Court reports: Fraud, assault and drug charges across Cornwall

JAY LUKE, 51, of Kingsley Court, Fraddon and THOMAS LUKE, 39, of Edyvean Place, St Austell have been sent to Truro Crown Court for trial after they pleaded not guilty to, between May 2022 and October 2023, when Jay was the business manager and Thomas was the sole director of Best Glaze Windows Doors and Conservatories, failing to carry out statutory contractual obligations by knowingly being party to the business which failed to carry out agreed works and/or return the money paid for those works and/or failing to carry out work with reasonable skill and/or rectify sub-standard works or offer a price reduction for those works which did not conform to contracts and/or failing to provide customers with contractual paperwork and/or failing to order materials which had been paid for and/or using money paid by customers for personal purchases depriving creditors from being able to get their money back. Their case was listed for 5 November.

HOLLIE LUKE, 32, of Edyvean Place, St Austell has been sent to Truro Crown Court for trial after she pleaded not guilty to, between November 2022 and October 2023, being knowingly a party to the carrying on of Best Glaze Windows Doors and Conservatories with intent to defraud creditors. She is alleged to have allowed money paid by customers to be paid into her personal accounts which she is alleged to have used for personal purchases depriving creditors from being able to get their money back. Her case was listed for 5 November.

JOANNE TRIGGS, 51, of Carlton House, Turf Street, Bodmin has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with, between 2019 and 2021 at Mevagissey, committing fraud by making a false representation when requesting a loan of £175,262.45 when she had no intention of paying it back in full; between 2022 and 2023 at Bodmin, making false representation by requesting loans whilst having no intention of repaying them in full intending to make a gain of £25,855, £59,952.91 and £99,844 and, between 2024 and 2025, requesting a loan of £50,982 with no intention of repaying it in full. Her case was listed for 6 November.

LUKE GODLEY, 31, of Elm Villas, Bickland Water Road, Falmouth has been sent to Truro Crown Court for sentence after he was convicted of fraud at North Northumbria Magistrates’ Court. Between December 2022 and August 2023, at Truro, he made a false representation that he would repay all of the £61,110 loaned to him intending to gain the money for himself. He will be sentenced on 29 October.

DARREN HARRISON, 43, of Avallen Close, Mylor Bridge pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to concealing criminal property totalling £364,765.21 namely third-party transfers and payments taken on SumUp machines between April 2018 and October 2024 at Mylor. He was remanded in custody and his case adjourned until 9 December.

AFRIM MYSHKETA, 34, of NFA, has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with arriving at Mylor Yacht Harbour on 27 September and facilitating a breach of immigration law, in that at least 15 non-UK nationals without leave to enter the UK were brought into the country via a yacht, that he entered the country without a valid entry clearance under UK immigration rules and possessed an Italian identity card to establish personal information which was false. He was remanded in custody and his case listed for 27 October.

ROMEO GACE, 28, of NFA, pleaded guilty to arriving at Mylor Yacht Harbour on 27 September without a valid entry clearance. He was committed to Truro Crown Court for sentence on 27 October and was remanded in custody.

LOUISE LONGAR, 29, of Hawkins Road, Newquay pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer at Hawkins Road on 5 October. She was fined £450 and ordered to pay the officer £100 compensation.

LINDAN BLACKSHAW, 28, of Higher Tower Road, Newquay pleaded not guilty to assaulting three police officers, using threatening behaviour towards a man at Cliff Road, Newquay and assaulting a man at Newquay Police Station on 2 October; not guilty to assaulting two police officers at Plymouth on 28 July and not guilty to causing £780 worth of damage to a glass door belonging to Plymouth City Council on 7 May.

