Shrewsbury Crown Court Sentencing Results

Explore 27 verdicts at Shrewsbury Crown Court (Shrewsbury). Updated with the latest court outcomes.

Reiss Ali

Burglary and theft of a motor vehicle

December 5, 2025

Sentence: 3 years and 4 months imprisonment for burglary, 15 months for theft of a motor vehicle (concurrent), driving ban for 6 years and 8 months

On the late evening of 26 August 2025, Reiss Ali broke into a property on Castle Close in Worcestershire, causing damage to the patio doors. Once inside, he located the keys to two Volkswagen cars and fled the scene in one of the vehicles.

Danny Francis

Causing death by dangerous driving

November 28, 2025

Sentence: 7 years imprisonment

Danny Francis, of Welshpool, drove a Range Rover Sport under the influence of alcohol and lost control on the A458 Welshpool Road near Rowton Castle, Shrewsbury, on October 1, 2023, colliding head-on with two motorcycles. The crash killed 17-year-old Benjamin Worrall at the scene and caused life-changing injuries to his friend Nathan. Francis had visited multiple pubs, drinking 11 pints of cider and a shot, and fled the scene with his passenger after the incident.

Pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. Had been drinking 11 pints of cider and a shot of liquor prior to the crash.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Robert Hacking

Supply of controlled drugs

November 20, 2025

Sentence: 6 years imprisonment

Robert Hacking, 36, of Market Place, was arrested at his home in Great Bridge, Tipton, on April 16, 2025. A search uncovered mobile phones, large quantities of cash, images of him threatening people with a knife over drug debts, and 21 large bags of drugs ready for sale. Stolen items including toiletries, chocolates, and cosmetics were also recovered. He ran a county line supplying heroin, crack cocaine, monkey dust, cannabis, and amphetamine in Telford.

Pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of class A controlled drugs, concerned in the supply of class B controlled drugs and use of criminal property. Evidence included mobile phones, cash, threatening images with a knife, and stolen items.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Reaz Dixon

Rape

November 14, 2025

Sentence: 15 years imprisonment

Reaz Dixon raped a woman in Telford. He confessed to the crime at Malinsgate Police Station in January 2025, leading to his arrest. He was charged with four counts of rape and two counts of assault by penetration.

Pleaded guilty to two counts of rape but denied the other charges. Jury found him guilty of two more counts of rape and two counts of assault by penetration. Described as a 'very dangerous individual' by Detective Constable Sam Fife.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Alvin Hutchinson

Illegal moneylending

November 3, 2025

Sentence: £158,901 confiscation order within 3 months or 2 years imprisonment in default

Alvin Hutchinson, a 55-year-old car salesman from Hartley Close, Telford, operated as an illegal loan shark over a four-year period, lending money to 16 victims at exorbitant interest rates, such as 40% initial interest with another 40% added if not paid within a week. One victim borrowed £500-£600 but ended up owing £3,000. He intimidated victims, forcing some to take out credit agreements for items like televisions which he then took, leaving them to pay for goods they never received. One man defaulted on payments for a television given to Hutchinson. Many transactions were in cash with no paper trail, and not all victims provided statements.

Previously jailed for 28 months in 2023 for carrying on a regulated activity when not an authorised person and attempting to conceal criminal property. Judge Deni Mathews ordered payment based on conservative estimate of £155,724 benefit adjusted to £196,564 for inflation, with available funds of £158,901. Two mobile phones ordered destroyed.

Sources: stokesentinel.co.uk

Christopher Brake

Sexual offences

October 24, 2025

Sentence: 18 years imprisonment

Christopher Brake, a 49-year-old man formerly of Frogmore Road in Market Drayton, committed a series of sexual offences, leading to his arrest and conviction.

