Ryan Steer s custody shot Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A MAN was so drunk he couldn’t remember delivering a knock-out kick to his neighbour after they’d argued over a bank card. Convicted robber Ryan Steer, who had been released from prison on licence just four months earlier, told police of his surprise at having injured his friend. He had got on well with the victim and would “give him a hug” when he next saw him, contrite Steer told detectives. Jailing the 21-year-old for two years and eight months at Swindon Crown Court this afternoon, Judge Jason Taylor QC said: “I accept that you are remorseful, you are genuinely contrite over the level of injury you caused.
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Bamir Cukaj and, right, the Jury s Inn Pictures: WILTSHIRE POLICE/ADVER A MEMBER of a drugs line that had taken over a room at the Jury’s Inn hotel was arrested when he came downstairs to pay for a takeaway food delivery. Now, the prime mover in the Walker drugs line, which was estimated to have made £90,000 over 81 days in late 2017 and early 2018, has been jailed for almost six years. Sending Bamir Cukaj to prison for five years and 10 months, Judge Jason Taylor QC said the dealing “left a trail of destruction in its wake”. Swindon Crown Court heard that staff at the Jury’s Inn, in Swindon town centre, grew suspicious after the fresh-faced dealers paid for the room in cash in December 2017, and called police.
A FORMER special constable who was jailed for trying to get her son off a speeding offence has been suspended from the nursing register. Care home deputy manager Karen Ravenscroft, then 61, was sent to prison for five months in 2019 after she admitted perverting the course of justice. Her son, Andrew, was caught speeding in Southampton in 2017. But she gave him a cover story, writing to Hampshire police telling them the man had a business meeting at her care home on the same day as the speeding offence and falsified a visitors’ book to back-up the lie. The Swindon judge who jailed her told the former Wiltshire police special inspector: “The message must be crystal clear – you cannot seek to pervert the course of justice.”
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Aurel Korreshi Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE A DRUG dealer’s delivery driver was watched handing over cocaine to a man outside a nightclub. Aurel Korreshi was sent postcodes and told where to go by his bosses, Swindon Crown Court heard. The 34-year-old Albanian national claimed he’d turned to the illegal trade as his planned job had fallen through, he had nowhere to live and he was being forced to pay off significant debts. Jailing him for three years, Judge Jason Taylor QC said Korreshi had been playing a significant role. “You were delivering drugs to order that’s an operational function because you were driving from place to place, you were looking to make a significant financial advantage to pay off your hefty debts.
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Swindon Crown Court A WOMAN who panicked and drove over another’s leg walked from court with a £100 fine and six penalty points. Rebecca Timmins had been due to stand trial charged with causing injury by dangerous driving after running down the female driver on the A4 near Beckhampton on October 18, 2019. The 42-year-old denied the allegation but, after discussions between the lawyers, returned to Swindon Crown Court on Thursday to plead guilty to careless driving. The plea was accepted. Prosecutor Susan Cavender said Timmins was on the A4 between Marlborough and Calne when she was overtaken by her victim, who was in a dark grey Ford Galaxy. The woman’s child was with her in the car.