CRIMINALS locked up in January included a man who killed his girlfriend’s unborn baby, a man who brutally assaulted his neighbour and a man who indecently assaulted two women in the water at Bournemouth beach.
Below are the people put behind bars for offences committed in Dorset this January.
Asa Davison
A ‘controlling’ man was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 12 years after being found guilty of attacking his girlfriend and killing her unborn baby.
Asa Davison was convicted of child destruction, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice following a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.
The first two offences related to an incident in Gillingham, Dorset, in May 2020, while the second assault was committed four months later.
The last matter involved the defendant encouraging his girlfriend to make a false statement to police on several occasions while he was remanded in custody.
Davison, 35 and of Gillingham, was handed a life sentence on Thursday, January 6, by the Honourable Mrs Justice Cutts with a minimum term of 12 years.
He will only be considered for release by the parole board after serving the minimum term.
Russell Wigley
A man brutally assaulted his neighbour who owed him £20 in a lockdown attack, fracturing his eye socket, while living in a “pressure cooker” environment.
Russell Wigley, 35, of Aylesbury Road, Bournemouth, was jailed for four years after being found guilty of committing grievous bodily harm with intent to Jason Paterson in Bemister Road on April 29, 2020.
Wigley had fallen out with the victim on a number of occasions previously and had lent him £20 before the attack.
At around 4.30am, Mr Paterson went to the bathroom. Upon coming back out, an alcohol-fuelled Wigley grabbed hold of him and started repeatedly punching him to the left side of the face.
Wigley then stamped on his head while the victim was on the floor. The victim suffered fractures to his left eye socket and left side of his face which required an operation.
Kuku Machhal
Kuku Machhal's offending was described as "disgraceful" by a judge who sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment.
Portsmouth Crown Court heard that Machhal, aged 31, sexually assaulted two strangers in two separate incidents on the same day in July last year at Bournemouth beach.
Judge David Melville QC said both victims were vulnerable due to the fact that they were in the water.
Machhal's conduct, which took place in front of his group of friends, was "intimidating" and "degrading", the judge said.
Machhal came to the UK from the Punjab state of India in 2015 and he has always been in the country illegally, the court heard.
He was placed on the sex offenders register for five years.
Stefan Kolodziej
A man with a "strong deviant sexual interest" accessed child abuse images within weeks of avoiding an immediate prison term for the same offence.
Stefan Kolodziej received a 12-month suspended sentence in August 2019 after he was convicted of three offences of making indecent images of children.
As early as November that year he once again committed the sick criminality and continued for a period of six months.
Kolodziej, of Westover Road, Bournemouth, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on January 21 for sentencing having previously admitted three counts of making indecent images of a child, one count of failing to comply with sex offenders register notification requirements and breach of the 2019 suspended sentence.
Judge Robert Pawson jailed the defendant for three years at a hearing at Bournemouth Crown Court.
Gary Blake
A husband and wife over claimed the hours they worked in supporting members of the community in a fraud worth around £40,000, a jury concluded.
Gary Blake, aged 58, was found guilty of two counts of fraud following a trial at Salisbury Crown Court.
Marielyn Blake, aged 72, was found not fit to stand trial. After a trial of the facts in her case, the jury made findings of fact in relation to two counts of fraud, two counts of theft and possession of criminal property, namely £352,000 in cash.
The fraud took place between 2014 and 2018 against two companies – Payroll Perfection and Enham Trust – who offer direct payment facilities for residents.
While the services were arranged and agreed by the residents, the payments were funded by Bournemouth Borough Council, so the fraud was in effect against the council tax payer, prosecutor Mark Ruffell said.
The Recorder of Salisbury Judge Andrew Barnett jailed Gary Blake for two years and nine months after thinking "long and hard about what is the right and just solution".
The judge issued Marielyn Blake with a two-year supervision order.
Olatunde Ademuyiwa
A man who was involved in flooding a Bournemouth community with drugs has had his jail term extended after prison staff located a phone inside a picture frame made out of matchsticks.
Olatunde Ademuyiwa, who was a ‘fixer’ in the ‘Scouse Porky’ gang, received an eight-year prison term for two offences of conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin.
This sentence was handed down in January 2020 following a trial in July 2019.
Ademuyiwa, aged 33, was back before the courts this week after an intelligence led search of his cell at HMP Guys Marsh near Shaftesbury unearthed the Huawei smartphone.
The defendant received a six-month prison sentence to run consecutive to his existing term of imprisonment.
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