Truro Crown Court Sentencing Results

Explore 628 verdicts at Truro Crown Court (Truro). Updated with the latest court outcomes.

Marc Bear

Child rape

December 5, 2024

Sentence: 27 years imprisonment

Marc Bear, 38, was found guilty of 16 offences against children, including rape and sexual assault, in a highly disturbing case.

Matthew Cunningham

Causing grievous bodily harm

December 5, 2024

Sentence: 5 years and 4 months imprisonment

On Tuesday 15 July 2025, at around 3.45pm, Matthew Cunningham and Nikita Trembath carried out a brutal attack on a man and a woman outside the Seven Stars pub in Penryn, using metal bars, a bottle, a taser, punches and kicks. The attack occurred in broad daylight during school run time in front of horrified onlookers. The male victim suffered facial bruising and a fractured nose, and the female victim a head injury requiring stitches. Cunningham was located at Trembath’s home in Permarin Road, Penryn, that evening and arrested.

Admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm, causing grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon at an earlier hearing. A 10 year restraining order was also put in place.

Sources: news.devon-cornwall.police.uk

Vincent Hider

Intent to pervert the course of public justice

November 18, 2024

Sentence: 9 months imprisonment suspended for 2 years

Vincent Hider, 60, from Perranporth, while on conditional bail for stalking and criminal damage charges related to his ex-partner, sent abusive messages and phone calls between July and September 2024. Messages included insults like 's**g' and 'b***h', and pleas begging her not to report his contact to police, aiming to pressure her to drop the charges.

Pleaded guilty to intent to pervert the course of public justice. Limited criminal history, low risk of reoffending, genuine remorse. Five-year restraining order prohibiting contact with victim.

Sources: plymouthherald.co.uk

Clint Barrett

Coercive and controlling behaviour

November 17, 2024

Sentence: 30 months imprisonment

Clint Barrett, 47, from Green Parc Road, Hayle, began a relationship with his Polish partner in July 2023 that deteriorated into jealousy and control after moving in together. He forced her to check in at work, dictated her clothing, demanded translations of her Polish conversations, and was verbally abusive. In December 2024, he banged her head against a wall, threw her, kneed her stomach, strangled her, and punched her jaw. Further assaults occurred, including at a Penzance pub where he pinched and grabbed her violently.

Pleaded guilty to ABH, coercive and controlling behaviour, and common assault. Five previous convictions for similar domestic offences since 2013. Some remorse and undertaking hypnotherapy for jealousy issues. Serves 50% before release on licence. Five-year restraining order.

Sources: plymouthherald.co.uk

Diogo Viera

Controlling and coercive behaviour

November 1, 2024

Sentence: 3 years imprisonment

Diogo Viera, 35, from Tywarnhayle Square, Perranporth, in a 13-year volatile relationship from 2022 to 2025, repeatedly accused his partner of cheating, flying into rages. He pinned her to a bed and knelt on her throat, strangled her against a wall, banged on her windows at night scaring her children, and was aggressive in public when drunk. The abuse caused fear and upset to her young children.

Convicted by jury of controlling and coercive behaviour, stalking, and strangulation. Previous convictions for assault and criminal damage against the same victim. Behaviour characterised by aggression, jealousy, and violence under influence of drink and drugs. 10-year restraining order.

Sources: plymouthherald.co.uk

Nicholas Theobald

Possession of indecent images of children

October 31, 2024

Sentence: Community order with 200 hours unpaid work, £114 surcharge, £85 costs

Nicholas Theobald made one category B image and four Category C indecent/pseudo-photographs of a child between April and June 2024.

Pleaded guilty to making one category B image and four Category C indecent/pseudo-photographs of a child. iPhone confiscated, required to register with police for five years, subject to sexual harm prevention order limiting internet use.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Philip Glass

Speeding

October 24, 2024

Sentence: 6 months driving ban

Speeding in a Ford Transit on the A30 at Ebsworthy on 21 May.

For speeding; fined £307; also fined £615 for using a handheld phone while driving a Citroen on the A390 at Tresillian in March (six points on licence) and £1000 for failing to tell police who was driving a Seat Tarraco in Trethowel on 19 March.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Scott Monsoon

Harassment

October 24, 2024

Sentence: 12 weeks imprisonment

Harassing a man between 18 May and 15 September by contacting him via messages, voice notes, voicemail and social media posts and attending his address after being told not to.

Subject to a restraining order not to contact victim, enter ASDA in Bodmin or go to an address in Blisland or post anything on social media relating to victim until 6 October 2028; due to persistent and prolonged harassment with significant impact on victim and similar prior convictions.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Scott Penney

No Insurance

October 24, 2024

Sentence: 6 months driving ban

Drove without insurance and used a BMW with a faulty tyre.

