Winchester Crown Court Sentencing Results

Daniel Niinmae was convicted of possession of a document containing information of a kind likely to be of use to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism, contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The case involved a detailed, thorough, and complex investigation over many months by Counter Terrorism Policing Wales, assisted by Gwent Police.

Simon Corcoran, 26, of Lynton Close, London, was part of a shoplifting gang that targeted supermarkets across 15 counties in England between December 2023 and October 2024, stealing health and beauty products worth over £30,000. The gang was abusive and threatening to staff when challenged. Specific offences in Hampshire included stealing £1,476 from Morrisons in Farnborough on January 10, 2024; £2,220 from Sainsbury’s in Hook on January 24, 2024; £1,965 from Sainsbury’s in Hedge End on February 7, 2024; and £288 from Co-op in Whitchurch on June 10, 2024. Total loss to stores was £32,863, with only £4,336 recovered. The gang used modified puffer jackets and changed cars to avoid detection.

Stephen Ward, 20, of Lynton Close, London, was part of a shoplifting gang that targeted supermarkets across 15 counties in England between December 2023 and October 2024, stealing health and beauty products worth over £30,000. The gang was abusive and threatening to staff when challenged. Specific offences in Hampshire included stealing £1,476 from Morrisons in Farnborough on January 10, 2024; £2,220 from Sainsbury’s in Hook on January 24, 2024; £1,965 from Sainsbury’s in Hedge End on February 7, 2024; and £288 from Co-op in Whitchurch on June 10, 2024. Total loss to stores was £32,863, with only £4,336 recovered. The gang used modified puffer jackets and changed cars to avoid detection.

Conor Ward, 22, of Lynton Close, London, was part of a shoplifting gang that targeted supermarkets across 15 counties in England between December 2023 and October 2024, stealing health and beauty products worth over £30,000. The gang was abusive and threatening to staff when challenged. Specific offences in Hampshire included stealing £1,476 from Morrisons in Farnborough on January 10, 2024; £2,220 from Sainsbury’s in Hook on January 24, 2024; £1,965 from Sainsbury’s in Hedge End on February 7, 2024; and £288 from Co-op in Whitchurch on June 10, 2024. Total loss to stores was £32,863, with only £4,336 recovered. The gang used modified puffer jackets and changed cars to avoid detection.

Gabriel Budasz, 24, of Weston-Super-Mare made racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic statements online, possessed a video of torture, sent a video with instructions on making an explosive device via Telegram on May 31, 2023, sent grossly offensive messages on December 11, 2022, published statements encouraging terrorism, and possessed a 3D-printed firearm along with extreme right-wing materials discovered during a search of his home in August 2023.

Jo Conroy-Helstrip, enraged by a brief road blockage, attacked a couple in their 60s, outside their home in Western Road, Fulfood, late in June 2023. After beeping his horn and passing their car, he confronted the man, punched him multiple times, knocking him unconscious, and then punched the woman, breaking her nose as she tried to help her husband. Neighbours witnessed the assault and provided aid, with one describing the man's terrified state.

Clive Patfield attended a 200-strong gathering at the Potters International Hotel in Aldershot on July 31 and was part of a group banging on the doors and shouting abuse at people inside the hotel housing asylum seekers.

Kieron Marney threw a bike and other objects and pulled at window blinds at the Potters International Hotel in Aldershot on July 31, as part of a group who banged on doors and shouted abuse at people inside the hotel housing asylum seekers.

On March 27, 2024, Braden Lynam, 22, of Woodborough Close, Trowbridge, was involved in a physical altercation with a man in his 40s, which a woman in her 20s tried to break up. In retaliation, he drove his blue Ford Focus at high speed into the pair, causing life-changing injuries to the male victim and serious but non-life-changing injuries to the female victim. Lynam fled the scene, abandoned his vehicle on Churchfields Road, and evaded police until his arrest on March 31, 2024.

Perrie Michael Fisher, 28, of Farnham, Surrey, was involved in a violent disorder outside the Potters International Hotel in Aldershot, Hampshire, which houses asylum seekers, on Wednesday 31 July 2024. His actions endangered vulnerable individuals and disrupted community peace and security.

Robert Ive, 42, of Camberley, Surrey, started communicating online on 18 May 2024 with a profile he believed to be a 14-year-old girl from Leicestershire, who was actually an undercover police officer. Despite knowing her age, he engaged in sexual conversations, groomed her to travel 100 miles to Hampshire for sex, instructed her on how to travel without suspicion, and pretended to be her friend's dad in a call to her 'mum' (another undercover officer). On 31 May 2024, he travelled to Farnborough train station with cans of Strongbow cider to meet her and was arrested upon arrival. He admitted to police that he shouldn't have done it.

Debbie Pereira, 39, was involved in covering up the murder of the victim by Benjamin Atkins at their shared flat in Aylesbury Road, Boscombe, on or around August 26, 2023. She hid during the attack, helped clean the scene which took several days, sold the victim's mobile phone, acted as a decoy for Atkins to steal a hacksaw used to dismember the body, and assisted in disposing of the remains, leading to parts of the victim's body never being found. The victim was a vulnerable lodger paying rent with drugs.

Neil Hutton, 51, of Cheyne Way, Farnborough, was driving a blue Citroen C3 when he intentionally struck a 39-year-old man and his five-year-old daughter on Hawthorn Road on October 3, 2023. The incident began when Hutton nearly hit the pair in the Princes Mead Retail car park. As the father crossed a zebra crossing with his daughters, Hutton hit the man and one girl, knocking the daughter off her bike and throwing the father onto the bonnet. He then reversed and struck the man again before fleeing. The daughter sustained cuts and bruises, while the man was unharmed.

On February 28, 2024, James Ian Christopher, 36, of Pear Tree Way, Basingstoke, was driving his newly acquired Vauxhall Astra at high speed and erratically through a built-up residential area in Oakridge Road, Basingstoke, just after 5pm. Having collided with a kerb, he lost control of the vehicle, which flipped and came to rest in the front garden of one of the houses in the street. Both he and his passenger, a man in his 20s, were thrown from the vehicle. The passenger suffered a fractured skull, a broken leg, and a broken collar bone, with injuries considered life-changing. A blood specimen revealed 616 micrograms of Benzoylecgonine, a breakdown product of cocaine, exceeding the legal limit of 50 micrograms by 12 times.

Choul Phan Maker piloted a perilously overcrowded dinghy carrying 52 migrants across the English Channel on 15 August 2023, endangering their lives as many were forced to stand on makeshift flooring. He was photographed grinning at the tiller and later arrested, admitting to the offence after evidence was gathered by investigators.

Samuel Rolfe, 24, of May Place, Basingstoke, set fire to pieces of cardboard at a homeless hostel on November 18, 2023. Emergency services were called, and the fire service extinguished the blaze, causing more than £4,000 worth of damage. No one was injured during the incident. He was arrested at the scene and later charged with arson with intent to endanger life.