Joshua James custody shot Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A 24-year-old who rained down blows on the man he believed – wrongly – to be his love rival was sent down for six years and eight months. Joshua James had been found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm by a Swindon jury over the attack in Trowbridge town centre. Judge Peter Crabtree told the man: “It is clear that you can be a jealous and controlling individual. You certainly were at that time last year.”
Mohit Wadhwa outside Swindon Crown Court Taxi driver Mohit Wadhwa, 37, isolated his wife from her family, beat her, demanded she take out a loan and was verbally abusive during their decade-long marriage. He was found guilty by a Swindon jury earlier this year of coercive control and assault. Last month, Judge Taylor sent him to prison for three years and seven months. The judge said: “You isolated your wife from her friends and family and with the latter you made her choose you over them to the extent that she didn’t see her parents between 2008 and 2018. Of course, I will only sentence you for the indicted period for when this law was in force [from 2015], but it is notable that your control was such that her mother never even met her grandson before she sadly passed away.