Lincoln Crown Court Sentencing Results

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.

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.

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.

On Wednesday 19 March 2025 at 4:45pm, Hristo Iliev was driving east on the A17 towards Holdingham roundabout, near Sleaford, in a Volkswagen Passat. He approached a queue of slow-moving traffic and failed to react or brake, ploughing into the rear of a stationary Kia Ceed, which was then shunted into an Audi A5. The Kia carried the 20-month-old victim in a rear-facing child seat, who sustained serious injuries and died two days later. The driver, the victim's mother, suffered serious shoulder injuries requiring major reconstructive surgery, and her other 8-year-old son was also hospitalised. Iliev was arrested and blood samples showed no drink or drugs. Examination of his mobile phones revealed that in the seven minutes before the collision, both phones had been used, and one phone was actively playing a video on TikTok just prior to impact. The investigation concluded the collision was solely due to Iliev's dangerous inattention to driving.

Scott Fitzgerald, 41, ended his long-term relationship on 2 January 2026, then changed his mind, but his ex-partner refused to resume. On 11 January, he entered her workplace (a pharmacy) in Crowland and was banned from the premises. He initially refused to leave unless she hugged him, then left voluntarily. He was seen driving his van dangerously, standing in it and doing handbrake turns. A member of the public removed the keys. After being remanded into custody, he sent letters to the victim and her dog referencing marriage and children. The victim hid in her home and moved to her parents' house.

David Coulson, a Market Rasen farmer, was sentenced for animal welfare offences following inspections between July 2022 and January 2024. Officers found decomposing animal carcasses, bones and skulls scattered across the farm, including where livestock were grazing. Later inspections identified sheep suffering severe neglect, including lameness, emaciation and untreated disease, and some animals required immediate euthanasia. The court heard he had previously received advice and formal warnings but continued poor standards, concealed carcasses during inspections, and misled enforcement officers.

Emma Bonsall, an NHS counsellor, threatened to disclose private sexual images of her victim, who had been referred to her for counselling. The 41-year-old from Church Road North, Skegness, also fabricated reports of threats against her in a separate case.

Police raided a house in Heath Lane, Great Ponton near Grantham on 27 February following intelligence about cannabis production. Found 244 plants growing in four rooms and the loft, electricity supply bypassed, camp bed in kitchen, £90 cash in Phan's footwear. Phan, 41, Vietnamese illegal immigrant of no fixed address, answered door after police smelt cannabis. Drugs expert valued yield at £66,920 to £200,760.

Appleyard entered 17 prohibited retail premises in Skegness in February, stealing high-value products such as meat, coffee, cleaning and washing products totalling £1,400.

Anthony Doherty, 41, of Darley Dale Crescent, Grantham, and his brother James ran paving companies and admitted 10 counts of flytipping in North and South Kesteven, investigated by South Kesteven District Council. Incidents included household waste on Grange Lane, Brandon (between Caythorpe and Dry Doddington), with bedding, refuse bags containing food waste, pallets, cardboard boxes, bulk waste bags and builders’ rubble; correspondence addressed to a Doherty family member’s home found. A bank card linked to another site resident recovered from a flytip in the A52 layby at Cold Harbour, Grantham. Business cards for Inset Driveways found in rubbish at the A607/A153 junction in Honington. Separate fly-tips off Main Street, Normanton-on-Cliffe, included domestic waste, building materials such as pallets, tree and shrub cuttings, broken concrete, block paving, shed or caravan parts, cement-bonded asbestos and loose aggregate.

James Doherty, 34, of Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, and his brother Anthony ran paving companies and admitted 10 counts of flytipping in North and South Kesteven, investigated by South Kesteven District Council. Incidents included household waste on Grange Lane, Brandon (between Caythorpe and Dry Doddington), with bedding, refuse bags containing food waste, pallets, cardboard boxes, bulk waste bags and builders’ rubble; correspondence addressed to a Doherty family member’s home found. A bank card linked to another site resident recovered from a flytip in the A52 layby at Cold Harbour, Grantham. Business cards for Inset Driveways found in rubbish at the A607/A153 junction in Honington. Separate fly-tips off Main Street, Normanton-on-Cliffe, included domestic waste, building materials such as pallets, tree and shrub cuttings, broken concrete, block paving, shed or caravan parts, cement-bonded asbestos and loose aggregate.

Kyle Mitchell, 26, of Chestnut Avenue, Spalding, admitted sexual activity with a child aged under 16 between December 1, 2022, and January 31, 2023. He also admitted possessing two counts of extreme pornographic images and making one indecent category C image of a child on November 29, 2023.

Shibu Mathews stabbed his wife the victim, with whom he had been married for 22 years, repeatedly in the back while she was folding washing at their home in Sincil Bank, Lincoln, on 27 August 2025. He initially claimed she attacked him and he responded in kind. Police found a kitchen knife with a broken handle at the scene. The victim suffered at least five sharp wounds to her chest and collarbone, requiring blood transfusions and a chest drain.

Mantas Kudrevicius, 32, from Victoria Street in Quorn, Leicestershire, fell asleep at the wheel after being awake for 18 hours and drove on the wrong side of the road for around 30 seconds on the A16 at Cowbit, colliding head-on with a Renault Twingo driven by the victim, 28, at about 11.30 pm on 30 August 2024, causing her death. A urine test showed a metabolite of cannabis and a small amount of alcohol in his system from the previous day. He had left home at 6am, worked in Rotherham, returned at 3pm, got a haircut in Leicester, and was driving his partner and cat to Spalding. The judge found he was driving while tired but could not attribute drowsiness to cannabis or alcohol.

Paul Cook, 44, of Eve Balfour Way, Stowmarket, was driving west towards Boston on the A52, near Wrangle, in a DAF truck goods vehicle at about 12.45pm on May 1 when he crossed the central road markings colliding with two vehicles travelling in the opposite direction. He first struck the offside of a Land Rover Discovery, before then colliding with a Vauxhall Astra, which was travelling directly behind the Land Rover. The two occupants of the Astra were seriously injured and taken to hospital. The front seat passenger, the victim, 73, died just over a week later in hospital from his injuries.

Agim Turhnay, an Albanian illegal immigrant who arrived in the UK in 2022 by small boat across the Channel, was the sole occupier of a bungalow in Saundergate Lane, Wyberton. On October 31, 2025, police executed a search warrant and forced entry after finding the front barricaded with a metal gate. They discovered 134 cannabis plants in various states of growth across four rooms, including a converted loft space, with the electricity bypassed. Turhnay initially denied knowledge but later admitted turning on the lights to the cannabis grow once or twice. He had been coerced into the role due to substantial debt to smugglers who arranged his illegal entry.

Adam Worrollo, 33, of no fixed address, was more than double the drink-drive limit (81 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath) when police spotted his Kia car near Grantham railway station at about 10pm on January 24, 2026. He ignored requests to stop, reached speeds of 50mph in a 30mph residential zone, drove underneath a bridge, damaged three cars, ran a red light, mounted the pavement, and turned suddenly across the carriageway, forcing police to abandon the pursuit for safety reasons. CCTV tracked his vehicle, and he was found walking away. He denied being the driver, but a police dog identified him by sniffing the driver's side door.