ASSAULT
LEWIS PROSSER, 33, of River Row, Pontnewynydd pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to threatening to kill a woman on 7 March at Trevelgue Hollow, Newquay, assaulting her occasioning actual bodily harm, taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent and damaging a phone and laptop charger. He is also charged with strangling the woman. He was remanded in custody and a trial was fixed for 4 July.
PAUL PEARSON, 52, of Cherry Tree Mews, St Austell pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman at St Austell on 24 August. He was made subject to a community order and must do 120 hours unpaid work and have mental health treatment. He has to pay his victim £150 compensation and was made subject to a restraining order not to contact her until April 2027.
DAVID REYNOLDS, 24, of Landreath Place, St Blazey has been sent to Truro Crown Court for sentence after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a man occasioning him actual bodily harm in St Austell on New Year’s Day 2023. He will be sentenced on 9 May.
DONALD BENNEY, 48, of Pool Street, Bodmin has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with at Pool Street on 4 April he caused grievous bodily harm to a woman with intent, assaulting the woman occasioning her actual bodily harm on 2 April and assaulting her on 9 February. He was remanded in custody and his case listed for 6 May.
NATHAN CARBY, 27, of Margaret Crescent, Bodmin has been sent to Truro Crown Court after he pleaded not guilty to assaulting a woman at Royffe Way, Bodmin on 5 April. He is also charged with sexually assaulting her. His case is listed for 29 April.
OLIVER JONAS, 19, of Lower Glen Park, Pensilva pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker on the A38 at Liskeard and damaging an ambulance on 17 October. He will be sentenced on 29 May.
TRAVIS BUTTON, 25, of Carlton Way, Liskeard pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to entering two properties in Liskeard with intent to steal, to stealing and damaging a car and assaulting a police officer at Liskeard on 3 April last year and to entering the doctors’ corridor of Oaktree Surgery on 17 March with intent to steal. He will be sentenced on 23 May.
LIAM JEWITT, 27, of Beatrice Avenue, Saltash has had a warrant issued for his arrest after he failed to turn up to court to face charges of assault and possessing an offensive weapon – a hammer- at St Cleer on 5 March.
MICHAEL BAGLEY, 45, of Treleven Road, Bude pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to assaulting a man at Bude last August occasioning him actual bodily harm and possessing a knife on Treleven Road. He pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour. The case was adjourned to 2 May for a pre-sentence report.
MAX THEIS, 32, of St Anns Chapel has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with assaulting a police officer at The Heartlands, Pool on 14 January and damaging the front door of a property. His case will be heard on 9 May.
SEX OFFENCES
ROY LAITHWAITE, 76, of Harvenna Close, Fraddon pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to nine sexual offences against a girl aged under 13. Five cases were discharged whilst the remaining four will remain on file. He was made subject to a restraining order not to contact the girl until 8 April 2035.
MARK TALLING, 60, of Chapmans Way, St Austell pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to raping a woman in St Austell in March 2018. He will stand trial on 2 March next year and was released on conditional bail.
STEPHEN DAVEY, 57, of Lower Woodside, St Austell has been jailed for 17 years after being found guilty of sexual offences against a child. He was convicted of two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child, three counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault of a child. He was given an order not to contact the victim and will be on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.
STEPHEN HADLEY, 50, of Par Farm, Par has been sent to Truro Crown Court to be sentenced for making over 34,500 indecent photographs of children including the most serious category A. He will be sentenced on 8 May.
CHRIS YOUNG, 43, of Poole Street, Bodmin had a warrant for his arrest issued after he failed to turn up to Truro Crown Court to answer rape and sexual assault charges against a child.
BENJAMIN FISHER, 21, of Brisbane Terrace, Liskeard pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl at Looe in January 2021 (NEWSDESK HE WAS 17 AT THE TIME). He pleaded not guilty to raping her. The case was adjourned until 6 May. He was released on conditional bail and is excluded from entering some areas of Liskeard.
DAVID COLLINS, 77, of Goonwartha Road, West Looe has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with, in January 2023, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a girl aged under 16 by asking her to watch him masturbate, asking her about sexual experience and about oral sex; for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification he attempted to cause a child aged 13 to watch him engaging in a sexual activity and possessing indecent photographs of children. His case is listed for 9 May.
SIMON KNIGHT, 52, of Fore Street, Port Issac has been made subject to a two-year sexual risk order. It restricts his use of devices capable of accessing the internet and disposing of any device he has used.
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
THOMAS CARY, 37, of Angove Villas, St Dennis was found not guilty at Truro Crown Court of falsely imprisoning and assaulting a woman at Falmouth between 30 December and 2 January 2023.
STALKING
ALAN CROXFORD, 63, of Station Road, St Blazey has been made subject to an interim stalking protection order for eight weeks whilst it is determined if a permanent protection order should be put in place. He is alleged to have turned up at a pub before opening, waited outside for a woman and made comments such as ‘you were looking at me with your soft eyes earlier’ and ‘you look pretty today; to have sent the woman letters professing his love and asking her to marry him and saying how much he misses her and stated he had purchased a £560 ring for her hand in marriage. The stalking order bans him from having any contact with the woman including on the phone and social media.
THOMAS MOORE, 38, of Lanchard Green, Liskeard pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to stalking a woman between 3 and 30 October last year. He was given a community order and must do 150 hours unpaid work and have treatment for his alcohol use.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
SHAYAN MOHAMDPOR, 20, of NFA, was made subject to a 28-day domestic violence protection notice on 3 April not to contact or threaten a woman or go to East Street, Newquay.