Jessica Panasiuk

Acquiring criminal property

October 13, 2025

Sentence: 12-month community order

Jessica Panasiuk, aged 32, of Leegomery in Telford, acquired criminal property for a gang operating since 2012 that imported raw steroids from China and manufactured illegal anabolic steroids in an uncontrolled laboratory in Stafford Park, Telford. The operation, known as D4NET, produced products worth an estimated £500,000, sold across the UK and abroad. The lab was discovered in 2018 during a police warrant execution, where she was arrested alongside David Panasiuk, with more drugs and £17,565 in cash found.

Malcolm Wheeler

Conspiracy to supply class C drugs

October 13, 2025

Sentence: 2 years imprisonment, suspended for 2 years

Malcolm Wheeler, aged 47, of Grosvenor Place in St Austell, Cornwall, was part of a criminal gang operating since 2012 that imported raw steroids from China and manufactured illegal anabolic steroids in an uncontrolled laboratory in Stafford Park, Telford. The operation, known as D4NET, produced products worth an estimated £500,000, sold across the UK and abroad. The lab was discovered in 2018 during a police warrant execution.

Michael North

Conspiracy to acquire/use/possess criminal property

October 13, 2025

Sentence: 2 years imprisonment, suspended for 2 years

Michael North, aged 36, of Patridge Drive in Ketley, Telford, was involved in handling criminal property for a gang operating since 2012 that imported raw steroids from China and manufactured illegal anabolic steroids in an uncontrolled laboratory in Stafford Park, Telford. The operation, known as D4NET, produced products worth an estimated £500,000, sold across the UK and abroad. The lab was discovered in 2018 during a police warrant execution.

Aaron Phipps

Conspiracy to supply class C drugs

October 13, 2025

Sentence: 2 years imprisonment, suspended for 2 years

Aaron Phipps, aged 40, of Dunsheath in Telford, participated in a criminal gang operating since 2012 that imported raw steroids from China and manufactured illegal anabolic steroids in an uncontrolled laboratory in Stafford Park, Telford. The operation, known as D4NET, produced products worth an estimated £500,000, sold across the UK and abroad. The lab was discovered in 2018 during a police warrant execution.

David Panasiuk

Conspiracy to supply class C drugs

October 13, 2025

Sentence: 3 years imprisonment

David Panasiuk, aged 42, of Leegomery in Telford, was involved in a criminal gang operating since 2012 that imported raw steroids from China and manufactured illegal anabolic steroids in an uncontrolled laboratory in Stafford Park, Telford. The operation, known as D4NET, produced products worth an estimated £500,000, sold across the UK and abroad. The lab was discovered in 2018 during a police warrant execution, where he was arrested alongside Jessica Panasiuk, with more drugs and £17,565 in cash found.

Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class C drugs. Arrested at the scene in Telford.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Scott Etherington

Conspiracy to supply class C drugs

October 13, 2025

Sentence: 4 years imprisonment

Scott Etherington, aged 49, of Turnbull Crescent in Seaham, Durham, led a criminal gang operating since 2012 that imported raw steroids from China and manufactured illegal anabolic steroids in an uncontrolled laboratory in Stafford Park, Telford. The operation, known as D4NET, produced products worth an estimated £500,000, sold across the UK and abroad. The lab was discovered in 2018 during a police warrant execution, revealing unsanitary conditions including contaminated vials. Etherington made payments of around £230,000 to group members.

Leader of the group, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class C drugs. Lived a lavish lifestyle with sports cars, cryptocurrency, and properties. Used clothing company as front for illegal laboratory.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Thomas Nutt

Conspiracy to steal

September 15, 2025

Sentence: 4 years and 5 months imprisonment

Thomas Nutt was involved in a gang that stole millions of pounds worth of tractors, 4x4s, quad bikes, and other agricultural equipment from rural businesses in Shropshire and North Wales between August 2022 and February 2023. The group targeted farms under the cover of darkness and was linked to more than 150 offences, with evidence gathered through CCTV, forensics, and phone records.

