POLICE FOUND £33,000 OF CANNABIS PLANTS IN LOFT AND SUMMER HOUSE OF ISLAND COUPLE
A couple who were caught with more than 30 cannabis plants growing in their house have been handed suspended prison sentences. 45-year-old Amber Marshall of Newport Road in Ventnor and 46-year-old Jason Kennett of Victoria Avenue in Shanklin appeared at...
Read moreDetailsPAEDOPHILE WHO FAILED TO REGISTER DETAILS IN TIME HANDED JUST £200 FINE
An Isle of Wight paedophile who failed to register at Newport Police Station when required has been fined £200. Derek Bayton, 63, of Dodnor Lane in Newport, appeared at the Isle of Wight Crown Court charged with a single count...
Read moreDetailsPRISON TIME FOR DANGEROUS DRIVER WHO ‘COULD HAVE KILLED MOTORISTS’
Mainland man Callum Hickman, who led Police on a dangerous high-speed pursuit in a vehicle he'd only just purchased, has been labelled a 'dreadful driver' and jailed for 14 months. Hickman, of Princes Court, Northam in Southampton, previously admitted a...
Read moreDetailsNURSERY WORKER WHO SHARED VILE CHILD SEX IMAGES HANDED 2-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE
Former nursery worker George Goodier has been jailed for sharing child sex abuse images of young children, similar in age to those he was caring for. Goodier, of Grace Woodford Drive in East Cowes, previously entered guilty pleas to 3x...
Read moreDetailsEAST COWES MAN WHO TOOK HIS OWN LIFE HAD TRAGIC FATAL CRASH PAST
An inquest has concluded that an East Cowes man, who was at the centre of a high-profile fatal road traffic collision 20 years earlier, took his own life. 45-year-old Andrew Hodnitt was found dead at 19:30 on 16th January 2022...
Read moreDetailsARSONIST WHO BLAMED BADGERS FOR CAT’S DEATH GIVEN SUSPENDED SENTENCE
63-year-old arsonist Sue Lupton, who set fire to a neighbours car because she believed that badgers he was looking after had killed a fellow neighbours cat, has been handed a 2-year suspended prison sentence. Susan Lupton - a former local...
Read moreDetails‘OBSESSED’ SANDOWN MAN CALLED EX-PARTNER 89-TIMES HEARS COURT
A Sandown man became 'obsessed' with his ex-partner, making up to 89 calls a day and throwing bottles at her car, a court has heard Paul Cheverton, 35, of Medeway in Sandown, admitted a single count of harassment without violence...
Read moreDetailsSUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR MAN WHOSE CHAIR KICK SAW WOMAN FALL TO THE FLOOR
A Newport man who kicked a chair from under a woman at Cowes' The Range has been handed a suspended prison sentence. Kelvin Parker, 33, of Wintergreen Gardens, admitted assault by beating when he appeared at the Isle of Wight...
Read moreDetailsINQUEST HEARS DETAILS OF NEEDLES TRAGEDY THAT CLAIMED LIVES OF MARRIED COWES COUPLE
John and Lyn King, who passed away when their car plunged off the cliff at The Needles earlier this month, died as a result of multiple injuries and inhalation of water, an inquest opening has heard. The bodies of the...
Read moreDetailsDRINK DRIVER WAS CAUGHT OVER THE LIMIT AFTER ARGUMENT WITH PARTNER
A drink driver who told a judge he had been drinking because 'it was a Sunday' has been slammed for offering what was described as ‘outrageous nonsense’ after being caught more than twice the legal limit behind the wheel. Mark...
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