MARK BILKEY, 53, of NFA, was made subject to a 28-day domestic violence protection notice on 9 April not to contact or threaten a woman or go to East Street, Newquay.
MARK MORRIS, 45, of NFA, was made subject to a 28-day domestic violence protection notice on 7 April not to contact or threaten a woman or go to an address in St Stephen.
OFFENSIVE WEAPON
LIAM SCRIVENER, 29, of NFA, Newquay pleaded guilty to threatening a woman with an offensive weapon, a telescopic truncheon, at an address in Newquay on 14 March. He was sent to prison for 14 weeks because there were serious threats in a domestic setting that left his victim in fear for her life. He was made subject to a restraining order not to contact the woman or go to an address in Newquay until 7 April 2026.
GRZEGORZ GODZINA, 33, of The Warehouse, Castle Dyke, Launceston pleaded guilty to possessing a knife with a 11cm blade and a second knife with a 12.5cm blade on Castle Dyke on 11 January. He will be sentenced on 30 May.
THREATENING BEHAVIOUR
KEVIN LOWN, 50, of NFA, Bodmin pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to using threatening behaviour towards a PCSO at Camborne on 11 February. He was remanded in custody until 17 April.
DRUG DEALER
MATTHEW GARSIDE, 32, of Queens Road, St Austell pleaded guilty to supplying 4.51kg of cannabis at Queens Road on 3 December and possessing 5.97g of cannabis on 15 January. He pleaded not guilty to possessing a knuckleduster at his Queens Road home on 15 January. His case was adjourned until 29 May.
DRUG POSSESSION
MICHAEL NELSON, 19, of Rectory Road, St Stephen failed to turn up to court to answer charges of possessing 8.9g of cannabis and two MDMA tablets at Whitemoor on 13 November and driving without a licence. A warrant was issued for his arrest.
KIMBERLY BECKETT, 42, of Tremaddan Terrace, Liskeard pleaded guilty to, at Little Meadow, Bodmin on 8 August, possessing 0.23g of cocaine, at Hillside Park, Bodmin on 28 July possessing 0.1g of cocaine and 0.3g of diamorphine and, on 18 August, at Wallace Road, Bodmin, 0.08g of cocaine. She was given a community order and ordered to pay £85 costs.
FRAUD
SASHA MAY, 42, of the Queens Head, St Austell has been sent to Truro Crown Court for sentence after she pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation. On 27 October at Applegreen Services in St Austell she used a bank card belonging to a man to buy £89.15 worth of items. She will be sentenced on 8 May.
CRIMINAL DAMAGE
LOUISE GILBURT, 29, of Respryn Road, Trebyan pleaded not guilty to damaging a BMW at Kingsley Village on 7 September. Her case was adjourned until 5 June.
CRAIG VARLEY, 39, of Lanchard Green, Liskeard had a warrant issued for his arrest when he failed to turn up to court to answer a charge of damaging a window at Llawnroc Ventures in August 2023.
THEFT
JASMINE DOUGHTY, 26, of NFA, Newquay pleaded guilty to stealing two bottles of iced coffee and four packs of premier league trading cards from Morrisons in Newquay on 4 April. She was fined £40 and ordered to pay £85 costs.
CLOSURE ORDER
8 St Dominics Close, Bodmin has had the closure order extended for a further three months under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act.
DRINK/DRUG DRIVE
JAMES WEBB, 40, of New Street, Bugle pleaded not guilty to failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis on Lostwithiel Road, Bodmin on 12 March when being investigated for a traffic offence. His case was adjourned to 24 April.
SERGIO DOS SANTOS, 45, of Netley Meadow, Bugle pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis at Netley Meadow on 3 February when being investigated for a traffic offence. He was made subject to a community order to do 80 hours unpaid work and banned from driving for 18 months, which will be reduced by 18 weeks if he completes a course. He has to pay a £114 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
NATHAN CLARKE, 38, of Penrice Parc, St Austell who had pleaded not guilty to driving above the alcohol limit in Priory Car Park, St Austell on 2 November has had the case discontinued.
JADE MURPHY, 30, of Polgover Way, Par pleaded guilty to driving on Victoria Road, St Austell last September with 26 micrograms of cocaine per litre of blood exceeding the limit of ten and using a car without a test certificate on 25 September. She also pleaded guilty to driving on Penwinnick Road, St Austell on 24 November with 56 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath exceeding the limit of 35. She was banned from driving for 16 months, which will be reduced by 16 weeks if she completes a course, fined £120 and ordered to pay a £96 victim surcharge.
FRANCOIS GARBADE, 48, of Hendra Garth, Tresmeer pleaded to driving in Coads Green in July with 32 micrograms of cocaine per litre of blood exceeding the limit of ten and 335 micrograms of BZE per litre of blood exceeding the limit of 50. He was banned from driving for 12 months, fined £90 and ordered to pay a £36 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
FAILED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
GARRY ELLIS, 41, of Pengelly, Delabole has had a warrant for his arrest issued after he failed to turn up to court to be sentenced for failing to tell police who was driving a Fiat who was alleged to have committed an offence.
SPEEDING
JOHN DRAPER, 56, of School Close, Newquay has been banned from driving for six months, with a points disqualification, after he pleaded guilty to speeding on the A30 at Tregullon last August. He was fined £133 and ordered to pay a £53 victim surcharge and £90 costs.
SAMANTHA MASON, 34, of Rowan Lane, Liskeard has been banned from driving for six months after pleading guilty to speeding in Plymouth in September 2023, through St Ann’s Chapel twice on 12 October 2023 and in Plymouth on 13 January 2024. She was fined £240 and ordered to pay a £96 victim surcharge and £90 costs.