Crown Court

A Plymouth man has been found guilty of a number of historic child abuse charges at Plymouth Crown Court on Friday (25th September).

Hinton Sheryn was found guilty of 18 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency with children dating back to the 1970s and 80s; one of Sheryn’s victims was as young as six at the time of the abuse.

Sheryn is already serving time in prison...

Police have welcomed the custodial sentence given to a 24-year-old Plymouth man jailed for nine months after filming himself travelling at 153mph on a motorcycle.

Ashley Dixon, from Plymouth, used a helmet camera to record himself on motorcycles travelling through rural roads in Devon and was described by the Judge sentencing him as a ‘lunatic’.

Dixon, who pleaded guilty to two...

A man who killed his crying baby by throwing him into his cot has been jailed at Exeter Crown Court yesterday.

Matthew Wickens, 24, was jailed for six years and five months after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of his son, Riley Gardener.

Matthew Wickens, from Newton Abbot, admitted that he had shook Riley and slammed him down in his cot when he could not get the crying...

A 41-year-old man has today (6 December 2013), been given a 12 month prison sentence at Truro Crown Court for committing fraud against a popular Cornish fete.

Kingsley Bennett, who pleaded guilty last month to a charge of fraud by abuse of position, was treasurer of the Poughill Revel and Cuckoo Fair near Bude between 2008 and 2010.

During this time, the court heard that he...

Benjamin Roach, 24, has been found guilty of the manslaughter of his baby daughter Roxie-Jo Hopkins-Roach, in a trial verdict at Plymouth Crown Court today (Monday 20 May).

Roach of Tailyour Road, Crownhill, denied unlawfully killing one-month-old Roxie-Jo on September 23, 2010 but the jury unanimously found him guilty.

He will be sentenced tomorrow.

In a trial that...