Some huge cases have been heard this month
The first month of 2025 has seen a number of really serious cases come through our courtrooms. From a nine-strong burglary gang that targeted large homes across the region and beyond to two teenagers who shot at a man and then tried to flee to Spain. Here, reporter Martin Naylor sums up some of the hearings he has covered.
Sentencing the nine-strong group, Judge Stuart Rafferty KC said: "This was about money. This was about stealing expensive cars from large houses. The two-day sentencing hearing was told how the gang used what prosecutor Gareth Gimson called a “snap lock” technique utilising tools to break front or patio door handles and get inside the properties before finding keys and stealing the vehicles. Mr Gimson said the conspiracy ran between 2020 and 2021 and spawned two dedicated Nottinghamshire police investigations called Operation Terrestrial and Operation Pavlolva.
“Emerging from this store, as events were unfolding, was a family who quickly retreated to take cover, no doubt terrified about what was unfolding. As the Lord Chief Justice said in a case in 2009, 'the gravity of gun crime cannot be exaggerated. Guns kill, maim, terrorise and intimidate'." Footage played in court showed weapons brandished and punches thrown as the rivals ran amok in front of other early morning revellers. The CCTV shows 27-year-old Smith flee from a pursuing gang down Exchange Walk, where his friend Gerald “blindsides” one of the other men with a savage punch, leaving him hospitalised with fractures to his face.
Gerald, of Hungerhill Road, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning grievous bodily harm and to an unrelated charge of possession with intent to supply cannabis from October 15, 2021, when he was caught carrying the drug while riding an e-scooter in Lincoln Street in the city centre. Malik, of Violet Road, Carlton, pleaded guilty to charges including possession with intent to supply heroin and cocaine, being concerned in the supply of both drugs and possession of criminal property - namely the money. A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing, which could see the defendant stripped of cash and assets, will take place later this year.
The defendant’s raft of offences included him mounting a pavement and almost hitting a pedestrian during a police chase in Hucknall, threatening a man with a metal bar in public and smashing a window at a recycling centre during his catalogue of crime this year. He also told officers he would headbutt them when they found him hiding in a bedroom at his home as they went to arrest him.
The defendant was snared when an undercover police officer spotted an exchange happening in the city centre and alerted a mobile patrol to stop the car he was driving. And also in the centre console of the Nissan was a Stanley knife. Ilkeston stalker David Brudenell Stalker David Brudenell harassed seven different women and followed and threatened to rape one of them. The 40-year-old, of Ilkeston, messaged one of the victims for several months, sending her sexually explicit messages in which he had superimposed her face onto images as well as voice messages.
“His behaviour escalated when he physically followed one of the victims, photographed her from behind and sent her the images. When police were made aware of the incident, further victims were identified and helped to support the investigation.”
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