Peterborough Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

On 24 May 2026, Mohammed Halani failed to pull over for officers on Lincoln Road in Peterborough and led police on a dangerous pursuit while driving an Audi S3. He sped through the city, ignored keep-left bollards and no-entry signs, and forced police to drop back as shoppers filled the streets over the bank holiday weekend. He lost control in Westgate and crashed into a building, forcing two pedestrians to jump clear to avoid being struck. Halani then abandoned the car and ran through Queensgate shopping centre before officers, guided by CCTV operators, found him hiding in a Cowgate restaurant. Nobody was injured.

Zachary Hassan was spotted speeding in a Ford Kuga in High Street, Fletton, Peterborough at about 2am on May 23, 2026. When police illuminated blue lights, he failed to stop and reached speeds of about 125mph during a pursuit, as well as 65mph in a 30mph zone. He drove the wrong way around a roundabout, ignored red traffic lights, and contravened keep-left bollards. After the pursuit ended, he ran off and was arrested hiding in a bush.

Robert Kinneir, 45, who is currently serving at HMP Swaleside, locked a fellow inmate in a cell at around 11am on 28th February 2023 at HMP Peterborough. He used an improvised weapon to threaten the victim and announced the situation over the prison’s intercom. He started fires in the cell and made further threats during a four-hour standoff. The situation was resolved by a specialist team without injury. Kinneir claimed his actions were due to lack of support and medication for mental health issues. The victim experienced psychological trauma.

An employee, the victim, was injured on 4 February 2023 while manually unloading stuck cargo from a delivery trailer at the company's processing facility in Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon. He stepped onto a roller deck with a 10cm gap, and once the cargo was freed, a skid struck his left leg, which became trapped, leading to a through-knee amputation. The Health and Safety Executive investigation found the company failed to ensure safe unloading procedures and address the gap hazard.

Gary Dennett, 55, of Abbotsley Road, Croxton, near St Neots, sent hundreds of sexual messages on a dating app and then WhatsApp to who he believed was a 14-year-old girl, who was actually a decoy from an online child activist group. The messages included requests for the 'girl' to touch herself inappropriately. He was arrested at his home in March 2024 after the information was passed to police. A mobile phone at his house contained 17 indecent images of a girl.

Roy Lee attended a large-scale hare coursing event in the Fenland area on 25 January 2025. The event affected rural communities across Cambridgeshire and led to a multi-force operation with 43 arrests and 25 individuals charged with 39 offences.

Sam Sheady attended a large-scale hare coursing event in the Fenland area on 25 January 2025. The event affected rural communities across Cambridgeshire and led to a multi-force operation with 43 arrests and 25 individuals charged with 39 offences.

Benjamin Lee attended a large-scale hare coursing event on January 25, 2025. The event affected communities across Fenland, including Welney, Chatteris, March, Wimblington and Doddington, and further afield in Fordham, Ely, Prickwillow and Littleport. A police operation resulted in 43 arrests and 25 individuals charged with a total of 39 offences.

Dominic Bevilacqua attacked his on-off partner at their home in Whittlesey on 4 November. He grabbed her by the hair and dragged her off the bed, punched her repeatedly in the face, strangled her, and continued kicking and hitting her until she escaped. The victim drove herself home and received hospital treatment the next day. Bevilacqua was arrested on 6 November and subsequently tried to blame the victim.

On 26 December 2025, around 6pm, Ajmel Saqikhel brandished a machete in broad daylight on Northfield Road, New England, Peterborough. Members of the public alerted police, who arrested him and seized the machete nearby.

Andris Podnieks, 43, of Sherbourne Close, Cambridge, was arrested on 19 December 2025 after crashing into a lamp post on Kings Hedges Road. He blew 71 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath at the roadside and gave an evidential reading of 57 in custody.

On November 10, 2025, in Hardwick, Cambridgeshire, police spotted a Ford Focus with no insurance or tax parked with multiple people inside. As officers approached, driver Fabio Sanches-Kuiper sped off, leading a pursuit through built-up estates, across a park, and along a pedestrian footpath. The car lost control on a bend and crashed into a house and a parked car in Ashmead Drive. Sanches-Kuiper and others fled but he fell while attempting to escape and was arrested at the scene. Further checks revealed he was already banned from driving following a previous pursuit in July.

Alfred Stanley, 45, of Sunnymead, Werrington, Peterborough, led police on a 15-minute high-speed pursuit starting from a building site in Ugg Mere Court Road, Ramsey Heights, near Ramsey, in the early hours of October 5, 2025. He drove at speeds up to 110mph on rural roads, swerved in front of cars, drove through red lights, and went the wrong way round a roundabout. He reversed into a police car in Lincoln Road, Werrington, Peterborough, to stop. He had been disqualified from driving until October 22, 2025, after accruing 21 points on his licence, and his vehicle was uninsured.

Just after midnight on Sunday, October 26, 2025, officers in Soham spotted a silver Mercedes A150 with no insurance. Ramadan accelerated away at high speed, leading police on a six-minute pursuit reaching 72mph in a 50mph zone, overtaking a lorry on a blind bend, and later 80mph in a 60mph zone towards Ely. A stinger device was used, but he continued driving before abandoning the car and fleeing on foot into a nearby field, where he was arrested. He had two passengers in the vehicle.

Bartlomiej Bialecki, 40, of Monument Street, Peterborough, was stopped by officers in Fletton Avenue, Fletton, Peterborough, at about 11.55pm on August 25, 2025. He sped off in a Mazda 3 with false number plates before getting out and running at the junction of Whittlesey Road and South Street, in Stanground. Bialecki was tasered and arrested before being taken to Peterborough City Hospital. The following day, while still under arrest and leaving the hospital with officers, Bialecki tried to run but was quickly caught.

