Weekly Court Round-Up: Man jailed for eight months

DANIEL QUADLING, 39, of Drake Avenue, Ivybridge has been given an eight-months prison sentence, suspended for two years, after he pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to threatening to use violence towards others at Bodmin in July 2025. He has to pay his victim £1000 compensation and do 100 hours unpaid work.

MICHAEL STRINGER, 37, of NFA, St Austell has been remanded in custody after he pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to threatening violence towards another at Holy Trinity Church, St Austell on 29 September. The court heard it was a ‘ferocious incident’ in front of the public and he has a long record of convictions and breaches of court orders. The offence happened just a day after he was given bail. A charge of assaulting a man occasioning him actual bodily harm will remain on file.

LEE DREW, 39, of Codling Close, St Austell pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to assaulting a police officer at Eastbourne Road, St Austell on 24 June, burgling a caravan at Penvose Caravan Park, Newquay in October 2023 and stealing cash, a radio, paperwork, medication, toys and a phone. He was given a three-month prison sentence suspended for two years and has to pay £500 compensation.

ASHLEY CARTER-MOORE, 42, of Ham Drive, Plymouth has been sent to prison for 19 months after he pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to assaulting a woman at Lyons Road, St Austell on 16 May and criminal damage to her property on 12 May. He was made subject to a restraining order not to contact two women or go to an area of St Austell until 29 October 2033. A charge of stalking her, which he had denied, will remain on file.

SHANE GERMAN, 45, of NFA, St Austell pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man at Camborne in July 2024. His trial was set for 5 May.

PAUL TOOLEY, 48, of Sylvan Close, St Austell was found guilty at Truro Crown Court of assaulting a man occasioning him actual bodily harm at Sylvan Close on 9 March. He was remanded in custody for a medical or psychiatric report to be prepared and will be sentenced on 16 November.

SAM LAYER, 36, of Beatrice Avenue, St Stephens has been given a suspended prison sentence after he kicked a man in a face. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a man occasioning him actual bodily harm at Saltash in May 2025. The sentence of 12 months, suspended for 24 months, was justified by magistrates because he was involved in a street fight where people who were going about their lawful business, including children, would have been terrified to witness such violence. He was ‘in drink’ on licenced premises and the fight was planned to take place on the pavement outside. It was a sustained fight and, despite being separated, he continued to face up to his victim with a man between the pair. He then waited for an opportune moment to kick his victim in his face causing him to fall to the ground with a suspected broken nose which magistrates said was ‘a cowardly act’. He has to pay his victim £2000 compensation.

ARKADIUSZ ZIMNY, 19, of Tredanek Close, Bodmin has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with assaulting a man occasioning him actual bodily harm at Newquay on 8 February. His case was listed for 4 December.

JOE WILLIAMS, 26, of Torwood Close, Bodmin was found guilty of assaulting a woman in October last year. He will be sentenced on 15 December and was released on conditional bail not to enter Torwood Close or contact his victim.

JAYD CLOUGHTON-KEHOE, 29, of Elliot House Hotel, Liskeard pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman occasioning her actual bodily harm at Liskeard on 10 August. She will be sentenced on 4 December.

ASTON CUTTS, 22, of Liskey Hill Holiday Park, Perranporth pleaded guilty to assaulting a man at the Waterfront Restaurant in Perranporth on 8 May. He was fined £576 and was made subject to a restraining order not to contact his victim or enter an address in Bolenna Lane, Perranporth or the Waterfront Restaurant until 2 November 2027.

GARETH HEALEY, 37, of Polruan Road, Malpas has been sent to prison for four weeks after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman on 13 October. Magistrates heard he has a significant number of previous convictions of a similar nature against the same victim.

EZRA AUSTIN, 21, of NFA, Threemilestone has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with possessing two knuckle dusters at Deeble Close, Threemilestone on 28 October, suffocating and assaulting a woman occasioning her actual bodily harm at Truro on 13 October, strangling her on 14 June and engaging in controlling behaviour between June and October. He was remanded in custody and his case listed for 1 December.

JASON GOVAN, 38, of Penlee Villas, Playing Place pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man at Playing Place in September 2025. He will stand trial on 10 March.

DANIEL AMPHLETT, 45, of Webber Street, Falmouth pleaded not guilty to assaulting a woman at Club International in Falmouth on 31 October and stalking her between 1 and 5 November. His case was adjourned until 10 November and he was released on conditional bail not to go to Mabe Burnthouse or contact his alleged victim.

