Defendants have included a pensioner jailed for multiple rapes and a chef who attacked his ex-partner when he found her 'in a state of intimacy' with a man.

John Price

A one-legged man who groped women on Bristol buses has been jailed.

Wheelchair-bound John Price admitted the indecent behaviour between August and October last year.

The 47-year-old, of Mardale Close in Southmead, pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual assault.

He appeared at Bristol Magistrates' Court on Friday (June 14, 2019), which is able to accommodate disabled defendants.

Judge William Hart, appearing via video link from Bristol Crown Court, jailed him for 16 months.

He told Crossley: "Women have suffered untold trauma and upset.

"You labour under very significant physical difficulties.

"You get intoxicated and you have no boundaries when you are in contact with women."

Connor Coltman

Connor Coltman was jailed for his crime

 

A cyclist who slammed into a pensioner, leaving her with life-threatening injuries, has been jailed.

Connor Coltman was pedalling at speed when he collided with Angela Horseman as she crossed East Street in Bedminster.

Having stopped momentarily as 70-year-old Mrs Horseman lay unconscious in the road Coltman, who thought he had killed her, fled the scene.

He was later picked up, wearing a change of clothes, on the train track between Bedminster and Bristol Temple Meads.

Coltman was due to face a four day trial in October.

But today (June 13, 2019) the 27-year-old, of East Street, Bedminster, pleaded guilty to causing bodily harm to Angela Horseman by wanton or furious driving - legislation dating back to 1861.

He also admitted a charge of failing to appear at court.

Judge William Hart jailed him for 16 months.

He told Coltman: "Mrs Horseman faced the most serious of injuries yet you who caused it face a sentence, if convicted after trial, which could only merit two years.

"Where death is caused there could be a manslaughter charge.

"This is not so here.

"There was inflicting grievous bodily harm as an alternative charge, but the crown has not pursued that."

Simon Inker

Simon Inker

A householder watched in horror as an intruder plundered from his home.

Prolific burglar Simon Inker entered the flat in Paddock Close, Bradley Stoke, and helped himself to property.

Due to an earlier incident the occupant had set up a CCTV security camera and, after receiving an alert on his mobile phone, watched the raid in progress.

He rushed home from work with a colleague, police were called, and Inker was arrested.

All the stolen property was recovered, Bristol Crown Court heard.

Inker, 44, of Rackham Close in Bristol, pleaded guilty to the burglary committed in April.

Judge Julian Lambert jailed him for three years and six months.

He told Inker: "You have 13 dwelling burglaries on your list.

"You had a harsh early life blighted by addiction to controlled drugs.

"That gives you no right to blight the lives of others by invading their homes and stealing from them.

"The terror and distress you engender tends to be life-long."

Damon Jefferies

Damon Jefferies

A man about to be jailed for breaching a suspended sentence vaulted from the dock and sped out of court.

Damon Jefferies had just been handed a six months jail term at Bristol Crown Court.

But the 32-year-old, of Bedminster Down, leapt from the dock of Court Nine - hotly persued by court staff - and managed to flee the building in Small Street.

Police now have the job of arresting him.

Jefferies appeared before Judge Euan Ambrose for breaching the terms of a suspended prison sentence.

In February 2018 he was handed a 12 months jail term, suspended for two years, after admitting controlling behaviour in a relationship.

As part of his suspended sentence a judge imposed 150 hours' unpaid work, a rehabilitation requirement and a Building Better Relationships course.

Having failed to comply with the order on three occasions, in January this year a judge handed him an additional seven hours' unpaid work.

Today (June 12, 2019) Nicholas Fridd, prosecuting, said Jefferies had failed to attend unpaid work on multiple occasions and was still yet to begin his Building Better Relationships Course or rehabilitation.

John Stokes, defending, said a probation report suggested Jefferies now accepted he needed support and was discussing his life more honestly.

But Judge Ambrose told Jefferies: "The proof of the pudding is in the attendance, and the attendance is woeful."

He activated six months of Jefferies' previously suspended prison sentence.

Gary Randall

Gary Randall used stiletto shoe as a weapon

When a woman told a man to leave her home he whacked her in the face with her stiletto shoe.

Shannon Evans told Gary Randall to go after he received a call from his girlfriend, Bristol Crown Court heard.

But instead of leaving he put her in a headlock, picked up one of her shoes and hit her in the head with it five to six times.

Randall, 26, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the incident in June last year.

The court was told the matter had taken so long to progress through the system that he had since been sent to prison for 42 months for burglary.

Judge William Hart imposed an eight months jail term, to run concurrent with the 42 months.

He told Evans, who appeared from prison via video link: "In July last year you were sentenced to 42 months for burglary.

"This case should have been dealt with at the same time but was not progressed sufficiently for that to have happened.

"Here you are a year later, having to face up to sentence for that offence."

Max Collings-Wells

Max Collings-Wells

A head chef who attacked his former girlfriend when he found her with another man has been jailed.

Max Collings-Wells was on a night out in Bristol, with Alexandra Dalby and friends, when he found being intimate with the male outside the Ibis hotel.

Having punched the man, Collings-Wells punched Miss Dalby and attacked her again in the hotel lift, Bristol Crown Court heard.

Collings-Wells was to face trial but the 26-year-old, of Middle Street in Harnham, Salisbury, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in October last year.

Judge Julian Lambert jailed him for five months.

He told Collings-Wells: "You were in a jealous rage and in drink when you repeatedly and viciously punched a woman with whom you had previously had a relationship.

"Prison is the only place for a man who commits an offence of this nature."

Lloyd White

Lloyd White

Bad blood between two men resulted in one being stabbed in the backside.

Lloyd White had fallen out with Toussant Jones about a car, Bristol Crown Court heard.

The court was told White and a youth confronted Mr Jones in an incident in which he was stabbed in his right buttock and had his bag stolen.

White, 27 of Heathcote Road in Fishponds, was due to face trial next week but pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and theft in December last year.

Judge Euan Ambrose jailed him for two years and ten months.

The judge told him: "There was significant pre-meditation and you took a leading role."

A 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also pleaded guilty to the offences and will be sentenced next month.

Terrence Brown

Terrence Brown pleaded guilty to the historical sexual abuse of a woman and teenage girl

An 86-year-old Henbury man has been jailed after admitting multiple rape.

Terrence Brown, of Tormarton Crescent, was to due to stand trial in July.

But he appeared at Bristol Crown Court and pleaded guilty to the historical sexual abuse of a woman and teenage girl.

Brown, confined to a mobility scooter, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting and raping the teenage complainant on multiple occasions.

He pleaded guilty to two sexual assaults on the woman.

Judge James Patrick jailed him for 14 years and three months.

The judge told him: "It may very well be that you will die in prison."

He told Brown to register as a sex offender for life.