Dorset criminals jailed in January: Emiljan Gjelaj, Viktor Lastovka, Thomas Harmer, Kevin Appleby, Robert Shapland-Hill, Neil Glover and Connor Beckett CRIMINALS jailed in January for Dorset offences include an armed rapist, a knife attacker and a drink driver who caused serious injuries to a police officer. The courts are continuing to operate and deal with cases, including jury trials, despite the current Covid locdown. The list below includes some of the offenders that were put behind bars by judges this month. Their combined sentences totalled 52 years and 10 months in jail although some of them could be released on licence part way through their terms of imprisonment.
He then became aggressive and punched them, which caused the glass to smash, police said. PC Russell Thomas, of Bournemouth Police, said the incident had left staff at the bookmakers feeling “very distressed”. Gjelaj, of Becher Road, Poole, was charged in relation to the incident. The 25-year-old appeared at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, January 21, having caught the attention of police the previous day. He admitted a charge of criminal damage, as well as offences of driving without insurance, while disqualified and without a licence when driving a blue Audi in the St Michael’s Road and Poole Road area of Bournemouth on Wednesday, January 20.
Thomas Lee John Harmer has been jailed for nine years Picture: Dorset Police AN intruder who stabbed a man who was trying to help him start his car has been jailed for nine years. Thomas Lee John Harmer appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court to be sentenced today after admitting offences of wounding with intent, burglary, possessing a bladed article, making off without payment and breaching a restraining order. As well as being sentenced to nine years in prison, Harmer, 24, was also made the subject of an extended licence period of a further five years. His co-defendant, Bethany Louise Timson, aged 21 and of Kirtleton Avenue, Weymouth, was sentenced on June 29 2020 after pleading guilty to offence of affray and was given an 18-month community order.