JORDAN ADLARD-ROGERS, 38, of Penrose Estate, Helston was found guilty at Truro Crown Court of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man at Porthleven in July 2024. He will be sentenced on 11 December.

NATHEN FERRIER, 40, of Higher Tower Road, Newquay has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register and breaching a sexual harm prevention order by having unsupervised contact with three children and failing to tell police he had acquired an internet enabled device. He was remanded in custody and his case listed for 8 December.

DAVID WILD, 30, of Sparnon Close, St Austell pleaded guilty to possessing 128 prohibited images of a child and four category C indecent images of a child in 2023. He was ordered to do 80 hours unpaid work and had his computer equipment, which included eight hard drives, confiscated. He was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet until 9 July 2031.

RICHARD REES, 56, of Little Treviscoe, St Austell has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with making 30 category C indecent images of a child and breaching a sexual harm prevention order by failing to present a tablet device for inspection or notify police he owned it on 3 November. His case was listed for 4 December.

MARK OVERSBY, 36, NFA, Bodmin pleaded guilty to, on 17 June at Higher Bore Street, Bodmin, failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register. He was sent to prison for 12 months as it was his fifth offence of failing to notify police and he had been ‘off the radar’ for five months which magistrates said was a ‘wilful, deliberate and persistent non-compliance’. He was recalled as a serving prisoner.

BENJAMIN MASSEY, 27, of Bodwannick View, Bodmin has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with sexually assaulting a woman at Carlyon Road and Long Parkway, St Austell on 10 April. His case was listed for 27 November.

GARY FRISE, 54, of Castle Street, Liskeard was found guilty at Truro Crown Court of four charges of engaging in non-penetrative sex with a 13 and 14-year-old girl and assaulting a 13-year-old girl by penetration in 2023. He will be sentenced on 4 December and was released on conditional bail restricting his contact with any person under the age of 16.

ROBIN BEAGLE, 54, of Woodley Close, Stratton, Bude has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with gross indecency with girls under the age of 14. His case was listed for 27 November.

JESSE ALDRIDGE, 36, of Daisy Court, Tavistock changed his plea to guilty at Truro Crown Court on charges of sexually assaulting by penetration a girl aged seven or eight at Truro. He was sent to prison for 54 months.

LUCAS LOVELL, 24, of Meadow View, Cadogan Road, Camborne pleaded guilty to making 24 category A, 189 category B and 51 category C indecent images of a child between 2024 and 2025. He will be sentenced on 1 December.

CHIDOZIE IFEANYICHUKWU, 34, of Wilkinson Gardens, Redruth has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with, as a health care assistant, raping and engaging in sexual activity with a mentally disordered female at Bodmin Hospital in December 2023. His case was listed for 27 November. He was released on conditional bail not to contact a woman, his passport must remain with the police and he is banned from applying for any travel documents to leave the country.

JAMES BIDMEAD, 31, of Dracaena Avenue, Falmouth was found guilty at Truro Crown Court of raping a woman at Falmouth in 2024. He was sent to prison for six years and six months.

CONAN RAINBOW, 38, of NFA, Truro has been given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after he was found guilty at Truro Crown Court of sexually assaulting a woman and exposing his genitals at Cathedral Close, Truro on 16 May and failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register.

KARL BALDING, 24, of Lafrowda Close, St Just pleaded guilty to breaching a sexual harm prevention order made by Truro Crown Court on 24 September by, between 24 September and 29 October, representing himself online as a dentist, therapist, tattoo artist and body piercer – occupations he did not hold and was prohibited from saying he did hold - and guilty to failing to notify police of an alias name and using private browsing on the internet He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 26 November.

THOMAS VIGUS-GIBBS, 35, of Chi Teyrdelen, Stret dor Wartha, Newquay pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to, at an address in Wadebridge on 27 September, intimidating a witness intending to pervert the course of justice and, at the same address on 16 February, entering the property when he is alleged to have subjected the occupant to a threat of violence, assaulted him occasioning actual bodily harm and stolen a pair of trainers. He was remanded in custody and his trial fixed for 10 March.

DILLAN BROWN, 22, of Red Lane, Bugle has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with committing a series of acts at Newquay in April 2023 by falsely presenting himself as an eyewitness which had a tendency to pervert the course of justice and conspiring with JAMIE COONEY, to steal cash to the value of £6,500 from a man. His case was listed for 27 November.

PETER KELLY, 48, of Trevanion Road, St Austell has been sent to prison for 18 months after he pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to, assaulting a woman on 24 April occasioning her actual bodily harm, assaulting her again on 9 May and intimidating her on 22 May by threatening her and telling her to withdraw her statement intending to pervert the course of justice. He also pleaded guilty to possessing a kitchen knife on Penwinnick Road, St Austell on 8 May.

