Lincoln Crown Court Sentencing Results

Mia Mcilwee was sentenced after a man was found with suspected stab wounds at a property in Dunholme at about 20:00 BST on 1 April. She had admitted causing grievous bodily harm without intent at a hearing in August. Two further charges of attempted murder and wounding with intent, which she denied, remain on file.

Callum Arboine threw a full kettle of boiling water over a woman in the lounge of a property in Skegness on Monday, April 13. She fled to a nearby supermarket to escape and seek help. The victim suffered substantial scalding to her face and upper body, later requiring multiple surgeries and skin grafts. Arboine was arrested the same day after a public appeal.

Bethany Booth lured a man to her home in Market Rasen on 4 July 2025 by making frequent calls and sending a text invitation, at the behest of other defendants. Once inside, the victim was moved to the kitchen and held for around four hours while others assaulted, threatened, humiliated and tormented him and filmed some of the abuse. Booth remained outside the kitchen. After the victim was held overnight, he later escaped and flagged down a passing police car.

Ellis Musgrove admitted intentional strangulation and controlling and coercive behaviour against his partner between 1 September 2025 and 20 March 2026. The court heard the relationship resumed after his release from prison and deteriorated, during which he repeatedly stamped on the victim's foot, put his hands around her throat, used her hand to hit her own face, and after the relationship ended threatened to smash her head in or throw acid in her face. The victim stated she thought she might die during the strangulation. Musgrove was recalled to prison on 23 March 2026.

Jason Brown, 51, a former firefighter with convictions for sexual offences against children, indecent exposure and inciting girls to engage in sexual activity, was sentenced for breaching a sexual harm prevention order for the twelfth time. He had used multiple aliases to hide his criminal past and was caught in contact with a young child in breach of the order. He later reverted to the name Jason Brown during proceedings.

Clint Elliott was Tasered after arming himself with a seven-inch steak knife on a Market Deeping street during the early hours of April 4, after police received reports of a man shouting in the street and threatening to stab someone. Body-worn footage showed him moving in front of a marked police van and shouting. On June 5 he entered a neighbour's home with a Stanley knife while on bail, causing a woman inside to feel scared. He was later arrested and the knife was found outside his home.

Danut Ionica was involved in the same Spalding town centre incident on 28 September 2025, brandishing a wooden pole during a confrontation between two groups of men and fleeing the scene without offering help to a woman who had been struck. He admitted affray and possessing an offensive weapon.

The defendant was involved in a sophisticated mobile phone scam operating from businesses in Skegness. Customers were promised mobile phone upgrades they never received. The operation handled approximately 1,635 devices, causing an estimated loss to network providers of £1,635,000, and was used to launder money by moving large cash deposits through money mule accounts and out to Pakistan.

The defendant was involved in a sophisticated mobile phone scam operating from businesses in Skegness. Customers were promised mobile phone upgrades they never received. The operation handled approximately 1,635 devices, causing an estimated loss to network providers of £1,635,000, and was used to launder money by moving large cash deposits through money mule accounts and out to Pakistan.

The defendant was involved in a sophisticated mobile phone scam operating from businesses in Skegness. Customers were promised mobile phone upgrades they never received. The operation handled approximately 1,635 devices, causing an estimated loss to network providers of £1,635,000, and was used to launder money by moving large cash deposits through money mule accounts and out to Pakistan.

The defendant was involved in a sophisticated mobile phone scam operating from businesses in Skegness. Customers were promised mobile phone upgrades they never received. The operation handled approximately 1,635 devices, causing an estimated loss to network providers of £1,635,000, and was used to launder money by moving large cash deposits through money mule accounts and out to Pakistan.

In the early hours of 28 September 2025, Silvian Munteanu struck a woman with a metal bar outside a nightclub in Spalding town centre, causing her to fall face forward. The victim suffered a fractured eye socket and a broken nose. CCTV captured the attack, and Munteanu fled without offering help before later admitting the offences.

