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Police officer charged with dangerous driving
A police officer has been charged with dangerous driving after a man was seriously injured when he was hit at a pedestrian crossing in Lincoln city centre. PC Aodan O'Neill, 27, was alleged to have driven a Vauxhall Astra police car dangerously on Broadgate on 4 November 2024, Lincolnshire Police said. He is due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Thursday. The force said Mr O'Neill was currently on non-operational duties. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. HM Courts Service
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20-04-2025
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Murder charge after man found walking on motorway
A man has been charged with murder after a man found walking on a motorway led police to the discovery of a woman's body. Officers stopped the man who was walking along on the M40 near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, at about 09:40 BST on Thursday. Subsequently, police searched an address in Timsbury Crescent in Havant, Hampshire, where they found the body of a woman in her 40s. Norbert Maiksner, 48, of Timsbury Crescent, is due to appear before Portsmouth magistrates on Monday. You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram. HM Courts Service
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10-04-2025
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Pensioner, 82, admits nine child sex offences
A pensioner has admitted multiple sex offences against three schoolgirls over a 40-year period. Barrie Hall, 82, of St Andrew's Gardens, Lincoln, pleaded guilty to nine offences, including rape and sexual assault, when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court earlier. He committed the crimes between September 1982 and January 2024. Hall is due to be sentenced at the same court on 16 May and Judge Peter Kelson KC told the defendant he would be "facing a lengthy sentence of imprisonment but I am going to allow you time to put your financial affairs in order". He admitted raping a girl aged under 16, four charges of indecent assault against the same victim and one charge of gross indecency. Those offences occurred between September 1982 and October 1990. Hall also sexually assaulted two girls aged under 13. The first was between June 2014 and June 2018 and the second between September 2018 and January 2024. Anna Soubry, defending, asked for Hall to be granted bail so he could get his financial affairs in order before he is jailed. "The sentence is inevitable. He knows at his age there is every chance he will never be released from prison," she said. "He says it will take him six weeks to get his affairs sorted." Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. HM Courts Service
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26-03-2025
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Child sex attacker jailed for string of rapes
A man who admitted raping a young girl in West Yorkshire has been jailed for 14 years. James Goy, 39, of Plumpton Close, Bradford, was investigated by police after the girl's mother reported the offences, which took place in Kirklees between 2020 and 2022. He was arrested and pleaded guilty to nine counts of raping a child under 13 and one count of sexual assault of a child at a hearing last month. Goy was sentenced to 14 years and six months in prison at Leeds Crown Court on Monday. He was also given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and has been placed on the sex offenders register. Det Con Holly O'Neill, from the Kirklees Child Safeguarding Unit, said: "We welcome the sentence handed down to James Goy for his reprehensible crimes. "This sends a strong and clear message that we will not tolerate the exploitation of children in our community." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North. HM Courts Service
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17-03-2025
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Inquest jury out over couple found dead in van
The jury at an inquest trying to establish how a young couple died on a rural road in Cumbria has retired to consider its conclusions. Ryan Duffy, 24, and Ellie Marsden, 20, from Greater Manchester, were found dead in their crashed van near Drybeck in September 2021. The hearing was told they had been followed by a police car for several miles beforehand, but may have been unaware of the fact. Giving legal directions, the coroner told jurors it was not a trial, but a fact-finding inquiry to find out how and in what circumstances they had died. The inquest has previously heard the couple had booked into a hotel at Appleby Castle on the night of Friday, 4 September and then spent some time in a pub. Just after midnight, they got into a white Citroen Berlingo van which was spotted going the wrong way along a one-way street by a police officer on mobile patrol. The PC repeatedly drove above speed limits in Appleby and then rural roads as he attempted to follow, the inquest jury heard. A standard response driver, he was trained to stop vehicles but not to pursue them, and did not activate emergency blue lights or sirens during a four-minute journey, the hearing was told. Still not having caught up with the van, he logged the vehicle's registration and make and returned to Appleby. The next morning, the Berlingo was found crashed into a tree about 173m (567ft) beyond where the PC had turned back, the jurors heard. Mr Duffy, who was in the driving seat, and Ms Marsden were pronounced dead at the scene. Neither were wearing seatbelts. Giving evidence, the police officer repeatedly denied suggestions he was involved in a pursuit of the van. He told the inquest he was "not certain" whether the van driver was aware of him, but his presence might have been a distraction for the van driver. A senior police forensic examiner concluded that at the time of the crash the van was travelling at about 40mph, which was under the national speed limit for that stretch of road. Steering marks on the road suggested the driver may have misjudged a bend on which the collision occurred due to being impaired in some way, or distracted, or both. Toxicology tests showed the amount of alcohol in Mr Duffy's bloodstream was between two and three times the legal driving limit, and the couple had taken both cocaine and ketamine. Assistant coroner Joseph Hart told jurors they must not speculate or guess and put aside sympathy and any disapproval. They were to answer four key questions: who the deceased were; when, where and how they died. He said: "Your duty is to find the facts and a conclusion from the evidence and only from the evidence. "Adopt a cool, clinical and, above all, independent approach." Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. Couple found dead in van were followed by police HM Courts Service