JASON STEWART, 39, of St Marys Road, Lanstephan pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to threatening to kill a woman at Bude on 20 December and assaulting her occasioning actual bodily harm on 12 December. He will stand trial on 30 March and was released on conditional bail not to go to Woodfield Road, Bude or contact his alleged victim.

MARC JACKSON, 47, of NFA, St Austell pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to possessing crack cocaine and cocaine at St Austell on 23 May and 16 August with intent to supply. He was remanded in custody until 13 November, partly for his own protection as he has substantial drug debt.

THOMAS WARE, 36, of Primary Road, Dobwalls pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to possessing 35.97 grams of crack cocaine with intent to supply at St Austell in September 2025. He will stand trial on 22 February.

SCOTT TRIGGS, 36, of Tregurra Lane, Truro has been given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for two years at Truro Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to supplying cannabis at Truro in 2023.

JORDAN DULSON, 35, of NFA, St Austell has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with possessing a lock knife and a knuckle duster on Ranelagh Road, St Austell on 9 February. His case was listed for 4 December.

SEBASTIAN CHIGUMBA, 20, of Trevarthian Road, St Austell was committed to a young offender institution for 16 months after he pleaded guilty to strangling a woman at Newquay in April 2025 and possessing a knife on Magdalen Street, Colchester in April 2024. He was made subject to a restraining order not to contact his victim until 30 October 2031.

MICHAEL HOUSE, 34, NFA, was made subject to a 28-day domestic violence protection notice on 28 October not to contact a woman or go to Trewartha Estate, St Ives.

JOSHUA WALLER, 22, of NFA, was made subject to a 28-day domestic violence protection notice on 29 October not to contact or threaten a woman or go to Roscadghill Parc, Heamoor.

GARETH FOX, 37, of Creakavose Park, St Stephen has been sent to prison for 28 months after he pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to breaching a restraining order on 21 July and 31 August by making numerous telephone calls to a woman he was prohibited from contacting and, on 29 August, by going to an address he was prohibited from visiting by Truro Crown Court in 2024. He also pleaded guilty to stalking the woman between 20 July and 1 September. He was made subject to a restraining order not to contact his victim or enter St Columb until 29 October 2033.

JASON PEARSE, 38, of Robartes Road, Bodmin pleaded guilty to, between September and February at Wadebridge, stalking a woman by tracking her location, monitoring her activities, repeatedly attending her property uninvited, following her, being abusive and accessing her private accounts. He was made subject to a restraining order not to contact his victim until 29 October 2031 and must have treatment for his mental health and abstain from alcohol until 26 February next year.

ESME HARMAN, 20, of The Crescent, Truro pleaded not guilty to stalking a man between February and March by making unwanted contact and attending his university. She will stand trial at Truro Magistrates’ Court on 8 July. She was released on conditional bail not to enter a road in Helston, attend Swansa University or contact her alleged victim.

BEN RICKARD, 29, of Henver Road, Newquay pleaded guilty to a charge of harassment by breaching a restraining order when he attended North Way, Quintrell Downs on 29 October, 10 August and 15 September last year. He will be sentenced on 12 February and was released on conditional bail not to enter North Way or contact a woman.

LUKE JOHNSON, 34, of Adelaide Road, Redruth pleaded not guilty to harassing a woman between March and April this year. He will stand trial at Truro Magistrates’ Court on 27 May and was released on conditional bail not to contact his alleged victim.

ANN COLE, 36, of Chestnut Drive, Liskeard pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to fraud by false representation when, between June 2024 and May 2025 at Dobwalls, she is alleged to have used the business account of AC Whell Motor Repairs without permission to order goods and pay for services for herself. She will stand trial on 17 May.

ALYSTER GYNN, 65, of High Cross Street, St Austell has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with breaching a criminal behaviour order between 16 and 26 October by contacting Devon and Cornwall Police 16 times, South West Ambulance Service 16 times and His Majesty’s Coastguard six times on 999 for non-emergency reasons when prohibited doing by an order made on 21 April. His case was listed for 4 December.

ANDREW DUNCAN, 59, of Potters Farm, Halvasso, Penryn has been banned from driving for 12 months and fined £1000 after he pleaded guilty to causing serious injury to a woman on the A393 at Redruth on 2 March by driving a vehicle without due care and attention. He was put on a three-month curfew to remain at the farm between 7pm and 7am until 29 January and he will have to pass an extended driving test to get his licence back.