As a points disqualification; fined £276 and ordered to pay £110 surcharge and £90 costs.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Robin Stacey

Speeding

October 24, 2024

Sentence: 6 months driving ban

Speeding on the A393 in Redruth.

Under the totting procedure; fined £166 and ordered to pay £66 surcharge and £90 costs.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Mark Thompson

Failing to Provide Information

October 24, 2024

Sentence: 6 months driving ban

Failed to tell police who was driving a Ford Fiesta alleged to have been speeding in Totnes in August 2023.

Mark Clemes

Speeding

October 24, 2024

Sentence: 8 months driving ban

Speeding through St Anne’s Chapel on 22 September 2024; on Tregolls Road, Truro on 24 October 2024 and through the Saltash Tunnel on 22 June and 27 December.

Medhi Raza

Drug Driving

October 24, 2024

Sentence: 14 months driving ban

Drove in Kidderminster in July with 200 micrograms of BZE per litre of blood exceeding the limit of 50 and 11 micrograms of cocaine exceeding the limit of ten.

Kayode Ogundana

Drug Driving

October 24, 2024

Sentence: 14 months driving ban

Drove in Highertown, Truro on 1 June with 7.4 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood exceeding the limit of two.

Kyle Lawrence

Theft

October 24, 2024

Sentence: £120 fine

Stole three bottles of Champagne from the Co-op in Burn View, Bude on 7 August, a box of wine from Morrisons in Bude on 3 September and boxes of vodka on 26 and 27 September.

Oakley Daniell

Causing Grievous Bodily Harm

October 11, 2024

Sentence: 14 months imprisonment

On Saturday 27 July 2024 at around 8.20pm, Oakley Daniell followed the victim, whom he knew, as he exited Sainsbury’s in Falmouth with his nan and walked towards her car. After a brief verbal exchange, Daniell punched the victim in the face, forcing him backwards, then punched him again, knocking him towards the floor, before kicking and kneeing him. Daniell continued with further blows as the victim attempted to defend himself on the ground, then walked away, leaving the victim on the floor. The victim was taken to Royal Cornwall Hospital and has undergone numerous operations to his eye, continuing to suffer from the effects nearly a year later.

Adrian Walker

Publishing obscene articles and child sexual offenses

October 8, 2024

Sentence: 4 years imprisonment

Adrian Walker, 27, of Alverton Road in Penzance, engaged in conversations on the social media site Discord containing sadistic language about child abuse on several dates in August 2024. He breached a sexual harm prevention order from August 2023 by using Discord and Reddit without permission and deleting Discord to hide his internet history. On May 24, 2024, he engaged in a conversation with a girl he believed was 13 years old and attempted to make her look at an image of a person engaging in sexual activity. Police found 13 still prohibited images of a child and one moving prohibited image on his phone during a random search.

Pleaded guilty to five counts of publishing an obscene article, two counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order, an attempted breach of a sexual harm prevention order, possessing a prohibited image of a child and attempting to cause a child aged 13 to 15 to watch/look at an image of sexual activity. Placed on the sex offenders register for life. Judge Simon Carr noted Walker could interact with the abuse of children in cartoon form and repeated the joy he was getting from the images.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Ben Haymes

Sexual assault

September 24, 2024

Sentence: 4 years and 4 months imprisonment

Ben Haymes, 34, was sentenced for assaulting children and his own dog.

Daniel Lynch

Murder

August 26, 2024

Sentence: Life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years

Daniel Lynch murdered his brother Shane Lynch by launching a sustained and frenzied attack with a weapon, likely a hammer, inflicting repeated blows to the head and face at their mother's home in Bosmeor Park, Illogan Highway, overnight between 11 and 12 November 2024. The incident stemmed from an argument over a stolen tablet, exacerbated by Daniel's erratic behaviour due to alcohol and drug use. He attempted to cover up the crime by disposing of evidence, such as Shane's phone, changing clothes, and cleaning blood from the scene, as evidenced by bloodstained clothing and diluted blood in the sink.

Found guilty after trial. Judge Simon Carr described the murder as a sustained and brutal attack involving at least one weapon. Daniel Lynch denied responsibility and claimed a third party was involved, but this was dismissed by the jury.

Sources: news.devon-cornwall.police.uk

Teigan Rout

Assault

August 15, 2024

Sentence: Community order with 100 hours unpaid work

Pleaded guilty to assaulting a man in Bristol on 10 February.

Marcus Harbison

Stalking

June 27, 2024

Sentence: 30 months imprisonment

Marcus Harbison, 60, from Treneere Road in Penzance, subjected his ex-partner to a relentless stalking campaign between December of the previous year and March, including grabbing her by the throat, sending unsolicited flowers, waiting for her at work, following her, threatening to kill himself and make it her fault, to put a bomb in her car, and to throw a brick through her window, after their relationship ended abruptly.