The defendant was involved in a sophisticated mobile phone scam operating from businesses in Skegness. Customers were promised mobile phone upgrades they never received. The operation handled approximately 1,635 devices, causing an estimated loss to network providers of £1,635,000, and was used to launder money by moving large cash deposits through money mule accounts and out to Pakistan.

On 28 October 2024, Gospodin Hristov was driving a BMW 118D from Saxilby towards Harby along Station Road. At the junction with Tom Otter's Lane and Saxilby Road, he failed to give way and collided with a Nissan Qashqai, causing serious injuries to the driver and her two passengers. The victims suffered multiple fractures and required surgery. Investigation found that Hristov passed clearly visible warning signs and entered the junction at speed, making no attempt to give way. He stated he was using his sat nav because he was unfamiliar with the area.

Slavcho Iliev exposed himself to three victims on separate occasions in Spalding on March 3, March 17 and April 18, 2025. The vehicle he was driving was reported to police, and officers linked suspected related incidents by reviewing CCTV footage and tracking his movements before detaining him.

Emily Drury engaged in sexual behaviour with a teenage boy on numerous occasions while acting as a private tutor between May and June 2025. She had offered to tutor the victim after lower-than-expected mock exam results, exploiting her position of trust. She pleaded guilty to one charge of non-penetrative sexual activity and four charges of penetrative sexual activity with a teenager. The victim described how she had been kind to him, bought him clothes, and made him feel better about himself, before the abuse came to light.

Noreen Ahmed, farm director of Low Farm in Fulstow, near Louth, was prosecuted after inspections by Lincolnshire County Council Trading Standards and the Animal and Plant Health Agency between January and March 2025 found around 83,000 broiler chickens housed across four poultry sheds with significant welfare concerns. Inspectors identified wet and dirty bedding, poor environmental conditions, water entering sheds, inadequate management practices and a failure to remove unwell or undersized birds. Veterinary evidence found high levels of pododermatitis, a painful condition causing lesions and ulcers to birds' feet, and concluded that the chickens suffered unnecessary pain due to the farm conditions.

Tyler Southerby went on an hour-long rampage in Kirton on May 23. He used a brick to smash the window of a car belonging to a vicar attending an art exhibition, scratched the vehicle and ripped off a wing mirror. A witness who tried to restrain him was kicked to the ground and punched several times to the face. He threatened another witness, threw a large bread knife towards a neighbour's house, punched a 17-year-old boy at a shop, struck a leisure centre with a plank of wood and removed roofing felt, threw a boulder towards a car at a medical centre, and chased a 13-year-old girl. He also admitted causing £100 damage to a friend's kitchen and leaving the property with a large bread knife.

Daisy May Lawson presented herself online as a dog rescuer but failed to obtain prompt veterinary treatment for her two-year-old pocket bully, which was found emaciated with severely infected wounds to its face, jaw and neck. The injuries were thought to have been sustained in a fight with another dog but had been left untreated for so long that they became rotten and smelly. Independent veterinary evidence indicated a significant degloving injury and prolonged inadequate feeding over at least two weeks. By the time the dog was examined, its condition was so severe that it was euthanised on humane grounds.

Ann Fletcher, 86, was driving a red Ford Fusion and turning right from North Street into Broad Street in Grantham on 14 August 2024 when she collided with a mobility scooter rider on a toucan crossing. The victim was thrown from the mobility scooter and died in hospital the next day from complications. The prosecution accepted the collision involved a momentary lapse of concentration. The court heard that the victim was a vulnerable road user and that Fletcher had about one and a half seconds to see him but did not apply her brakes.

McCorley Booth was arrested after a National Crime Agency referral alerted police to disturbing content on a web chat. A download of his phone revealed multiple offences, and a search of his home uncovered distinctive trousers linking him to one of the images. He admitted offences from 2024 and February 2025 involving the sexual abuse of a girl under 13 and a boy under 13, as well as making and distributing indecent images of children.