Southampton Crown Court Sentencing Results

Andrew Wooff was part of a gang that conspired to burgle 11 businesses across Southampton, Winchester, Basingstoke, Hook, Lee-on-the-Solent, Warminster, Shaftesbury and Crawley between July and September 2023, with an additional burglary at 99 Bikes in Totton on 25th October 2023. The gang targeted stores selling electric bicycles, stealing more than £215,000 worth of goods in total, including three bicycles valued at £17,997 from 99 Bikes. They used stolen vans or stolen number plates to commit the offences.

Martin Meadows was part of a gang that conspired to burgle 11 businesses across Southampton, Winchester, Basingstoke, Hook, Lee-on-the-Solent, Warminster, Shaftesbury and Crawley between July and September 2023, with an additional burglary at 99 Bikes in Totton on 25th October 2023. The gang targeted stores selling electric bicycles, stealing more than £215,000 worth of goods in total, including three bicycles valued at £17,997 from 99 Bikes. They used stolen vans or stolen number plates to commit the offences.

Richard Chilton was part of a gang that conspired to burgle 11 businesses across Southampton, Winchester, Basingstoke, Hook, Lee-on-the-Solent, Warminster, Shaftesbury and Crawley between July and September 2023, with an additional burglary at 99 Bikes in Totton on 25th October 2023. The gang targeted stores selling electric bicycles, stealing more than £215,000 worth of goods in total, including three bicycles valued at £17,997 from 99 Bikes. They used stolen vans or stolen number plates to commit the offences.

Following the end of his 60-year marriage in May 2024, William Fendley, aged 81, stalked his wife the victim by repeatedly turning up at their former home in Ringwood, staring through windows, breaking into her home and garage, accusing her of infidelity, going through her belongings, putting her suitcase in his car to prevent a holiday, leaving flowers with a message, and bombarding their daughters with calls to contact her. He breached bail conditions by entering her home, leading to arrest. His actions caused severe distress, forcing the victim to live at a secret address.

In the early hours of Sunday 5 March 2023, Finley Lintott-Warrillow was driving his friends home in a black Vauxhall Corsa after going out for food in Portswood, Southampton. CCTV footage showed the Corsa being driven at approximately 86.95mph on Middle Road, a 30mph residential road with parked cars on both sides. Lintott-Warrillow lost control, crashed into a wall, and the car was launched at least 15 metres through the air after the initial impact. The victim, an 18-year-old passenger, was pronounced dead at the scene. Lintott-Warrillow and another passenger survived with serious injuries.

Kelly Horton allowed her Staffordshire bull terrier-cross, Diesel, to be dangerously out of control at her home in Mortimer Close, Totton, last July. A friend's two-year-old child, familiar with the dog, was bitten twice to the face causing serious injuries requiring surgical treatment while Horton cooked pizza for guests. The dog was food-fixated due to prior colon surgery and poor training.

Philip George Christopher Anderson was involved in a violent brawl on Oxford Street, Southampton, on March 18, 2023, between groups of Southampton and Tottenham football fans. Although he was not a football fan and was attending a friend's birthday party at the Mail Rooms, he participated in the seven-and-a-half-minute fight, during which he was hit by a chair and punched someone. This incident led to his arrest and sentencing, with details highlighting his out-of-character behaviour influenced by alcohol and poor judgement.

Between January and March 2020, Stephen Biles communicated online and by phone with an undercover police officer posing as an adult, discussing meeting to abuse the officer's fictional 9-year-old niece at a hotel. Arrested on 1 April 2020 at his home in Riverside, Ringwood. Devices seized contained 52 Category C indecent images of children.

On 8 January 2024, at 1.20am, Shane McCarthy attempted to break into a property in Granby Grove, Southampton, by gaining entry through the kitchen window. The two occupants locked themselves in a bedroom while McCarthy shouted outside. After failing to open the door, McCarthy started a fire on top of the kitchen stove, causing popping sounds and triggering the fire alarm. The victims escaped and saw smoke filling the property. McCarthy had left but returned and was arrested by police. The incident resulted in fire damage to the cooker and hob, as well as significant smoke damage to the ceilings, leaving the victims in fear for their lives.

On April 25, 2015, at 10.50pm, Daniel Rogan was driving a yellow Mercedes van on Tremona Road, Southampton, when he struck the victim. She later died from her injuries. Rogan did not stop at the scene and surrendered to police two days later after his van was tracked down.

Daniel Rushton (39) of Salisbury Road, Totton, was arrested after software installed on his mobile phone as part of a sexual harm prevention order flagged three images depicting bestiality. In interview, he made comprehensive admissions and gave officers the passcode to his phone. No other indecent material was found.

In October 2022, police seized multiple devices from Darren Halliwell’s home in Blackwater Drive, Totton, including a mobile phone. Examination revealed six category A (most severe), 22 category B and 28 category C indecent images of children aged three to 12. He denied possession but admitted sexual attraction to children. Previously sentenced in July 2011 at the same court for possessing 5,000 indecent images, receiving a three-year community order.

On 18 September 2015, outside the Turtle Bay restaurant in Southampton, Billy Midmore and Geoffrey Midmore sprayed drain cleaner into the face of the victim during a drugs deal gone wrong. The attack caused severe burns and left the 37-year-old victim blinded in one eye. The pair were convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Clinton Jackson, with two accomplices, broke into the Welcome Store on Lyndhurst Road, New Milton, at around 6am on July 27, 2014. They threatened the 68-year-old shopkeeper with a handgun, menaced her with a knife, and punched her during a sustained 10-minute assault. The victim suffered bruising and needed hospital treatment. Jackson was later arrested in London and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob.

Facilitated acquisition of criminal property in smuggling ring at HMP Winchester, involving phones, spice, cannabis, and steroids from early 2015, uncovered by two-year investigation.