46-year-old Paul Elvins has been jailed for more than 4 years after pleading guilty to attempting to meet an underage boy for sex and sending sexual communications to 21 other children on social media platforms. Elvins, formally of St John's...

A tourist who told his then-girlfriend that she deserved to be raped, before forcibly holding her down, has admitted 2 charges  at court. 48-year-old Glen Conn, from Elmer Road in Bognor Regis, was holidaying on the Isle of Wight with...

A 60-year-old woman has been handed a suspended prison sentence after Police discovered £85,000 worth of cannabis at her address in Ryde. As first reported by Island Echo, Police carried out a raid at a property on Cross Street, Ryde...

Monday 25th April – Friday 29th April 2022 • Maxine Bennett, 47, of Wheelers Bay in Ventnor, pleaded guilty to possession of a Class B drug (amphetamine) and possession of a Class B drug (cannabis). She was fined £80 and...

30-year-old Natalia Deacon has been banned from driving for 22 months just weeks after ploughing her Range Rover into a tree in Shanklin whilst more than twice the drink-drive limit. Deacon, a sales executive of Woodside Avenue in Alverstone Garden...

31-year-old Joanna Townley has been banned from driving for 20 months after being caught drink driving in Rookley, whilst also in possession of Class A drugs. Townley, a local chef, appeared before Magistrates on Tuesday where she pleaded guilty to...

Former Isle of Wight man Robert Howart Duncan, who sexually abused 2 children, has been sentenced to 12 years behind bars. Duncan, of Chapel Walk in Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex but previously of Gurnard, near Cowes, first appeared at the...

A West Wight man who downloaded indecent images of children, as well as extreme pornography of animals, has been bailed to appear at the Isle of Wight Crown Court. 57-year-old Stephen Knight, of Edinburgh Road, appeared at the Isle of...

A driver who knocked a pedestrian down on a zebra crossing in Ryde, causing a fractured skull, has been handed 8 points on his licence - with his dog partially to blame for the incident. 32-year-old Matthew Littlechild, of Bellevue...

A Shanklin man who was caught speeding on the A3 in Guildford has been banned from driving for 6 months after totting up points on his licence. 32-year-old Kane Hammond appeared in court on Tuesday charged with speeding - namely...