Megi Rychlikova

2 weeks ago | yorkpress.co.uk | Megi Rychlikova

The church raids were part of a month-long crime spree by Shane Betts which included him raiding staff huts and a shop at RHS Harlow Carr Gardens in Harrogate on three consecutive nights. Judge Alex Menary said the 30-year-old’s crimes cost the victims between £10,000 and £15,000 in replacing items and repairing the damage he caused getting into the properties and netted him a haul of 40 items of all kinds, not all of which had been recovered.

2 weeks ago | yorkpress.co.uk | Megi Rychlikova

Laura Cowper, 40, of Fossway, off Malton Road, York, denied stealing washing products worth £84.10 from Co-op’s Tang Hall Lane store. She was convicted in her absence of that charge and of failure to attend her trial and was given a 24-week prison sentence including 18 weeks previously suspended for other offences and a warrant issued for her arrest. She will have to pay £84.10 compensation. Steven Smith, 39, of Tudor Road, Acomb, pleaded guilty to sexual communication with a child.

2 weeks ago | yorkpress.co.uk | Megi Rychlikova

The case of Brian Pearce, 76, was sent to the Attorney General because a member of the public believed his sentence was too lenient. Pearce was jailed for two years and 10 months at York Crown Court earlier this year for sexual activity in the presence of a child in Ryedale. The offence was committed some years ago. The Attorney General can refer certain types of cases, including sex cases, to the Court of Appeal if he believes the defendant should have received a higher sentence.

2 weeks ago | yorkpress.co.uk | Megi Rychlikova

Leeds Crown Court (PA) (Image: Newsquest) The jury in the York bedsit murder trial has been discharged for legal reasons. Michael Mulvana, 31, of Bright Street, off Leeman Road, York, and Jobie Tyers, 31, of Osbaldwick Travellers Site will now face a new trial next year at Leeds Crown Court. They both deny murdering Indrit Mustafaj, 26, of Bradford, on November 23 last year, and other charges. They were remanded in custody.

2 weeks ago | yo1radio.co.uk | Megi Rychlikova

He alleged Tyers was wearing shorts on a cold night when he had turned up at the friend’s house with Michael Richard Mulvana, 31, on the evening Indrit Mustafaj, 26, of Bradford, was stabbed to death in a bedsit in Vyner Street, off Haxby Road. The friend told the jury he later saw trousers, a top and a baseball cap he didn’t recognise in his back garden.