Court And Crime Reporter

Ryan Evans

I am Court and Crime Reporter at the Swindon Advertiser. Before that, I was Head of News at the Basingstoke Gazette and Andover Advertiser. Outside of work, I enjoy watching Formula 1 and football, and support Plymouth Argyle.

Latest articles from Ryan Evans

Hobbs was fined £80.

Scaffolder had too many Jägerbombs after darts win - and banged on stranger's door
A SCAFFOLDER had one too many Jägerbombs after winning promotion with his darts team and started banging on a random person’s door, a court has heard.

Michael King

Judge shocked after knifeman ASKS to be sent to prison
A JUDGE was left shocked after a defendant came to court asking to be sent to jail.

Resuli and Kacani worked at La Campagna in Malmesbury, and lived at the flat above on Oxford Street. Inset photo: Getty.

Restaurant worker tried to use fake Spanish ID to get NHS treatment
A WOMAN who tried to illegally enter the country used a fake identity card to attempt to get access to NHS treatment.

PCC Philip Wilkinson's office have locked down their Twitter accounts.

PCC's Twitter account retweets claims NHS staff partied during pandemic

The office of Wiltshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has today announced that it is locking down its Twitter account after the account retweeted comments from a Conservative MP defending the Prime Minister over the partygate scandal.

Sascha Hunsinger, pictured centre, had a cache of more than 13,000 child abuse images during his time in Swindon.

Businessman thought having sexual images of children in 'pain and distress' was legal
A BUSINESSMAN “didn’t realise” downloading abusive images which involved children in “pain and distress” was illegal, a court has been told.

Richie Wright

Brute held ex captive and attacked her in front of son just days after jail release
A SERIAL abuser left his ex-partner “terrified” and covered in bruises after he held her captive in her own home for days, biting her and fracturing her hand.

Callum MacHardie outside Swindon Crown Court on a previous occasion

Sex offender runs out of luck EIGHT DAYS after ‘last chance’ to avoid jail
A SEX offender has finally run out of luck after he was jailed for failing to attend a probation appointment just eight days after he was given a “last chance”.

Meadowcroft in Upper Stratton.

Family of victim who died after robbery face six-month wait for answers
THE family of a man who died following a robbery in Upper Stratton face a near six month wait to find out what charges the assailant will answer.

Kapja, inset, was jailed after the cannabis plants he tended to at Winifred Street were found.

£70,000 cannabis farm rumbled after ‘gardener’ leaves door open
POLICE stumbled upon a cannabis farm with plants worth more than £70,000 after the ‘gardener’ attending to it left the door open whilst he went out to get food.

Simion and Borcos were jailed for running the scheme.

Swindon couple who got rich whilst trafficking sex workers will NOT have sentences increased
They exploited vulnerable women, often from Romania, and shipped them around the country to carry out sex work - taking a large split of their makings.

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