Winchester Crown Court Sentencing Results

In February 2016, Christopher Henry was caught speeding on the A343 Newbury Road in a Freelander registered to his ex-wife. He intercepted the ticket and completed paperwork in his ex-wife's name, claiming a French national with a name matching a Paris wax museum was the driver. When further paperwork was sent, it was then claimed a George Harris from the Isle of Lewis was responsible. A two-year Hampshire Police investigation found that the Frenchman's identity was bogus, his given address was a hotel he never stayed at, and the postmistress on Lewis had never heard of Harris. Henry's fingerprints were on the forged documents and his voice was captured on AA callouts from the Freelander. He was convicted of perverting the course of justice on three counts.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Isanah Sungum, 22, of Edmonton, London, assisted the gang by supplying a stolen vehicle and handling transport and logistics in connection with efforts to recover a drug debt that led to the acid attack on the victim.

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 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 Launcelot Close, 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.

On 22 August 2016, Matthew Cobden, 39, of Long Lodge Drive, 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.

Michael Casey, 24, from Tottenham, was behind the wheel of a black Ford Focus on November 8, speeding and over the drink-drive limit, when he struck a 16-year-old victim and a 17-year-old victim on a pedestrian crossing on Queens Avenue in Aldershot at 7.10pm. Both girls were crossing after a running club training session, obeying the red traffic lights and green man signal. They suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene. Forensic experts confirmed Casey had at least six seconds to react but failed to slow down or stop.

Michael Howley was the owner of the company operating a high-speed rigid inflatable boat that crashed into a navigation buoy in Southampton Water on 22 August 2020, causing fatal injuries to a teenage passenger and serious injuries to others. He was convicted of not operating the boat safely.