Criminals who lost their liberty in July as thug and moped rider jailed
People locked up in July include a thug who threatened to set his ex-partner’s sister on fire, a PCSO who hand-delivered a threat demanding a woman to perform a sex act on him and a stalker who turned his attention to the officers investigating him.
Five men, three of whom were from the Leicester area, were handed a total of 37 years in prison between them for their involvement in a major drug operation in the East Midlands. Among those handed the longest jail terms was Nathan Aitchison who fled the scene of a four-vehicle crash which killed a young man[1].
The 38-year-old of Claydon Road, Leicester, was found the day after the fatal crash in his loft, where he had been hiding. Aitchison was later charged with causing death by careless driving and causing death by driving while disqualified which he admitted to.
Lewis Ball, Abusophiyan Malida and Cale Borland
(Image: Leicestershire Police)
Five men were sentenced to 37 years in prison between them after a major drug operations crackdown across the East Midlands. Lewis Ball, 33, Abusophiyan Malida, 27 and Cale Borland, 27, all formerly of addresses in Leicester and the county, were among the five jailed.
The East Midlands Special Operations Unit[3], or EMSOU, has been investigating the movement and sale of drugs across the region since April 2020 after the encrypted chat platform ‘Encrochat’ was dismantled as part of an international law enforcement operation.
Raids as part of the police operation led to large amounts of cash and class A drugs being recovered in 2020 and 2021. In January, 22 people were sentenced in relation to the drug operation and four more in June for their involvement. The latest five were sentenced at Leicester Crown Court for their involvement in the drug-dealing network on Friday, July 21. Full story here[4].
Marvellous Nkomo
McDonald’s in Eastgates, Leicester (Image: Leicester Mercury)
A dad aged 28 was jailed for a drunk revenge attack on a man who had knocked him unconscious outside a nightclub on Thursday, May 5 last year. Marvellous Nkomo had tried to break up a row between a man and a woman but the man punched him twice, knocking him unconscious.
He regained consciousness and shortly after went to McDonald’s in Eastgates, Leicester, with a friend. It was then that the man who had punched him earlier walked in and then men began arguing. Nkomo pulled out a bottle of beer he had in his pocket and swung it at the other man’s head, smashing the bottle and slashing the man’s forehead.
Nkomo, who has a seven-year-old son, later told police he had been drunk at the time and vaguely remembered that during the argument in McDonald’s the man had said something about his son, which had angered him. Nkomo, of Linwood Lane, in Leicester’s Saffron Lane Estate, later pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and was jailed for two years and four months. Full story here[5].
Keith Dhlodhlo
Dhlodhlo was jailed at Leicester Crown Court (Image: Google)
Keith Dhlodhlo, 22, was sent to jail after he threatened to kill the mother of his child, shoot at her house and burn her little sister alive. The angry ex-boyfriend had been in a relationship with the young woman for about a year-and-a-half and began a campaign of threats and harassment against her and her mother in April this year.
Over a series of threatening calls and messages to both the woman – with whom he had a now two-year-old son – and her mum on Tuesday, April 11, he called her ‘slag’, told her to watch her back with photographs of him with a gun and said he would burn down her mum’s house. He also threatened to set his ex’s sister on fire.
The 22-year-old was jailed for 21 months. Recorder Anna Trussler told him he had caused “serious psychological harm” to the family and should stay behind bars. Full story here[6].
Dean Sainsbury
The Prince’s Feathers pub in Hinckley (Image: Google)
Dean Sainsbury, 33, caused a woman to be scarred for life after punching through a pub window which showered her in glass. He had just been kicked out of the Prince’s Feathers pub in Hinckley[7] on Tuesday, November 22 following a row involving his new girlfriend, her ex-partner and his new girlfriend.
After Sainsbury at the other man were ejected from the pub, the 33-year-old went to the window where the girlfriend of his partner’s ex was sitting and punched the glass. He was sentenced to 12 months behind bars on Monday, July 24 – his third jail term for a drunken act of violence outside a pub. Full story here.[8]
Martin James O’Nion
The paramedic was off duty during the incident.
East Midlands Ambulance Service (Emas) paramedic, Martin James O’Nion was sentenced for assaulting three people including a member of staff at an event he was attending. The 41-year-old Coleridge Drive, Enderby, was off-duty and at an event on Sunday, December 11 2022 when he became violent.
He admitted to beating two men as well as a member of the door staff at the event at Northamptonshire Magistrates’ Court. He also pleaded guilty to using threatening words or behaviour with the intention of causing another person present to fear violence and “obstructing or resisting a person assisting a constable in the execution of their duty”. He was sentenced to a 12-month community order and must carry out 300 hours of unpaid work. Full story here[9][10]
Nishaben Mistry
Nishaben Mistry admitted to failing to stop at the scene of the collision (Image: West Midlands Police)
Nishaben Mistry, of Butterley Drive in Loughborough[11], left a 69-year-old pedestrian for dead after hitting them with her car near Dudley last December. She claimed she initially thought she had only hit a bush and believed that an emergency incident she witnessed at the scene while on foot, had nothing to do with her.