Paul Norris, aged 67, of Lynton Way, Sawston, secretly recorded intimate sexual acts of a woman in Stevenage without her knowledge between March 10, 2017, and August 28, 2018. The victim discovered the recordings after being contacted by another woman whom Norris had also recorded. He was found guilty in July 2025.

On June 20, 2025, Joshua Smith slashed the tyres of 12 different vehicles using a knife in Church Street, Brook Street, Russell Street, and Tebbutt's Road Car Park in St Neots, with damages estimated at £200 for eleven sets of tyres and £400 for one set.

Liam Monds was driving an Audi A5 suspected of having false plates. On September 10 of the previous year, he reversed at speed onto the pavement near Stanground Academy, drove over a pedestrian crossing, and fled from police during a pursuit. Officers recovered the car in Pandora Drive, Cardea, and he was arrested a week later in Abbots Close, Stamford.

Joshua Johnston was spotted by CCTV operators carrying a knife near Queensgate Shopping Centre in Peterborough at around 10am on August 18. Police searched him outside Peterborough Magistrates’ Court, where no knife was found on his person, but he directed them to its location in a plant pot near the shopping centre entrance. He was subsequently arrested and admitted the offense.

Darius Okuska, 33, of Selby Court, Huntingdon, led police on a pursuit on 29 July, speeding past officers on a blue Suzuki motorbike at the Spittals Interchange around 8.30pm. He reached speeds of up to 150mph on the A1(M), ignored red traffic lights, undertook vehicles, and was uninsured and unlicensed. Officers later pursued him in a black BMW after he fled from an industrial unit in Ravensthorpe, Peterborough, where he produced a fraudulent Lithuanian driving licence.

Kane Bloomfield drove his VW Golf into the back of a parked car in Leverington at about 11pm on 17 June 2025. A resident called police and Bloomfield was arrested after failing a breath test. He later pleaded guilty to drink driving.

Clifford Olive bombarded his former partner with calls, voice notes, and messages after she ended their relationship in January 2025. Despite her efforts to block him, he used new and withheld numbers, fake social media accounts, and appeared near her home. He sent messages declaring his love, questioned her actions, and attempted to contact her in person, leading to his arrest and subsequent breaches.

Fleur Smith falsely claimed that her ex-partner had seriously assaulted her, reporting that she suffered facial injuries, a fractured collarbone, bruised ribs, and a potentially fractured cheekbone from an incident on January 15, 2024, on a footpath between Desborough Road and Mayfield Road. She had not been in contact with the victim since 2021 and provided inconsistent accounts to various people, including family, friends, and hospital staff. She also produced a fake letter from a domestic abuse support agency and made prior false claims about the victim, leading to his wrongful arrest on March 5, 2024.

Guichen Ren managed a brothel from his home on Sturton Street in Cambridge. Police officers discovered women working as sex workers there during a welfare check in May of the previous year after seeing flyers advertising sexual services. In March of the current year, officers linked a mobile number to Ren through an online advert offering sexual encounters for money. He allowed officers into the brothel, leading to his arrest.

Jason Stringer, 47, deliberately started a fire in his bathroom at his flat in Manton, Bretton, Peterborough in February. He called the fire service after igniting the fire and initially blamed it on fireworks, then on a discarded cigarette. Firefighters arrived to find smoke from the bathroom window and extinguished the blaze. An investigation confirmed the fire was started deliberately, endangering his own life and those of other residents.

Gavin Bainbridge, 46, who was homeless, attacked his partner in her Cambridge home on October 30. He grabbed her face, threw her onto a bed, punched her in the head several times, covered her mouth to prevent her from breathing, and bit her hand, causing injuries including bite marks and bruising. He threatened her, saying if police came, she would not make it out alive. The victim recorded her injuries and shared them with police after job centre staff noticed her black eye and bruising.

Shane Smith was driving a white Renault Kangoo van without rear lights on the A10 on June 8, 2025, around 2am. He led police on a 25-minute chase around Cambridge, breaking the speed limit, driving through five sets of red lights, and going the wrong way around a roundabout. He was arrested after stopping the van on Mere Way, where he was swigging from a vodka bottle. Further checks revealed he had been disqualified from driving since 2018 and had not completed a test since.

Arslan Anjum, a property manager from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, assisted landlord Jamie Punton in illegally evicting a tenant family, including young children, from a property on Cherry Road in February 2024. The eviction involved aggression and verbal abuse towards the family, as captured on police body-worn camera footage, leaving the family homeless with belongings scattered on the driveway. Fenland District Council conducted a 14-month investigation leading to the prosecution.

Gyokay Gelen was driving a white Skoda Octavia at excessive speed along the B1428 St Neots Road in Eaton Socon, a 30mph zone, at about 9pm on April 19, 2023, when he struck and killed pedestrian the victim, 40, who was crossing the road. Gelen provided a positive roadside drugs wipe for cannabis, and investigations showed that driving within the speed limit would have allowed him to avoid the collision.

Fabio Marzano assaulted a woman at her home in the Eastfield area of Peterborough on February 7, 2023, by punching her in the face and strangling her until she could not breathe. A neighbour intervened, leading Marzano to attack him, then another man, whom he headbutted multiple times, dragged to the floor, and bit on the ear while threatening to bite it off. He also kicked police officers during his arrest at the scene and later at Thorpe Wood Police Station. On March 6, 2024, while on court bail, he visited another woman's property in Westwood, Peterborough, refused to leave, and assaulted her by repeatedly headbutting her, causing her to fall and sustain a large swelling to her eye socket, a cut to her chin and the back of her head, and significant bruising.