A MAN who embarked on a three-year cyberstalking campaign and a speeding driver who killed a 14-year-old girl are among those to have been sentenced over the last month.
Here is a look back at three court cases we have covered during September:
- David Hughes
A man who carried out a three-year cyberstalking campaign against a colleague was jailed for two years and eight months.
David Hughes, 41, of Harris Street, Dentons Green, was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, September 5 after he pleaded guilty to stalking involving serious alarm between February 2018 and July last year; unauthorised computer access with intent to commit other offences and voyeurism.
Hughes hounded the woman after she ended their fling and had hacked the social media accounts of his stalking victim, repeatedly changing her passwords and even following one of her young children on Instagram.
Chillingly he sent her a Valentine card drenched in his aftershave and she was horrified to realise he had found out where she lived.
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- Brandon Turton
A driver who killed 14-year-old Courtney Ellis while travelling at “grossly excessive speed” has been jailed.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Brandon Turton had embarked upon a “persistent and prolonged” period of dangerous driving when he hit Haydock High pupil Courtney Ellis on Blackbrook Road on the night of September 19, 2020.
At the sentencing hearing at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday, September 14, it was said Turton had been driving a Renault Megane at between 73 and 93 mph at the time he hit Courtney, who was killed instantly.
Turton's car had been racing against another vehicle earlier that evening in the lead-up to the crash.
The judge said Turton had driven at “grossly excessive speed” and made “a deliberate decision to ignore, or a flagrant disregard, for the rules of the road”.
Turton, 21, of Borron Road, Newton-le-Willows, was sentenced to six years and nine months.
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- Thomas Clarke
A property manager who submitted fake building cladding safety forms to feed his gambling addiction was given a suspended sentence.
Thomas Clarke, 33, fraudulently completed the documents which were introduced in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people in 2017.
He signed off a total of 55 EWS1 (External Wall System) forms in the name of an ex-colleague without her knowledge and netted £6,000.
On Wednesday, Clarke, of Second Avenue, Rainhill, received a 15-month custodial term, suspended for two years, after he pleaded guilty last month to fraud by false representation.
Read the full report here.
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