Warrington Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

Michael Nixon, a self-employed telehandler operator, reversed a telehandler over a colleague at a construction site on 11 June 2023, causing fatal injuries. The victim was walking back to the work area from the welfare compound when the collision occurred. A Health and Safety Executive investigation found that Nixon, although qualified and experienced, reversed without a banksman and was using his phone at the time. Site measures had been put in place to minimise reversing, including a turning circle. He pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(2) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

On January 4, 2026, Jasmine Newton, 33, of Wolverhampton, was driving westbound along the M62 towards Liverpool to visit her grandfather with her mother when her vehicle was flagged by Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras. Officers pulled her over and arrested her for driving while disqualified and without insurance. She had ignored numerous Notices of Intended Prosecution for previous speeding offences and was unaware of a totting up ban given in her absence in August 2025 due to personal issues including challenging behaviour from her 15-year-old daughter.

On March 28, 2025, Aaron Quinn, 33, of Burton Wood, Warrington, argued with a male neighbour, banging and kicking his door, then damaging an outside wall light. Later that day, he verbally abused a female neighbour, calling her 'fat' and making other abusive comments about her weight, causing her harassment, alarm, and distress. The incident stemmed from ongoing neighbour disputes.

Timothy Steels sent threatening messages via Snapchat to his ex-girlfriend, the victim, after she played the song 'Sweet Child O' Mine' on a jukebox, which he perceived as antagonising. The incident occurred on January 13, 2025, in a pub in Macclesfield, where Steels was with his fiancée. The messages included threats to 'smash' and 'bury' the victim and her partner, in a domestic context involving former partners.

Between October 22, 2024, and April 17, 2025, Ernest O'Neill repeatedly interfered with his neighbour's bins by removing female hygiene products and nappies, waved at her CCTV camera, made gestures such as sticking out his tongue, and peered through her window in the dark. This behaviour continued after police warnings, causing the victim, a 22-year-old single mother, significant distress, anxiety, and fear, making her too scared to leave her home or feel safe alone with her six-month-old baby.

On May 21, 2025, Jamie Durbin arrived at his mother's home while intoxicated, behaved erratically, and was removed by police with a warning not to return. He returned later, shouting, banging on doors and windows, and demanding entry. In a separate incident, while visiting his father's grave, he directed racist abuse at a Saudi Arabian man, calling him 'Osama Bin Laden' and a 'f****** bomber'. He has a prior conviction for a drunken attack on a relative.

Kirsty White engaged in stalking between April and June 2025 after a one-night stand ended. She falsely accused the victim of being a rapist, paedophile, and woman beater on social media, stood outside his home shouting obscenities, sent messages through bank transfers expressing love, and warned him not to contact the police. This caused the victim severe anxiety, panic attacks, and forced him to flee his home, impacting his relationships and daily life.

Robert Brazendale, 34, from Selworthy Drive, Warrington, acted as a courier and driver for gun running operations. He oversaw a gun deal in a Tesco car park and took £37,000 in cash at a handover in a Warrington supermarket in exchange for a Skorpion, an Uzi, and a revolver. Police found a Smith & Wesson pistol, a Grand Power semi-automatic pistol, and ammunition buried in a garden linked to him.

Stephen Vickers exposed his genitals in the waiting room of Warrington Hospital's emergency department in front of numerous members of the public and assaulted a woman. He was arrested at around 1.45am on August 29 following reports of a disturbance.

Fahad Al Enaze, 31, a Kuwaiti asylum seeker living in a migrant hotel, bombarded an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl with explicit messages. Even after being told the 'girl' was just 14, he continued, asking if she liked sex and trying to start a relationship to 'teach her everything'. He was caught last September by vigilante group Widnes Parents Against Predators.

Daniel Watton, trading as Inside Out Painters and Decorators Property Maintenance, was responsible for work at height at a house in Cheshire. On July 29, 2024, his 24-year-old stepson, a trainee painter, and a colleague were moving a fully extended ladder at the gable end of the property when the ladder came into contact with or close enough to an overhead power line to cause an electrical arc. The stepson was fatally electrocuted and the colleague suffered burns to his hands, feet and stomach. An HSE investigation found the work at height had not been properly planned, supervised or carried out safely; the equipment and methods were unsuitable; the risks associated with working near overhead power lines had not been adequately assessed or controlled; and there were training and competence failings. Watton had approved the unsafe method of using ladders throughout.

Abbey Ridgway's Hyundai i10 collided with a Scania tipper truck at the junction of the A4 and B3109, near Corsham in Wiltshire, on 24 July 2025. Passenger the victim, 19, was killed. Ridgway, 26, of Skelmersdale in Lancashire, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.