He pleaded guilty to possessing a knife at The Towan Blystra on 2 October; being drunk and disorderly on Carkeel Roundabout on 28 July; stealing £29.54 worth of food from McDonalds in Saltash on 22 July and £9.88 worth of food from McDonalds on 19 July; sending a grossly offensive message by the public communications network on 5 June; possessing cannabis at Charles Cross Police Station in Plymouth on 14 May and persistently making use of the public communications network to cause annoyance on 17 April. He has also been charged with possessing an axe on Cornwall Street, Plymouth on 14 May. His case was adjourned until 16 November and he was released on conditional bail to live and sleep at his Newquay address.

JAMIE SEDGMAN, 42, of NFA, St Austell and Bugle was sent to prison for eight months after he pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to assaulting a police officer at City Road, Truro on 13 July, to assaulting a man at Truro on 15 September and breaching a criminal behaviour order when, on 15 September at Truro, he made threats and intimidated a person and, on 14 September and 13 July, being in possession of an open container of alcohol at Truro.

BLAKE FINING, 22, of Biddicks Court, St Austell pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man at High Cross Street, St Austell on 7 March. He will be sentenced on 11 November and was released on conditional bail not to go to The Station Bar (also known as The Club) at High Cross Street, St Austell or contact two men.

SHANE GERMAN, 45, of NFA, St Austell has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged jointly, with SHANNON READ, of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent on a man at Camborne in July 2024. His case was listed for 6 November.

In a separate case, he pleaded guilty to burgling the Royal British Legion in St Austell on 17 September this year and will be sentenced at Truro Magistrates’ Court on 11 November. He was released on conditional bail not to go to the Royal British Legion.

JO COATES, 32, of Penwinnick Road, St Austell pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman at St Austell on 7 September. The case was adjourned until 17 November for sentence and Coates was released on conditional bail not to go to Stonham Housing at 5 Eastbourne Road, St Austell or contact two females.

ALBERT HAINES, 45, of Fore Street, Bugle changed his plea to guilty at Truro Crown Court on a charge of strangling a woman at Pool on 29 November. He was given a 16-month prison sentence suspended for two years.

THOMAS CARDER, 55, of Baker Street, Exeter changed his plea to guilty at Truro Crown Court on charges of assaulting a woman at West Street, Liskeard on 25 February and assaulting the same woman, occasioning her actual bodily harm, at an address in Camborne on 10 January and assaulting a police officer by beating her at Camborne on 10 January. He was sent to prison for 15 months.

HAMISH WOYKA, 25, of St Martins Green, St Martin pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to assaulting a man and damaging property at his home at St Martins Green on 19 June and, between February and April, damaging wooden panelling, stabbing a wall and putting graffiti on it, smashing pots and plates, plasterboard walls, a bed, chairs, doors, a television, kitchen furniture, stair spindles and a worktop but not guilty to sending a death threat between 16 and 19 February. He was ordered to have 12 months treatment for his mental health, to do 100 hours unpaid work and was made subject to a restraining order not to attend his victim’s home in St Martins Green until 2 October 2028.

ETHAN EVANS-BALL, 26, of NFA, pleaded guilty to assaulting a man at Torpoint on 5 April occasioning him actual bodily harm. He was sent to prison for four months because it was an unprovoked attack of a serious nature against someone doing their job and he has previous convictions for similar offences. He has to pay his victim £600 compensation.

BARRY MCLEAN, 31, of Maple Close, Callington has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with assaulting a woman at Newquay on New Year’s Day occasioning her actual bodily harm and assaulting a man the same day. His case was listed for 6 November and he was released on conditional bail not to enter Sailors nightclub in Newquay.

SAM PLATOW, 27, of Bosparva Lane, Leedstown pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to assaulting a woman occasioning her actual bodily harm but not guilty to strangling her at Truro on 29 August. His case was adjourned and he was released on conditional bail to stay indoors at an address at Queens Park, Wadebridge between 7pm and 7am.

JASON GOVAN, 38, of Penlee Villas, Playing Place has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man at Playing Place on 6 September. His case was listed for 29 October.

