Cumbria Crack:
A trusted carer who plundered the £25,000 savings of an 86-year-old client and splashed cash, often daily, using online bingo gambling sites has been given a suspended prison sentence. Rachael Louise Sermon, 34, got to know Colin Gosney in early 2019 while helping to clean a caravan in which he...
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A man and his son have appeared in court today to face charges related to modern slavery. Peter Swailes, 80, of Hadrian Park, Brampton Road, Carlisle, and Peter Swailes jnr, 55, of Crindlebeck Stables, Low Harker, Carlisle are accused of “conspiring to arrange or facilitate travel of another person with...
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A man who repeatedly stabbed a fellow wedding guest in the head with a fork as violence erupted during an evening buffet at a luxury Lakes hotel has been jailed. Edward Leighton, 61, was holding the utensil while waiting in a queue for food in a suite at Armathwaite Hall,...
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A fourth young man has admitted involvement in a violent attack on a teenager in Kendal. At Carlisle Crown Court this morning, 18-year-old Joshua Callum Pickering faced one charge. Pickering, of Lower Brook Street, Ulverston, pleaded guilty to assaulting a male, causing actual bodily harm, on or about August 21...
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A man has avoided an immediate prison sentence after a serious assault at a bar in West Cumbria. Karl Olstrum, aged 29, of Ullswater Avenue, Whitehaven was sentenced today to 16 months at Carlisle Crown Court for inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent. The sentence was suspended for two years....
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A nighttime prowler caught on camera stripping naked outside a Lake District shop during a spate of offending has been jailed for almost two years. John James McCormack, 57, travelled to the Grasmere area in the summer of 2019 seeking to regain contact with a long-lost relative. But McCormack reacted...
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A prolific Whitehaven crook who burgled a family’s home while they slept has been jailed for almost three years. Five people – including a child – were inside the three-storey Monkwray Road property during the night of June 24 last year. A female occupant woke in the morning to discover...
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A Penrith woman has been told a prison sentence is “inevitable” after she admitted engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a schoolboy. Sophie Hindmarch, 27, heard she is now also subject to the sex offender notification requirements in respect of her guilty pleas to a raft of criminal offences which...
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A father who pulled the handbrake as his wife drove the family along a road on Carlisle’s outskirts has received a suspended prison sentence. Marcin Rogala, 39, was a rear seat passenger in a Peugeot 307 during the journey on Brisco Road on the late afternoon of June 25 last year....
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The daughter of a fraudster who targeted businesses around Keswick has now admitted that she was also part of the audacious criminal plot. Earlier this year, 39-year-old Sonia Malhi was jailed for 20 months after heading up a scamming gang that sought to dupe businesses around the town and in...
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A “consistent and determined fraudster” has admitted using other people’s bank card details to pay for a Kendal hotel stay, and to hire cars. As he appeared at Carlisle Crown Court last week and denied four charges, 59-year-old Ian Cullen‘s case was listed for trial in front of a jury...
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A man who used an extendable baton during a Workington street altercation that unfolded in front of bystanders has been given a suspended jail term. David Albert Harrison, 48, was one of three people involved in an incident, on Harrington Road on August 27, which was witnessed by other members...
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A trial date has been set in the case of a man charged with attempted murder following an alleged stabbing at a property in Carlisle last month. Viorel Iulian Pricope, 24, was one of three men charged after police were called to an address at the city’s Warwick Square at...
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A judge has told a man he would leave court without any stain on his reputation or your character after a jury found him unanimously not guilty of rape and sexual assault charges. Robert Scott Bell, 22, went on trial at Carlisle Crown Court earlier this week having denied two...
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A man has admitted sending a false text message to police – nearly seven years after he was due to appear in court to answer the charge. Dutch national Branco Van-Wissen, 31, was supposed to have appeared before a Carlisle Crown Court judge in September, 2014. Van-Wissen had been charged...
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A man has appeared in court charged with burgling a community pharmacy. Steven Jordan, 44, faced Carlisle’s magistrates’ court today after an alleged burglary at Well Pharmacy on Fusehill Street in Carlisle on Sunday. The allegation alleges that he took a quantity of Pregabalin from the pharmacy. Jordan of Borland...
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A terrified man had a “gun” pointed at him in an Appleby car park at night. While extremely drunk and high on cannabis, Joe William Forrester, 24, knocked on town doors just before 1am on June 24. When a woman asked why, Forrester spoke of being owed money. He was...
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A judge has demanded to know why an Appleby man continued his involvement with illegal drugs – despite being jailed for a serious supply crime several years earlier. Niall Dixon, 24, was a teenager in 2016 when he and two other young men were locked up for being part of...
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A “naive” man who sent a chilling fake human trafficking text to police in a desperate bid to frame a fellow Cumbrian market trader has been jailed – almost seven years after he failed to show at court and became a fugitive. Dutch cheese seller Branco Van-Wissen, 31, took drastic...
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A Carlisle man who punched and spat at a police constable and assaulted other officers as attempts were made to arrest and subdue him has been jailed for a year. Reece Bellas, 29, had been circulated as wanted for a separate alleged offence before a prolonged violent struggle on February...