Nottingham Crown Court Sentencing Results

Christopher Clinton, of Edwalton, Nottinghamshire, operated under the guise of a middle-aged woman on social media from November 2024 to January 2025 to groom a profile he believed belonged to a mother, enticing her to engage in sexual activity with her six-year-old daughter. The profile was managed by undercover Nottinghamshire Police officers who intercepted the communications.

Rory Helps, 28, from Alfreton, Derbyshire, was driving an Audi A3 after consuming five pints of alcohol and being a frequent cannabis user, with a small amount of the drug found in his car's glovebox. On June 6, 2025, just before 10.45pm, he was on the wrong side of Alfreton Road, Selston, causing a head-on collision with a Suzuki Swift driven by a 19-year-old woman. His breath test showed 100 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, almost three times the legal limit of 35 micrograms. The victim suffered a broken wrist and collar bone, impacting her studies and leaving her in pain for months. Helps was stumbling and slurring his words at the scene.

On January 28, 2026, at around 2.30am, police received a 999 call reporting a break-in at a house of multiple occupancy in Derbyshire Lane, Hucknall, where a room had been trashed and a man had been stabbed in the back. The stabbed man was taken to Queen's Medical Centre by ambulance. Ashden Middleton was arrested there, still in handcuffs, but he ran away from police, claiming 'I have not done anything'. Officers chased him to a nearby address but lost sight, and a police dog found him wedged between a shed and a fence on a driveway. He was then taken into custody.

On October 11, 2025, James Pedley arranged to meet the victim in Morvern Avenue, Sutton-in-Ashfield, but a fight broke out. Pedley repeatedly stabbed the victim in the torso and neck, also causing a fractured jaw and spine, leaving him bleeding on the ground near garages in Kensington Close. Pedley fled the scene in blood-soaked clothes, folding the knife and hiding it in his pocket. The victim required emergency surgery and survived. Pedley was found hiding in a loft at a house two days later.

On January 4, 2025, shortly before 11pm, Mattias Webb, aged 25, of Gateford, angrily beeped his horn and flashed his lights while tailgating an unmarked police vehicle in Worksop. Instead of stopping when officers activated hidden emergency lights, he overtook the vehicle and led police on a 2.5-mile chase through Worksop and Gateford in heavy rain, starting in Shireoaks Road and finishing in Boscombe Road. During the pursuit, he turned off his lights, reached speeds of 60mph in a 30mph zone, passed hundreds of residential properties, and drove through a red traffic light, endangering other road users. He headed to his home address where he was arrested after attempting to evade responsibility by running into the house and claiming he hadn't been driving, though dash cam footage captured him fleeing the van.

Hawley took part in a sustained attack on a man in Eastwood on 2 June 2025 after going to a property to take drugs. She punched the victim with her fists, joined in the violence, and told him to enter his passcode to transfer money on his banking app. When he mis-typed, she or her co-defendant hit him. The victim suffered a fractured eye socket and nose, bruising, and swelling. Hawley later returned to apologise and admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm.

Wright and an accomplice subjected a man to a prolonged attack in Eastwood on 2 June 2025 after going to a property to take drugs. Wright scalded the victim with boiling water from a kettle, struck him with a vase, a speaker and a wooden pole, and held a knife close to his eye while demanding £10,000 and trying to force him to transfer money using a banking app. The victim suffered a fractured eye socket and nose, a serious burn to his arm, and extensive bruising. Wright threatened to kill the victim's family if he reported the attack and took his mobile phone. He also committed thefts, including a £3,000 e-bike and clothing, and assaulted a shopkeeper.

On November 4, 2024, PC Aodan O'Neill, aged 27, was driving a marked police car along Broadgate, Lincoln, just before 1.45pm, with blue lights and sirens activated, en route to an emergency. The vehicle collided with a 16-year-old boy crossing the road on a pedestrian crossing. The boy was not seriously injured.

Radko Radev, 37, of Basford, engaged in stalking between March and October 2025. He sent a video of himself performing a sex act over social media, threatened to pay someone to rape the victim, her sister and her father, and sent a photograph of his genitals with a message saying he knew where she lived and would 'come and end you'. On September 9, 2025, he bombarded her with over 300 calls in 13 hours, followed by 100 calls the next day. After arrest and a no-contact order, he breached it twice by sending Facebook friend requests.

On 18 January 2025, Rhys Courtney was speeding on the A52 near Bramcote when his silver Seat collided with another vehicle, causing a three-car crash. The female passenger suffered a broken collarbone requiring surgery, the male driver sustained significant bruising, and a dog in the car needed veterinary treatment. Courtney initially claimed to be driving at 60–70 mph but mobile phone footage showed him rapidly closing on the car ahead and hitting it while swerving. He later admitted going 'a bit fast'. He was arrested nine days after the incident.

Julie Faulkner admitted helping a man wanted for murder avoid arrest for five weeks after a fatal stabbing in Nottingham in April 2022. The sentencing followed earlier murder convictions in 2023.

Elisha Faulkner admitted helping a man wanted for murder avoid arrest for five weeks after a fatal stabbing in Nottingham in April 2022. The sentencing followed earlier murder convictions in 2023.

In the early hours of June 27, 2025, Silas Briggs-Price, a drunk thug, picked a fight with a couple within seconds of leaving a Barnbygate-based pub in Newark town centre. He got in their faces, jumped up and down aggressively, followed them while shouting ‘do you know who I am?’, punched the man in the face knocking him unconscious, inflicted a running kick to the man’s head while he was defenceless, and also assaulted the woman before removing his shirt and storming off. The man suffered several facial fractures. Briggs-Price was arrested minutes later walking through the town centre topless.

Michael James sent a threatening and racially aggravated message to a BBC Radio Nottingham presenter on 21 November 2025. When police visited his address, he was found to have deleted WhatsApp messages from his device in breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order. He was arrested and later pleaded guilty to both offences.

On December 12, 2024, Colin Longbottom, 63, of Wakefield, was driving a lorry on the A46 northbound near East Bridgford. His vehicle had broken down, and the victim, 37, of Bingham, had exited his flatbed truck via the passenger side. Longbottom was using the built-in touch screen to turn off fog lights, failing to pay attention to the road, with his eyes off the road for approximately four seconds prior to the collision. The lorry crashed into the stationary vehicle, striking the victim and causing serious head injuries. The victim was treated in intensive care for 18 days at Queen’s Medical Centre but died on December 30, 2024. Police investigation revealed Longbottom had used his mobile phone minutes before to send Facebook messages and make calls, though not at the exact time of the crash. Internal cab CCTV captured him looking down for prolonged periods.

Callum Knott was the 'angry' driver responsible for a catastrophic head-on smash in Nottingham that left grandfather the victim an amputee. The incident occurred while the victim was on his way home from seeing his wife in hospital.