Maidstone Crown Court Sentencing Results

Sarah Cooper, 47, of Ramsgate Road, Broadstairs, on bus in Brompton near Gillingham March 3, verbally abused female PC with racial slurs including 'chocolate face', N-word, 'f***ing black c**t', 'darkies' at roadside, in custody. Chronic alcoholic.

Corrupt security guard at Sheerness Port who allowed the gang to enter on 20 December 2021 to recover 1.2 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment from Costa Rica.

On 22 March 2018, Ryan Jarvis took his mother's car without permission and drove dangerously in Gillingham. Outside a primary school on Woodlands Road, he crashed into another car, causing a chain reaction involving a bus and a minibus. One person suffered minor injuries. Police had spotted him driving the stolen car and attempted to stop him, but he accelerated and crashed around 3pm.

On 19 January 2018, Barry Bonner, 41, and Paul Dudley, 33, went to a private home in Snodland. Bonner grabbed a large kitchen knife and threatened to stab a teenage boy who answered the door and his dog. The homeowner, who knew both men, arrived and tried to calm the situation, but Bonner and Dudley punched him repeatedly and attempted to stab him. They also struck the victim with a chair leg until it snapped. The victim managed to force them out and called police. Officers arrested both men at Snodland railway station shortly afterwards.

On 14 April 2018, a violent disorder broke out after a conference at a local theatre in Sevenoaks, spilling into Bligh's Meadow car park. Paul Carbine threw punches at multiple opponents during the brawl.

At 4am on 3 July 2021, a young man in his late teens was in Lower Stone Street, Maidstone, when he was approached by Paul Ojo, Quinton Nelson and Kenneth Roberts. Ojo used a knife to stab him five times in the chest and abdomen.

Pauline Winfield took part in sexual offences against one child in the late 1970s in the Ashford area, when the victim was under 10-years-old. Arrested in 2018 after victim contacted police. Charges brought in April 2020 after witnesses corroborated evidence. Of White Horse Lane, Canterbury.

Pawel Rabel repeatedly harassed his ex-partner and the mother of his children between December 2023 and October 2025. The couple had been together from 2014 to 2022 and shared two biological children and one step-child. On October 20, he arrived at her home dressed as a clown and struck the door with an axe while making growling noises; the attack was captured on doorbell footage. The victim later found a bag containing the clown mask and a card in her garden. Police found Rabel in the early hours of October 21 and recovered the axe from his van. He had also been seen near his children's school in a distinctive van, attended the victim's son's jujitsu lesson, and left parcels and cash outside the victim's home. The victim suffered a mental breakdown and has since been diagnosed with depression.

Omerfaraz Rahman, 43, of no fixed address, was involved in the illegal transfer of money obtained through criminal activities such as drug dealing. He was arrested after a surveillance operation on 17 September 2018 in Nottingham, where he was carrying a carrier bag full of banknotes which he placed into the boot of an Audi. The Audi was stopped in Medway on Maidstone Road, Wigmore, revealing £61,155 cash and a phone with images of large amounts of money. A search of his home found a cash counting machine and evidence of illegal money movement.

Nigel Butler, 58, from Sutton Valence, was driving his red Maxus Van on the coastbound carriageway of the M26 near Wrotham on 15 October 2020. He fell asleep at the wheel due to undiagnosed sleep apnoea, failed to notice a lorry slowing for roadworks, and crashed into it from behind at full speed. The two passengers, aged 22 and 44, died at the scene. Butler had suffered excessive daytime sleepiness for years but had not sought medical help or informed the DVLA.

Nigel Goodall and his son Ben Goodall used a glass and a dining fork to attack a customer at a restaurant on Lower Stone Street, Maidstone, on 18 March 2020 at around 8.30pm. The assault was unprovoked after the victim had asked them to moderate their offensive language. Ben punched the victim’s face multiple times, then Nigel stabbed the victim’s head repeatedly with a fork and smashed a glass into his face. The victim suffered deep cuts to his head and required hospital treatment.

During 2022, whilst in a relationship with the victim from Sittingbourne, Nuno Rodrigues subjected her to constant assaults including pinning her to the ground whilst placing hands around her neck causing bruising and preventing breathing, multiple assaults whilst on holiday in Madeira causing permanent loss of sensitivity on one side of her mouth, threats with a knife, threats to disclose personal images, striking her face multiple times, and on 5 December 2022 taking hold of her throat, threatening to kill her if she called police, and preventing her from leaving.

On 6 May 2023, Nyron Scott was involved in an altercation outside a venue in Rose Yard, Maidstone. He was in possession of a knife and stabbed the victim four times, causing cuts to his face and arm. Bystanders gave first-aid, and the victim was taken to hospital. Police recovered CCTV image from security staff, located Scott in Pudding Lane, and retrieved the knife from Earl Street.

Rodney Geisha carried out a knife assault following an argument with two men in Maidstone town centre. The incident took place in Week Street during the afternoon of 3 February 2021. Geisha pulled a knife from his waistband, causing a cut to the face of one victim. When others intervened, he moved behind the second victim and inflicted serious neck injuries requiring surgery. He fled the scene before emergency services arrived. Officers arrested him at his home address where he had cuts to his left hand and an injured thumb.

Officers attended Kavanagh’s home in Birling Road, Snodland in October 2019 and found he had concealed two mobile phones capable of accessing the internet and storing images. One phone had been accessed on the day of his release from prison. Neither device had been revealed during previous inspections. He missed deadlines to sign on the sex offenders register in 2019 and 2021, and failed to notify police of a change of address.

Milan Kosoric and Pero Mitrovic were caught red-handed by police with almost £750,000 in cash stored in supermarket ‘bags for life’ wrapped in plastic bundles in a bedroom of a flat in Redcliffe Street, Kensington, on 2 March 2021. More than 100 wraps of cocaine were also seized from the property and a nearby parked car. They had been staying at the address and were arrested as part of a proactive operation by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate. The cash totalled £745,087, which was successfully forfeited under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

At 4am on 3 July 2021, a young man in his late teens was in Lower Stone Street, Maidstone, when he was approached by Paul Ojo, Quinton Nelson and Kenneth Roberts. When the victim fell to the floor, Nelson kicked his head twice.

On 17 September 2018, Billy Dole fatally attacked the victim near Rochester High Street Bridge. Rachel Woods, Dole's partner, immediately contacted her mother. Together, they secretly arranged and funded Dole's flight to Turkey, with onward travel to Cyprus, in order to evade arrest. Woods later stonewalled police, falsely claiming Dole had left for work, and urged her mother not to cooperate. Kent Police uncovered the plot through CCTV and financial records.

Reece Fox, 20, from Morecambe, was arrested with Thomas Coulton when their lorry was stopped by Border Force at the Port of Dover’s Eastern Docks on 27 February 2019 after arriving from France. Officers found two million counterfeit Mayfair cigarettes in the trailer. The duty evaded was £615,805. They had detoured to Tamines, Belgium to pick up the cigarettes. Dashcam footage captured panicked conversation.