Vicious thug Paul Smith fails in bid to have murder conviction...

June 19, 2016, 11:30 pm

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A thug given a life sentence after he savagely attacked a man who later died has failed in his bid to have his murder conviction overturned.Paul Albert Smith was just 16 when he punched and stamped on the head of 34-year-old Ivan Barrs in 2003, leaving him in a coma.Smith, of Bradgate Street, Woodgate, admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed in January 2004, before being released four years later.He got on with his life, marrying and having two children.But when Mr Barrs died of...

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June 21, 2016, 4:32 am

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A Nigerian man, who overstayed in the UK after his visa ran out, used false French documents to secure a job in a care home, a court heard.Oyelaran Oyewole, 36, was jailed for four months and will be deported at the end of his sentence.He pleaded guilty to possessing a false French identity card as well as possessing a forged French passport for an improper purpose and using it to fraudulently obtain employment as a care worker, on June 18 last year.Leicester Crown Court was told that Oyewole...

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June 21, 2016, 10:06 am

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A perverted peeping Tom used a spy pen camera to film his teenage step-daughter naked in the shower, a court heard.The devastated victim accidentally stumbled across numerous indecent videos and images of herself when she borrowed his laptop.The man, in his late 40s, from the Barwell area, was jailed for two years.He admitted two counts of voyeurism and one of making 87 indecent images of the girl, when she was aged between 17 and 18.Leicester Crown Court was told the step-dad had also...

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June 22, 2016, 1:26 am

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A police officer was glassed in the face by a mentally ill man who had earlier burst into an elderly couple's home and attacked them.Shaun Toach, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, also kicked a second constable on the leg causing a ligament injury.Leicester Crown Court was told the incident began in the early hours of the morning on June 28 last year.Toach (24) knocked at the door of a home in Samson Road, New Parks, Leicester, where a married couple in their 80s were living.Read more:...

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June 22, 2016, 6:04 am

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A building surveyor lied about being the driver of a car that was crashed by a friend of his son, a court heard.Mark Anthony Fixter, 62, falsely claimed to have been at the wheel of his son's BMW when it collided with a gate outside council offices on Desford Road, Narborough, on March 1 last year.He made the false statement on a notice of intended prosecution and initially repeated the untruth in a police interview, to spare the real driver from getting into trouble.But his lie backfired...

Man who sexually abused boy, 15, in 1990s jailed for four years

June 22, 2016, 6:22 am

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A man who sexually abused a 15-year-old schoolboy more than 20 years ago has been jailed for four years.Paul Clarke, 45, admitted two counts of indecency with a child and two of indecent assault, between 1994 and 1995.Leicester Crown Court was told there was an eight year age gap between the defendant and his victim.Gregor Purcell, prosecuting, said the complainant reported the matter to the police, which involved sexual activity on two occasions, in April 2014.He said: "It's had an effect...

Bad-tempered man barged into elderly Christmas shopper, making...

June 22, 2016, 8:47 am

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A bad-tempered man barged into a 76-year-old Christmas shopper, causing her to fall and fracture a bone in her back, a court heard.Christopher Fowler, pleaded guilty to causing the pensioner grievous bodily harm, in Granby Street, Leicester city centre, on December 17, 2014.The victim who was waiting to cross the road fell backwards when Fowler barged into, or pushed, her.She suffered a fractured vertebrae in her lower back. Fowler also admitted common assault upon a younger woman, by pushing...

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June 24, 2016, 4:00 am

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A drug addict who handled £1,100 worth of goods after they were taken during a house burglary, was jailed for 10 months. Samuel Nicholas McGrady, 27, admitted handling two stolen laptop computers, a speaker, a wallet, a motorcycle helmet, a jacket, a computer game and a PSV box which were taken from a house in Drummond Walk, Melton Mowbray, on the night of April 24. The property was recovered from a communal dustbin the following day. McGrady, also of Drummond Walk, was found to have...

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Woman driver convicted of causing death of motorist on M1 while...

June 24, 2016, 7:21 am

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A woman driver using her mobile phone caused a motorway crash in which a man died, a court heard.Christy George, (38), of Lime Tree Road, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, was today found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice after a trial at Leicester Crown Court.The court heard George was driving to work on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 on the southbound carriageway of the M1 between junctions 21a and 22. She made...

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June 27, 2016, 9:00 am

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A married grandfather who accessed child pornography on the internet tried to blame relatives, friends and even the investigating officer in the case, for illegal images found on his computer.Grenville Powell, 62, who was arrested on November 15, 2012 "steadfastly" denied any wrongdoing – until the day of trial this week when he pleaded guilty.The police found 432 illegal pictures had been deleted on his computer, consisting of 81 indecent images in category A, the most serious...

