Winchester Crown Court Sentencing Results

Tenny Turner, 30, from Hook, lost control of his Citroen C2 on the A287 at around 12.45am on 25 February 2017. The car veered off the road, hit several trees, and flipped over. The passenger, 31, was thrown from the vehicle and died in hospital five days later. Turner was nearly twice the legal alcohol limit and was also found with cocaine. He initially blamed another man but police confirmed he was driving.

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.

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.

Jane Allison Byrne mopped blood from a doorstep after a man stabbed two brothers, one fatally, on 12 May 2024 in Popley, Basingstoke. She assisted the offender by concealing him before his arrest. She was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender and sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment.

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.

Jed Osmond downloaded and possessed 42 category A, 65 category B, and 23 category C indecent images of children aged between one and six years old, featuring rape and sexual abuse, onto his Samsung mobile phone between September 2020 and September 2021. The images were found in cache folders during a police search of his address in Winchester following received information.

Jemal Abdela piloted a small boat carrying 26 people, including six children, toward the Kent coast. The boat lacked essential safety equipment including GPS, flares, and maps. He attempted to disguise himself by wearing a hat when immigration officers approached. He pleaded guilty to endangering others, and claimed passengers forced him to pilot the vessel.

On 7 May 2019 at Headley Road, Liphook, the defendant and two others used a stolen JCB telehandler to rip an ATM from a Co-op shop. The cash machine was loaded into a stolen Transit van, sparking a high-speed police chase across Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex involving the National Police Air Service helicopter.

Part of a gang involved in 31 burglaries totalling £375,000 in stolen goods and damage, stealing high-powered cars, money, jewellery, motorbikes, bicycles and a French Bulldog puppy from homes, garages and commercial premises across Hampshire, Dorset, Surrey and Berkshire between April 2019 and January 2020. Also involved in 14 attempted ATM explosions causing £255,928 in damages, using stolen cars as getaway vehicles, pumping gas into machines and igniting them, with some incidents endangering nearby residents.

On November 19, 2024, in Pewsey, John Ward was a masked passenger wearing a balaclava and gloves in a vehicle with stolen number plates on Swan Road. The driver crashed into three police cars during an evasion attempt. Arrested on the spot with tools, a fire extinguisher, and cloned plates found inside the car.

On 7 May 2019 at Headley Road, Liphook, the defendant and two others used a stolen JCB telehandler to rip an ATM from a Co-op shop. The cash machine was loaded into a stolen Transit van, sparking a high-speed police chase across Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex involving the National Police Air Service helicopter.

On 22 August 2016, Matthew Cobden, 39, offered the 13-year-old victim a ride in a £1 million Ferrari F50 near his car storage facility in Hook Road, North Warnborough. Neither wore a seatbelt. During the short journey along a public lane, Cobden lost control and crashed into fencing. The victim suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene. Cobden was seriously injured and hospitalised. He was found guilty of causing death by careless driving.

On July 21, Lewis Lodge was driving an HGV along Green Street in East Worldham when he clipped a Citroen C3 driven by the victim. After exchanging heated words, Lodge got back into his lorry and, ignoring the victim standing in front of the vehicle, attempted to manoeuvre around him. The victim suffered life-threatening injuries and died in hospital on July 25.

Leon Fitzpatrick, 19, of Andover, harassed his ex-partner between February and May 2022 by sending intimidating messages to her Snapchat account, threatening and intimidating voice-notes (including disguised voice and laughing at her), bragging about biting someone's ear off, threatening violence towards her sister, and sending a photo of himself in a pub close to her house on the evening of 28 May.

The 52-year-old from Andrew Crescent, Waterlooville, was driving an articulated lorry through Warnford on June 29, 2019, when he attempted to overtake a cyclist on a bend, straddling the double white lines of the single carriageway as three other vehicles – two cars and a motorbike – were travelling in the opposite direction. His actions forced these vehicles to brake suddenly, causing the motorcyclist, the victim, to come off his motorbike and suffer fatal injuries. The victim died in hospital the following day.

Oliver Shoesmith, 42, was originally jailed for 36 months in 2018 for exposure and sexual assault. After his release on 15 August, he was subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order prohibiting him from travelling on the railway while intoxicated and requiring him to buy a ticket. On 4 September, officers responded to reports of a man exposing himself on board a train at Aldershot Railway Station; Shoesmith was found intoxicated and deliberately exposing himself to passengers. He was also charged with failing to comply with his notification requirements as a registered sex offender.

Oliver Wareham, 29, crashed his Volkswagen Bora into a pony and trap on Portsmouth Road on 26 March. The victim, 33, who was in the trap, suffered fatal injuries and died at Southampton General Hospital. Wareham initially stopped but fled before police arrived, leaving his car. He called the police the next day to confess. Investigation showed he was speeding at 57mph in a 40mph zone and was over the drink-drive limit, proven by pub CCTV and till receipts.

Oscar Thompson, 61, of The Green, Elstead, Surrey, was caught travelling at 83mph on the A331 at the Blackwater Valley relief road, which had a 70mph limit, on 19 August 2019. He intercepted a letter sent to the vehicle's elderly female owner and replied pretending to be her, claiming she had been driving but was in the Royal Surrey County Hospital 'dying of cancer' and did not drive on dual carriageways or motorways. He produced two pieces of doctored dash-cam footage claiming the vehicle was at the hospital, but roadworks in the footage proved it was false. He also forged a hospital appointment letter and a car parking ticket for the same date in Guildford.