119 Category B images, and 2,220 Category C images. He referred to the images as 'trophies' in police interview after initially giving no comment.

Jason Woodley, 60, of Walsham-le-Willows, stabbed a man and his 16-year-old son in Ixworth with a penknife attached to a key ring. He then confronted the pair at a bus stop. The victim has been left permanently disabled since the attack.

John Dunne, 57, engaged in online conversations with a decoy profile he believed was a 14-year-old boy. He arranged to meet the supposed teenager at Woodbridge railway station in April, where he was confronted by members of a paedophile-hunter group and arrested shortly afterwards. He was already a convicted murderer and admitted the child sex offences.

Kylan Kullolli, 21, admitted actual bodily harm and intentional strangulation against a woman he had previously been in a relationship with. In June, after discovering she was seeing another man, he sent angry messages and insisted on meeting her. During a prolonged assault in Colchester, he put the victim in a headlock, broke her glasses, shouted in her face, and repeatedly grabbed her by the throat so that she could not breathe. A member of the public called police. Officers attended the following morning after Kullolli had left, and the victim told them what had happened. The assault left the victim covered in bruises and terrified.

On 30 October, Kerri Keen-Watts attended a support centre in Museum Street, Ipswich, despite being banned. She produced a bottle of ethanol, spread it on the floor, threatened to 'light them all up' and attempted to ignite matches while other people were present. She was disarmed but continued trying to start a fire before leaving. She then sent threatening messages to a youth worker at another location. She was arrested shortly afterwards.

Martin Woods, 46, was convicted of three counts of attempted assault on a girl under 13 by penetration, two counts of rape of a girl under 13, and one count of assault of a girl under 13 by touching. The crimes occurred more than 10 years ago.

Luke Byfield attempted to start a fire at a petrol station forecourt in Ipswich on 5 March. Staff saw him standing by the pumps flicking a lighter and shut off the forecourt's pumps. He was later found in a nearby alleyway with cuts to his arms, told an ambulance-crew member he wanted to blow up the forecourt, and threatened to light a deodorant can. He admitted attempted arson being reckless as to whether life would be endangered.

On 11 March 2022, a female victim was filmed in a toilet at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. The victim later received a demand on social media to make a payment of £1000. Piotr Prasalek of Bury St Edmunds was arrested on 22 March following police enquiries. He was sentenced after pleading guilty to blackmail.

On 31 August 2018 at 11.30am, Rebecca Beswick was driving a Mini Cooper northbound on the A134 between Alpheton and Lawshall when her vehicle crossed onto the wrong side of the road and collided with a gold BMW travelling in the opposite direction. The collision killed 79-year-old passenger the victim at the scene and driver 69-year-old the other victim the following day. Beswick was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court on 20 January 2021.

Owen Trevallion, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, posed as a woman while sending messages of a sexual nature to young girls requesting sexual or nude images. Suffolk Police discovered the messages and indecent images of children on his phones after he was arrested for breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) in January. Two young girls were the victims of his behaviour. He also had various applications on his phone in breach of his SHPO.

Paul Falco, aged 39 and from Bridge End Road in Red Lodge, was convicted of wounding with intent following an incident on 17 April 2020 at Worlington Hall Hotel. Three unknown males entered the hotel with faces covered and brandishing a bat. The male victim, aged in his 50s, was badly assaulted and sustained a large laceration to his face, both eyes swollen purple and closed, a suspected fractured skull and broken leg. He was taken to Addenbrookes hospital but has since made a full recovery. Falco was arrested on 14 May 2020. The two other suspects were never identified.

Thomas Singleton was arrested by the National Crime Agency in February 2021 after investigators found he had accessed and amassed over 1,050,448 indecent images of children (categories A-C), 45,216 prohibited images of children, 52 extreme pornographic images, and a 170-page 'paedophile manual' with instructions on abusing children from his home in Framlingham, Suffolk. Devices seized included laptops, digital storage, a toddler-sized doll, and collections of underwear and clothing for babies and young children. He created pseudo-images by superimposing himself into photos to appear as if engaging in sexual activity with children.

Xander Butler, 23, violently attacked two police officers at a hotel in Capel St Mary on 29th July. When officers responded to reports of damage inside a hotel room, Butler threw one officer into a wall and strangled her before attacking her colleague. Both officers suffered injuries, with one requiring hospital treatment for facial swelling and bruising. Victim impact statements described ongoing emotional distress, including nightmares and anxiety affecting their work life.

Thomas Gillingham, 21, of Little Blakenham, admitted to driving while disqualified and without insurance, putting other road users at risk.