Lincoln Crown Court Sentencing Results

Zbigniew Kaczmarek of Carrington Road in Spalding committed intentional suffocation and strangulation offences against a single victim in Spalding in December 2023. He was found guilty of three charges after a trial at Lincoln Crown Court and sentenced on 13 December 2024.

Krzysztof Zawada, 48, from Spalding, was found to have possessed further indecent images of children after police seized two mobile phones from his home in Jubilee Close, Spalding, during visits in November 2022 and January 2023. The images included 25 in category A (most serious), 44 in category B, and 331 in category C, depicting girls aged 4 to 15. He failed to appear at Boston Magistrates Court on March 27, 2024, for charges related to these offences and went on the run, vacating his address at the end of March 2024. He was arrested on August 12, 2024, living in a tent near Southampton after spending over 15 months at large. This followed a prior 2017 conviction for similar offences, resulting in a six-week suspended sentence and seven-year sex offender registration, which required address disclosure.

Linda Lu, 35, a solicitor, and her mother carried out a campaign of harassment against the victims starting after an argument over hedge trimming on July 18, 2023, in Bassingham, Lincolnshire. Actions included banging loudly, playing music on repeat including 'The Laughing Policeman', shining torches, kicking bins, smashing bottles, spying, following the family, and verbal abuse accusing the male victim of being a paedophile. The harassment lasted three months until remand in custody, causing significant distress requiring counselling and medication for victims.

Susan Chen, 61, and her daughter carried out a campaign of harassment against neighbours the male victim and the female victim starting after an argument over hedge trimming on July 18, 2023, in Bassingham, Lincolnshire. Actions included banging loudly, playing music on repeat including 'The Laughing Policeman', shining torches, kicking bins, smashing bottles, spying, following the family, and verbal abuse accusing the male victim of being a paedophile. The harassment lasted three months until remand in custody, causing significant distress requiring counselling and medication for victims.

Simon Robertson, a community nurse with the Early Intervention In Psychosis Team, admitted sexual activity with a vulnerable patient during a clinical appointment. He first met the victim in November 2021, and later held meetings without a chaperone. On 16 March 2022, during a lone meeting at the victim's home, he touched her intimately after she took hold of his hand following a back massage. He initially denied the incident, then said it was consensual, and pleaded guilty to sexual activity by a care worker.

Nathan Jackson was seen walking down the street with a steak knife after arguing with his partner on 2 April 2024. A concerned neighbour called police after observing the argument and hearing Jackson say: 'What's she going to do with a hole in her throat?' Jackson was later seen on the corner with the knife, which he dropped and picked up. Police recovered a steak knife from the kitchen sink after attending his home. In interview he denied taking a knife onto the street, claiming it had been mistaken for a can of beer. He pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article. The court heard he had spent 159 days on a qualifying curfew and had been on remand in prison since 2 October.

On 19 March 2024 in Spalding, Richard Admans approached his estranged wife outside her new home, produced two knives (a carving knife and a kitchen knife), threatened to kill her and wounded her stomach and fingers. The victim required hospital treatment but no surgery. Admans had waited outside her property after she moved out.

Between 13 and 25 January 2024, following Maksim Iliev's fatal attack on the victim on 14 January, Katya Tsoneva, 35, returned to the address she shared with Iliev to pack items and used cash and jewellery to help fund his flight out of the UK. Iliev was detained with luggage at Luton Airport.

Adrian-Viorel Barbu, aged 40 of Frampton Place, Boston, used a lock knife during an altercation with three men at Merkur Slots on West Street, Boston, just before 11.50pm on Sunday 28 April 2024. He inflicted a punctured lung on a 48-year-old man and a cut to the side of the face of a 16-year-old boy. Officers were called to reports of a man brandishing a lock-knife. Local knowledge led police to Barbu’s home where trainers matching the suspect's description were found near the back door, corroborated by footage of the incident. He was arrested within hours and remanded into custody.

William Smith, 35, of Mayflower Road, entered Boston Police Station on 27 February 2024 wielding a large knife and attempting to attack staff by trying to smash the protective glass separating the public from front-desk employees. He threatened staff behind the counter as well as a member of the public who was inside the station at the time. The knife used during the incident was seized and destroyed.

On 5 April 2024, just before 6.50pm, Robert Burton, 34, of Kingsley Road, Mablethorpe, attacked a woman in her 30s in a property on Chatsworth Drive, Louth, leaving her with facial injuries. He was drunk and aggressively shouting. When police arrived, he threatened and spat at officers, and there were threats involving a knife. He was detained and charged.

