Warwick Crown Court Sentencing Results

Kaye was at his aunt's house in Rugby when the victim and friends smoked cannabis. After the friends left, Kaye woke the victim at 3am, threatened him with a knife, and called Nicholls over. Kaye and Nicholls backed the victim into a corner demanding money. More men arrived, and the victim was later chased and assaulted. Kaye admitted threatening behaviour and common assault.

In August 2013, at a gathering in Rugby, Bradshaw and the victim, who had been drinking and smoking cannabis, did not know each other. The victim had a brief consensual kiss with Bradshaw. Later, she was helped to a bedroom and fell asleep. Bradshaw got into the bed, cuddled up to her, and she initially responded thinking he was her boyfriend. Upon realising her mistake, Bradshaw sexually assaulted her before stopping when she said 'I don't want to do this'. He claimed he was 'trying his luck' and that the initial contact appeared consensual.

In the early hours of March 16, Harris broke into a multi-occupancy house in Rugby. A resident was woken at 4am by a commotion and saw Harris, who was extremely drunk, being detained by other residents who had caught him coming out of one of the rooms. Although he had not taken anything from that specific room, he had stolen alcohol, food and clothing from another room. The police were contacted and Harris, who had extensive previous convictions, was arrested. He made full admissions during questioning. This was his third domestic burglary conviction.

Shaun Duffy, a convicted sex offender, moved from his mother's Leamington home to a caravan at a scrap yard in Balsall Common without notifying police of his change of address as required under sex offender registration. At the end of October, while his mother was on holiday, he returned, attacked her car on the drive with a hammer, threatened police with a knife and to set the house on fire. He was arrested in a nearby park. Upon mother's return, she found the house smashed (television, framed photographs, decorative plates) and £26 cash stolen.

Stuart Baker groomed and repeatedly sexually assaulted the victim between 2017 and 2020 in Warwickshire and Coventry. He befriended the victim's family and moved house to be closer to the victim. The offending came to light in 2020 when he told a colleague while drunk that he was sending sexually explicit messages to an underage boy; the colleague contacted the NSPCC and police arrested Baker.

Suzanne Edmondson, a care worker, attacked an elderly dementia patient at a care home in February. She pinned the victim down and struck him in the face while swearing at him, causing a black eye, a cut above the left eye, bruising to both arms and swollen fingers. Another staff member witnessed the incident and alerted police. Edmondson later pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and an offence involving care home staff ill-treating a patient.

Terry Hannifin committed a series of offences in Rugby during November 2022. On 6 November, he stole a pushbike from Junction One Retail Park. On 11 November, he burgled a car showroom in Rugby and stole a car, and also stole a wheel from a pedal cycle in Church Street. On 15 November, he and Sean Ryan burgled a property in Rugby. Officers responding to the burglary quickly detained both men nearby; a pair of nunchucks was seized from Ryan.

Tyler Hemingway was involved in two incidents in Leamington. In May, outside Murphy's bar in Regent Street, he exchanged words with another man, took out a knife and struck the man, causing a two-inch cut to his chest. Just over a week later, he hit a man on the head with a motorcycle crash helmet in Admiral Way. Later that day, Hemingway, who had a history of self-harm, stabbed himself in the abdomen and spent two weeks in hospital. He had overcome a class A drug habit but continued to struggle with cannabis, and was described as drug-addled and paranoid.

In October, a group of men including Nicholls, armed with knives, threatened a 15-year-old autistic boy at a house in Rugby over an alleged fake £20 note used to buy cannabis. The victim was chased, punched, and kicked by about five men. Nicholls pleaded guilty to assaulting the victim and common assault. In a separate incident in January, he was stopped by police in his car with accomplice Whiteley, and both were found with drugs and cash; Nicholls admitted being a cannabis supplier with approximately 30 customers.

Rhys Moreton took part in a burglary at a house in Kenilworth, on 8 September, with Darryl Brown, stealing coins, a TV, a computer, and a back door key. On 14 September, he participated in a burglary in Coventry, but nothing was stolen. Later that day, he joined in a burglary in Nuneaton, where watches and other property were taken. He was also a passenger in the stolen VW Golf driven by his brother Jack when they were caught.

Rian Wrighton, 24, from Rugby, had an on-off relationship with his ex-girlfriend, the victim, with whom he had an 18-month-old child. In the early morning of 9 November 2014, after failing to contact her, Wrighton broke into her home by smashing a rear window and climbing through. When the victim opened the front door to a friend of Wrighton, he grabbed her by the neck, pushed her to the floor, chased her outside in her pyjamas, and punched her up to five times in the stomach. He then fled with the friend. In March 2015, while on bail for that incident, he entered her home again, threatened her, pulled a hammer from a rucksack, and demanded to check her phone for photographs, jealousy believing there were other men in her life, and also damaged her new television.

Rinaldo Sciolla assaulted a man in Cambridge Street in June 2017, leaving the victim, a man in his 40s, with facial injuries. He pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court.

McErlean committed a series of burglaries across Coventry. In January, he and Casey broke into a closed restaurant and then an electrical repair shop, forcing open metal shutters and stealing batteries, electrical items and cash. McErlean also repeatedly burgled a bar and, on February 6, broke into a flat above it occupied by a soldier who was away, stealing watches, footwear, electrical items, aftershave and documents including prized certificates. In February, the pair broke into another bar while the manager was still on the premises, taking cash and alcohol.

Roland Midgley, a woodwork teacher at Kineton High School, sexually abused two 13-year-old schoolboys in the 1980s. He took each boy individually to a private place and fondled them. The abuse came to light when one victim complained in 1999, but Midgley was not charged at the time. The matter was later pursued when the second victim disclosed the abuse after discussing his school days on social media. Midgley was found guilty of three charges of indecent assault.

Ronald Brown sexually abused a young boy in the 1990s. The victim, who was under 14 at the time, went to Brown's home in Rugby to borrow secateurs. Brown gave him juice, then sat next to him on a sofa and touched him sexually over his shorts, asking if he would tell his parents; the victim said he was scared and would not tell. There had been an earlier incident at Brown's home where Brown intimately touched the boy and made the boy touch him. Brown denied the offences but was found guilty after trial.

Jones, along with Mendez and Powell, attempted to rob a 17-year-old victim on March 17, 2017, in Rugby. Jones punched the victim to the head, and after the victim fell, the group punched and kicked him. Jones initially denied involvement but was picked out in an identity procedure.

Phil Tedstone broke into a flat above a hairdresser's shop on February 7, stealing a bicycle worth £400 and some hair straighteners. The flat was used as storage for the salon rather than as a home. The owner recognised him from CCTV as the person who had broken into the premises before. Tedstone said he had entered the flat to hide from someone and then took the bicycle.