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Jack Nottle found himself standing in the bedroom of someone he’d known since school, shouting I dont want to stab you.

Hayley Fortune was on her way home from a holiday in Devon when she took the wrong turning out of a filling station

Harvey, aged 32, now of Greenbank Road, Barnstaple, admitted five counts of fraud or unfair trading and was jailed for two years and eight months.

Court Reporter Police issued CCTV image of Smith at the leisure centre - Credit: DC Police A Peeping Tom left a 15-year-old swimmer terrified of getting changed when he used a mobile phone to film her over the top of a cubicle.  Edward Smith locked himself in a neighbouring cubicle in the mixed gender changing area as a group of swimmers aged ten to 17 were ending a training session.  He waited for the swimmers to get out and then held his hand up to take photos of the naked girl, who screame...

Court Reporter Travis Cody and Deane Garland - Credit: DC Police A pair of burglars have been jailed after they were caught red-handed by a householder who watched the raid live on his phone.  Travis Cody and Deane Garland broke into the ground floor flat in Barnstaple without realising that they had been recorded by the internet enabled video doorbell system.  Tenant Daniel Simmons was able to see them entering his property and watch them searching it through CCTV cameras inside it which sen...

A hotel sous chef has been jailed for 24 years for raping five women after plying two with spiked drinks during an 18-month period. Tom Wade-Allison, 25, made drinks for some of the victims which left them feeling blank, exhausted and in an out of body experience. The court heard he drugged some of the young women with an unknown substance to make them vulnerable to what a judge called his campaign of rape in Somerset and east Devon. Judge Timothy Rose said: You remain a danger to women. You ...

Hotel chef who raped women after spiking their drinks jailed Tom Wade-Allison was described as a dangerous and offender who thought he would not get caught. Tom Wade-Allison, 24, has been jailed for a campaign of rape in Somerset and Devon (Image: Avon and Somerset Police) GET THE BIGGEST STORIES FROM ACROSS SOMERSET STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOXInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Y...

Court Reporter Exeter Crown Court. Picture: Archant - Credit: Archant A drug driver has been banned after he crashed his car during a police chase in North Devon.  James Brogan was so high on cannabis that he lit a cigarette in the wreckage of his vehicle as police tried to free him and giggled while he was being treated in hospital.  He had been celebrating his 24th birthday the night before the crash last July and drove so erratically on the North Devon link road that other drivers alerted ...

Mans arm slashed to the bone with broken bottle over £150 debt Dealer William Brown tricked the man before lunging at him with the bottle William Brown, 21, from Liverpool, stabbed a man with a bottle in a row over drugs money Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes the...

A hotel chef has been convicted of raping five women after plying them with spiked drinks.    Serial sex predator Tom Wade-Allison, 25, claimed the sexual encounters - which included a threesome with two women - were all consensual. Exeter Crown Court heard he carried out a series of rapes and sex attacks on the women, aged between 17 and 20, in Somerset and Devon during an 18-month period in 2016 and 2017. The prosecution claim he took advantage of them when they were too drunk to consent a...