Pled guilty at a previous hearing. Part of an organised crime group responsible for thefts worth between £5 million and £10 million.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Ryan Taylor

Conspiracy to steal

September 15, 2025

Sentence: 2 years and 6 months imprisonment

Ryan Taylor was involved in a gang that stole millions of pounds worth of tractors, 4x4s, quad bikes, and other agricultural equipment from rural businesses in Shropshire and North Wales between August 2022 and February 2023. The group targeted farms under the cover of darkness and was linked to more than 150 offences, with evidence gathered through CCTV, forensics, and phone records.

Pled guilty at a previous hearing. Part of an organised crime group responsible for thefts worth between £5 million and £10 million.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Wayne Price

Conspiracy to steal

September 15, 2025

Sentence: 9 years imprisonment

Wayne Price was involved in a gang that stole millions of pounds worth of tractors, 4x4s, quad bikes, and other agricultural equipment from rural businesses in Shropshire and North Wales between August 2022 and February 2023. The group targeted farms under the cover of darkness and was linked to more than 150 offences, with evidence gathered through CCTV, forensics, and phone records.

Pled guilty at a previous hearing. Part of an organised crime group responsible for thefts worth between £5 million and £10 million.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Dean Rogerson

Conspiracy to steal

September 15, 2025

Sentence: 3 years and 1 month imprisonment

Dean Rogerson was involved in a gang that stole millions of pounds worth of tractors, 4x4s, quad bikes, and other agricultural equipment from rural businesses in Shropshire and North Wales between August 2022 and February 2023. The group targeted farms under the cover of darkness and was linked to more than 150 offences, with evidence gathered through CCTV, forensics, and phone records.

Pled guilty at a previous hearing. Part of an organised crime group responsible for thefts worth between £5 million and £10 million.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Andrew Baker

Conspiracy to steal

September 15, 2025

Sentence: 4 years and 5 months imprisonment

Andrew Baker was involved in a gang that stole millions of pounds worth of tractors, 4x4s, quad bikes, and other agricultural equipment from rural businesses in Shropshire and North Wales between August 2022 and February 2023. The group targeted farms under the cover of darkness and was linked to more than 150 offences, with evidence gathered through CCTV, forensics, and phone records.

Pled guilty at a previous hearing. Part of an organised crime group responsible for thefts worth between £5 million and £10 million.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Neil Shevlin

Conspiracy to steal

September 15, 2025

Sentence: 1 year and 2 months imprisonment

Neil Shevlin was involved in a gang that stole millions of pounds worth of tractors, 4x4s, quad bikes, and other agricultural equipment from rural businesses in Shropshire and North Wales between August 2022 and February 2023. The group targeted farms under the cover of darkness and was linked to more than 150 offences, with evidence gathered through CCTV, forensics, and phone records.

Pled guilty at a previous hearing. Part of an organised crime group responsible for thefts worth between £5 million and £10 million.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Christopher Downes

Conspiracy to steal

September 15, 2025

Sentence: 7 months imprisonment

Christopher Downes was involved in a gang that stole millions of pounds worth of tractors, 4x4s, quad bikes, and other agricultural equipment from rural businesses in Shropshire and North Wales between August 2022 and February 2023. The group targeted farms under the cover of darkness and was linked to more than 150 offences, with evidence gathered through CCTV, forensics, and phone records.

Pled guilty at a previous hearing. Part of an organised crime group responsible for thefts worth between £5 million and £10 million.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Ufran Khan

Supply of Heroin and Cocaine

August 22, 2025

Sentence: 3 years imprisonment

Ufran Khan was spotted in a parked white Mercedes near a One Stop shop on Dawley Road in Arleston in February of the previous year, where police observed a drug exchange. He fled from officers, throwing class A drugs that landed in a child's pram and knocking over another child during the chase. He was apprehended and arrested on suspicion of possession of a class A drug. A subsequent search of his address on Acacia Drive in Leegomery uncovered additional drugs, including heroin, crack cocaine, and cannabis, with an estimated total value of £26,000.

Pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, and two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs. During the arrest, he knocked over a child and threw drugs near a pram, with further drugs found at his address valued at approximately £26,000.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Logan Addison

Causing death by dangerous driving

June 20, 2025

Sentence: 5.5 years imprisonment and disqualified from driving for 8 years

Logan Addison was driving a VW car on February 4, 2023, when he exceeded the speed limit on a country lane near Shawbury Heath in Shropshire, lost control, collided with a hedge and a telegraph pole, causing the immediate death of his 17-year-old girlfriend, Lily-May Vaughan, who was a passenger; he was not wearing a seatbelt and had owned the vehicle for only two to three weeks.

Found guilty after trial; judge criticised his dangerous driving, inexperience, and lack of remorse; he offered an apology and had subsequent driving offences.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Lyle Hughes

Sexual Assault by Penetration

June 12, 2025

Sentence: 18-month community order and 100 hours of unpaid work

Lyle Hughes was convicted of sexual offences that occurred between 2014 and 2021, specifically sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault on a child.

Found guilty in April 2025 of sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault on a child. He will also be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Hugh Hughes

Sexual Assault

June 12, 2025

Sentence: 18 years imprisonment

Hugh Hughes sexually assaulted and indecently assaulted a number of females between 1987 and 2021. He was found guilty of six counts of sexual assault against a female child under the age of 13, 12 counts of indecent assault on a child under 14, and one count of sexual assault against a female.

Found guilty in April 2025 of six counts of sexual assault against a female child under 13, 12 counts of indecent assault on a child under 14, and one count of sexual assault against a female. He will also be placed on the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Bradley Yates

Rape

May 6, 2025

Sentence: 5.5 years imprisonment

Bradley Yates, a 23-year-old from Lichfield Street, Stone, raped a teenage boy and engaged in sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 15. The offences were reported in 2021, leading to an investigation by Staffordshire Police's child protection team. He was found guilty after a trial at Stafford Crown Court in January, and the case involved the victim bravely reporting the crimes and giving evidence.

Found guilty of rape and three charges of sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 15. He had already admitted to three counts of sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 15. Additionally, he was placed on the Sexual Offenders Register and handed a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Sources: stokesentinel.co.uk

Andrew Lane

Being concerned in the supply of class A drugs

October 31, 2024

Sentence: 44 months imprisonment

Andrew Lane, 30, of Laburnam Lane in Telford, supplied class A drugs in and around Telford, making £5,000 a day which he used to fund luxurious holidays to Mexico, Turkey and the Netherlands. He was arrested in January 2024 following a warrant at his home based on intelligence of drug dealing. Released on bail, he was re-arrested in March 2024 with mobile phones seized, revealing evidence of county lines drug dealing.

Pleaded guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs. Funded lavish lifestyle including holidays to Mexico, Turkey and the Netherlands with drug profits of £5,000 a day.

Sources: birminghammail.co.uk

Jade Davies

Being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and causing injury

July 17, 2024

Sentence: 13 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, 20-day rehabilitation order, and 80 hours of unpaid work

In March 2024, Jade Davies was at a house in Isherwoods Way, Wem, Shropshire with her dog, a Pit bull, which is a banned breed in the UK. The dog bit a West Mercia Police officer on the forearm and leg, causing a deep laceration. The officer has made a full recovery.

Pled guilty. A destruction order has been made for the dog, which is a Pit bull breed.

Sources: kidderminstershuttle.co.uk

Harvey O’Connor

Rape

June 12, 2024

Sentence: 7 years and 5 months imprisonment

Harvey O’Connor committed rape, controlling and coercive behaviour, and perverting the course of justice against a victim in the Bridgnorth area of Shropshire.

Found guilty of rape, controlling and coercive behaviour, and perverting the course of justice. Also given an indefinite restraining order, ordered to remain on the sex offenders register for life, and to pay a victim surcharge of £228.

Sources: kidderminstershuttle.co.uk

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