Courts

The case against Finlay Bakewell and Reece Judge, both accused of a serious assault back on Christmas Eve in 2023, has been adjourned until March. 25-year-old Finlay Bakewell, of Cranleigh Gardens in Cowes and 23-year-old Reece Judge, of Collards Close...

A 19-year-old Newport man has been given a conditional discharge after Police found a samurai sword - which he bought from a charity shop - inside his home. Oliver Williams appeared before the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court on 7th...

A serving prisoner at HMP Isle of Wight appeared in court via video link restrained by riot gear-clad prison officers last Friday (7th February). Robert O'Keefe, 37, of Parkhurst prison, pleaded guilty to a single charge of assault occasioning actual...

An inquest into the death of a 70-year-old woman who was found in the sea at Shanklin last year was opened earlier this week. The body of retired office manager Pauline Chaney - known as Paulene - was found in...

An agoraphobic East Cowes man, ordered to pay just £11 compensation by magistrates, shouted "get me the f**k out of this gaff" as his hearing concluded at the courts last Friday (7th February). Mark Booth-Pain, of Vectis Road, pleaded guilty...

64-year-old Terry Lewis, accused of firing an air rifle at his neighbour in Brading because their music was playing too loud, has been found guilty by a jury following a Crown Court trial. Lewis, of no fixed abode, appeared before...

Isle of Wight man Aaron Caley has been jailed for 3 years after he stabbed another man in the back in Shanklin Town Centre last summer. Caley, 36, stabbed the victim in an unprovoked and premeditated attack on 21st June...

The trial of Garry 'Captain' Oates, a local eco-campaigner accused of driving into a car boot sale marshal in the Summer of 2021, has been adjourned yet again. Oates, of Fort Street in Sandown, is accused of dangerous driving and...

18-year-old Owen Chambers, who caused serious injury to a young child through his dangerous driving, has somehow avoided an immediate jail term despite previously being told he was extremely likely to go to prison. Chambers, of Mountbatten Drive in Newport,...

A mugshot of prolific offender Lorelei Fisher has been released after she was jailed for 26 months for a string of new offences, including making threats to kill. The 19-year-old, formerly of Snowberry Road in Newport, was sentenced to more...