A long-serving prisoner at HMP Isle of Wight has appeared in court accused of starting a fire in his cell. Sean Moore, 32, appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court on Friday charged with arson. The court heard that...

24-year-old Megan Durham has escaped a prison sentence despite stabbing a woman in the head with a chisel 4 times during an attack in Shanklin. Durham, of Waterhouse Lane in Southampton but formerly of Osborne Road, Shanklin, left her 41-year-old victim...

A Lithuanian man who tried to rob an NHS worker in the car park of St Mary’s Hospital has avoided a prison sentence. Nerijus Suminskas, 47, of no fixed abode, appeared before a judge for sentencing - with the assistance...

A Binstead man who is accused of being obsessed with a Babestation performer has been made subject to an interim Stalking Protection Order banning him from contacting the TV cam girl. Steven Robert Tuckey, 42, of Dame Anthony's Close, is...

28-year-old Felix Hetherington has been handed a 4-year prison sentence - 2 of which will be served behind bars - for a vicious attack that left a man with a bleed on the brain. Hetherington, of St Edmund's Walk in...

A 14-year-old arrested and charged with offences relating to anti-social behaviour in the West Wight has been handed an 8-month Referral Order by the courts. It comes just weeks after a public meeting was held to discuss the severe anti-social...

Monday 13th February – Friday 17h February 2023 • Arun Ajayan, 32, of Pyle Street, Newport pleaded guilty to drink driving (82). He was banned from driving for 20 months, fined £258 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a...

37-year-old Thomas Cornell has been banned from driving for 9 months after crashing his car in Bembridge and leaving it in a dangerous position. It was just before 06:00 on the morning of 14th December last year that Police received...

35-year-old Joshua Pelling, a highly predatory paedophile turned drug dealer from Sandown, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for over 20 sexual offences and possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply. Pelling, previously of Avenue Road,...

57-year-old Vincent Charles Roberts, who was found by Police working in a Newport corner shop whilst hiding out on the Isle of Wight, has been found guilty of 8 counts of committing a prohibited act with someone suffering from a...