Locked up in December: The Dorset criminals put behind bars last month

Below are the Dorset criminals put behind bars this December.

Thomas Schreiber

Aspiring artist, Thomas Schreiber, was jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 36 years in prison, for the “cruel and senseless” murder of aristocrat Sir Richard Sutton and paralysing his own mother.

Schreiber was convicted following a three-week trial at Winchester Crown Court of killing the 83-year-old millionaire hotelier at his Dorset country estate on April 7, 2021, and the attempted murder of 66-year-old Anne Schreiber.

The 35-year-old defendant admitted carrying out the “horror show” knife attack on the pair on the eighth anniversary of the death of his alcoholic father, David Schreiber, after he said his mother shouted at him for being “drunk like his father”.

He told the court: “I just went completely crazy, I completely snapped and I just launched for her and began attacking her uncontrollably.”

The attack happened at Sir Richard’s Moorhill estate near Gillingham, Dorset, which he shared with the Schreiber family following the separation of the defendant’s parents.

The trial heard that the defendant was angry with his mother for “abandoning” his father, who suffered from depression, to move in with Sir Richard and accused her of being a “gold-digging bitch”.

Warren Rolfe

A “nuisance to the public” told his wheelchair-bound father “I should end your life” while he savagely beat him with cans, kneed him and bit him during an attack lasting nearly an hour.

Warren Rolfe, 25, of HMP Winchester, paused only to drink water and verbally abuse his father in an assault which left the latter unable to call for help all night.

He pleaded guilty to three counts of assaulting an emergency worker, using racially aggravated disorderly behaviour, inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent on his father, two counts of criminal damage and threatening with a knife and appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday for sentencing.

On December 11, 2020, Warren Rolfe was living with his father Kevin Rolfe, who was wheelchair-bound after having his leg amputated, in Poole.

The defendant leapt on his father and said “you never do anything for me, I should end your life now by standing on your neck” during the attack. Warren Rolfe threw his father’s phone against the wall, causing it to break meaning he couldn’t call for help.

Rolfe was sentenced to four years imprisonment for the brutal attack.

Tobias Gent

A man has been jailed for assaulting two men with what appeared to be a hand gun hours after he had been watching football at the same pub as them on the night of the Euro 2020 final.

Tobias Michael John Gent, aged 30 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced to two years in prison at Salisbury Crown Court on Monday, December 6.

This was after the 30-year-old admitted two offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm as well as possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

The defendant and the two victims had been watching football at the same pub in Kinson as part of separate groups on the evening of Sunday, July 11 - the night England lost on penalties against Italy in the final of the European Championship.

The groups went their separate ways, but three men were later involved in an altercation outside an address in Keeble Road at around 12.45am on Monday, July 12.

Gent was seen to hit both of his victims around the head with what appeared to be a hand gun. Both victims sustained head injuries and were taken to hospital for treatment.

Liam James Woods

A man took his sleeping girlfriend’s car to go buy cigarettes after a night of drinking and taking drugs before smashing into a house causing £75,000 worth of damage.

Liam James Woods, 22, of Cranleigh Road, Bournemouth, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking, drink driving, two counts of driving under the influence of drugs, driving with no insurance and driving while only holding a provisional licence.

He also admitted breaching a suspended sentenced imposed for assaulting an emergency worker and a failure to surrender and appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court for sentencing on December 8.

The defendant took the keys to his girlfriend’s Mercedes whilst she was sleeping, left the address, taking the car with him on December 31, 2020.

He drove round the Bournemouth area at speed with no headlights illuminated.

Woods approached a T-junction in Newcombe Road and made “no effort to apply the brakes”.

He travelled straight through the T-junction and collided with a house on the opposite side of the road, causing significant damage to both the property and the vehicle.

Judge Brian Forster QC sentenced Woods to ten months imprisonment for dangerous driving and two months for breaching the suspended sentence, to be served consecutively.

Janis Zalitis and Jonathan Richmond Keith

Two men have been jailed for a ‘Goldilocks-style’ burglary on the house of two serving soldiers.

Janis Zalitis, 30, and Jonathan Richard Keith, 41, both of no fixed abode, admitted raiding the house in Seager Way, Poole, on July 18 of this year, stealing items such as a speaker, a watch worth £800 and a specially engraved bottle of whiskey.

Keith also pleaded guilty to arson relating to a mental health treatment centre in Bournemouth on July 25 after nurses said they weren’t able to find him accommodation.

The defendants were discovered just after midnight after a local resident saw a pair of legs going through the window of the address.

Keith told officers in interview he was homeless and had been told he could sleep at the address.

Ms Talbot-Hadley said among the items stolen included army-issued sunglasses, two watches were £800 and £500 and two Apple TV boxes.

On July 25, Keith went to Hahnemann House, an NHS property, to seek help in relation to his homelessness.

He became angry after being told the nurses couldn’t provide accommodation and set fire to a coffee cup before pushing it through the letter box.

Judge Robert Pawson sentenced Keith to 14 months for the burglary and four months for the arson, making 18 months in total. Zalitis was sent to prison for 10 months.

Akash Krishna Shrestha

A man crept into student accommodation and broke into a flat before sexually assaulting a woman.

The victim told her attacker, who also attempted to sexually assault a second female, he “took away their right to privacy” and the “right to sleep without being sexually assaulted”.

Akash Krishna Shrestha, 25, of Portland Road, Bournemouth, admitted sexually assaulting a woman and trespassing with the intent to sexually assault in Bournemouth in September 2021.

The two women had been in bed since about 11pm when Shrestha crept into the building behind a group of people at around 5am.

The first victim woke with the lights off, she had gone to sleep with them on.

She saw a figure standing over her in her room and tried to cover herself with the duvet when the defendant took off his trousers and underwear and got onto her bed.

Shrestha started kissing her and put his hands in her knickers when she managed to get away and leave.

The defendant then went into another room and pulled the blanket off the woman. She shouted at him and he left the room.

Judge Brian Forster QC sentenced Shrestha to four and a half years imprisonment with an extended licence period of five years.