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Crime & Public Safety Pinchbeck
Emma Watson, who runs Specky & Ginge in Pinchbeck, has launched a petition calling for mandatory approval before people convicted of the most serious crimes can change or begin using a different name.
Crime & Public Safety Town Centre
Silvian Munteanu has been jailed for 18 months after admitting striking a woman with a metal bar outside the XO nightclub on Westlode Street, Spalding. The victim suffered a fractured eye socket and broken nose. A second man, Danut Ionica, received a suspended sentence and unpaid-work order.
Crime & Public Safety Town Centre
Vanessa Gratton, of West Parade, Spalding, has been cleared of conspiring to assault her former partner, Richard McMullon, in a case linked to the death of Sean Burlton in November 2023. Scott Biggs admitted a late role in the conspiracy after jurors failed to reach a verdict, while several other men have already pleaded guilty to related charges.
Crime & Public Safety
Thomas Parr, 28, was sentenced at Lincoln Crown Court after failing to attend a hearing linked to his guilty plea for possessing 206g of cannabis found at his flat in The Meadows, Spalding.
Crime & Public Safety
Lincolnshire Police are appealing for people who believe they were victims of thefts from vehicles in Spalding over recent weeks to come forward after officers found a hoard of items at an address linked to a suspect.
Crime & Public Safety Pinchbeck
Vanessa Gratton, of West Parade, Spalding, has denied helping her partner Sean Burlton pursue her ex-partner in an alleged conspiracy that prosecutors say ended with Burlton’s drowning in a car crash at Tongue End. The trial is continuing at Lincoln Crown Court.
Crime & Public Safety
Jake Beck died from multiple drug toxicity after his body was found off Spalding’s Coronation Channel, an inquest at Lincoln Coroner’s Court heard.
Crime & Public Safety
Slavcho Iliev has been jailed for 10 months after admitting three counts of indecent exposure in Spalding. He was also given a Sexual Harm Protection Order and must register as a sex offender for 10 years.
Crime & Public Safety
Slavcho Iliev, 34, has been jailed for 10 months after admitting three offences involving victims in Spalding on separate dates last year. He must also comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
Crime & Public Safety Pinchbeck Road
Jurors at Lincoln Crown Court have heard evidence about the alleged pursuit of a car that ended when a Ford Focus entered a water-filled ditch on Counter Drain Drove, Tongue End, in November 2023. Sean Burlton, 28, drowned after the crash. The trial of three defendants continues.
Crime & Public Safety Pinchbeck Road
A Lincoln Crown Court jury has heard conflicting accounts of threats and an alleged pursuit before Sean Burlton drowned when a Ford Focus entered a water-filled ditch near Spalding in November 2023. The trial of two people accused of conspiring to cause actual bodily harm is continuing.
Crime & Public Safety
Thomas Parr, 28, failed to attend Lincoln Crown Court on September 4 after pleading guilty to possessing 206g of cannabis found at his flat in The Meadows, Spalding.
Crime & Public Safety Pinchbeck
Nadeem Mahmood described emergency braking, an overtaking Ford Focus and a collision involving a Vauxhall Insignia while carrying three children home from school. The evidence was heard during the ongoing trial over the death of Sean Burlton at Tongue End in November 2023.
Crime & Public Safety Moulton
William Lynas, 84, of Moons Green in Moulton, has been jailed for 18 years after being convicted of 13 sexual offences involving two children in the Spalding area between the 1980s and 2023.
Crime & Public Safety Town Centre
Paul Gray, 52, was given a suspended two-year prison sentence after admitting intentional strangulation during an argument over a broken dog toy at a property in Nene Meadows, Sutton Bridge. He was also ordered to pay £2,500 compensation and must not contact the victim.
Crime & Public Safety Town Centre
Three men aged 36, 18 and 19 were arrested on suspicion of GBH after police were called to a reported assault in the Chapel Lane alleyway off New Street, Spalding.
Crime & Public Safety River Welland
Tina Tomblin suffered burns after trying to stop a large straw fire near Barrier Bank, Cowbit, from reaching a nearby car. Four fire crews tackled the blaze, which damaged about 500 metres of stubble field and 600 tonnes of straw bales.
Crime & Public Safety Springfields
Police and Trading Standards officers found two suitcases containing suspected counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco in an abandoned vehicle after a targeted operation visited seven Spalding and surrounding-area premises on Saturday, August 22.
Crime & Public Safety Springfields
Lincolnshire Police is appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a car collided with a motorcyclist at the Holbeach Road roundabout outside Springfields in Spalding on Sunday, August 23. The driver failed to stop, and the rider, a man in his 60s, was taken to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening or life-altering.
Crime & Public Safety Springfields
Leicestershire Police searched an address in Holbeach Road and the former Royal Mail building in Spring Gardens on Tuesday, August 18, as part of enquiries into the death of 60-year-old Gary Piatek.
Crime & Public Safety
Lincolnshire Police are appealing for information after a woman allegedly entered an 89-year-old man’s home in Long Sutton by pretending to be a carer, then stole £125 from his wallet.
Crime & Public Safety
Thomas Parr, 28, pleaded guilty to possessing 206g of cannabis after police found the drug at his flat in The Meadows, Spalding. Lincoln Crown Court heard the offence breached a 20-month suspended prison sentence imposed in June 2025. Parr has been granted unconditional bail while further reports are prepared ahead of sentencing on September 4.
Crime & Public Safety
Spalding man Brett Harman has teamed up with the University of Lincoln to create Crime Scenes of Tinsel Town, a five-part series examining crime, forensics and filmmaking through famous film and television scenes.
