Nottingham Crown Court Sentencing Results

Possessing and intending to sell thousands of pounds’ worth of counterfeit and illicit cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco from a makeshift shop inside their home in Mansfield. Officers searched the property in September 2019 and discovered 11,300 illegal cigarettes worth £20,000, 281 packets of counterfeit Rothman cigarettes, 575 packets of dangerous cigarettes that failed to comply with UK safety standards, and 294 packets of cigarettes and 620 pouches of tobacco without required health warnings. A makeshift till contained £4,000 in cash.

Possessing and intending to sell thousands of pounds’ worth of counterfeit and illicit cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco from a makeshift shop inside their home in Mansfield, plus money laundering. Officers searched the property in September 2019 and discovered 11,300 illegal cigarettes worth £20,000, 281 packets of counterfeit Rothman cigarettes, 575 packets of dangerous cigarettes that failed to comply with UK safety standards, and 294 packets of cigarettes and 620 pouches of tobacco without required health warnings. A makeshift till contained £4,000 in cash.

Tyrone Rowe, 41, of Southey Street, Radford, approached a 71-year-old market trader working on his stall on Radford Road, Hyson Green, Nottingham, around 11:45am on 19 June 2024, asking to test a phone charger at a bookmaker across the road. This led to an argument, after which Rowe punched the trader in the face twice, causing him to fall and hit his head on the concrete, resulting in fractures to both sides of his face, shattered cheekbones and eye sockets.

On 31 August 2024 at around 10.20pm, Joshua Kirby, 35, of Easegill Court, Top Valley, travelled the wrong way around a Broxtowe roundabout, ignored police orders to stop, and led a high-speed chase exceeding 100mph in a 50mph zone. He made dangerous overtakes, lost control on a bend in Moorgreen, crashed into a tree on Dovecote Road sustaining a fractured spine, broken ribs, and dislocated shoulder. The motorbike had cloned plates.

William Osaseri, 19, from London, chased and stabbed a 20-year-old student in the arm during an incident on a footpath off Midland Way in Radford, Nottinghamshire on June 27, 2024. The victim suffered a severed brachial artery, requiring emergency surgery and resulting in a six-week coma and a life-changing brain injury. Osaseri was linked to street gangs and involved in drug dealing around university campuses. After the attack, he took the victim's rucksack and fled the scene. He was arrested at his home with the knife used and bags of cannabis.

Craig Hill, a former maths teacher at Hall Park Academy in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, groomed and sexually assaulted a pupil who had a teenage crush on him. He exploited her infatuation by touching her under the table and in a school cupboard on multiple occasions, including unbuttoning his shirt, which shocked the victim. The offences occurred while she was a child with no prior sexual experience, and she reported them years later, stating they have impacted every aspect of her life, including her childhood memories and ongoing fear of encountering him.

In 2015, after release on licence from a previous indeterminate sentence for assaults on other women, Daley Oldham subjected a new victim to abuse, punching her to the ground during an argument and breaking her jaw. He forced her to delay hospital treatment and lie to medical staff, claiming she was accidentally struck by another man during a night out.

Matthew Wright, driving an Amazon Prime lorry rented from Amazon, departed the depot in Sherwood Way South and travelled east along the A617. He was in the wrong lane (lane one) and made an illegal right turn at the A617/A60 crossroads junction in Mansfield in the early hours of 12 July 2023, cutting across lanes two and three while the right turn light was red, colliding with a motorcyclist who was adhering to the 60mph speed limit. The motorcyclist, aged 61, died later that day at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham.

Emad Kaky, a 47-year-old former PhD student from Swansea, conspired to commit female genital mutilation and forced marriage by arranging and paying for a young girl to travel from the UK to Iraq. He made the travel plans while living in Nottingham, and evidence from his mobile phone messages showed his clear intent. A witness reported him to the police, preventing the act, which would have caused significant physical and mental harm to the girl.

