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...

Local councillor Daryll Pitcher has been found guilty of 2 counts of rape against a child and will now be placed on the Sex Offenders Register. 46-year-old Pitcher, of Norman Way in Wootton, now faces a possible prison sentence after...

55-year-old Dean Dalley from Bembridge has been handed a suspended prison sentence after being convicted of a shocking attack in which he stabbed a woman multiple times, keeping her inside his flat for days on end. Dalley, formerly of Crossway, was...

Monday 6th February – Friday 10th February 2023 • Luke Adam Charles Burdett, 30, of Crossways in Bembridge, admitted failing to comply with the requirements of a community order. He was sent to prison for 6 weeks. • Bradley Tolfrey,...

An architect from Wiltshire who was skippering a luxury motorboat which crashed into a cliff in the West Wight last year is to appear in court. Ian Sullivan, of The Orchard in South Marston, has been charged with 'misconduct of...