File image of Kik application DETECTIVES found hundreds of child sex abuse images on an Oxford man’s phone. Police seized Graham Crozier’s mobile after receiving a tip-off in 2018 linking him to downloading indecent images of children. They executed a warrant at the 42-year-old’s home on July 4, 2018, Oxford Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Jonathan Sank said: “Crozier denied being the reason that they were in attendance; their warrant was linked to searching for devices that contained indecent images of children. “The following day he telephoned the police, saying he had information for the investigating officer. The day after that the officer visited him and he explained he had seen an indecent image on Kik messenger.”
File image of cannabis Picture: PEXELS A cannabis farmer was spared an immediate term behind bars. Donatas Rulys, 34, was caught in a house in Barns Road, Oxford, when police raided the suspected cannabis factory on April 26. Prosecutor Cathy Olliver told Oxford Crown Court that Rulys had answered the door. Inside were 155 mature cannabis plants. Sentencing him to 14 months imprisonment suspended for two years, Judge Maria Lamb said: “You were involved in - it is accepted – to a lesser extent, a cannabis factory. “There were significant quantities of cannabis produced by that factory, which I am satisfied would have been for commercial use.
James Harding, in green top, outside Oxford Crown Court A GANG so badly damaged a front door when they kicked it in that they had to leave through the French windows. Now, one of the members of the group that burgled the Witney home has been given a community order for his party in the raid.
Oxford Crown Court heard that James Harding, 20, was part of the gang that kicked in the door of the house on Woodford Way, Witney, shortly before midnight on May 17, 2020. Prosecutor Francis Gaskin said: “There is some background to it. Exactly what the background is, is not clear. Different people have said different things.