BRADLEY HOWE, 30, of Church Street, Helston was found not guilty at Truro Crown Court of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent on a man at Helston in November 2022.

MICHAEL ALLEN, 34, of Poldark Road, Illogan was found guilty at Truro Crown Court of strangling a woman at Falmouth in April 2025. He was given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for two years, put on a three-month curfew to remain at his home between 7pm and 7am, must do 300 hours unpaid work and was made subject to a restraining order not to contact his victim or go to an address in West Tolgus until 20 October 2031.

SAUL HALLIDAY (not Sam as previously reported), 31, of Great Longlands Drive, Carkeel was sentenced to 90 hours unpaid work at Truro Crown Court after being convicted of assaulting a woman at Wilcove in July 2025. He has to pay £200 costs and a £114 surcharge.

GARETH BODILLY, 35, of Gwavas Road, Newlyn has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with threatening to kill a woman and threatening a man with a knife at an address in Newlyn on 30 May. His case was listed for 29 October and he was released on conditional bail not to contact a man or a woman or go to an address in Newlyn.

JONATHAN SIMPSON, 32, of Sandy Lodge Hotel, Newquay was found guilty of engaging in penetrative sex with a girl aged 13 to 15 in the St Austell area. He was sent to prison for six years and was made subject to a restraining order not to contact his victim until 2 October 2036.

JOHNATHON SANDERS, 59, of The Copse, St Austell pleaded guilty to breaching a sexual harm prevention order by failing to register an additional address between 6 September and 9 October. He will be sentenced on 18 November.

SIMON ILIFFE, 55, of Agar Road, St Austell pleaded guilty to making three category B indecent images of a child in July 2025. His case was adjourned until 4 November and he is required to register with the police and is banned from unsupervised contact with anyone aged under 18.

MALCOLM PRIDEAUX, 63, of Prince Parc, Bodmin has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with sexually assaulting a woman between 2013 and 2014 at Bodmin. His case was listed for 6 November.

STEVEN UNDERHILL, 56, of Limmicks Road, St Martin pleaded guilty to sharing a photograph and film which showed, or appeared to show, a woman in an intimate state without her consent at Looe on 1 February. He was given a community order and has to abstain from alcohol until 7 November, have treatment for his mental health and pay his victim £500 compensation. He was made subject to a restraining order not to contact her until 28 September 2028.

ALEXANDER PINO, 57, of Battery Park, Polruan pleaded guilty to making two indecent category B images of children at Fowey in May 2023. He was ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet.

DANIEL THOMPSON, 40, of Woodlands View, Looe has been sent to Truro Crown Court on a charge of failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register on 22 September at Mount Pleasant, Penzance. He was remanded in custody and his case listed for 10 November.

PETER MATTEN, 49, of Mulberry Road, Saltash pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to publishing an obscene article, namely messages discussing sexual abuse of children, on Facebook Messenger and making one category A and four category B indecent images of a child in January 2025. He will stand trial on 23 February and was released on conditional bail not to have unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 16 and any person supervising must be aware of the court case.

BRADLEY UGLADE, 25, of Fourways, Carminow, Bodmin was found not guilty at Truro Crown Court of raping a woman at Bodmin in July 2023. He was made subject to a restraining order not to contact a woman until 30 September 2031.

CLIVE TIDDY, 42, of Alexandra Road, Penzance pleaded not guilty at Truro Crown Court to raping a woman at Hatt in May 2024. He will stand trial on 7 April and was released on conditional bail not to contact three people or go to an area of Callington.

JACK BROWN, 26, of Chyvelah Vale, Gloweth, Truro pleaded guilty to making 46 category A, 35 category B and 41 category C indecent images and videos of a child and possessing extreme pornographic images portraying an act of intercourse with an animal last October. He was given a six-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months. Magistrates noted the seriousness of the offences against young, vulnerable victims and the extreme nature and amount of images.

