South Essex crooks put behind bars in crown court this month

A THUG hurled vile racial slurs at a police officer after attacking his partner during a drug and booze binge.

Brett Adams left a woman with a black eye, bruised arms and a lump on her head following the attack in Basildon.

The 33-year-old, of no fixed address, had previously been given a suspended sentence for cocaine possession and was wearing an electronic tag.

However, he ripped of the tag to go on the alcohol and drug binge before launching the attack.

He was sentenced at Southend Crown Court yesterday and was jailed for 22 weeks.

The court also heard he had elbowed the victim, leaving her with the black eye on August 12.

He had been given a suspended sentence for cocaine possession weeks before these incidents.

The victim spoke in court and told the hearing he would “never intentionally hurt her and they loved and missed each other”. The suspended sentence was extended until June next year with 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

He admitted two counts of common assault, three counts of criminal damage, two counts of racially aggravated intentional harassment and harassment.

TWO men who killed a fellow dealer for “selling drugs on their patch” in Pitsea have been jailed.

Jeffrey Goodwin, 26, Russell Road, Canning Town and Hayden Line, 25, Esmond Close, Rainham will both serve 11 years behind bars for the manslaughter of Dwayne Forrester, 21.

Mr Forrester died in Little Garth in July 2018 after suffering a stab wound to the chest.

Goodwin and Line had both been charged with murder but admitted manslaughter on the third day of a trial which began last week.

During sentencing, prosecutor Edward Brown told Basildon Crown Court the killers had attacked Mr Forrester following a dispute over drug dealing.

He said Line was the one who inflicted the “fatal” wound, with Goodwin offering “encouragement”.

A PAEDOPHILE who manipulated a teenage girl into thinking that his crimes against her were “the norm” has been jailed for 12 years.

Scott Boyling, 49, was found guilty of eight counts of sexual activity with a child following a trial.

He was sentenced at Basildon Crown Court yesterday where the court heard Boyling, of King Edward Road, Basildon, was in “complete denial.”

An investigation into Boyling began in January 2021 and he was quickly charged and remanded.

Yesterday, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

A MAN who was arrested as a result of a paedophile sting during which he had sexual conversations with a fictitious schoolgirl has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

Sentencing Joseph Williams, Recorder Paul Garlick said he had a public duty to pass an immediate prison sentence for such a serious offence.

Williams, 27, now of Lampits Hill, Stanford-Le-Hope, admitted attempting to incite a ten-year-old child to engage in sexual activity, three offences of making indecent images of children and one offence of distributing indecent images of children.

In addition to being jailed he was made the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register.

Ipswich Crown Court court heard that experts who analysed Williams’ mobile phone found one indecent image and six videos in the most serious Level A category, nine Category B indecent images and 19 images in the lowest category of Level C .

Simon Gladwell, mitigating for Williams who formerly lived in Suffolk, said the charge of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity didn’t involve a real child.

A THUG who killed a man by repeatedly hitting him “at least ten times with a hammer” has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murder.

Jurors unanimously convicted Abir Miah of the murder of Paul May, 46, following a two-week trial at Basildon Crown Court.

Mr May, who was from Great Wakering, was found dead in a flat in London Road, Westcliff, on February 13.

Miah, 44, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday. He will have to serve at least 18 years before he is eligible for parole.

During the trial, jurors heard Mr May’s body was found inside the flat after the landlord had gone in to change the locks.

He saw what he believed to be a fake hand under a blanket but when he pulled it back, he discovered Mr May’s body.

When police and paramedics arrived, they found Mr May had sustained a head injury and had defensive injuries to his hands.

Forensic examinations found the victim’s injuries had come from what police called a “frenzied attack with a weapon”, with a pathologist indicating they believed a hammer, or similar weapon, was responsible.

A MAN who was caught brazenly selling more than than 40 “fearsome” and “extremely dangerous” weapons at a car boot sale has been jailed.

Michael Statts, 23, was spotted by police trying to sell combat knives, fake guns, axes, a stun gun and other weapons at Dunton Boot Sale in Basildon.

Southend Crown Court was told yesterday that Statts claimed he did not think what he was doing was illegal.

But Judge Shane Connery rejected the notion, stating Statts was helping to arm others with weapons who intended to use them illegally.

Statts, of Rectory Road, Grays, was jailed for two years for admitting 16 offences, including weapon and drug possession, and drug cultivation.

A SEXUAL predator who police say posed a “dangerous risk” to young, vulnerable women - including children - has been locked up for more than four years.

Jason Sweeney, of Chelmsford Avenue, Southend, has been jailed for four years and three months after demonstrating what detectives called “multiple instances of predatory behaviour” and repeatedly breaching a court order placed on him.

The order was secured by Essex Police Management of Sexual Offenders and Violent Offenders (MOSOVO).

Sweeney, 25, first came to the attention of Essex Police in 2020, when concerns were raised around his behaviour towards children and vulnerable adults.

The force issued Sweeney with a Child Abduction Notice, an intervention tool to prevent predatory behaviour from an adult.

Officers also secured a Sexual Harm Prevention Order on Sweeney and following a routine check on August 28, 2020, he was arrested on suspicion of six counts of breaching this, as well as two counts of not complying with his sexual offender notification requirements.

Following his arrest, investigating officers identified evidence of sexual offences which Sweeney committed against children.

He was charged with eight offences relating to the breaches while MOSOVO continued to investigate the further offences, including engaging in sexual communication with a child and meeting a girl under 16 years following grooming.