Winchester Crown Court Sentencing Results

Charles Cannon, a 22-year-old laboratory technician from Aldershot, Hampshire, collected documents on making homemade explosives, weapons, and unconventional warfare devices. He was stopped at Luton Airport in August 2020 under terrorism regulations, leading to the discovery of these files on his phone and computer. Further investigation revealed racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic messages on his social media. Cannon claimed he downloaded the files as part of a collection related to his interest in Breaking Bad and methamphetamine production, and he admitted to previously holding 'vile and disgusting' views but stated his perspectives had changed due to his Brazilian wife's influence.

On November 8, 2022, between 11.45am and 11.54am, Peter Lee was driving a Ford Transit flatbed vehicle northbound on the A327 Minley Road towards Camberley when a scaffolding pole shed from his van. The pole struck a black Vauxhall Astra travelling in the opposite direction, piercing through the driver's side door and impaling the leg of the 33-year-old female driver from Hook, who was airlifted to Southampton General Hospital for treatment. Two young children in the car were uninjured.

Thomas George Williams, 27, of Launcelot Close in Andover, assaulted his girlfriend at her home on October 9, 2023, by strangling her, throwing her against a wall causing an injury above her eye, and damaging her phone on two separate occasions—one by head-butting it and the other by throwing it on the floor. Additionally, on November 13, 2023, he possessed and brandished a bladed article during a heated exchange with another man on New Road, Basingstoke.

Zakiya Berrabah's Rhodesian Ridgeback Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross attacked another dog in an alleyway near Sandy Lane/Jubilee Drive on Friday, October 27, 2023, causing wounds to the other dog's neck and ear. The owner of the attacked dog suffered an injury to his wrist and hand while trying to intervene and required treatment at Frimley Park Hospital, including anti-inflammatory medicine and antibiotics.

Dashiell Mahi attacked a fellow inmate at Winchester Prison by approaching him in a cell, throwing a kettle of boiling water over him, causing injuries to the man's face, neck, and shoulder. He then punched the victim while he was on the ground. The attack was premeditated, as Mahi left his cell with the kettle hidden in a bucket and waited before striking. The victim, a man in his 20s, required hospital treatment for burns.

Davide Lacerenza, 25, of no fixed abode, was involved in offences related to Class A drugs in Basingstoke. The first offence occurred on September 29, involving possession of a quantity of cocaine. The second offence took place on October 10, just nine days after his release on bail, which further aggravated the case. He was already in custody at the time of sentencing.

Jane Byrne attempted to pervert the course of justice by cleaning up the crime scene, disposing of the murder weapon, lying to authorities, and helping Kenneth Walker evade police following the stabbing of the victim and the attempted murder of the other victim on May 12, 2021, in Popley, Basingstoke.

Jo Palmer, a 44-year-old security guard from Clarendon Road, Hove, started a fire on Friday 10 September 2010 at three blocks of flats being built in Brighton Hill, Basingstoke, which she was supposed to be protecting. The fire caused more than £5 million in damage to the flats and smoke damage to fifty neighbouring homes. Over a hundred firefighters from three counties spent four hours tackling the blaze. Palmer falsely blamed four innocent boys for starting the fire, leading to their arrest by Hampshire Police, but they were released without charge.

Paul Allen, aged 37, of Hinton Road in Newport, Isle of Wight, was arrested on 27 September 2021 for arranging to meet who he believed was a child at Newport Recreation Ground (undercover officer). He pleaded guilty to arranging the commission of a child sex offence and possession of cannabis at Isle of Wight Magistrates’ Court. Further investigation revealed he abused a 14-year-old boy met via Grindr in March 2021, including serious sexual assault in June 2021 in Carisbrooke woodland. Phone data showed messages to other children, indecent images, prior abuse of another teenage boy (2014-2016), and cannabis dealing.

Elliot Ayres, 18, of Merryman Drive in Crowthorne, and Paul John Stevens were in a stolen black Fiat 500 on Reading Road, Yateley, on 16 March 2021 when they saw the victim’s black Mercedes. The driver of the Fiat pulled in front of the Mercedes, blocking it, and aimed a shotgun at the driver. Stevens fired a single shot into the side of the Mercedes, causing significant damage. No one was injured. The victims were two 24-year-old men from Surrey, targeted due to mistaken identity. The Fiat was later found burnt out, and the sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun was recovered.

Philip Pidgley, director of FDS Waste Services Limited, received a sentence following the company's convictions for corporate manslaughter and other breaches of health and safety legislation after a trial in December 2022.

Officers attended McNaughton’s home on Saturday 4 December last year and seized a tablet, computer, laptops and a camera. Forensic examinations revealed 23,003 indecent images – including 18 movies – stored on a tablet. Of these, 608 were Category A, 969 Category B and 21,426 Category C. The files contained pictures of babies, toddlers and preteens. No evidence of distribution or conversations regarding child abuse materials. In interview, he admitted the tablet was his alone and that he was sexually aroused by the images.

On 13 April at 5.15pm, lorry driver Roy Woods collided with two motorcycles on Stockbridge Road, Leckford, after failing to notice them stopping to turn. The victim, 63, was killed instantly, and another rider was injured but later discharged from hospital. Investigators found Woods was engaged in a hands-free phone call via a mounted phone and headphones; the distraction caused him not to react in time.

On 12 May, Richard Storry drove his parents' Volkswagen Tiguan from Lasham Airfield to Basingstoke for a burger. Despite being nearly twice the drink-drive limit, he drove a quarter of a mile the wrong way down the A339 at Winslade and collided head-on with a Volkswagen Golf driven by the victim. The victim, from Alton, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Richard Fuller evaded over £150,000 in Capital Gains Tax from the sale of properties in and around Aldershot in Hampshire between 2006 and 2013. The fraud, totalling £157,725, was discovered by HMRC's property task force. He was arrested at Gatwick Airport in October 2014 after returning from a holiday in Turkey. Following a trial in July, he was sentenced last week.

On Saturday 18 July 2020, the victim was knocked unconscious before his head was stamped on during a serious assault on Victoria Road in Aldershot.

Tiberiu Miclea, 42, from Bordon, was driving a blue Honda Civic on the A339 at Lasham around 7.30pm on February 12 when he crossed into the opposite lane and collided head-on with a silver Toyota Corolla driven by the victim, 71. The victim's wife suffered serious injuries and the victim died in hospital three days later on February 15. Miclea himself was badly hurt and taken to hospital. He admitted causing the fatal collision.