DUNCAN RAPLEY, 45, of Bedruthan Avenue, Truro has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with making 63 category A, 46 category B and 20 category C indecent images of a child. His case was listed for 6 November and he was released on conditional bail not to have unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18.

JAMES BIDMEAD, 31, of Dracaena Avenue, Falmouth was found guilty at Truro Crown Court of raping a woman at Falmouth in April 2024. He will be sentenced on 30 October and was remanded on conditional bail with a 7pm to 7am curfew and a ban on contacting his victim.

LESLIE HICKS, 79, of Green Lane, Redruth was successful in his application to discharge a sexual harm prevention order made in July 2014.

OLIVER ABRAZADO, 50, of Treganoon Road, Mount Ambrose has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with raping and sexually assaulting a woman at Redruth in October 2024. His case was listed for 6 November and he was released on conditional bail not to contact his alleged victim or go to an address in Redruth.

JOHN INWOOD, 35, of Vince Close, Bournemouth will stand trial at Truro Crown Court on 4 May charged with engaging in coercive behaviour at Saint Austell between 2023 and 2025. He is alleged to have been physically abusive including strangulation with persistent verbal abuse and unwanted contact, criminal damage, unauthorised transactions from her bank account, isolating her from friends and pressuring her into accepting responsibility for a speeding offence. He was released on conditional bail not to enter an area of St Austell or contact four females.

CALLUM STARR, 27, of Tryelyn, Bodmin pleaded guilty to stalking a woman at Blisland between January and February by sending unwanted messages and making telephone calls which he knew, or ought to have known, amounted to harassment. He was given a community order to have 12 months treatment for his mental health, fined £120 and made subject to a restraining order limiting his contact with the victim and not to enter an address in Bodmin until 7 October 2027.

MARIO FONTES, of Higher Bore Street, Bodmin was made subject to a 28-day domestic violence protection notice on 3 October not to threaten or contact a woman or go to an address on Furze Hill, Bodmin.

ANDREW TUCKER, 51, of Widemouth Bay Caravan Park, Poundstock was made subject to a 28-day domestic violence protection notice on 3 October not to threaten or contact a woman or go to an address in Trowbridge.

DENIS DIMITROV, 30, of NFA, Newquay has been sent to prison for 22 months after he pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to possessing cocaine with intent to supply at Newquay on 16 August. He denied possessing 2.74g of cannabis and acquiring £5100 and 23 Euros of criminal property – these counts will remain on file.

HRISTO HRISTOV, 18, of NFA, Newquay pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to possessing cocaine with intent to supply at Newquay on 16 August. He was sent to prison for 21 months.

SONNY COUGHLAN, 34, of Butts Park, Lostwithiel pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to supplying cannabis at Lostwithiel between May and December 2024 and being concerned with the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on importing cannabis. He was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years and will have to do 150 hours unpaid work.

JACQUELINE BRAY, 51, of Church Street, Falmouth pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to permitting the use of 9 Whiteley Close, Truro for the supply of heroin between 27 March and 9 April. She was found not guilty of being concerned in the supply of heroin (diamorphine) and cocaine when the prosecution offered no evidence. She will be sentenced on 13 November and was released on conditional bail to live and sleep at her home at Old Chapel Yard, Church Street, Falmouth and not to contact a man.

JORDAN DULSON, 35, of Orchard Grove, St Austell pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to possessing a hole-making tool on Moorland Road, St Austell on 18 July. He will be sentenced on 4 November.

AARON COTON, 32, of Higher Road Pensilva pleaded guilty to, on 8 May at Liskeard, using racially aggravated behaviour towards a man. He was fined £645 and ordered to pay his victim £250 compensation.

GARY BEATSON, 52, of St Austell Road, St Blazey Gate was found not guilty at Truro Crown Court when the prosecution offered no evidence on a charge of stalking a woman involving serious alarm/distress.

