1/1 A SERIAL bad driver from Cleckheaton fled police at up to 100 mph before abandoning his car on a railway line in North Yorkshire, York Crown Court heard. Adam Virr, 34, raced down Commercial Street, Norton, near Malton, at 70mph just before midnight on October 20, Helen Towers, prosecuting, said. He tried to ram the pursuing police and turned off his headlights, the court heard. His Vectra was displaying cloned false number plates and he gave a false name when he was finally arrested. It was the latest in a career of bad driving that has seen him amass 12 convictions for dangerous driving.
Luke Kyle Stephenson has to pay £500 compensation to the victim A MAN has been spared a trip behind bars for wounding another man in an argument over music because it took three years to bring him to justice. Helen Towers, prosecuting, said the victim had to have seven stitches in a cut to his right eyebrow after Luke Kyle Stephenson punched him. The 29-year-old had shouted: “We have had to put up your music all night” and asked him to turn it down when he was a guest at the victim’s home. Stephenson, of Fenton Lane, Sherburn-in-Elmet, pleaded guilty to wounding at York Crown Court.
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A Pilot Point woman was sentenced this week to 24 months in prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
Kristine Irene Lynch, 44, pleaded guilty on Nov. 12 to bank fraud and was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison recently by U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan. As part of her sentence, Lynch was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $467,280.
“Schemes like this can cripple an institution,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei in a written statement released to news organizations. “One person’s greed can wreak havoc on countless others.”
Jack Ellis had nearly £3,000 worth of drugs on him GANGSTERS trafficked a young man to North Yorkshire to sell heroin and cocaine by a children’s playground, York Crown Court heard. Jack William Ellis, 20, had nearly £3,000 of the hard drugs and more than £800 cash on him when he was arrested on August 22, said Michael Bosomworth, prosecuting. The Nottinghamshire man refused to tell modern slavery investigators who had sent him to the playground next to a supermarket. His barrister Eddison Flint said Ellis had to go where an “unsavoury set of people” told him to go as he owed them a £900 drug debt.