Truro Crown Court Sentencing Results

Glenn Bennett was ejected from a pub for threatening behavior, returned with a knife, and stabbed the man who removed him, later brandishing an imitation firearm in public.

Kirstie Price committed arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered at Woodlands View on 14 September, endangering lives through her actions.

Luke Coley, 36, of Tremayne Road, St Austell, threatened violence towards another in St Austell in July 2022, along with Paul Rowe.

Paul Rowe, 27, of Tregonissey Road, St Austell, threatened violence towards another in St Austell in July 2022, along with Luke Coley.

Harry Hallett engaged in controlling and coercive behavior towards his partner, restricting her contacts, checking her phone, and threatening her with a kitchen knife during an argument. The couple had a young child together, and the abuse escalated over time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Braidwood, aged 44 of Ward Place, Plymouth, took part in the riot in Plymouth on the evening of August 5, 2024. He was part of a group of approximately 50 people walking up Royal Parade towards an opposing group. Braidwood spouted verbal abuse at an officer before pulling them to the ground and punching them in the face. While on the floor, the officer was kicked in the head by another individual before being helped up by colleagues.

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.

Chelsea Powell was involved in perverting the course of justice in connection with the murder of the victim on April 30, 2023, in Bodmin.

On 2 July 2024 at around 11.25pm, Casey Foster and Royston Morgan entered the Asda Express petrol station in Launceston. Foster pulled out a large blade and stabbed a member of the public who had intervened in a theft several times in the arm and head. The victim was taken to Royal Cornwall Hospital for treatment but sustained no major injuries. The incident was caught on CCTV.

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.

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.

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.

Between February 8 and March 4, 2024, David Leverington, 34, of Saham Hills, Thetford, Norfolk (formerly of Looe), contacted what he believed was a 12-year-old girl on the Kik app. He sent sexual messages, a picture of his erect penis and described sexual acts he wished to perform. The profile was operated by an undercover police officer. He was arrested by Devon and Cornwall Police and charged with attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and attempting to cause a child under 13 to watch/look at an image of sexual activity. He had pleaded guilty at Bodmin Magistrates' Court in April 2024.

Edward Topp pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to making 462 Category A, 360 Category B and 339 Category C indecent images of a child between 2020 and 2022. He received a 14-month prison sentence suspended for two years, must have treatment for his mental health and do 200 hours unpaid work, and was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet.

David Tomkiss exposed his genitals in Bodmin between August 2021 and January 2023, intending that someone would see them and be alarmed or distressed. He pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court and was sentenced to nine months in prison. The court ordered destruction of a seized item and he must register with the police for ten years.

Gareth Dinneen stabbed one man twice in the leg and a second man once in the leg in August 2023. He also possessed a knife in a public place in Mitchell. He later changed his plea to guilty at Truro Crown Court.