JONATHON OXLEY, 47, of Beresford Street, Plymouth pleaded guilty to stalking a woman at Torpoint in February. He made unwanted contact by turning up at her home and contacting her by texts and phone calls. He was fined £1107 and made subject to a restraining order until 28 September 2028 not to contact his victim or enter an address at Millbrook except for on one occasion, with a police officer, to collect his property.

CONNOR MCCONNELL, 34, of NFA, Bodmin has been sent to Truro Crown Court for sentence after he pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order on 11 May which was made by the Crown Court in April 2025. He admitted attending an address in Bodmin that he was prohibited from attending.

JANE WEBB, 54, of NFA, pleaded not guilty to harassing a man by making repeated calls, leaving voicemails and tagging him in posts and destroying bottles and glasses at Wadebridge on 11 March. Her case was adjourned and she was released on conditional bail not to enter Cornwall unless for a court appearance or contact her alleged victim. Webb has also been charged with damaging a Citroen car belonging to a woman at Truro on 20 May.

HARRY DINGLE, 20, and TILLY UDY, 21, of St Wenn, Bodmin pleaded guilty to sending a grossly offensive visual and audio clip over the public communications network at Bodmin in April 2025. They will be sentenced on 11 November.

JOSHUA WILSON, 27, of Tower Road, Newquay pleaded guilty to numerous charges of stealing from shops and breaching a criminal behaviour order by entering Spar in Dean Street, Liskeard on 12 July. He was given a total custodial period of 22 weeks suspended for two years. Magistrates noted his prolific history of offending, his previous breach of a court order, the number of offences committed whilst on court orders and the number of offences in a short period.

THOMAS STONE-PARREN, 31, of Fore Street, St Stephen pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court to causing serious injury, a suspected broken eye socket and facial bruising, to a woman by driving a VW Transporter dangerously on the B3279 at St Columb on 11 September, to failing to stop after the accident, driving whilst disqualified and with 80 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath exceeding the limit of 35. He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 6 November.

RYAN TOZER, 26, of Rose Hill, Lostwithiel pleaded guilty to causing serious injury to a man by driving a BMW without due care and attention on Penpillick Hill, Par in August 2024. He was given an eight-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months. The court heard he was driving at excessive speed in poor road conditions and of the lasting impact of the injuries the victim received. Tozer was ordered to have 12 months treatment for his mental health and was banned from driving for 18 months.

KYLA LEMAR, 48, of Tresavean Flats, Lanner, Redruth has been sent to Truro Crown Court charged with causing serious injury to a man at Grampound in November 2024 by driving her Kia without due care and attention and failing to give information relating to the identity of the driver of the vehicle. She has also been charged with possessing cocaine at Camborne on 3 October; attempting to steal £400 worth of goods from Tesco in Redruth on 28 March; stealing clothes worth £318 from Seasalt in Falmouth on 13 February and spirits and items, worth £250, from Tesco in Redruth on 19 June. Her case was listed for 6 November.

She has pleaded guilty to causing approximately £800 worth of damage to windows at Sandy Lodge Hotel, Newquay in September 2024; using a vehicle without a licence following a disqualification and without insurance on Tregolls Road, Truro on 20 November 2024 and failing to provide a specimen of blood for analysis on 21 November and assaulting a woman at Camborne in March 2025. She was given an interim driving ban and will be sentenced at Truro Magistrates’ Court on 10 November. She was released on conditional bail to live at her address in Lanner and not to sit in the front seat of any vehicle.

OCCUPIERS of vehicles on land at Polkyth Car Park, St Austell and Towan Headland Car Park, Newquay have been ordered by magistrates to remove vehicles, property and any person residing in them.

MICHAEL RICHARDS, 35, of Ocean Rise, Scredda, St Austell changed his plea to guilty on a charge of knowingly causing controlled waste, namely roof tiles and vehicle tyres, to be deposited on Minorca Lane, Bugle without a permit. He was fined £649 and ordered to pay a £260 surcharge and £1500 costs.