Nottingham Crown Court Sentencing Results

Over an 18-month period between 2013 and 2015, Marcin Kaminski and Meti Zielinski tampered with 17 vehicles, cutting the mileage on 13 of them by around half and reducing the total by 1,159,743 miles. They created fake MOT certificates, service histories, and false documents to sell the cars to victims across the country. Nottingham City Council Trading Standards made test purchases and searched their homes, finding cash, false service stamps, and paperwork for over 70 vehicles. Laptops and iPads seized contained the fake documents.

On 27 February 2024, Kyle Waldram had been drinking during the afternoon when he clipped a kerb and collided with a pedestrian in Racecourse Road, Colwick. The victim, a woman in her early 20s who had just completed a daily 5km run, was sitting on the kerb getting her breath back when Waldram's vehicle struck her. He had been swerving from side to side, distracted by a drunk passenger and listening to loud music. The victim was so badly injured that her right leg was virtually severed at the scene and had to be amputated, leaving her in a wheelchair. Waldram initially told police at the scene that the victim had run out into the road and later said his driving was not dangerous, both of which the judge described as plainly untrue.

Kevin Martin, 31, of Rufford Avenue, Rainworth, was living at a property used for cannabis cultivation. He pleaded guilty to producing cannabis. Searches revealed multiple cannabis grows and bypassed electricity meters, with paperwork linking the group together.

Klodian Shenaj, 49, from Nottingham, along with Banet Tershana, Jetmir Myrtaj and Desmond Rice organised people smuggling crossings from France and Belgium to the UK in October 2022. Shenaj helped transport the boat Aquaholic from Poole to Brightlingsea Marina in Essex with Rice. Cell site data showed he was in the Essex area when the boat returned from Belgium.

Kay-Ann Morris was the paternal aunt and legal guardian of the seven-year-old victim. Over a two-year period, she regularly hit the victim with a hairbrush or shoe, force-fed her food she disliked, and dragged her along the floor. The abuse was so severe that the school made several referrals to social services. On 30–31 July 2014, the victim ran away from her grandmother’s home but was collected by Morris around 1 a.m. In the early hours, Morris sent messages to relatives indicating something had happened to the victim. The child was found dead at the family home in Beckhampton Road, Bestwood. Morris claimed the victim had fallen downstairs. She was convicted of cruelty towards the victim at Nottingham Crown Court and sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment.

Michael Rogers, 26, struck up an online conversation with an undercover police officer posing as a 12-year-old boy in July 2019. He engaged in sexualised conversations and asked for an explicit image. When arrested, officers found around 70 indecent images of children on his devices, including 10 Category A images. He admitted to attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child, making indecent images of children, and possessing a prohibited image of a child.

Umair Karim and Muhammed Hassan engaged in mobile phone exchanges discussing the procurement and use of a handgun. Hassan approached Karim to secure a firearm, using the nickname 'Doctor'. Karim bragged about access to firearms including a Mac 11 machine pistol and AK-47. Messages also discussed drug dealing. Discovered during unrelated police investigation; warrant led to phone evidence.

Over an 18-month period between 2013 and 2015, Marcin Kaminski and Meti Zielinski tampered with 17 vehicles, cutting the mileage on 13 of them by around half and reducing the total by 1,159,743 miles. They created fake MOT certificates, service histories, and false documents to sell the cars to victims across the country. Nottingham City Council Trading Standards made test purchases and searched their homes, finding cash, false service stamps, and paperwork for over 70 vehicles. Laptops and iPads seized contained the fake documents.

Vincent Hawkins, 33, of Handel Street, Sneinton, helped the killers cover up their crime after the victim was murdered and robbed at his home in Carlton.

Zoe Upchurch was found guilty of four counts of child cruelty in relation to the children and was sentenced in August 2026.

Umair Karim and Muhammed Hassan engaged in mobile phone exchanges discussing the procurement and use of a handgun. Hassan approached Karim to secure a firearm, using the nickname 'Doctor'. Karim bragged about access to firearms including a Mac 11 machine pistol and AK-47. Messages also discussed drug dealing. Discovered during unrelated police investigation; warrant led to phone evidence.

On 4 March 2026, police attended Tiron Desuza's property on Watnall Road in Hucknall to arrest him on unrelated matters. While officers secured the rear of the home, an officer noticed a landing window open and items being tossed onto a flat roof. A revolver and ammunition wrapped in a plastic bag were recovered. Desuza denied ownership, claiming the open window was due to incense. He later pleaded guilty.

Thuan Quoc Tran, 29, of Frederick Street, South Shields, pleaded guilty to conspiring to produce cannabis. He was involved in a large‑scale cannabis production ring that operated across multiple properties, uncovered after a police traffic stop in January 2023.

Steven Elvidge attacked a woman at his house on Ravenswood Road, punching her in the face multiple times, striking her with a machete and causing a cut to her hand, and throwing a glass table and garden chairs at her. He also threatened to kill her. A man who tried to intervene was assaulted. When police arrived they discovered weapons, a cannabis grow, weighing scales, drugs bags, and a machete and drugs in his car.

Terri Walters was the mother of the 18-day-old victim, who died on 10 July 2020. She knew that the baby’s father was a heavy cannabis user but left the baby in his care while she went upstairs to sleep. She had also taken drugs. She initially denied responsibility but changed her plea to guilty for cruelty of a child by way of neglect.

On 6 March 2017 at Oxengate, Arnold, near Tesco Express, Jarrelle Hayden took offence at two men at a friend’s house and became aggressive. He dragged one outside, and when the other tried to intervene, Hayden stabbed him in the back, causing wounds that required stitches. He then stabbed the first man twice, including a serious stomach wound that needed an operation, before running off. He was identified through witness accounts and CCTV but evaded capture for nearly a year before being arrested in February 2018.

James Staples sexually abused three children over a period spanning almost five decades, from the late 1970s through to 2016. One victim was targeted after Staples had turned 80. The offences came to light in 2019 when one victim told her mother, prompting two others to come forward. He was arrested and later admitted the offences.

Jack Langford launched an unprovoked attack on a man outside a nightclub in High Street, Hucknall in the early hours of 5 September 2021. After being ejected from the club, Langford punched the victim (who was sat on a motorbike) in the face, causing him to fall to the ground, then struck him with a motorbike helmet. The victim suffered serious facial injuries including an orbital fracture, broken cheek bone, fractured nose and extensive bruising, and required hospital treatment. Langford was convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent.

On 14 December 2023, Jake Searson, 27, of Main Road, Jacksdale, was driving a van along the A608 Alfreton Road, Underwood, veered onto the wrong side of the road while turning into Mansfield Road, failing to notice a 40-year-old motorcyclist with lights on and high-visibility jacket. The collision caused severe life-changing injuries including brain bleed, amputation of right arm and leg; victim requires 24-hour care, constant pain, unable to work. CCTV shown in court; described as reckless driving. Searson pleaded with medics to save the victim.

Joseph Lubasi stabbed a 17-year-old boy in the chest and abdomen in Mansfield Road, Redhill, at around 2am on May 25, 2018, following an argument. The victim suffered a perforated stomach and liver, collapsed, and required intensive care. In a separate incident on October 22, 2017, in Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, Lubasi grabbed a 20-year-old man by the throat, punched him in the head, threatened to stab him, and forced him to use his bank card to buy cigarettes at a Tesco shop.