THESE are some of the latest cases either tried in South Cumbria, or with links here.

'The operator, the man on the ground, and the addict' - Men jailed for flooding Barrow with Class A drugs

Three men have been jailed for conspiracy to supply class A drugs from Merseyside to the streets of Barrow.  Brady Cole, Daniel Bullock, and Tony Miller have all been sent to prison for their roles in a county lines drug supply chain run via a phone line labelled by police as the ‘Jimmy Line’.

The ‘director’ of the line - Cole, 31, of East Lane in Runcorn - was sentenced to four years and four months in prison his leading role.

‘The man on the ground’ - Bullock, 30, of Raleigh Street in Barrow - was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his significant role.

Miller, 35, of Annan Street in Barrow, was sentenced to two years in prison for his lesser significant role.

Hefty ban for drink driver double the limit

Joseph Sayers Oliver drove in on Milnthorpe Road in Kendal while over the legal limit on April 15.

Oliver, 31, of High Street in Sutton, Cambridgeshire, had 71 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, over the limit of 35.

At South Cumbria Magistrates' Court he was fined £700 and banned from driving for 36 months. He was told to pay a victim surcharge of £70 and £85 costs.

Sex offender browsed 'incognito' and failed to declare devices

Carlton Robert Taylor, 63, was sentenced by a judge in 2017 for illegal child image crimes which emerged as he travelled to Canada.

He was handed a suspended prison sentence with community requirements.

As part of that punishment, he was also made subject to the strict terms of sex offender notification requirements and a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).

But he was found to have breached both after police attended his address on March 17, 2020.

“Police, on searching the property, found 30 credit cards, 14 mobile telephones, 13 iPads, five laptops, three routers and numerous USB memory devices,” prosecutor Tim Evans told the crown court today.

Taylor, of Romney Road, Kendal, admitted twice breaching notification requirements by failing to declare both financial accounts numbering more than 20, and social media profile name aliases.

He also admitted flouting the SHPO in two occasions: by searching websites while in “incognito mode” thus not retaining web history, and not declaring a large number of internet-enabled devices without monitoring software fitted.

Barrow GP stopped for drink driving after taking son to nursery

Dr Rachael Bartrum landed herself in court after concerned staff at the nursery called police because they could smell alcohol on her, it was said.  Officers stopped the GP, who is employed by Duke Street Surgery in Barrow, in the car park of the South Lakeland nursery as she was about to drive away.  

Magistrates agreed a report on Bartrum should be compiled with the probation service before she could be sentenced.

They imposed an interim ban from driving on the doctor.

Woman who stole £2k avoids prison

Alice Sagar admitted she took £2,210 from Doris Wood in Milnthorpe between April 2 and May 8.

The 22-year-old defendant, of Burton Road in Holme, was handed a 16-week prison sentence suspended for two years and 150 hours of unpaid work by Preston Magistrates' Court. She was told to pay £5,000 in compensation.

'Police will be relentless' - Man jailed for supplying heroin and cocaine

Adrian Domanski, 23, of no fixed abode, was jailed for two years and eight months for his role in supplying heroin and cocaine in the Barrow area when he appeared at Preston Crown Court.

'An appalling example to set' - Mum kicked and stamped on teen during mob attack

Victoria Nelson kicked and stamped on a teenager during a sickening mob attack which was caught on camera and also involved her three sons.‬

Nelson stamped on the teen as he lay defenceless on the floor, and held on to him as her sons meted out further violence.

Nelson was given a 12-month prison sentence. Judge Barker observed that she had spent 313 days either remanded in custody or subject to a qualifying curfew, and heard this was likely to mean she had already served her sentence.‬

Nelson’s three sons received suspended sentences earlier this year, and a fourth defendant was given a youth rehabilitation order.

Barrow fare dodger given hefty fine by court

Jackson Shepard, Chestnut Walk, Barrow failed to pay a £2.70 fare for travelling between Roose and Barrow on March 31.  He had to pay £406.70.

Pensioner gets £400 bill after stealing items worth £26

A shoplifter who stole items worth £26 from B&M Bargains in Kendal has been ordered to pay £434 in fines and costs by a court.

Derek Roy Bigley, 67, of Hall Park in Burneside, admitted he stole from the store when he appeared before Barrow Magistrates' Court.

Man sentenced after drug-driving in supermarket car park

Ryan James Arrowsmith, 40, drove a Fiat in the car park of Asda in Barrow while the proportion of cannabis in his blood - at five micrograms per litre - exceeded the specified limit of two micrograms per litre.

Arrowsmith, of Ayr Street, committed the offence on August 9 of this year.

He was fined £120 at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court in Barrow.