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June 29, 2016, 5:39 am

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A former crime gang member who raided houses on building sites has been given a suspended jail sentence.Simon Bird, 41, admitted breaking into three unoccupied homes to steal fittings and electrical goods earlier this year.Leicester Crown Court was told that Bird - who has 109 offences on his criminal record - was jailed for six years in 2009 for a series of professional gang-related cash machine thefts, mainly at Co-op stores around the country, which netted half a million pounds.Bird's latest...

'Drugs warehouseman' caught with stash of heroin has been jailed

June 30, 2016, 7:38 am

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A "drugs warehouseman" caught with a stash of heroin has been jailed for two years and eight months.Ali Jama Ali, 26, was visited by the police, on an unrelated matter, at his then home in College Street, Highfields, Leicester, on the morning of April 28.Karen Davenport-Coles, prosecuting, told Leicester Crown Court: "A number of officers attended."He was told to get on the ground while he was being detained and when he was turned over there was a package found underneath...

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June 30, 2016, 7:51 am

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A class A drug dealer, who also handled £106,000 worth of stolen goods from burglaries, was jailed for six years.Serone Williams, 29, pleaded guilty to possessing criminal property relating to the proceeds of five commercial break-ins – including jewellery, designer luggage, clothing and cigarettes which he sold on, between 2012 and 2014.Williams, formerly of Wycombe Road, New Humberstone, Leicester, also admitted possessing 46.6 grams of heroin and 167 grams of crack-cocaine, with...

Police constable jailed for stealing £60 while on duty

July 4, 2016, 9:13 am

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A police constable's reputation is in ruins after he was jailed for stealing £60 from a garage while on duty.Divorced father-of-two Neville Thompson had an unblemished 12-year record as a policeman when he carried out the theft at Auto Milligas, in Parker Drive, Leicester, on March 25.He and a colleague were attending an incident nearby when Thompson overheard a couple saying they had put £60 and their car keys through the letterbox of the garage so it could carry out work on their...

Retired school teacher tells jury he did not sexually abuse three...

July 4, 2016, 9:23 am

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A retired school teacher told a jury he had not sexually abused three under-aged boys more than 30 years ago.Graham Butterworth, 70, denies 14 counts of indecent assault, between 1977 and 1983.Four of the offences allegedly involved him touching a boy aged between eight and nine during lessons in class.The other two alleged victims, aged between 12 and 15, claim they were abused during visits to his home in Lewis Way, Countesthorpe.Giving evidence in his defence at Leicester Crown Court,...

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Man accused of twice raping woman 'has no memory of having full...

July 6, 2016, 9:29 am

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A man accused of twice raping a woman told a jury they consensually kissed and touched but he had no recollection of having full sex.Steven Wragg (36) said it was not something he would have done – despite them drinking vodka all night.He said he visited her home in Loughborough when she invited him round and they appeared to get on well.The woman, in her early 30s, alleged there was no consensual intimacy of any sort between them and she awoke to find herself naked on the floor of her...

'Delays in cases coming to court is denying people justice,' says...

July 7, 2016, 4:30 am

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Popular judge Simon Hammond has hung up his wig and robes after 23 years on the Bench – with a warning that increasing delays in cases coming to court is denying people justice.He said in his retirement speech at a packed Leicester Crown Court: "Justice delayed is justice denied."We must not be sucked into acceptable mediocrity. "I'm not an anarchist, not disloyal but just believe passionately about justice – that's why I became a solicitor and later a judge."His...

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July 8, 2016, 6:19 am

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An assailant who injured three bar customers in unprovoked attacks was ordered to pay out a total of £6,000 to compensate the victims.Jonathan Taylor, 26, floored one man with a ferocious punch shattering his jaw and cheek bones, which needed surgery to insert screws and plates.He also head-butted one of the victim's friends and punched another inside the Marz Bar, Belvoir Street, in Leicester city centre.The victims later traced the defendant via Facebook enabling them to identify their...

Fraudster claimed more than £10,000 of benefits while his...

July 8, 2016, 10:00 pm

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A fraudster pocketed more than £10,000 of state benefits he was not entitled to while his partner worked on an adult entertainment site.Garry Naldi (34) failed to declare to the authorities his then girlfriend's monthly income of between £1,300 and £5,500 from Babestation, which went through his back account.Naldi, formerly of St Nicholas Apartments, Fosse Road North, Leicester, told the city council he did not have a partner when applying for housing benefit on October 16,...

Man who threatened another with a knife remanded in custody for...

July 11, 2016, 5:28 am

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A Thurmaston man has been warned he could face jail for threatening another with a knife.Wayne Short (47) of Offranville Close, appeared in Leicester Crown Court. on a video link fromLeicester Prison.Wearing a short-sleeved shirt he pleaded guilty to threatening a man with a knife in Offranville Close on June 9.James Armstrong-Holmes, for Short, told Recorder Nicholas Syfret QC that his client had previous convictions.He said the latest was a conviction for criminal damage in 2011.Mr...