Preston Crown Court Sentencing Results

Ricky Jackson passed drugs money to Scott Le Drew in June 2017 on behalf of Kevin Tonner in the Operation Jennet investigation.

Matthew Evans handed drugs money to Scott Le Drew in July 2017, involved in the money laundering aspect of Operation Jennet.

John Johnstone passed drugs money to Scott Le Drew in June 2017 as part of the drug supply conspiracy in Operation Jennet.

The 25-year-old father from Haslingden fractured his five-week-old son's legs in multiple places after getting extremely stressed while changing him. He grabbed the baby's legs with force, causing the child to scream in pain like never before. The incident occurred when the father was left alone to care for the baby while the mother was visiting her parents. The baby had been crying continuously and flailing his legs after being bathed. The father initially tried to blame an older child and then claimed the injuries were accidental from catching the legs on a doorpost, but later confessed. Social services were alerted after a health visitor noticed bruises, leading to hospital assessment.

William Scott was in a 'toxic relationship' with the victim and 'uttered serious threats and used disgusting language' towards her over a two-month period between October 21 and November 29, 2019 - just weeks before the victim gave birth. The 53-year-old made her life 'something of a hell' and he behaved in an 'appalling and completely unacceptable way'. When interviewed by police about the offences he said it was a 'load of bo***cks'. In a separate incident, Scott was caught in possession of a 12-inch kitchen knife on Regent Street in Morecambe. The defendant had contacted police at 3.50am so say he had the knife and was confronted by officers at 4.30am. Scott was 'staggering in the street with a bottle of spirits in his hand' and told the officer to 'leave him alone'. He then 'suddenly pulled out a knife and held it under his own throat' before shouting for the police to stay back. The court heard that when officers withdrew their Tasers he put the knife and bottle on the ground and 'cooperated with the police'.

William David Smith targeted dozens of victims at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, Darwen Leisure Centre, sunbed shops in Greater Manchester and other leisure centre wet rooms across Lancashire over a four-year period from 2017 to 2019. The 31-year-old used a 'specially adapted' mobile phone covered in black tape to film women and children getting changed in adjoining cubicles. The pervert also 'manually removed' air vents at sunbed shops to create a 'hole' for his camera and in some cases 'inadvertently recorded his own face'. A forensic analysis of the mobile phone showed dozens of other incidents at the Trafford Centre and sunbed shops in Rawtenstall and Greater Manchester. In September 2017, Smith made five secret videos in disabled toilets at the Trafford Centre. The defendant placed the camera behind the toilet and then 'flushed and used the hand dryer to maintain the pretense that he used the facilities'. The footage showed women pulling down their clothing and using the toilet. In separate incidents, Smith also filmed women using changing rooms at different Trafford Centre shops from 2017 to 2019. The court heard that GPS locations could not be identified for 64 videos showing women changing in wet rooms at different leisure centres in Lancashire.

William Gerald Lenehan was in secret online contact with an undercover police officer for two months and used secure email accounts based in Russia so he couldn't be traced. The 'determined and premeditated' 65-year-old also installed special software on his mobile phone making it 'difficult or impossible' to check his browsing history and also had access to the 'dark web'. Police officers in Kent launched an investigation in early 2017 to 'identify and investigate individuals arranging to meet and facilitate sex offences with children'. Lenehan made contact with the undercover officer in May 2017 and used the email address name 'Exciting Times'. Lenehan had email accounts with Russian-based Yandex and Protonmail and they are 'known not to share information with local enforcement agencies'. Between May and July 2017 Lenehan engaged in 'explicit conversations concerning the abuse of children' with the officer. Lenehan sent the officer a number of 'first generation' custom made images of children, including one of an eight-year-old girl holding a placard with the date and the defendant's Kik Messenger username. The images were later traced to a man in Torquay who was arrested and convicted. Officers also used Lenehan's internet provider address from Kik Messenger to trace him to an address on Devonshire Place in Preston. A mobile phone was seized containing 61 indecent images and videos of children, including one category A - the most serious - three category B and 57 category C. The victims were aged between five and 10 and one of the abuse videos lasted more than five minutes. Attempts had also been made to delete the images on the phone which had been in the defendant's possession since 2012.

Wayne Anyon is banned from contacting the vulnerable woman after he was convicted of assaulting her in July 2018. But on December 12, 2019 police received a call from neighbours saying there was a row taking place at a flat in Charles Street, Blackpool. When they arrived they found Anyon and the woman inside - although the woman said she did not want to make a complaint against Anyon. Anyon told officers he knew he should not be in contact with the woman but they had met and gone back to a friends house and started drinking. Prosecutors outlined nine previous occasions when Anyon had breached restraining orders which were supposed to protect the woman from him, since 2016.

Matthew Clegg and Timothy Bolchover 'worked together as a team' with co-defendant Lewis Hester to steal and 'fence' high value cars and plant machinery from homes and businesses over a nine-month period in 2019. They were stolen over a nine-month period and were then either used by the defendants or broken down into parts at Hester’s yard and sold to others. One of the recipients was Great Harwood scrapyard boss Tommy Smith who was jailed in August 2019 for 79 months in connection with a 'major stolen goods operation'. The court heard that Clegg stole 12 vehicles and handled 18 others with a total value of £489,000. Bolchover stole eight vehicles and handled 16 others worth £474,000 while Hester stole four vehicles worth £142,000 and handled nine others worth £162,000.

Tracey Partington’s campaign of behaviour began in 2017 and she was jailed for four months in 2018 when the messages stopped. They started again, however, when she was released. She bombarded Lancashire Police staff with thousands of abusive and threatening messages. One officer in particular was subjected to more than 1,000 text messages of what were described as vile and disgusting content. Each contact had to be logged and assessed or deployed to see whether the threat was credible, causing extreme demand and stress in the Force Control Room. Partington, 41, tried to cover her tracks by using different mobile phones to send her vile messages but following enquiries she was arrested in September 2019.

Matthew Clegg and Timothy Bolchover 'worked together as a team' with co-defendant Lewis Hester to steal and 'fence' high value cars and plant machinery from homes and businesses over a nine-month period in 2019. They were stolen over a nine-month period and were then either used by the defendants or broken down into parts at Hester’s yard and sold to others. One of the recipients was Great Harwood scrapyard boss Tommy Smith who was jailed in August 2019 for 79 months in connection with a 'major stolen goods operation'. The court heard that Clegg stole 12 vehicles and handled 18 others with a total value of £489,000. Bolchover stole eight vehicles and handled 16 others worth £474,000 while Hester stole four vehicles worth £142,000 and handled nine others worth £162,000.