Courts

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...

The case of an Isle of Wight businessman who denies breaching a planning enforcement notice has been pushed back to next year. Louis William Tudor Smith appeared at the Isle of Wight Crown Court this week to stand trial on...

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 doctor at St Mary's Hospital, who has now been suspended from practising, is to stand trial at the Isle of Wight Crown Court next year over allegations of sexual assault. Dr Chiemedo Ikpo, 48, of Redwood Close in Newport,...

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...