Convicted of intentional strangulation, two assaults by beating, threatening to share intimate photos, and stalking involving fear of violence. The judge described the campaign as sinister and disturbing, with a restraining order imposed due to the emotional toll on the victim.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Dale Avery

Breach of sex offender notification requirements

December 19, 2023

Sentence: 15 months imprisonment

Dale Avery, after being released from HMP Northumberland in October 2023, failed to report to the police station as required within three days. He used money obtained from working during his sentence to flee to Falmouth, where he was found sleeping rough on a pier 12 days later. This incident followed his original 15-year sentence for multiple serious offences, including four rapes of a child and two rapes of an adult, for which he had served seven years.

Pleaded guilty to failing to comply with his notification requirements as a sex offender. Judge Simon Carr noted that he breached the requirement shortly after release and had previous convictions for serious offences against women and children.

Sources: devonlive.com

Thomas Moffat

Stalking

November 19, 2023

Sentence: 12 months suspended sentence

Thomas Moffat, 34, from Little Treviscoe in St Austell, harassed his ex-partner after their relationship ended in August, sending abusive messages, threatening to break into her house and kill himself, calling her workplace to insult her as a 'c**t' and 'sl*g', punching and kicking her front door, and forcing his way into her property to confront her about her new partner, causing her significant anxiety and fear.

Pleaded guilty to stalking and criminal damage. The judge granted a suspended sentence as his last chance, emphasising the need for mental health help, and imposed a restraining order for three years along with compensation of £1,500.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Christopher Watson

Stalking

November 1, 2023

Sentence: 1 year imprisonment

Christopher Watson, 50, from Albertus Road in Hayle, refused to accept the end of his relationship in March 2023 and followed his victim, loitering at her workplace, bombarding her with messages, and driving behind her for several months. This included using a third party to contact her, leaving flowers, and continuing despite her clear rejections, culminating in him parking outside her house and following her to a police station.

Convicted after a trial of stalking. The judge highlighted that the behaviour was persistent and occurred while on police bail, with no demonstrated remorse. A restraining order was imposed.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Harrison Bye

Affray

August 18, 2023

Sentence: 14-month sentence suspended for two years, 150 hours of unpaid work, mental health treatment programme, pay £750 to victim, and rehabilitation activity programme

In July 2021, Harrison Bye and another individual attacked a lifeguard outside a nightclub in Bude. The victim approached Bye after seeing him shake a girl, leading to Bye pushing him away. Later, the victim was pushed into the road, kicked, punched multiple times, and thrown over a wall, resulting in injuries including a fractured jaw that required metal pins and wires. The attack was captured on CCTV, and the victim continues to suffer physical and psychological effects.

Pled guilty to affray. The judge noted it was a nasty, prolonged attack but considered his lack of violent history, remorse, and potential for rehabilitation. He was struggling with mental health and alcohol issues at the time.

Sources: devonlive.com

Richard Edwards

Affray

August 18, 2023

Sentence: 14-month sentence suspended for two years, 150 hours of unpaid work, mental health treatment programme, and pay £750 to victim

In July 2021, Richard Edwards and another individual attacked a lifeguard outside a nightclub in Bude. The incident began when the victim intervened in an altercation and was later pushed into the road, kicked, punched, and thrown over a wall while unconscious. CCTV showed Edwards punching the victim, striking him again, grabbing his throat, and throwing him over the wall, leaving the victim with injuries including a fractured jaw that has not fully healed.

Pled guilty to affray. The judge described the attack as nasty and prolonged but noted his lack of violent history, remorse, and potential for rehabilitation. He was described as a gentle giant who got involved due to alcohol issues and mental health difficulties.

Sources: devonlive.com

Kevin Matthew Blake

Assault of a boy under 13 by touching

June 26, 2023

Sentence: six years imprisonment

Kevin Matthew Blake, 41, of Rosewarne Wollas Cottages, Camborne, was convicted of four counts of assault of a boy under 13 by touching. The offending came to light in 2023 when concerns were raised about his repeated refusal to undertake a DBS check. An investigation was launched, revealing that he had sexually touched two young boys, with one victim reporting multiple occasions. Blake denied the offences during his police interview.

Convicted by jury of four counts of assault of a boy under 13 by touching; denied offences during interview; previously on Sex Offenders’ Register; made subject of a 20-year sexual harm prevention order.

Sources: news.devon-cornwall.police.uk

Ashley Wood

Assault

August 13, 2021

Sentence: 3 years imprisonment

Ashley Wood, who was 26 years old and of no fixed abode, was sentenced for further assault charges. He had previously been involved in an incident where he held a knife to a stranger's throat in Penzance and threatened to rape his partner, leading to his initial imprisonment. During his time in custody, he expressed fears of violence from other inmates and attempted self-harm multiple times before this sentencing.

Sentenced for further assault charges while in custody; had prior convictions and was under suicide and self-harm monitoring due to perceived risks from other prisoners.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

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