Mistry was later arrested and searches of her phone showed she had tried to find out if people could ‘get away with a hit-and-run’. An investigation and reconstruction if the crash found Mistry only had one second to react before hitting the pedestrian, who was found not to be visible at the time of the incident and that she was not driving dangerously.
She appeared at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, July 6, where she was handed a 17-week jail term which was suspended for two years. She was also ordered to complete 240 hours of unpaid work and was disqualified from driving for 12 months. Full story here.[12][13]
Mohammed Miah
The PCSO hand-delivered the threat to his victim. (Image: Leicestershire Police)
Police community support officer (PCSO), Mohammed Miah, from Syston[14], threatened to ruin a woman’s life if she did not carry out his demand that she perform a sexual act. The 26-year-old hand-delivered the threat in a letter to the victim, on Saturday, April 9 last year while he was off-duty.
Miah was arrested six days later, initially denying he had anything to do with it, and was suspended from duty while officers investigated the allegation. The 26-year-old eventually admitted to delivering the letter in December last year and also confessed to misusing police computers[15] to make searches on the victim and her family.
In April at Leicester Magistrates’ Court, he pleaded guilty to sending a threatening letter under the Malicious Communications Act and to three counts of misuse of a force computer under the Computer Misuse Act. He appeared at Leicester Crown Court on Thursday, July 13 band was jailed for 14 months. Full story here.[16][17][18]
Nathan Aitchison
Nathan Aitchison was already disqualified from driving when the crash happened (Image: Nottinghamshire Police)
Disqualified driver, Nathan Aitchison, fled the scene of a four-vehicle collision in Nottinghamshire which killed a young man[19] and seriously injured two others. The 38-year-old of Claydon Road, Leicester, was discovered hiding in a loft a day after the fatal crash.
He had been driving his partner’s Volkswagen Beetle on the A46 southbound at Car Colston, near Bingham, on Saturday, September 24, when he lost control of the vehicle, ploughing into the back of 22-year-old, David Obada’s Fiat Punto. David’s car was propelled into the reservation and flipped onto its roof in the middle of the dual carriageway. It was then struck moments later by a Volkswagen Transporter van and then a Landrover Freelander and David was pronounced dead at the scene.
The drivers of the Transporter and the Landrover were left seriously injured, but Aitchison had fled the scene. Aitchison was later charged with causing death by careless driving and causing death by driving while disqualified which he admitted to. He was jailed for five years and was disqualified from driving for eight years and three months. The court made it clear he would have to retake his driving test before being allowed back behind the wheel. Full story here.[20]
Luke Graham
Luke Graham, 20, of Hampshire, was caught during a ‘crime spree’ in Leicestershire (Image: Leicestershire Police)
Luke Graham, 20, was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court[21] on Monday, July 3 after carrying out a “crime spree” in Leicestershire last summer. The burglar was arrested after he was captured entering the porchway of a house and taking a key fob for a car that was parked on the driveway.
But after his arrest, Graham became violent and abusive in custody. He headbutted one officer who was left with bruising and a cut lip and also spat at and verbally abused a number of officers. He also became abusive towards NHS staff, hurling racist abuse at people trying to treat him after needing to go to the hospital.
He was jailed for two years and eight months. Full story here.[22]
Scott Walters
Scott Walters was jailed last week (Image: Nottinghamshire Police)
Scott Walters, of Ratcliffe Road in Loughborough[23], sent hundreds of malicious messages to police[24] as part of a “deliberate” and “obsessive” campaign of harassment and stalking. He originally become obsessed with a member of the public, for which he was arrested, before turning his attention to the officers investigating him and staff from Nottinghamshire Police.
As well as bombarding his original victim, Walters then sent malicious and inappropriate messages via email to 10 officers and police staff in a bid to intimidate them. In all, he sent more than 400 messages to all his victims, with each message getting more aggressive. Walters appeared at Nottingham Crown Court after admitting to all the charges and last Thursday, July 6, and was jailed for 17 months. He was also handed a five-year restraining order which prevents him from contacting any of his victims in any way. Full story here.[25][26]
Jordan Gillard
Jordan Gillard, 20, of Boulter Crescent, Wigston, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving. (Image: Leicestershire Police)
Jordan Gillard crashed his moped into a pedestrian before fleeing the scene in August of 2021. The 20-year-old, Boulter Crescent, Wigston[27], knocked the man down as he walked through a pedestrian area of Hinckley town centre[28] on Friday, August 27 2021.
The man was thrown into the air and knocked unconscious by the sheer force of the crash before being in a coma for almost one week. He was left with a number of serious injuries including a traumatic brain injury, a fractured skull and a collapsed lung.
Gilliard later pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving. He was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Wednesday, July 5 to 27 months in a young offender institution. He was also disqualified from driving for two years and ordered to take an extended re-test. Full story here.[29][30]
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