A MAN who tried to smother his own mother with a pillow and a pervert snared by a paedophile hunter group are among those jailed during June.
It has been another busy month for defendants in the dock across Cheshire and they include another paedophile jailed for 21 years for historic sex offences.
A WINSFORD man who shouted 'just die' as he attempted to suffocate his own mother with a pillow has been jailed.
Steven James Hunt, of Catalan Close, was a live-in carer for his 63-year-old mother at the time of the attack on December 5 last year.
Chester Crown Court heard how the 42-year-old had been out drinking before he arrived back home at around 11.30pm.
He subjected her to taunts about her ill-health, telling her she had given up and to 'go back' to her already deceased parents, before he covered her face and mouth with a pillow.
A sexual predator from Winsford has finally been brought to justice for his despicable assaults on three young girls more than 50 years ago.
Christopher Rollings, of Wharton Road, was handed 21 years in prison after ‘taking the childhood’ away from his victims by sexually assaulting them.
The 76-year-old appeared in Chester Crown Court on Thursday where he was branded an ‘arrogant liar’.
Between 1968 and 1983, Rollings sexually assaulted three young girls and betrayed their trust when he and his victims were living in the Macclesfield area.
A WINSFORD man has been jailed after attacking three schoolchildren at Hartford train station as they made their way home.
Nicky Fallows, of Greenfields, was so drunk at the time, he can barely remember what he did.
Appearing at Warrington Magistrates Court on Friday, June 10, the 37-year-old was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison.
As well as hitting one of the children with a school tie, he pulled another boy’s hair and told another he was gay, in the worrying incident on September 7 last year.
A 27-YEAR-OLD man from Northwich has been sent to prison for more than eight months after not telling police he was staying at a house with a child.
Stephen Bonnett, of Mayfield Road, appeared in Chester Magistrates’ Court on June 16 after pleading guilty to failing to comply with notification requirements.
Between May 6 and 10, 2022, Bonnett failed to notify police within three days of staying in a household for at least 12 hours where a child lives.
A NORTHWICH man who engaged in online sex chats with what he thought were four underage girls was actually communicating with decoys set up by paedophile hunters.
Andrew Gates, 50, of Alan Street, Northwich, pleaded guilty to a total of seven charges, including five offences of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.
He also admitted one offence of causing what he believed was a 14-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity, and one offence of intentionally inciting what he believed was a 13-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity.
A WINSFORD man has been jailed for attacking a police officer just weeks after completing an alcohol abstinence programme.
Daniel David Cross, of Wharton Gardens, assaulted the officer on August 30, 2021, in what was described by magistrates as a deliberate attack.
The 26-year-old was appearing at Chester Magistrates Court on Wednesday, June 15, where he pleaded guilty to the offences and also breaching the terms of a suspended sentence order.
A DRUG dealer who tried to dispose of evidence by throwing it into the Mersey will serve more than six years in prison for his role in a ‘commercial, well-established drugs supply operation’.
Darren Jones, of Clifton Street in Latchford, Warrington, was handed an 81-month sentence at Chester Crown Court on Wednesday, June 22, after being caught in the supply of cocaine three times in 18 months.
The 29-year-old – who was also linked to a property in Northwich – was first arrested after being stopped by police on July 1, 2019.
A MAN pulled over on the M6 near Tabley who was found in possession of a Samurai sword and a knife, has been jailed.
Adrian Gillett was driving a white BMW on May 4, when officers pulled him over by junction 19.
Not only was the 48-year-old driving with no insurance, but he was also driving a vehicle he wasn’t legally allowed to get behind the wheel of.
Gillett was appearing at Chester Magistrates Court on Friday, June 24, to be sentenced after he admitted being in possession of a bladed article in a public place and the two motoring offences, at a hearing on May 24.
A TEEN has been jailed after he and another man burst into the bedroom of a couple in their 70s and threatened them with a hammer before ripping jewellery off the woman’s wrist.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named due to legal reasons, entered the married couple’s home via an unlocked back door and subjected them to a terrifying ordeal.
The pair had been on St George’s Road on December 22 last year and had already knocked on one door asking if they could do any guttering work.
Jailing the teen, from Accrington, at Chester Crown Court to four years and eight months, Judge Steven Everett condemned his behaviour as 'selfish, arrogant and violent'.
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