Nottingham Crown Court Sentencing Results

Justinas Janonis obstructed police officers in a silver Mercedes on Western Boulevard, Nottingham, on 15 May at 11:30am while disqualified. He initially gave false details but was identified from a picture on his mobile phone. Checks showed he was disqualified until 13 June. He had previously been banned for drink driving in October 2024 and received a suspended sentence from Sheffield Crown Court for handling stolen goods.

While serving a custodial sentence at HMP Lowdham Grange, Christopher Scott used an improvised blade to slash a fellow prisoner on 12 August 2025, causing a severe facial and neck laceration. He pleaded guilty on 16 July 2026. The court heard he deliberately targeted the victim, whom he considered a friend, because he was terrified of returning to Stoke-on-Trent upon release and wanted to extend his time in custody. Prison officers intervened immediately and provided emergency medical care.

Quamai Nugent armed himself with two loaded pistols and returned to a party in the St Ann's area of Nottingham in the early hours of June 2, 2024, seeking out a man he blamed for shooting him six years earlier. He opened fire in a crowded area, shooting the victim in the foot and causing panic. Unarmed police officers responded and found Nugent fighting with the victim; a loaded firearm was on the floor. Nugent escaped but was later arrested after a manhunt. A discarded second firearm contained his DNA in its internal mechanisms, and a phone seized from him had internet searches relating to both guns.

On May 3 last year, Ramis Cetin attacked his flatmate with a broken glass during an argument at their shared home in Newark. The victim, a man in his 40s, was found in a nearby park with puncture wounds to his neck; the glass had penetrated deeply and severed a muscle, narrowly missing the jugular vein and carotid artery. Cetin was arrested within an hour of the attack and later pleaded guilty to wounding with intent.

Keith Bateman admitted making 82 category A indecent images of children, the most serious category. He also downloaded 570 category C images, one uncategorised image and four further prohibited photos. He was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court.

Mitchell Burton attacked a woman and her partner with a baseball bat at Holiday Hills Park in Kirkby around 8.45pm on April 14. The woman briefly lost consciousness after being struck to the face and legs, and the male victim suffered two broken wrists, a fractured knee and a cut to his head while trying to shield himself. Mitchell Burton also smashed the windows and windscreen of the male victim's car before fleeing. Phone evidence showed he photographed the bat around two-and-a-half hours before the attack and sent the image to his brother with messages about using it on the victims' heads.

Graham Butterworth stabbed a close friend in the beer garden of The Manvers Arms in Radcliffe on May 31. The unprovoked assault left the victim with a stab wound to the stomach that required two surgeries, an induced coma, almost four weeks in hospital, and risk of leg amputation due to a damaged artery. Butterworth believed he was owed money when he confronted the victim, then fled the scene. He was arrested later and told officers they would find the five-inch kitchen knife hidden in a garden shed.

Rowan Grant struck a car from behind while speeding as the victim waited at a red light in Nottingham on December 9. The victim, a 36-year-old man, sustained fatal injuries and died later in hospital; a passenger in the car sustained serious, life-altering injuries. Grant pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and multiple other driving offences.

Daniel Brown attacked another man in Sutton on February 23, punching him before stabbing him multiple times in the back with a drill bit. Witnesses had overheard an argument about money. He was later found at a flat in Sutton and arrested, and officers recovered the drill bit and clothing from a sports bag near some bins. Brown also allowed his German Shepherd dog to roam free while walking it in Sutton on December 7, and the dog bit a man on the calf, causing a puncture wound and bruising.

The defendant admitted acquiring criminal property connected with the Mansfield-based organised crime operation. A concealed burner phone containing the narcotics line customer database and message logs was recovered by officers.

Shannon Shaw was sentenced after admitting acquiring criminal property connected to the gang's operation. Evidence including a drugs line phone was found at her home.

Daniel Bald drove a stolen campervan dangerously after police approached it near Clumber Park on 28 July. He carried out aggressive manoeuvres and drove on the wrong side of the road while the vehicle's pop-up roof bed was extended. During a pursuit lasting about 20 minutes, he made repeated last-second evasive manoeuvres on the A1, causing an HGV driver to take evasive action, before a stinger device was deployed.

Ahmed Ali was first spotted loitering outside the victim's child's school in Mansfield in May 2025. He parked outside three or four times a week and near the bus stop the victim used for work, hid behind a post box, and later turned up at her home with flowers. Despite police intervention, he sent an apology letter, unwanted gifts and anonymous Facebook messages, leaving the victim feeling unsafe in her own home. After his arrest, officers found evidence of unwanted gifts, messages and internet searches about the victim on his mobile phone. He later said he had accessed the victim's patient record and pleaded guilty to stalking involving serious alarm or distress.

Johnpaul Allen drove a Range Rover Sport at more than 115mph after overtaking an unmarked police car on the A60 between Worksop and Cuckney on 25 May. He narrowly avoided an oncoming car, had a child in the passenger seat, and later reached speeds of up to 75mph in a 30mph zone through Warsop.

In the early hours of August 7, Riyan Ahmed refused to stop for police in New Basford and led officers on a pursuit through Nottingham streets at speeds up to 95mph, driving on the wrong side of Valley Road. The chase ended when he struck a kerb and was boxed in by police at the junction of Mansfield Road and Albemarle Road in Woodthorpe. A machete was found in the footwell of the car.

On 31 December 2025, Aiden Tyler launched an unprovoked attack on a 35-year-old man near the Bentinck Memorial in Mansfield Market Place. As the victim lay unconscious on the ground, Tyler repeatedly punched and kicked him in the head and upper body in view of witnesses, then shouted insults and claimed the man was dead. Earlier that afternoon he punched another man in the face at a house and was involved in a pub incident in which he threatened customers. The main victim was treated in hospital for serious head injuries and later released.

Scott Knight set fire to vehicles, boxes of Christmas decorations, a bin and electrical cabling in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, on 4 January 2026, while intoxicated. Officers spotted a car on fire on a driveway and then discovered other blazes nearby. One of the cars belonged to a disabled resident who had to be helped out by neighbours. Knight was arrested nearby in an intoxicated state with a lighter in his pocket, and investigators found the fires had been deliberately ignited with a naked flame.

Shaki Robinson attacked a 21-year-old man in Nottingham city centre during the early hours of 22 November 2025. After confronting a woman outside a fast-food restaurant in Angel Row, he turned on a couple who intervened, chased the victim through the city centre and repeatedly slashed at him with a Stanley knife in Beastmarket Hill, causing slash wounds to his lower back, cheek and shoulder. He was arrested on Wollaton Street, punched a police officer during the arrest, and was found with suspected Class A drugs and cash.

Braulio Joaquim Lemos attacked a McDonald's door supervisor with a baseball bat in Nottingham city centre on 22 September 2023. After being ejected from the restaurant, he returned home, changed into a hooded tracksuit, armed himself with a baseball bat, and struck the victim to the side of the head. The victim suffered a fractured skull and a brain haemorrhage described as serious and potentially life-changing. Police described the assault as a deliberate revenge attack on a security worker carrying out his duties.