A SOUTHAMPTON man with a string of driving convictions has been banned from the roads. Tony Baker drove like an idiot and was in danger of killing somebody when he jumped red lights in Southampton, warned a crown court judge. The 66-year-old had been spotted driving a white van by officers in an unmarked patrol car in the Shirley ward of the city. Prosecution barrister Alex Williams said how a police camera “showed that the driver was subject to a disqualification. “They made attempts to request the vehicle to stop.” However, Baker of Coxford Drove, Southampton sped off. Mr Williams added how he “accelerated away from the police vehicle through a red traffic light where a pedestrian was about to cross the road.”
Frederick Weeks Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A PAEDOPHILE was caught chatting to “girls” online within months of being spared jail for doing exactly the same. Frederick Weeks, 56, offered to teach a 12-year-old about sex and paid compliments to other “girls”, who he thought were in their early teens. He was caught trying to meet one of the youngsters at Swindon railway station last year. But the youngsters with whom he exchanged the disgusting WhatsApp messages were not children but, in fact, a South Wales Police officer and members of paedophile hunter groups Angels for Innocents and Justice 4 Kids. Jailing him for five years at Swindon Crown Court, Judge Peter Crabtree said: “Your offending reveals a blatant disregard [for the] sexual harm prevention order and a determination to communicate with young females between the ages of 12 and 14.”
Frederick Weeks Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A PAEDOPHILE was caught chatting to “girls” online within months of being spared jail for doing exactly the same. Frederick Weeks, 56, offered to teach a 12-year-old about sex and paid compliments to other “girls”, who he thought were in their early teens. He was caught trying to meet one of the youngsters at Swindon railway station last year. But the youngsters with whom he exchanged the disgusting WhatsApp messages were not children but, in fact, a South Wales Police officer and members of paedophile hunter groups Angels for Innocents and Justice 4 Kids. Jailing him for four years and nine months at Swindon Crown Court, Judge Peter Crabtree said: “Your offending reveals a blatant disregard [for the] sexual harm prevention order and a determination to communicate with young females between the ages of 12 and 14.”
Swindon Crown Court A TEENAGER who was spared custody in 2019 for a brutal attack on a would-be soldier missed probation appointments, a Swindon court heard. But Kamal Barrow, now 19, was fined £50 after a judge heard the youngster was working long shifts at a factory and attending college courses. The young man was just 16 when he was part of a group that attacked an 18-year-old in White Eagle Road in July 2018. In late 2019, Swindon Crown Court heard the victim was kicked in the head and body. He suffered a broken cheekbone, nose and eye socket. The victim said the assault had left him briefly unable to eat as his lip would split open and the injuries quashed his dreams of joining the army.