Serial shoplifter Warren Russell, who has a mammoth 159 theft offences on his criminal record, has been handed a 10-month prison sentence after his latest string of dishonesty offences. Russell, 41, of HMP Isle of Wight but formerly of High...

43-year-old Aaron Payne, who is accused of stealing from multiple shops in Sandown earlier this week (Monday), is to appear before a Crown Court Judge next month.  Shortly before 22:00 Police were alerted to an attempted theft at the Co-Op...

A teenager has been given a 12-month community order for handling stolen goods after an 11-year-old was attacked at Ryde Skate Park back in 2022. Levi Taylor, 18, of George Street in Ryde, appeared before a Judge at the Isle...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...