Simon Elliott, 45, stabbed a beagle named Rosie to death and repeatedly stabbed a second pet, a Staffie called Sabre, at his home in Scargill Rise, Eastwood, while the owners were on holiday. A neighbour discovered the scene on May 29, 2024, describing it as abhorrent and barbaric. The surviving dog would be scarred by the incident.

Lee Horsley, 31, of Hazel Road, Ollerton, lost control of his modified BMW while attempting to overtake on a wet road near White Post roundabout on Old Rufford Road, A614, at Farnsfield, on September 12, 2023. The car snaked, collided with the victim's Audi, flipping it onto its roof and killing the 33-year-old social worker who had helped snare a child grooming gang.

Alanzo Walker, then 18 now 20, of Coppice Road, Arnold, was caught with an imitation gun in a taxi in Radford on March 14, 2023, claiming he was paid £50 by a Snapchat friend to pick it up. Ammunition was found at his address in a sock. While on bail, in September 2024, he had thousands of pounds' worth of cocaine and cannabis in a car at his Arnold home and his partner's in Calverton, plus cash.

Jacob Fores, 26, of Sherwood Road, Worksop, stabbed a man outside McDonald's in Mills Way on July 22, 2024, after Facebook messages were sent to his girlfriend Leanne Marcer. The men had arranged a fistfight, but Fores and Marcer armed themselves; the victim was stabbed in the upper back, lower side, and head, leaving him unable to work for three months.

Nicolae Dumitru was responsible for tending to a cannabis farm at a disused haunted museum and cinema on Woodborough Road, Mapperley. Police raided the property on 3 April 2024, finding 284 cannabis plants across three rooms, two further empty rooms prepared for grows, and bypassed electricity. He was living at the site when arrested.

David Moore was responsible for tending to a cannabis farm at a disused haunted museum and cinema on Woodborough Road, Mapperley. Police raided the property on 3 April 2024, finding 284 cannabis plants across three rooms, two further empty rooms prepared for grows, and bypassed electricity. He was living at the site when arrested.

William Martin, of Woodhouse Court, Mansfield Woodhouse, was driving a yellow Seat with two friends when he crossed to the wrong side of the A614 Blyth Road at Ollerton to overtake slower traffic. He crashed almost head-on into a northbound Toyota around 5.30pm on 8 September 2023, causing the Seat to overturn in a ditch. Front seat passenger and friend, the victim, 22, died at the scene. Martin had driven dangerously for two kilometres at an average 87mph in a 60mph zone.

Paul Canner, along with family members, operated an illegal waste site at Long Bennington near Newark from October 1, 2019, to May 1, 2020, where waste was burned and buried on an area the size of a football pitch, posing risks to residents from toxic fumes. The site was raided by Environment Agency officers and Lincolnshire Police in April 2020.

Joshua Canner helped run an illegal waste site at Long Bennington near Newark from October 1, 2019, to May 1, 2020, accepting lorry-loads of shredded waste and concealing the operation with falsified paperwork, which harmed the environment and local residents.

Judith Canner participated in running an illegal waste site at Long Bennington near Newark from October 1, 2019, to May 1, 2020, where large amounts of waste were dumped, burned, and buried, endangering the local community with toxic fumes.

Bradley Amphlett, a 27-year-old teacher from Cordy Lane, Brinsley, Nottinghamshire, formed a sexual relationship with a pupil who sought his support for exam stress. He first kissed her in a classroom, kissed her multiple times over a week, exchanged messages after she left school, and booked a hotel room in Nottingham where they had sex. The relationship was reported to police and the school after the girl told a friend.

Giampiero Franchi attempted to groom an individual he believed to be a 13-year-old girl, who was actually an undercover police officer, by engaging in sexual communications on July 9, 2024. Police seized his devices and found 18 Category A indecent images of children, along with evidence that he had previously incited young children to engage in sexual activity online. He was arrested following the incident.