In August 2023, Christopher Lenden threatened and attacked his victim with a knife in Louth, causing grievous bodily harm. He later video-called a friend to show the victim's injuries. Emergency services were called, and Lenden assaulted two police officers while being arrested.

Steven Drew, 38, of Newstead Way, Loughborough, used his position as manager of a phone shop to manipulate customers into providing access to their mobiles, from which he stole photos and videos of children. He was caught after a tip-off about sharing indecent images on the Emule file-sharing website. Arrested on January 13, 2023, in Lincolnshire, detectives found thousands of indecent images on his devices, including Category A material. He sexually assaulted a girl under 13, as evidenced on his phone. While on bail after a second arrest on January 8, 2024, he continued offending and was arrested a third time in June 2024 for 14 offences. Victims were traced by safeguarding officers.

On February 2023 in Holton le Clay, Saul Walker, also known as Jake Walker, smashed the front door of his ex-girlfriend's home after their split the previous day. He entered, pulled her to the floor, and she fled to seek help from neighbours. She observed him with a machete and heard her friend in pain inside. Walker assaulted his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend by strangling and causing actual bodily harm, and wounded a 21-year-old man. He fled but was apprehended after a media campaign. Evidence revealed a pattern of domestic violence and coercive control.

On November 13, 2022, in foggy conditions at Holbeach St John’s, disqualified driver Shane Kelk, driving a grey BMW 3 series estate while on licence from a previous jail sentence, pulled out to overtake another vehicle and collided with 20-year-old motorcyclist the victim riding her green Kawasaki. Kelk left the scene, resulting in the victim's death.

Darius Krzyzan, 44, of Lewis Court, Spalding, was arrested in July 2022 after police executed a search warrant at his home. Police found 11,948 indecent images of children on two devices, downloaded over an 11-year period (40 category A including 14 videos, 17 category B, 11,891 category C). He blamed the breakdown of a long-term relationship. He had no previous convictions in the UK or Poland.

Emma Jackson was a juror in a child sex case at Lincoln Crown Court in August last year. Despite the trial judge's direction not to conduct their own research, she showed research to a co-accused and admitted sharing it with other jurors. The trial collapsed and had to be re-tried in April this year.

Craig Ranyard was convicted of false imprisonment after a man was held captive at a property on 4 July 2025 and then moved to another property the next day. The victim was subjected to violence, threats and humiliation before escaping by jumping from a first-floor window and running to a police car.

On 24 June, Danny Lodge, 25, lured a vulnerable 19-year-old victim with learning difficulties and autism to a Travelodge room in Spalding where he and his partner Leanne Thornton were staying. After smoking crack cocaine and drinking, Lodge repeatedly stabbed the victim three times with a butterfly knife (thigh, chin and back) before the couple pushed him into a nearby river. Lodge also assaulted police officers during arrest.

Danielle Thompson was convicted of false imprisonment after a man was held captive at a property on 4 July 2025 and then moved to another property the next day. The victim was subjected to violence, threats and humiliation before escaping by jumping from a first-floor window and running to a police car.

Hack engaged in controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship and was found guilty of three counts of assaulting or ill-treating a child in a way likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury. He received concurrent seven-year terms for the child cruelty offences and a consecutive two-year term for coercive control.

Avent's Snapchat account was flagged to police in October 2023 and a search was carried out at his home on November 29, 2023. During the search he hid his work phone in a child's bag. Two phones were examined and found to contain 38 indecent images of children across Category A, B and C, including moving images. He also shared and received indecent images of children with other Snapchat users, including Category A moving images of children aged between eight and twelve. At the time he was working as a football coach with young people.

Kamil Gziut was in the process of sexually assaulting a woman in her early 20s on Albion Street in Spalding in November 2021 at 5.30pm. He overpowered her and dragged her onto a grassy area. Three teenagers intervened, causing him to flee. He was later charged with attempted rape, robbery and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm with intent to commit a sexual offence.

Lilleyman was involved in an incident in Lincoln on January 9 in which he assaulted a man, causing minor injuries, while another person attacked a woman with a meat cleaver. He pleaded guilty to affray and received a suspended sentence with unpaid work and a restraining order.

Joshua Hancock, 28, helped Nicholas Metson dispose of the victim's dismembered remains in the River Witham at Bassingham in the early hours of 25 March 2023 after being paid £100. He was unaware of the murder but assisted in placing body parts into bags and disposing of them. Not all remains were recovered.