Nottingham Crown Court Sentencing Results

In August 2025, then 19-year-old Evie Robinson drove her Audi A1 across a car park in Mansfield while two friends, including the 18-year-old victim, were sitting in the boot. When Robinson accelerated, both fell out; the victim hit her head on the ground and suffered a 5mm deep brain bleed, requiring a week in an induced coma and six weeks in hospital. She was left with seizures, speech difficulties, mood changes, and her education and future were severely affected. Robinson later pleaded guilty to causing serious injury through dangerous driving.

Desmond Rice, 47, from Aylesbury, along with Banet Tershana, Klodian Shenaj and Jetmir Myrtaj organised people smuggling crossings from France and Belgium to the UK in October 2022. Rice purchased the boat Aquaholic for £22,500 from Poole, transported it with Shenaj to Brightlingsea Marina in Essex, filled 12 canisters with nearly £1000-worth of fuel on 22 October, and provided a kayak for access. GPS showed the boat travelled to Belgium and back. Arrested on 29 October with related documents found at his house.

Liam Brown harassed his former long-term partner in the Carlton Hill area of Nottingham in 2019. After an argument at The Engine House pub in July, he broke her phone by putting it in his mouth and snapping it, and snapped her sunglasses. When she tried to leave by car, he grabbed her arm and twisted it, causing bruising. He also entered her home without permission while she was on holiday and sent her a video of himself there. He bombarded her with text messages, phone calls, and followed her. After reporting him to police, Brown threatened the victim and tried to pressure her to drop the charges while on police bail. He was arrested in September 2019 for witness intimidation.

Police attended the address where Brown was living in August 2025 and seized an iPhone and computer tower. Analysis of the devices found more than 1,600 Category A images and videos, 1,478 Category B and 751 Category C indecent images of children. Brown distributed 150 indecent images to at least three other users through Telegram while posing online as a female child. Further prohibited material, including AI-generated images and cartoons, and extreme pornographic material involving animals were also discovered. The court considered his age, personal circumstances, and the fact that he had completed counselling and a Lucy Faithfull Foundation programme.

On the evening of 24 November 2014, Lukasz Kielb drove his friend the victim to a house in Rosetta Road, New Basford, Nottingham. He dragged him into the cellar, where with Mark Duffus he tied him up, scalded him with boiling water, beat him with a knuckleduster and a metal pole, and slashed his arms and legs with knives. The victim escaped the next morning and suffered a broken nose, broken cheekbone, and multiple cuts requiring stitches. Kielb was sentenced for false imprisonment and causing grievous bodily harm.

Mason Jeffrey, of Bathurst Drive, Bilborough, updated his Facebook status on November 29, 2025, saying 'everyone is going to get crushed' in reference to his ex-partner whom he had previously assaulted. He sent a voice note and message to her friend threatening to 'chop up' her and her new partner, and to 'smack his head in'. This breached a two-year suspended sentence from February 2025 for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and a five-year restraining order.

On the evening of 24 November 2014, Mark Duffus assisted Lukasz Kielb in dragging the victim into a cellar in Rosetta Road, New Basford. Duffus helped tie up the victim, scald him with boiling water, beat him with a knuckleduster and metal pole, and slash his arms and legs with knives. The victim suffered serious injuries. Duffus was sentenced for false imprisonment and causing grievous bodily harm.

On 19 February 2017, Malgorzata Kobialka stabbed her partner at their home in Sherwood, Nottingham, causing serious, life-threatening injuries. She denied the stabbing from the outset of the investigation, alleging that an unknown man had attacked her partner on the doorstep. Instead of seeking immediate medical help, she delayed calling an ambulance for three hours, using the time to phone friends and family and to change her clothes in an effort to evade justice.

Marc Stephenson held a knife to a woman's throat and threatened to kill her during an incident in Ravenshead at 1:55am on March 23, 2019. When police arrived he was in the back garden, made swiping motions toward them, and threatened to stab them. Officers used CS spray and knocked the knife out of his hands with a baton before detaining him. Stephenson was charged with affray and threats to kill and later admitted the offences.

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.

Sean Stacey, 38, of Ganton Close, Mapperley, was a cousin of James Stacey. When police executed search warrants in August 2013, they found a cannabis grow with an estimated street value of almost £40,000 at his home. He was also found in possession of CS spray. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce cannabis, conspiracy to supply cannabis resin, and possession of CS spray.

Scot Fox amassed a collection of over 400,000 child sexual abuse images over approximately 20 years. He was arrested at his home in September 2020 after police linked him to online purchases of indecent material. Officers seized electronic devices and found a total of 402,017 photographs and videos, including more than 7,500 category A images depicting the most serious acts of sexual abuse against children. He immediately admitted his offending and later pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children (saving and storing the material).