Kimberley Deakin was murdered in her own home by Lewis Crofts THE FAMILY of a mum who was murdered in her own home by a Poole man have said there will never be enough justice for what he did. Lewis Crofts, 30, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum prison term of 16 years and nine months for the fatal stabbing of Kimberley Deakin. Crofts repeatedly stabbed Ms Deakin, who he had been in a relationship with for a couple of months, at her address in Stoke-on-Trent in November last year. The defendant, of Lytchett Drive, Broadstone, was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on May 4 after pleading guilty to murder at the same court last month.
Apr 30, 2021
Two utterly reckless drivers who were racing along the A5 when one of their cars flipped over and crashed into a DFS store have been locked up.
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The scene at DFS in Cannock, after a car crashed into the store in May 2019
Jordan Powers, who was driving the VW Scirocco which hit the shop, has been jailed alongside Mark Cole, who he had been racing before the early-hours crash happened in May 2019.
Powers, of Victor Street, Pelsall, was left with life-changing injuries alongside his 34-year-old passenger. Both men were thrown from the written-off car which ended up on its side wedged between bollards and the smashed windows of the DFS, which is set back from the roundabout on Roman Way Retail Park.
Watch CCTV of road race which ended in horror crash into Cannock DFS store
One of the drivers was left with life-changing injuries after his car swerved into the furniture store
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Two drivers have been jailed after an illegal road race ended with a serious crash into a DFS furniture store in Cannock. Stafford Crown Court heard Mark Cole, 57 and Jordan Powers, 27 had been racing along the A5 before a VW Scirocco careered off the road and smashed into the store.
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